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Jay is Games Flash Competition 2: Need Ideas!
Deozaan:
Jay is Games is having another Flash Development Competition:
Here's the scoop: you, casual gamer / game designer / Flash whiz, design a simple puzzle game in Flash (version 8, AS 2.0).
Yes, the type of entry we're looking for is the same as what we called for during our first competition. And while the entries we received contained various interpretations of "simple puzzle game", all things considered, the simple puzzle idea proved to be an excellent choice. So we're doing it again!!
But there is a catch. This time your game design must incorporate this theme: "grow".
You are, of course, free to interpret that any way you choose; however, the extent to which your game addresses the theme is left up to the competition judges to decide. Entries not meeting this requirement will be disqualified.
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Recently I've been talking to mouser and Tinjaw about making games and one of the ideas we've been tossing around seems perfect. A Tower Defense type game could be considered both a puzzle game (where to place towers) and a growth game (upgrade towers). We've been throwing around ideas trying to come up with something a bit more improved on what we've seen so far in the Tower Defense genre, but I'd love to hear any ideas anyone here can come up with for this contest (not limited to Tower Defense ideas) and I'd certainly like help designing the game conceptually so that I can focus most of my time on programming it instead of trying to figure out all the details of a fun working game by myself.
Oh, and Nudone, you've officially been drafted to make the graphics for the game. Especially since some of the ideas we're liking best will be somewhat Cody themed. If you don't like it, take it up with mouser. I tried to fight for your freedom of choice but mouser wouldn't hear any of that.
Please submit your ideas quickly!
The deadline is February 9th!
nudone:
sounds very good but i've never played one of these tower games so i'll need a few hints.
mouser:
I am so excited that you are going to participate in the contest - i think it's great fun to have someone from dc entering. And I'd love to see more people from here give it a try as well. JayIsGames is one of the premiere flash game sites and last year's contest had some truly professional and elaborate entries so expect some very tough competition.
Let's all help out with ideas and testing - and if anyone else wants to take a try at entering by all means post and ask for help with ideas and art and stuff.
I'll pledge right now that for anyone who has been a DC member here as of yesterday, DC will match any prize you win in the contest (up to $500), and a mug for all who enter it at all. Plus of course you'd gain hero status here :)
I'll post my ideas for the game here later. Also I encourage people to drop by our irc channel (#donationcoder on efnet or hit the "chat" button at top of page to join via java applet in your browser), to talk about game ideas.
tinjaw:
I don't know Jack Flash. Do you think it would be possible to go from Zero to Competition-grade Flash game in time? I did something similar with Torque Game Builder for the Accessibility Game Contest, but I don't know if that was a one-time fluke or if it is repeatable with Flash. Can any of our resident Flash experts chime in with some of their thoughts? Are there any freeware or open source tools available to make building Flash games easier or do I need to fork out hundreds of dollars to Adobe?
mouser:
i do not believe it would be possible to go from 0 to skilled enough to have a reasonable chance at this competition in one month. They get some very high quality entries.
On the other hand:
1) it wouldn't hurt to try if you have the time - worst case is you learn a lot of flash in a month.
2) it might be time to learn enough to collaborate with someone who already knows flash.
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