I'm posting this to see the interest of the contest. As of lately, I have heard nothing from the participants, the status of the game, or any new people.
Now, is there still an interest in the contest? I will keep it going, but the way it looks, the contest may not make it to January, unless someone shows some interest.
For those of you who know nothing of what I'm talking about, check out:
http://bwicki.byond.com/ByondBwicki.dmb?CurrentContest
Bring back the spirit people! Come on!
Tiko
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 Oct 20 2003, 2:01 pm
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Oct 20 2003, 3:43 pm
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I am still working on my game for the contest.
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Apparenty not...well, sorry, I need confirmation to continue this contest...It seems everyone just...well, quit.
If your interested, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE reply to this...if no one is, I will call this off unless someone wants to take it. TIko | |
Tiko wrote:
Apparenty not...well, sorry, I need confirmation to continue this contest...It seems everyone just...well, quit. I told you so. The contest had nowhere to go without direction or parameters. It was too vague and open-ended, and presented no real challenge to interest good developers. Structure matters. Lummox JR | |
Yeah....I guess your right...I just wanted to do something where people could you know, do what they want...
I suppose I should have put some kind of restriction or something... Next time, I'll make sure of that. Tiko | |
Tiko wrote:
Yeah....I guess your right...I just wanted to do something where people could you know, do what they want... It needn't be considered a restriction as such, but something structural to give the contest shape was needed. If you limited the field just to board games, the format and content of the games could vary dramatically. Pokemon enthusiasts could do some sort of Pokemon spinoff game, while others might go for a more abstract route. Lummox JR | |
First time have heard of the contest, it looks way cool! Not really very long to make a high quality game though. I disagree with the suggestiong that it should be limited as to the type of game, ie 'board games' or 'card games', etc. As long as the elements of the game are judged, then freedom of genre is cool.
I would enter, but rpgs generally take logner than 2 months to make, especially with original graphics, and I cannot code worth beans ;) | |
CotW's is still in development, I still test functions for CotWs with my personal entry Ancient Shrines to Maz. Shrug, neither have a chance of being finished by January though :)
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The problem wasn't the lack of restrictions, but the long deadline. The more time you give the contestants, the larger the project they'll attempt. And, the larger the project, the more likely they are to get bored and stop working. Big deal that Lummox or whoever wasn't interested. With or without his interest it doesn't look like you got any entries, but with less time to work, people would have less time to get bored of their project and quit, so at least you'd have some entries.
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I want to join, I like how it doesnt have parameters, if I can't join I would like a restart..... How do you judge a contest with no parameters? | |
I mean the the genre, and subject, ect. Well the contest does have parameters or atleast it implies them. That being that the entires are supposed to be games made in BYOND. Without these ristrictions how do you judge which is better a program that controls the timing on a microwave to cook something to perfection, a 20 foot long sub sandwich, a paper cut, a cool sounding word, or last week's newspaper. The more parameters there are the easier it is to judge which item is the best. With no parameters you can't make judgements since the items you're comparing can be completly unrelated. | |
No matter what the restrictions are, there will most likely be an infinite number of possible entries. You have something that you'd be judging them on, how fun the game is, or something like that. Generally, they'd all be games, so you'd pick one common aspect of all of them to judge, or you could pick several things that the games have in common and judge all of them.
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No matter what the restrictions are, there will most likely be an infinite number of possible entries. Since the size will probably be limited to the maximum space the judges' computers have there are only so many iterations you can have with that memory :). That number is probably very large though. You have something that you'd be judging them on, how fun the game is, or something like that. Generally, they'd all be games, so you'd pick one common aspect of all of them to judge, or you could pick several things that the games have in common and judge all of them. Yeah it's a game so you have something to judge on, but the fact that it is a game is a parameter/restriction of the contest and so is the fact that it must be developed using BYOND. You can't have a contest without some sort of restrictions as you'd have no way to compare the items. You need some kind of similiarity to be able to compare two things. The more things the items share in common the easier it becomes to judge thier differences. My main point is that you need the contest to be well defined and have a limited scope(but enough room for differentiation to judge upon) or else the results become too random and more based on the interests of the judges rather than the talents of the contestants. Also when you limit the scope more it becomes easier to select appropriate judges. | |
Dun dun dun!
My entry is being released later tonight, complete. So you know it is going to be in the contest :) | |
Well...I realize this post is a bit delayed, but whether or not the contest continues, I plan on continuing my own project. I really doubt it would be anywhere near complete by the deadline anyway because progress has been incredibly delayed by various projects and real life factors. Although I do not believe I could win with the amount of progress I might make by then, I would still like the contest to continue simply to see all of the projects entered.
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