Official Holiday Game Contest

[zahraa 26]

Congrats :dance:  Dad moonpearl sounds good! A cute girl or a lovely boy?

Generally I think a playable map is much easier and better than a small game for a contest.

For me,The quality of a game is so important.Rarely a game developer is also a good painter or a good scripter but this is art of the game developer to make a high quality game with resources that are open for everyone to use.Judge doesn't need to pay attention to what your skill is,The game must be fun and this is what judge should care about.I mean making a neat script for your game is not a good point itself,It must be in a fun game.

[Moonpearl 32]

Congrats :dance:  Dad moonpearl sounds good! A cute girl or a lovely boy?

Thanks Zahraa. It's a girl - I already have a boy.

 

Generally I think a playable map is much easier and better than a small game for a contest.

Agreed. Also you can put a lot in a single map as long as you design it smartly. It would be an interesting challenge - design a single game sequence which makes the most of a single 20x15 map.

 

For me,The quality of a game is so important.Rarely a game developer is also a good painter or a good scripter but this is art of the game developer to make a high quality game with resources that are open for everyone to use.Judge doesn't need to pay attention to what your skill is,The game must be fun and this is what judge should care about.I mean making a neat script for your game is not a good point itself,It must be in a fun game.

True, the problem is, what is fun or not is a pretty subjective concept. As far as I'm concerned I find most RPGs (and thus most RPG Maker projects) not fun at all, and the numerous discussions I have had with gamers of my generation and younger clearly show that I have a completely different idea of what makes a game fun to play. So I would be disappointed if I put myself at risk by taking the time to develop an innovative gameplay in a good quality script, and judges would not appreciate it because it's not what they're used to and there's still room for improvement, and had a better opinion of a submission which merely uses XAS. So I agree with you when you say the most important thing about a video game is that it must be fun, but I don't agree when you say your skills must not be judged, because then it puts people who want to make an original creation at a disadvantage and encourages them to borrow good quality art/music/scripts instead of risking making average quality themselves.

[zahraa 26]

but I don't agree when you say your skills must not be judged, because then it puts people who want to make an original creation at a disadvantage and encourages them to borrow good quality art/music/scripts instead of risking making average quality themselves.

 

Let's say it this way: A game that all of its parts are professional is a high quality game.Your job is to be a game developer and do your best,Other parts belong to other guys who are professional in that way.I disagree with making a average quality music/art/script for your game instead using professional works from professionals.You're a great game developer,not a great artist.If you use average quality resources you get a average quality game (It's not true only for a few cases)

if you are a good scripter too,Then it's good for you and your game and makes it easier for you to develop what you like,I have to search a lot to find what I want and most of the time i can't find what i exactly want.Everyone can't be a professional artist,Musician and a scripter and a game developer so i believe you must use others' work so that all of elements in your game look amazing.

That's all

 

I send a kiss for your daughter from here :cute:

[ShinkuAura 15]

Hey moonpearl congrats on your baby girl :D take good care of her.

 

for me i think a mapping contest is decent enough because i do remember that there was one a few years ago.

maybe if we did a world design. such as a village, town, city even though they are from the same category it is still a mapping contest and the world should have stuff like ambiant Sound FX.

 

beats me....

oh and The Prize would be (Drum roll please)

Polraudio's Steam account.... if steam didn't have a bunch of DRM well not like a whole bunch of DRM. DRM like logging in from another computer and that stuff...eh you know what i'm talking about.

[Moonpearl 32]

Your job is to be a game developer and do your best,Other parts belong to other guys who are professional in that way.

We're talking about having a contest here. We're not going team against team (well that could be but it's hard enough tu find single contestants), so the game you make, you have to make it alone, there is no other guy to help you. Besides everyone has some skill at some level. If you don't judge anything other than the game developer then you're telling the contestants there's no point trying to use what their own assets to make their game original, you're encouraging an industrial game-making where standards are to be met, rather than personal creation. I see your points but as far as I'm concerned I'm against it. Sure a good quality game is nice but if we cannot explore new paths of creation even in an amateur community contest because we have to comply with a certain image of what a quality game is supposed to be, then I'm quitting game-making.

 

for me i think a mapping contest is decent enough because i do remember that there was one a few years ago.

That wouldn't do for me because there is not gameplay or programming whatsoever in a mapping contest. It's just about eye-candy and I don't think it's the true purpose of game-making. The good part about it is that it's easier to do and you're more likely to find contestants, but as far as I'm concerned I wouldn't be interested.

[zahraa 26]

Sure a good quality game is nice but if we cannot explore new paths of creation even in an amateur community contest because we have to comply with a certain image of what a quality game is supposed to be, then I'm quitting game-making.

 

So my standards are too high for an amateur contest.I agree it needs a special kind of creation to make a complete game only by yourself but I don't accept it cause you pay much more than you get if you choose this way.Anyway as a player I never change an unoriginal high quality game with an original average quality one.

[Moonpearl 32]

Anyway as a player I never change an unoriginal high quality game with an original average quality one.

Goes exactly the other way around for me. :P