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Shinan's 'What the hell' 3 day gamemaking contest!

3 day game making contest? This shows the attention span of people.

Five Strategies for Better Game-Making

1. make it fun to play.
2. don't waste people's time with story (its a game, not a book)
3. let people get far before killing them, like 2 hours into the game
4. zero downtime between deaths, the less time between a death and reloading the more people continue to play
5. does there really need to be 5?

EpiQuest

Congratulations to Dennis for beating the game. I am going to make a tab for everyone that I know who has beaten the game.

Looking for a bigger picture (story ideas) to tie in 3 areas together

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Put a cabin in the desert and have the cabin work as a interdimensional hub. So that the character begins at a lake leisuring after a time of hard work and some well-deserverd vacation. But DAMN unbeknownst to him the cabin is actually travelling in time and space and when he wakes up one morning he's suddenly in a strange swamp. Now he has to find his way back to his own place and figure out what it is that makes the cabin tick. (but before he gets home he accidentally travels the cabin into a desert and has to do a similar thing all over again)


lol that is totally origional.

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Why not make each location the starting point for separate characters, then have these characters meet later? They all see part of the story problem, and only together can they see the bigger picture and come up with a solution.


I think I would need more areas to make that work. Like I would want this trio of areas to be the first character's story. Like Dragon Quest IV.

Looking for a bigger picture (story ideas) to tie in 3 areas together

Its the plot yes. However zombies invade the game show and the main character gets blamed. its all in a promotional video. so its not spoilers. they should tie it together with Resident Evil. both made by Capcom.

Pretentious Bullshit and Missing the Point: The Sequel to the Game to the Movie

I wish my game got this mad pub.

Looking for a bigger picture (story ideas) to tie in 3 areas together

Coincidentally I just watched a video for the new Dead Rising 2. It revolves around a man with a daughter who's been bit by a zombie... and you need money to buy the cure so you go on a gameshow... I'm not making this up.

Looking for a bigger picture (story ideas) to tie in 3 areas together

I made 3 maps. There is no story at all. Fresh game.

Random plot generator it is!

Looking for a bigger picture (story ideas) to tie in 3 areas together

I know there's random story generators on the net, but honestly random isn't very logical.

What description? The areas?

Basically I need a reason for going to all 3 areas.

Looking for a bigger picture (story ideas) to tie in 3 areas together

Three areas that I'm looking for a story or plot to tie all three together other than... kidnapped kid... kill this monster. The three areas are:
- A lake with a cabin (forgemane lake)
- A big wooded swamp (with a cabin) 3x as big as the lake (wandscratch swamp)
- A big desert with cascading plateaus 3x as big as the lake (tiprock desert)

There will be towns / villages added accordingly.

I'm not a real story guy, so I need some help here.