Hi,
First I'd like to thank those who entered this 'Get me in the Game' compo. We did manage to pick the top three winners. (out of only 5 entries) They are..
3D Master: Lazerus
3D Best Model: Visigoth
3D Best Texture Henry Ham
Congratulations on your fine work.
Here is a quick banner I made showing the 5 entries side by side..
Sadly, we feel that these 5 entries are not enough of a foundation to jump start the follow up compo for the programmers.
I take full responsibility for the flop of this compo. I made the mistake of setting the poly (tri's) count too high. It started at 777 tri's for luck, but I bumped it to 1k after some people were having trouble making things in that limit. What I should have done was lower the tri count instead, to like 500 (or even better 250)
What we were thinking for the follow up compo is that the programmers would end up with a bunch of small 'objects', 'pieces', widgets, wall segments, etc. that they could use to build a game around. This was not a programmers compo targeted at the FPSC community. It was going to be for all the programming sections of this board. Dark GDK, DB Pro, DBC, FPSC etc.
At one point in the 'Get me in the Game' compo, it seemed people were having trouble coming up with ideas, I tried to steer you back on track with this post...
Quote: "people having trouble thinking of items that fit a game? Come on, think of any 2D game and make 3D versions of things,. Dice game items, card games, board games, puzzle games, make a car for a racing game, make a plane for a flight racing game, make a pod racer, make some fish for a fishing game, make segments for a maze game, make a ball for a ball game, pinball anyone? 3D bricks for a breakout game, gadgets and gizmo's for strange games, 3D gems for a gem drop game, a rubic's cube game. boxing gloves for a boxing game, boats for a boat racing game, units for a RTS, a 3D putter for a mini golf game, bowling anyone? foooseball anyone? an air hockey table and pieces? shuffleboard? dart board and darts? horse shoes? spear for a Javelin game? Bow and arrows for a target game? a gun and targets for a shooting arcade? Skeet shoot game pieces?
I didn't even take 2 min to run these ideas off. if you're stuck for ideas it's because you're thinking too BIG!
KEEP IT SIMPLE! MAKE IT GOOD!
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Apparently it had no effect. Oh well, such is life. Not to worry we'll come back with a "Get me in the game 'Take 2'" compo in the summer.
So, time to move on, I'll set up the next compo right after this post. Gratz to the winners once again.
Cheers!