SHINAN'S 'WHAT THE HELL' 3 DAY GAMEMAKING CONTEST!

Since my announcement is hidden in the Anyone up for a quickie contest I decided to make a topic with. I'm not actually sure if it goes here or in Moronic but someone can probably move it where it belongs if it doesn't belong here.


So this is what it's about. It's a contest that starts Sunday (though if you feel like cheating you can start right away) and ends on Tuesday (when you wake up on Wednesday the contest is over. If you didn't go to bed at all on Tuesday night... Well... I don't know what to make of that.)

The theme of the contest is "One Room". The game has to take place in a room of some sort. This is pretty open. If you want to go strange and have a guy sitting at a computer playing a massively epic RPG (that you also play) then go ahead, but good luck with finishing it in three days.

The engine is free. As are any kind of other resources. Basically for this short contest you are allowed to rip, steal and be immoral all you want when it comes to anything used in the game. Hell. You may even find a game on google and submit it as your own. (Don't do this)

This contest is not in any way an official RMN event. I just decided to start it after that topic was made. You have until Tuesday.


Entries:
catmitts Future Ghosts http://rpgmaker.net/users/catmitts/locker/The_Room_XKVD_Hi_Quality_DVDRip.rar
Mary 4D Room Sweet Room http://rpgmaker.net/media/content/users/3654/locker/One_Room.exe (this one requires RTP to work)
StormriderAngel Soul Sphere Arcade http://www.mediafire.com/?26012hzhv6a66gc
StarSkipping Choice http://www.mediafire.com/?m0039dcnvbk9ocg
Dudesoft Take Down. Narwhal of Doom http://www.mediafire.com/?o4vfwaaats1am5e
YDS The Room: Pandemonium in the Palace Penthouse http://www.mediafire.com/?4o5nx6ienpg31ms
Results will come soon.



Results are in
I took the categories the games could win in from the Misao 2006 category list. Basically this means that if you got selected for a category your game won a Misao!


"And this was made in RPG Maker because...?" Fewest Default Systems Entries
Future Ghosts
Judge's comment: Because it wasn't!
Runner up: Soul Sphere Arcade


"Etrian Odyssey" Best old school RPG
Future Ghosts
Judge's comment: It had only two colours! Must be old school then.


"Lawsuit Waiting to Happen" Most excessive yet non-chalant use of sprite rips.
Take Down. Narwhal of Doom
Judge's Comment: With so many famous characters in one game and completely unauthorized. That lawsuit will happen any second now!


Best ABS
Take Down. Narwhal of Doom
Judge's Comment: There's more than one character in this game that have terrific abs. And it also has superman.


Best Atmosphere
Choice
Judge's Comment: It has terrorists killing people. That's good for atmosphere.


Best Battle Character Sets
Take Down. Narwhal of Doom
Judge's Comment: See below

Best Boss Battle
Take Down. Narwhal of Doom
Judge's Comment: See above

Best CBS
Soul Sphere Arcade
Judge's Comment: I think this is the only game where you fight crime shooting at spheres while avoiding to hit the black sphere. (I wonder if this is some kind of comment on the white guilt. A game where you avoid to hit blacks)

Best Characters
The Room: Pandemonium in the Palace Penthouse
Judge's Comment: The main character in this game is a deep three-dimensional study in humanity.
Runner up: Take Down. Narwhal of Doom

Best Complete Game
Future Ghosts

Best Cutscene
Choice
Judge's Comment: This game is one long cutscene but it manages to be intriguing nonetheless.

Best Dialogue
Future Ghosts
Judge's Comment: The snarky dialogue of the main character spices up this game greatly.

Best Dungeon Design
Room Sweet Room
Judge's Comment: I believe this is the only game where something similar to a dungeon appears.

Best Dungeon Puzzle, Like, Ever
Room Sweet Room
Judge's Comment: See above.

Best Female Protagonist
Room Sweet Room
Judge's Comment: Three female protagonists, all very strong rolemodels for all females out there.

Best Game Balance
Soul Sphere Arcade
Judge's Comment: This game has a good balance between difficulty and the announcer's comments.

Best Game Title
Take Down: Narwhal of Doom
Judge's Comment: It's an ominous title that promises great things.
Runner up: The Room: Pandemonium in the Palace Penthouse

Best Humor
Soul Sphere Arcade
Judge's Comment: I had to snicker at my failure and my success. Though it was a lot more failure than success.

Best Intro
Choice
Judge's Comment: It had a cute skyscraper in it... I'm running out of things to say here.

