Hi,
I agree with Dark. I think two months was far too short. I think four to
six months would have been a much better time frame for the competition
entries. I know one reason I myself didn't join was I didn't think I
could produce anything of decent quality in two months. Sure I could
have cranked out an arcade game like Troopenum or something, but some of
the ideas I had were things like Prince of Persia, Castlevania, or
similar type games that were complex enough to take at least six months
for a basic game let alone fully develop it into a stable game for
production purposes. Even a simple side-scroller like Q9 would need more
than two months for a basic game demo.
On 5/14/2012 4:09 AM, dark wrote:
wow, that's most unexpected, congrats to Nikola as well.
of course once I find out where the games are hosted I'll be glad to
write up audiogames.net entries for them.
Philip, this was a great competition, however one feeling I did have
is that the participants didn't exactly have time to really let their
skills show through, given the two month time frame.
Retroremakes, darkbasic, donation coder.com and other such pc indi
sites that have similar developement competitions usually give a six
month developement period.
While I don't despute we got some good games, not everyone who was
going to enter got a chance to create a game, and I do feel that a
longer developement period would have yielded a few more entries, ----
heck even the arborell gamebook competition gives four months, and
that's just for the writing of a gamebook in text, rather than the ful
programming of a game.
I would therefore really suggest that the next competition instead of
being short notice, gives 4-6 months of developement time to entrants,
to make certain everybody who enters can do the best he/she can.
I'd therefore personally suggest you announce the comp in august or
so, with developement time running september to december, and the
winner to be announced in January.
This way everyone gets notice, and we have a nice build up to the new
2013. The timing however doesn't matter, sinse obviously it needs to
be convenient to you, I do however very much think that 4-6 months
developement time would yield even better results for the next
competition.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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