Challenge: Get Something Done!

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May 2 2009, 1:30 pm (Edited on May 2 2009, 7:46 pm)
Ahoy! Today is the 1st 2nd of May, and I challenge you to Get Something Done this month!

Every September we have the Game in a Day (GiaD) challenge where developers slash features and rush to stomp out the last bugs, all in the effort to have something, anything, finished by the end of the day. We on BYOND aren't used to finishing projects, and many of us have called ourselves "game developers" for years without ever having finished a game!

This month, those who take this challenge will change that. If you want to participate, all you have to do is say so, announce your project (you can change this later), and try to make it happen. Unlike the GiaD, though, your project doesn't have to be something completely new. In fact, I encourage you to finish an old abandoned project. Do you have an almost finished game in your projects folder? Something that could be played, perhaps, but it has an ugly interface, one or two bugs, and you never did finish that mind reading telekinetic AI? Well, ditch the AI, fix (or sufficiently hide) the bugs, tweak the interface, and release it!

This month isn't about making the best game ever, it's about being a game maker, and game makers make games. So join your fellow developers and I in Getting Something Done!


Edit: As per request, I have set up a forum so there is a central place to discuss the event:
Peregrination: Challenges


Throughout this month I will be posting articles on developing games. Instead of focusing on "how to program" or "how to make art" these articles will discuss topics such as "How to Prevent Feature Bloat" and "Planning Out Your Game", and other topics that will be helpful to developers trying to start a project that they will be able to finish. Tomorrow I'll be posting the first article, which will be based on fleshing out the initial idea for a game.

Feel free to post your own articles or tips on meeting deadlines, or planning out a game. I will also be posting updates on anything related to the challenge, so please send me a link if you find or write anything other developers may find helpful.

P.S. Got a better name than "Get Something Done" or "Finish It"? I'd love to hear it.
May 2 2009, 1:41 pm
Huzzah!
May 2 2009, 1:47 pm
"Be the opposite of Mechana"?

I've never finished anything. I've only ever released one game, and I don't even call it finished.

I would join in, but I'd never actually get anything done.
May 2 2009, 1:47 pm
http://www.byond.com/games/Oasiscircle/Forsight

Done. And all in one day too! :D
May 2 2009, 1:50 pm
Oasiscircle wrote:
http://www.byond.com/games/Oasiscircle/Forsight

Done. And all in one day too! :D

Impressive... I don't know if I'm being sarcastic or not. Did you just dig up an old game and publish it right now, or was that something you were already doing before I posted?

In the future, I'd ask that participants announce what they're going to do, and then do it :P
May 2 2009, 2:08 pm
Oh god. Game in a Day, Judged in a Year. Always.
May 2 2009, 2:27 pm
Popisfizzy wrote:
Oh god. Game in a Day, Judged in a Year. Always.

Hey, the 2008 event was only three months! That may be dismally slow in a perfect world, but it may also be a record for fastest results on BYOND.
May 2 2009, 5:52 pm
I'll bite.

I've been sort of on-and-off writing code for a sort-of successor to Ruin, intended to actually be reasonably entertaining and complexish roguelike. As it stands, map generation works (Although it's missing a few features I'd like to add in later), but there's nothing to do other than wander around in the generated dungeons.

I doubt I'll be able to get it where I want it to be by the end of May, especially with the amount of uni work I'm getting, but I'll see if I can get it to to the point where it can be released.
May 2 2009, 6:24 pm
Now you just need to announce my prize for 1st place. ;]
May 2 2009, 7:03 pm (Edited on May 2 2009, 7:08 pm)
I'm in!

Now the only question is which of my many forsaken projects I should finish. I'm leaning towards laser tag because of its simplicity and potential for actually being finished, but my space game keeps turning in its grave! It be a zombie game!*


The space game in question (must not be named, lest it gobble up a small child) would benefit from articles on preventing bloat, and it would be nice to see it finished after all the work my friend and I put into it... but I don't want to put the laser tag game on the back burner and risk losing both.

Looks like I'll be two-timing! Who knows, I might just manage it since the semester ends in the middle of this month, and I'll have a week of free-ish time.

*Not a game about zombies, the other meaning
May 2 2009, 7:06 pm
I will be getting something done in my zelda game. It's been sitting there gathering dust for too long now.

My plans are to actually finish the begining cutscene, save system, and at least get to the first dungeon, if not create and finish it. It's alot to do in a month, but I usually get alot done when I get into it.
For those of you that know me well, you know I am terrible with deadlines. We'll see how I do with this.
May 2 2009, 10:07 pm
I know you have no idea who I am and I don't know who you are either, but through a long and winding series of unrelated events I stumbled upon this page and saw that you look more like Abe Lincoln than Abe Lincoln looks like Abe Lincoln. And yes, I just wrote Abe Lincoln four times in the same paragraph.

So awesome.
May 2 2009, 10:08 pm
Dopple Boppler wrote:
I know you have no idea who I am and I don't know who you are either, but through a long and winding series of unrelated events I stumbled upon this page and saw that you look more like Abe Lincoln than Abe Lincoln looks like Abe Lincoln. And yes, I just wrote Abe Lincoln four times in the same paragraph.

So awesome.

agreed.
May 2 2009, 10:19 pm
Dopple Boppler wrote:
I know you have no idea who I am and I don't know who you are either, but through a long and winding series of unrelated events I stumbled upon this page and saw that you look more like Captain Ahab than Captain Ahab looks like Captain Ahab. And yes, I just wrote Captain Ahab four times in the same paragraph.

So awesome.

I actually don't look much like Captain Ahab anymore. That beard style is several weeks gone by.
May 2 2009, 10:32 pm
May 2 2009, 10:33 pm
Maggeh wrote:
http://www.byond.com/members/Maggeh/files/IanLincoln.jpg

Definitely.

That is sweet.
May 3 2009, 12:26 am
Yes.
May 3 2009, 1:49 am (Edited on May 3 2009, 7:00 am)
I'll try to finish Ooze.
http://www.byond.com/members/ Metamorphman?command=view_post&post=53082

Might get sidetracked fairly quickly because of forthcoming exams though, but I'll try my best.
May 3 2009, 2:00 am (Edited on May 3 2009, 2:05 am)
IainPeregrine wrote:
Oasiscircle wrote:
http://www.byond.com/games/Oasiscircle/Forsight

Done. And all in one day too! :D

Impressive... I don't know if I'm being sarcastic or not. Did you just dig up an old game and publish it right now, or was that something you were already doing before I posted?

In the future, I'd ask that participants announce what they're going to do, and then do it :P

I started at 6:30 AM and ended at 9:30 PM. Not straight of course, then I'd have the AI done. ;)

May 3 2009, 2:03 am
I should have at least one version of Wrangle, Warp And Weep released this month.
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