Best Male Protagonist
The Room: Pandemonium in the Palace Penthouse
Judge's Comment: The main character in this game is a deep three-dimensional study in humanity.
Runner up: Future Ghosts

Best Map Design
Choice
Judge's Comment: It's a spacious apartment that looks really right. And expensive. I wonder what the rent is on a place like that.

Best Music
Soul Sphere Arcade
Judge's Comment: None of the music was particularily noticed (except for the music in Take Down. Narwhal of Doom where I was about to claw my ears out after a while)

Best Non-RPG Game (in RPG Maker)
Choice

Best NPCs
Take Down. Narwhal of Doom
Judge's Comment: Though some of the NPCs are not great it makes up for that with diversity and a couple of shining stars.

Most Overhyped Game
Room Sweet Room
Judge's Comment: After all the hoops I had to jump through to play this game and the comment made by catmitts in the contest thread. This game was probably the most hyped of them all.

Best Sci-Fi RPG
Future Ghosts
Judge's Comment: This game has the most intriguing of the sci-fi elements.

Best Storyline
The Room: Pandemonium in the Palace Penthouse
Judge's Comment: The story of one man's struggle to get out of a room.

Best Special Effects
The Room: Pandemonium in the Palace Penthouse
Judge's Comment: More ghosts than Future Ghosts, more alcohol than Take Down. Narwhal of Doom. More shit than Room Sweet Room. This game has a lot of special effects.

Best Use of The DBS (RPG Maker)
Take Down. Narwhal of Doom
Judge's Comment: I think this is the only DBS.

Best Villain
Take Down. Narwhal of Doom
Judge's Comment: This game has a villain I know is going to be iconic in the future. If it not already is.

Best Visual Consistency
Future Ghosts
Judge's Comment: Keeps consistently retro throughout.
Runner up: The Room: Pandemonium in the Palace Penthouse

Biggest Waste of Time
Choice
Judge's Comment: Having to play through those slow cut-scenes for every attempt at the endings... So much time that could have been wasted writing these comments instead.

Darkest Storyline
Choice
Judge's Comment: Although many of the games involved slightly dark storylines. Choice was the only game with a truly grimdark perspective of things.

Game Most Likely to Evovle Into a Shitty Webcomic
Choice
Judge's Comment: It has all the ingredients for this.

Game of the Year
The Room: Pandemonium in the Palace Penthouse

Hideki Anno Memorial Meaningless Symbolism Award
Soul Sphere Arcade
Judge's Comment: Avoiding to hit black balls because they are black. I'm not sure it's meaningless. I'm not sure it's symbolism. But it's too good a joke to pass up.

Most Disturbing
Take Down. Narwhal of Doom
Judge's Comment: You can't deny that it is a fairly disturbing game.

Most Egrerious Butchering of the English Language
Choice
Judge's Comment: Theirs so much on this that is so much wrong.

Most Intriguing Plot
Future Ghosts
Judge's Comment: This game is genuinely intriguing. It's a glimpse into a bigger world that sounds like it'd be worth it.

Most Obvious Instance That A Game's Author Was High When S/he Wrote It
Take Down. Narwhal of Doom
Judge's Comment: This is not actually true. Only a truly non-high person can write a game like this.

Most Original Use of Setting
Soul Sphere Arcade
Judge's Comment: All games but one has a storyline of some sort. This game decided to break the mold and make a puzzle game that takes place in... a room! It's actually pretty ingenious when you think about it.

Most Original Villain
Take Down. Narwhal of Doom
Judge's Comment: This game has a villain I know is going to be iconic in the future. If it not already is.

Most Promising Cancelled game
Calunio's The Room Remake
Judge's Comment: Anyone quitting because of "insanity issues" is a game that it was a pity it was cancelled.
Runner-up: Despite's game.

Worst Dialogue
Choice
Judge's Comment: Butchering the English language gives the worst dialogue too. Though chances are they're only worst because they're butchered.

Worst Game of the Year
The Room: Pandemonium in the Palace Penthouse
Judge's Comment: This is the game with the most shit in it.


Award pictures graciously made by Dudesoft. Acceptance speeches for your awards can be made in this thread. Or in a separate MP3 file or movie on youtube.

Yeah I forgot to mention that submissions don't even have to have gamepages. You can just upload the games somewhere. Maybe you'll even feel so embarrassed about some game that it doesn't really deserve a gamepage! (If you are like that. I guess there's people like that out there. This means geodude can join too)