Description

A big component of games is the story, but there are games out there where the draw is not the story, the characters, the setting or the gameplay (well, not as much, anyway). It's the sidequests, and that's why we're here today - to make a game based on quests!


What is a Sidequest?
Sidequests are quests that are, quite often, optional. They tend to add more meat to a game and often require the player to do particular tasks in exchange for treasure. Different kinds of sidequests tend to have particular expectations on how to complete them.

They are as follows:

- Fetch Quests: Find items and bring them back to the quest giver. These can be as simple as buying an item from a shop, or as hard as going through a whole optional dungeon in order to find a lost item. They can be integral to the story, or not at all a part of it, but the main component is "Go here and get this for me".
- Battle/Exploration/Tutorial Quests: Usually revolve around aspects of the battle system, exploration or tutorial, which help your character learn how to use various aspects of the game. Usually these are once-and-done miniquests that aim to teach by example. "Jump over 10 logs/Create 3 potions/Use Combo-attack 5 times against an enemy" are all examples of these kinds of quests.
- Kill Quests: Kill x number of enemies for me! These are the most simple of quests, usually, though they can be annoying if the monster in question is hard to find.
- Chain Quests: A series of quests that connect to each other. "Bring this to my friend > it's the wrong item, go get me the right one > take this back to the original guy > now use this to kill an enemy for me > etc". They usually can contain various different types of quests within them.
- Escort Quests: Protect a character or thing until you reach a specific area. Some of these will require in or out of battle protection.
- Gather Quests: Like the Fetch Quests, this requires that you gather a set amount of items, whether from enemy drops or interaction with the environment. They require finding specific items, collecting an amount and bringing them back to the quest giver.
- Timed Quests: You usually have a set amount of time to do this quest in, and usually it overlaps with other kinds of quests, but the main component is that race against the clock.
- Hybrid Quests: Quests tend to overlap various quest types to create a particular quest. For example, a kill quest that also doubles as an escort mission, where you must help an NPC to kill a set amount of monsters for them to pass a test.
- Story Quests: Not usually considered sidequests, these are quests that move the story forward, but can also be used to delve deeper into the lore or characterisation of the game world or characters. They usually involve any of the above quest types but are centred around the story/lore/characters/etc of the game.

- Miniquests are sidequests in miniature. They tend to require very little of the player beyond what they've already done in the game, and rarely (if ever) ask the player to leave the immediate area/zone in order to complete them. Such quests can include aspects of any of the above, however on a much smaller scale. For example, giving someone a potion, asking you to kill rats in a room, asking you to talk to someone in the house next door.


What are we doing?
In this event the idea is to create a game that focuses on what would usually be an optional aspect of a game. The story of the game can be quite short, in and of itself, as the main aspect will be the quests themselves. In this event you can structure the game to follow only sidequests, or have a short story as an aside to the quests, but the main component of the game, the main focus, must be the quests.

You will be tasked to create a game with at least ten sidequests within it, if not more, and those required ten must make use of ten of the listed quest names below, either as direct reference to the quests themselves, or as inspiration for them.

That is: Make game with 10 or more sidequests, but 10 of them must be directly inspired from the listed quest names below. An actual over-arching story/main quest for your game is completely optional.


Rules
- Start on the 21sth of January. Remember to set your site time zone so that you can check this page for the event start and end times!
- Games must be full games. As the story isn't the main aspect, you can have something very short.
- When you have enough details about your game, CREATE A GAME PAGE, at least a few days before the end of the event (remember, game pages need to be checked over. Give time just in case it gets denied and you have to fix something! Last minute game pages will be met with face-palmage and me crossly flailing my arms around asking "Why?! Why do they do this every goddamn event?!")
- End date is midnight of February 19th. Again, please set your site timezone preferences so that you can tell when that is!
- You may team up, if you so wish.
- You may be part of multiple teams, if you so wish.
- You must include a list of the named quests you used in a Read Me file in the game folder OR someplace on the game page.

- Your game must have at least 10 of the named quests below.
- Your game can have no main quest, or something short. The main component must be the quests, though.

The Quests
Pick at least ten of the below names to base ten of your quests on. You may have more than ten quests total, or exactly ten, but a requirement of the event is to have ten quests within your game based on the quest names/titles below.

