How is everyone's schedule looking for October? Shall we organise another short competition, like the Oneswitch comp. last month? Thinking of organising it over a weekend this time.
"2009 TDC-KLIKCAST HALLOWEEN 09 COMPO"
- Scary / Halloween theme
- Ends October 16th 2009
- Hosted by Rikus
- Prize: "a prize" for the winner
- 1000 - 2000 TDC points for runners up
- It's 2009, just in case you missed that
"Console Wars"
- Make a game for a pre-defined console
- Check the thread for rules
- No deadline as yet
- No prize
- Hosted by AndyUK
"Video Game Name Generator Competition"
- Theme: Make a VGNG game (http://norefuge.net/vgng/vgng.html )
- Deadline: Already finished(?)
- No prize
"GameBuilder Mascot Competition"
- Theme: Create a mascot and game
- Not sure if this is still running
There isn't really anything in the way of mini-competitions going at the moment. And quite honestly that's all I have time to make these days. That's why I usually suggest running some small 2-day (or 2 hour) competitions. Hope this helps.
I have plenty ideas. We have lots of "Make a general game in x hours" or "Make a so-and-so game" (scary, Christmas, etc) competitions here, but they often attract a lot of platform games. I'd like to start a regular alternative competition here that would hopefully encourage people to explore new areas of design. I'll probably start something this weekend.
Originally Posted by UrbanMonk I'd really like to see some more shmups on the site. I think we should have a shmup compo with no restrictions.
Well, there would be a time restriction. That's kind of unavoidable for a successful competition.
I'd also like to see some more shmups here. We had a quick shmup competition in 2008 and it went pretty well. (http://www.create-games.com/forum_post.asp?id=211289&show=all#post_212231 )
I can re-upload the games if you want to check them out.
Still not sure if this week's competition will be a shmups theme, though I would add some other limitation in like "vertical shmup" or "cute shmup". Maybe a slight variation on the theme too. I like Clayton's idea about providing a template, but also understand that some people would find that annoying.
Hey everyone. I won't have time this weekend to run a competition. Life is just too busy at the moment. Of course, if someone else would like to host one, please go ahead. I'll hopefully have time next weekend.
I'm curious: How exactly are we defining "shmup" here? ^^; I'm not entirely savvy on klik slang.
I've always wanted to dive into one of these competitions, but to be honest, I can never really think of anything to make myself. My ideas for new games are few and far between. Guess I just gotta wait for the right kind of theme to inspire me.
shmup is short for shoot-em-up. Usually a autoscolling game with random things flying at you that you have to destroy for score, and an end boss that you have to kill to progress.
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Got any ideas for this mini compo?
Edited by nim
after this month, though... short competitions should be possible for me to take part in.
/ And I just got tommorow free, too 
