GAMESALAD CONTEST TIME !! Are you ready ?

Thunder_Child

GameSalad Contest

To Qualify You...

Must use the GameSalad Arcade Format

Must Have a Logo Splash Screen

Must Have Audio Settings for FX and Music

Must Have 3 Unlockable Levels of Game Play

Must Show Score at End of Game.

Must Be Able To Play by Use of all 4 Arrow Keys and Spacebar or Single Mouse Click.
(No other keyboard use allowed)

This can be any game...any genre.

Use a template or from scratch...although
originality should be a key factor in how the game is judged but I won't be the judge....

I will create a thread on April 28th, 2014 under "Announce Your Game" where you will have 2 days to submit your game. On May 1st, 2014 at 12:01 am I will create a Poll in which all members will be allowed to play the submitted games and vote for their favorite for 2 days....on May 3rd at midnight the winner will be announced according the the poll....so...what do you win? Nothing....this is all for fun.

Game must be playable by midnight April 30th, 2014 CDT USA....THATS -6 GMT.
THE GAME CANNOT ALREADY EXIST ON THE ARCADE

I hope this is fun and we all can enjoy it....Please do absolutely everything you can to scour the cookbook....the existing forums and YouTube as well as your experience with GameSalad to create the best game you can....it's up to you if you want to publish...make a gazillion dollars or not.....this is just GS FUN !

Thunder Child...
Aka David

Btw...I have cleared this with a Moderator and for now it appears to be a go.....let's get this one contest going and maybe there will be others...I promise to try and make this as "drama free" as possible...again this is just for fun.

Oh, and to all us noobs...don't be afraid....show whatcha got ! Let's do this ! This will even be a stretch for me but willing to take it on!

Braydon_SFX

Nice idea. I like your thinking. These contests are really fun. I don't know if I'll participate, but cheers for putting this up.

Maybe if this becomes a popular contest like TOTB and GSH7 I can get a forum badge made for the winner(s)... Who knows.

imGua

@Thunder_Child said:
GameSalad Contest
Must use the GameSalad Arcade Format

A year ago, I had horrible experience with it.

Armelline

I love the idea of a contest, but this seems very broad. It a matter of "make pretty much any game"?

I'd recommend providing a general theme or genre to focus people. Also, to motivate participation there kinda needs to be a prize

Hopscotch

I agree with @Armelline, otherwise i'll just end up making 20 prototypes and not submit any. ..oh, and cash, we need cash! (kidding!)

Thunder_Child

@imGua said:
A year ago, I had horrible experience with it.

With the Arcade? I see a lot of games there. I have a game I put there as well I know it works.

Thunder_Child

@Armelline said:
I love the idea of a contest, but this seems very broad. It a matter of "make pretty much any game"?

I'd recommend providing a general theme or genre to focus people. Also, to motivate participation there kinda needs to be a prize

I just was trying to get a few certain scenes that for some...might be slightly difficult enough to challenge peoples skills...stuff that should be kind of standard in a game...

As far as a prize goes...meh...i was hoping for the prize to be members talking between themselves in this thread...bumping their ideas around...a gial for members to shoot for. Fun.

gamestudent

I love It! We ought to have more contests like this. remind me to participate.

SmokeyAce73

@gamestudent I'm reminding you to participate, you better not forget

Thunder_Child

Ill bump this once a week if needed

Thunder_Child

I personally am thinking about making a maze...maybe trhow in some stars per level for time o completion, there will be speed power ups...obsticles...key to open doors...and level 3 will be dark with a light following you...to give some light. Thats fairly original.

Thunder_Child

Just checking....is anyone working on a game for this contest?

tatiang

@Thunder_Child said:
I will create a thread on April 28th, 2014 under "Announce Your Game" where you will have 2 days to submit your game.

@Thunder_Child said:
Just checking....is anyone working on a game for this contest?

Aren't contestants supposed to wait for the thread and then start working? And I would imagine the theme or constraints for the contest would be provided in that same thread.

Thunder_Child

Well like I said just checking. A few seemed interested. Didnt know if one or 50 will submit. I know Im submittin :-)

Do you not feel the rules I outlined are sufficient ? Hasnt been much activity aboit the contest. Didnt want it to get buried.

Thunder_Child

As far as waiting to build the game...I just said it cant be in the arcade prior to submit date. At least thats what I felt I was doing. Some of us have day jobs and might only be able to work on it during the evenings. It wasnt a push a build in 2 days. Do you think Ive screwed the pooch on this ?

tatiang

It's not that they aren't sufficient. It's just that you're giving people a window of time to complete a game and if you don't offer a theme or constraints when you announce the start of the contest, people can just submit whatever they want and anything they've ever built. It's your contest, so if you're okay with that it's fine. But it becomes less of a contest about "what can you build in two days" and more of "which game do you want to submit to see if you can win, even if it took you a year to make?"

Thunder_Child

Well...hmm. I had intended for people to only follow the rules to qualify. It wasnt nessearily a build in two days contest. I was expecting to give people time. To make it availiable only on arcade means it has to be tailored to GS arcade. If they submit one they have been working on a year or teo days....it was to make people do certain thing in the app I do not see often in games....:-}.

Zombiebrains

Sounds good!

tatiang

I think it's fine however you want to structure it.

Radcompany

@Thunder_Child‌ I think it's a wonderful idea. I'm a HS game design teacher and I'm going to have my students upload their latest games. They are going to have to hustle to reach their deadline, because their latest games was a flyer with no ending just best score. So they will have to redesign in a 3 days...

Few questions:

1) Just wondering is 3 levels the limit or minimum?
2) By "Must have Audio Settings for FX and Music" do you mean the ability to Mute FX and Music? I'm unclear.

Thanks for offering the contest!

Thunder_Child

@Radcompany‌ Wow ! This is cool !

The 3 levels are a minimum....you do NOT have to have more than 3.

Audio settings of a sort. This can be just mute or volume control of FX and Music...shoukd you have music...music was not a requirement to qualify for the contest. I did not specify.

Thunder_Child

@Radcompany‌ I believe mute should be enough btw...so your class has equal op.

How many students?

Thank you for participating.

Radcompany

@Thunder_Child‌ Thanks for the info. I have 12 if they all can get their current games "re-designed" in the short time. Well, they have FX and Random Music Soundtracks. So I'll just have them add a Setting's button to their Splash Scene with button to turn each off & on, etc. Their original project was to build a cooler "flappy" game....

Thunder_Child

Well tonight at midnight they can start submitting apps. I guess you can say they have two days to submit before voting for two days.

Remember the game just has to be okayable by the 30th.