+ Blood on the Snow
+ The Ballad of the Grey Man
+ Suzy's Catastrophic Day
+ Oops! Suddenly... Cthulhu!
+ The Good, The Bad, and the Etc.
+ Where-ever I Lay My Head
+ Any Port in a Storm
+ Vape Me!
+ The Wrong Bees
+ The Case of the Empty Coffin
+ Midnight Rendezvous
+ Visions and Voices
+ The Last Dancer
+ Dark Side of the Road
+ Curses and Curls
+ The Shopping List
+ Her Sigh
+ Wendigo Mountain
+ Abigail Road
+ Luxuries of Lamplaw Lookout
+ A Twisted Beauty
+ Oops! Suddenly... Cthulhu! Part II
+ Twin Souls
+ The Mystery of the Missing Misao
+ Flowers at Fanninglow Fen
+ The Terrific Tale of One-Legged Lon
+ A Grave Remembrance
+ The Mistress and Her Cicisbeo
+ The Diamond of Gugglebug Gulch
+ Rune of the Moon
+ Ye Olde Guitar of the Blood God
+ The Toprock Narratives
+ The Downrock Diatribes
+ Power Moves and Freezes
+ Kitten Kabootle
+ Precognitive Dissonance
+ Chaos Emerald Weapon
+ Bone of Contention
+ Lord Jim: A Tale
+ Centaur for Disease Control
+ Fedora the Explorer
+ Temporal Pair of Socks
+ The Dragon, the Witch and the Wardrobe Malfunction
+ A Bridge Over Trolled Waters
+ Good Knight, Sweet Prince
+ The Littlest Megabiologist
+ The Dog Who Cried 'Woof!'
+ There's Snow Stopping Us Now!
+ On the Hills of Hervanen
+ Bandits in Bunkaloo Bush
+ All's Well That Ends Well
+ The Mourning After
+ rand(x) Time's The Charm
+ The Merchant of Riffolk
+ Of Dice and Men
+ Little Buoy, Blue
+ My Name, My Rules
+ "Normal" aka "Your Idea of Normal Hurts Me Deep, Deep Inside"
+ Help Me, Gobi One
+ The Golden Idol
+ A Stitch In Time
+ A Parade of Pandas
+ The Great Goatsby
+ Tex-Mex on the Beach
+ I Know What You Did Last Drummer
+ #blame(insertnameherebutesbyworksbestby)
+ Money Talks
+ Witch Upon a Star
+ Hello, Is It Bee You're Looking For
+ Which Hour?
+ Paint it Black-ish
+ These Ain't The Right Trousers
+ Lit Green with Envy
+ The Miracle on Ice
+ Three Crowns, One Euro
+ Dude, Where's My Griffin?!
+ Blackhawk's Down
+ The Gretzky Escape
+ Not Just Another Sidequest



Submission
To submit your game to the event, follow these directions:
- Sign up for this event.
- Create a Game Page when you have enough information about your game to do so. (Please leave enough time for it to go through the queue and to allow for uploading/fixing/etc.)
- When your Game Page has been accepted to the site, upload your game to the game page.
- When your game has finished uploading, come to this page and hit the "Submit" button in the top-right corner.
- From there pick the download of that game and submit it. It should show up next to your name on the list of entries.
- If you have any questions or issues, about this, please PM Liberty before the end date.
- Make sure to include the Read Me file with the names of the quests you were inspired by in the download (or somewhere on the game page).


FAQs
How obscure can we be?
A little obscure, yeah, but not so obscure that people can't figure out where the idea came from on the list. You can fudge the spelling on some of the words, too, as long as it remains similar to the original. For example "Morning > Mourning".

