Alright since a few people seem interested in a game jam and im interested in one also how about we just go ahead and do one this weekend starting Friday and ending midnight on Sunday?
Dates are subject to change depending if its a bad time or not.
Dates currently on hold...
If you wish to enter the contest and are able to make it on the 16th through the 18th please let me know so i can add you to the list.
List of people entered:
-black mage
Table Of Contents:
-Information
-Judging
-When to start
-Rules
-Rewards
-Other Info
All projects must be submitted to me Sunday by midnight so I can make the judging topic. Any later and it wont be accepted.
Information:
Games made during game jam can be a game of any type and made in any game engine of your choosing. The reason for this is to give people complete creative freedom to make whatever they want so they are not sitting there forever trying to find out how to make a certain type of game.
Judging:
Judging will be done by the community its self and all scores will be averaged up for the final score. I will make a final judging topic when we are done with the contest.
When you judge something give it a final score out of 10. Now some games wont have a story so you will have to judge them accordingly.
These are some of the categories you can use to judge. You dont have to show these in your final judging post if you dont want to.
Story, Gameplay, Graphics, Audio, Misc.
Example of a story game:
Title: Timmy's Tiny Tidventure
Final Score: 9.25/10
Story: 9/10
Timmy's Tiny Tidventure had an awesome story... bla bla bla bla.
Gameplay: 10/10
The way you handle Timmy on his tidventure was awesome. There was just the right amount of grinding... bla bla bla bla
Graphics: 8/10
All the graphics were good. Sure they used the RPG Maker RTP graphics but the RTP graphics are not bad at all. They also edited some of the tilesets so that gave them 2 extra points.
Sound: 10/10
Every song and every sound effect was perfect. I loved the sound timmy made when you walked and ran. The song in the end was killer and perfect for the sad ending.
~Review over. As you noticed i didn't include Misc since it was a story based game.
Example of a non story arcade type game:
Title: Carl's Candy Collectargg Maties of the Candy Sea Part 1: The Candy Collector Pirates
Final Score: 9/10
Gameplay: 10/10
Collecting all the candy was very fun as there is many many types of candy to collect and lots of danger doing so. Whenever you collect a rotten piece of candy it will infect a few of your candies so you need to send pirates down to test the candy with the candyinator 5001. Best part of all was the timed levels. Each level gave me a candy rush. Battling other candy ships was fun. I mixed a fire candy with a boom pop to make candy fire grenades to blow the enemy's ships up. Got to love the candy fusion you can do.
Graphics: 6/10
The graphics went the greatest since they did use unity and had to make all the graphics themselves.
Sound: 10/10
This game is all around silly and they did an awesome job with the sounds since every sound effect was made to be very silly for this silly game. The pirate music with a candy mix was PERFECT for everything.
Misc: 10/10
This game didn't have a story so ill judge other parts of the game that i found to be good. The game had an awesome level selector. You drive your pirate ship across the sea and land on objects like ships, islands and spots on the ocean. The game had 30 levels that were all hand crafted to look awesome and play out getting progressively harder. The difficulty curve of the game was perfect, it wasn't to hard or to easy and slowly got harder along the way.
~Review over. As you noticed i didn't include Story since it wasn't a story based game.
When to Start:
Since people are in school on Friday i will start the contest a little later in the day when those people get off. The earliest the contest will start will be 5pm Central US time.
Click here for the current Central time.
Rules:
The rules are very simple. Make whatever type of game you want with any engine. You can use any resources that come with that engine or any resources you find.
Most of all you are allowed to start working on graphics, audio, story and 3d models right now if you want to. But ONLY those 3 things. You are not allowed to even make the project yet. Note: Scripts are not allowed to be made prior to start date.
TEAMS: You are allowed to work with a team of people but keep in mind that theres only enough prizes at the moment for 1 person so you will have to fight over who gets it. Im going to allow only a max of 3 people per team and team member names must be submitted to me when you submit your project if you are working with other team members.
Rewards:
I only have 1 reward to give so far.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/318430/
If someone wishes to provide a reward for the game jam please PM me or contact me on steam.
Other Info:
If you wish to be notified exactly when the contest starts please join our steam group so you can get the event popup.
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/gamedevunlimited
I will be streaming the entire time im working on my project during the game jam. If you wish to watch me head on over here and follow or just wait till the contest starts. http://www.twitch.tv/polraudio