UDIVISION'S PROFILE

This is really good topic.

My perspective or two cents:

The game I'm working on is a Mario Rpg fan game so for us, letting the player customize the main characters to an extent was how we addressed it. This is mainly done by badges, the system Paper Mario uses. (But a system like this can be done in any traditional rpg game so it doesn't matter).

Badge Points (or whatever sysyem you'd use) aren't unlimited so using discretion on your badges makes it interesting for the player.
Having badges like "Daredevil" that decrease your Max HP during battle but boost stats. Or badges that increase critical chances, increase evasion when low on HP. Or Badges that increase the power of certain elements. Badges that teach certain skills.

There can be different approaches. Badges that address defense or focusing on ones that address offense.

You could choose a specific set for a specific battle. Just like choosing certain equipment for certain battles.

I feel like when a player has that much input on his character, it's more rewarding and fun when the plan all comes together during battle.

Thanks for the feedback.

So would this actually be possible or what? I guess the Moderators and Administrators would be the ones to do it.

How does a bill become law here, haha?

Wow, great feedback.

author=Dyhalto
It's a good idea at first, but there's the obvious problem that each of our scenes would be out of context. Without the preceding character & story development, a powerful scene is just a ho-hum scene.

We should have more contests geared towards showcasing our main projects though, instead of ones for creating new stuff. The annual Release Somethings are a good start.

The context would be a pretty big issue. Trying to judge how dramatic a scene is would be really hard if you didn't have the information to know why the scene was dramatic.

Something like Best Evented Fight wouldn't necessarily need as much info and could be judged a little more evenly across projects. Maybe some things could work. I do like the idea of more contests geared towards our main projects.

author=LockeZ
I'm not opposed to a cut scene contest, if it had some rules and structure, to keep stuff similar enough that it can actually be judged and compared, and some guidelines on exactly what criteria the cut scenes will be judged on.

There are good and bad sides to the idea of a contest where people are showcasing stuff they've already made rather than making new stuff just for the contest. On the one hand, it doesn't distract people from their real games by making crap that will never see the light of day outside of a contest submission. On the other hand, it doesn't get anyone to do any game design, it just makes them feel good about stuff they've already finished, which makes it nothing more than pointless wanking.

There would definitely need to be specific rules and regulations for this to work.

I guess it would be kind of self serving, but people wouldn't necessarily need to be finished. It could be a game they're currently working on, but they go back and spruce up a scene to enter into a contest.

But how about looking at this from the viewers' perspective rather than judging for a second? I don't care too much about the winner, but I think it'd be neat to watch a bunch of videos lined up of people presenting their best scenes respective to the contest topic.

Thanks for the all the input so far.

Not sure if this is the right place for this...sorry if it's not.

I was just kind of thinking about misaos and the little mini competitions that go on here.

What if there was like a competition where people post scenes of their game and people vote according to the competition?

Like: Best Dialog. People post a scene (8 minutes max) on youtube that they think best shows off their great dialog or banter. People vote and a winner is chosen.

Or: Most Dramatic Scene (This would probably have spoilers for a lot of people...)
Or: Best Writing
Or: Best Scripted Fight Scene (Like outside of battle eventing)
Or: Funniest Scene (This is hard in one scene with no background info, but that makes it even more interesting.)

Could this happen? What do you all think?

Yeah, we actually worked a good amount during the summer, we just haven't said much about it.