Details

  • 01/21/2017 12:00 AM
  • 02/20/2017 02:00 AM
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Teams Members Entry
Doing nothing or hardly trying
Its cold and there are frostwolves out
Crazuman
This Team has Nothing Whatsoever to do with Dragons
We screwed everything up, but we're trying to fix it now, okay?
Murder She Worf
Team Name
I HOPE THIS TIME I'D HAVE ENOUGH TIME FOR FINISH THIS FREAKIN' GAME
Team Late to the Party
Team Probably Not Making Anything Again
HexComet
We Have Slain the Dragon oh look a little girl lost her cat
Team Deckiller
a series of disappointing events
how the heck am I making a cohesive narrative out of this
Side by Side Warrior
When it's all over, we still have to clear up
Aw Hell,l I might as well join... I got nothing better to do.
Oh but it's Klold out side!
https://pics.onsizzle.com/Facebook-a212ce.png
Maybe I'll find time... mabe not... have some glitter meanwhile...
procedural quest generator
Merk-antile
Emag Retniw Memories
Team Names Suck
Gam Maek
TEAM SLACKER
80 Hours of Optional Content
A CAT AND HIS CHEERLEADER
Team FFX-2 Clone GOGOGOGOG
Team Name Goes Here
I Love Sidequests
Cute Girls do Cute Things
The weather outside is HOT AS HELL, let's make sidequests
The Weather Outside is Gam Mak
Team Not Gonna Submit Anything
Team (oh frick i accidentally lost all my motivation)
Sir Questalot
maybe someday sometime
Side Quest for Glory
Machine Hangar
Out questing, please come back later unless you want to join me
Team Rat Race
Hecka Cool Boys Studio (Punk + Hekset: Buddy Cop Duo)
Team, get it in
Team Name
I mak gams therefore I join
Whoops I just failed
Team-a-ding-ding
Studio SaGa Q
Team Blob of Game
Simple RTP Game
Always late to the party
Can't think of a name
Sidequest Lord
A Mechanical Garden
School, exams, and game making... I am not sure I can finish in time :(

Posts

Punkitt
notorious rpgmaker 2k3 shill
3341
author=kentona
author=pianotm
'Ere, he says he's not dead yet!
Yes he is.
THANKS KENT

also if it means getting games in im sure ziggy can stay mad for another seven days
I was out.

Achievements will exist, yes.
As long as you have already uploaded the game to a gamepage, you can submit it through this page at any time (you will need to have a working game page and have the game uploaded there before you can submit it here).

I said I'd like to be able to give a week, not that I can. Like I said, Ziggy would kill me.

I will be playing the games that come out of this.
pianotm
The TM is for Totally Magical.
32347
So, double posting to make sure people get updated:

We have a working beta. I'm hoping to have it up later today or sometime tomorrow.
pianotm
The TM is for Totally Magical.
32347
Well, here's hoping we get more than just a few games out of this event.
Will liberty record the games as always and post them here?

(curiousity...)
I like to imagine kory toombs is just chillaxing on a beach somewhere taking a sip from their favorite drink without a care in the world (at least wrt this event)

e: toombs not tombs
Craze
why would i heal when i could equip a morningstar
15150
Delsin7
Future event idea: the whole site gets together and creates a frankensteined game. Each participant makes one map, one character, one quest, etc. The results would be amaze.


this was the idea for WYRM WARRIORS basically.

i'm ambivalent about another week. like... i think luii said (i just read like 40 posts), a break would be nice, but at the same time, we already went from 3-4.

whatever the liberty decides is best for her game and workload to stream everything that's released, i guess ;V . the other thing is that this is an event and not a contest, right? it's not like we're competing for money
author=Seiromem
giving an extension will only prolong the false hope that I may finish what I work on and thus continue to procrastinate.
unity
You're magical to me.
12540
As for the extension, I'm personally good either way! Gonna get this game done, regardless of making the deadline or not XD
Seiromem
I would have more makerscore If I did things.
6375
giving an extension will only prolong the false hope that I may finish what I work on and thus continue to procrastinate.
I'll be lucky to even have time to start McBacon Jam next month! This event is like a cliff and most people are falling off and I've been on the bottom being that guy saying "THE CLIFF IS TOO TALL" as bodies crash and explode next to me.

With that said, best of luck to those near the top of that pesky cliff! And congrats to those who have made it to the top! (only to see the more daunting summit of McBacon Jam 4)
I am a bit with GreatRed on this one.
author=kentona
I will make some achievements!

Yay for Acheivements! And there's some nice values too :3

author=GreatRedSpirit
I'll be the bad guy and throw my vote to NO (more) EXTENSIONS! Scoping and time management are valuable skills that everybody's gotta learn and at some point the whips gotta come out.

I'll abstain my vote on the extension thing. x3
While some people had real reasons and troubles around, I messed up for plain and simple poor management so asking for another extension feels cheap, even worse if I trash the extra week. .-.
I hope this don't ruin my chances of getting a spot for McBacon Jam and/or being noticed by senpai. <.<


Either way, Sunbrorick said he'll still try to get the stuff up so...

author=Liberty
Unless I pull a Seer Dell and pump something out in these last few days I won't make it. BUT I'LL TRY!

Basically this, whatever a Seer Dell means.
Please, don't extend the event any further. I've been working on our game pretty much non-stop and I need a break. :(
I'll be the bad guy and throw my vote to NO (more) EXTENSIONS! Scoping and time management are valuable skills that everybody's gotta learn and at some point the whips gotta come out.

- somebody who is incapable of avoiding scope creep and has zero time management skills
author=Link_2112
author=Link_2112
So, are there any actual rewards for this event?

Also, when we submit through this event page, is that instant? So as long as I click that submit button and add my game 5 minutes before the deadline, I'm safe?
Would still like answers to these questions.

I will make some achievements!

and yes. pay attention to the time AND what you have set for timezone adjustments in your profile.
author=Aethers
Also probably front mission or xenogears from your choices.
But first, I need to make/write a story that is not stupid. Or at least stupid but still acceptable.


When in doubt make it about an evil empire and the revolution! Starring a Prince, wacky cast of characters, and exotic locations. Then you twist it a bit and the Prince slowly realizes how the people in charge of the Revolution can be just as cruel and sadistic as the worst the Empire has to offer. *Slides history books on bolsheviks extremism and the corruption of power.* Then the Prince realizes how useless it all is, gets on a ship to some far off land, shipwrecks, and stares up at the fading sun as he ponders his new existence.

Or just put girls with big boobs and bodysuits in it. Thats popular with the targetted demographic.

On a side note, so many people are staring at Libby in hopes of an extension. 'Please Miss, may we have some more' >.> Who's gonna be our orphan for the voice over?
author=Link_2112
So, are there any actual rewards for this event?

Also, when we submit through this event page, is that instant? So as long as I click that submit button and add my game 5 minutes before the deadline, I'm safe?

Would still like answers to these questions.
author=Aethers
@GRS
That Altima plan sounds pretty good actually. I already enjoyed the original game since it has tons of freedom. I ditched the hero from the get go and control a named guard to save the world. It was pretty glorious adventure (the guard is actually really good with his skillset) and in the end I just grind to solo the final boss. Doable, but takes time and kinda boring at the grind (well, that's solo for you).

Also probably missed a dungeon or two because of the SHIP being buggy with its starting position (not on water. Why). In total, I think I played it twice.

If ALTIMA have skill/job learning system and more chars (with unique passive or something) in addition to your new bosses and quests, it would still be pretty fun. But that is my preferences in game.


God damn ship. I think I shifted the entire map near the end of the original release, probably to fix the airship mode 7 issues when you approach the poles, and like an idiot never fixed a bunch of things that are set on the map itself. I remember having to go and fix every area's placement because they were all off by a few tiles when fixing/improving the game. I'll have to go doublecheck that I fixed the ship when I redid the towns too. I remember there being a bug early on that prevented the player from getting on the airship too, I'm really bad at testing my games (a good sign when I'm going to try and make a game in 2.5 days!)


Anyways, I'm glad you liked it! I think a solo challenge is nuts though due to all that grinding for stat up items :P I think I'll have to actually go and finish the last improvement then, iirc I left it at redoing the enemies for the 'get the air/ship' dungeons tier. If I just finish enemies and bosses the game would be 95% done, the rest would be bug fixing and writing tweaks and finishing the ending.

I'm not sure about a big cast and a job/skill learning system myself, I think being able to customize too much ruins how unique each character is and would hurt the big cast. I think player customization can be achieved through skill augmentations. Take the Guard for example who can taunt, buff his defense, and use his electric saw attack. Give him an augment where he can change his taunt skill to also let his allies take less damage from AoE skills, or his buff to give immunity to status effects, or his electric saw to do AoE damage as an example. Also passives are great and I totally should use them more, it'd be a great way to add a new dimension in team building!


TO GET BACK ON TOPIC I thought about what to do in the shower and I'm just gonna try and make a quick dungeon crawler where you have to go punch the lord of shithill castle and there's ten bosses you can also punch for goodies as sidequests. Punch bosses, get boss hats, punch the final boss (who'll inexplicably be easier than most of the other bosses), get wrecked by a random encounter that I accidentally made the hardest enemy in the game!
unity
You're magical to me.
12540
author=Pica-Ludica
Still hopeful that I will make it. :) But the end result will probably be a bit rushed.

As this will be my first game submission to RMN, I was wondering whether we are allowed to update game builds? For example, if I add the game as is for this event, am I able to add another download to the game page later on, with a more polished version?


Certainly! :D You can replace the first game build or have two separate ones!