Any platform is fine. There will be a time limit. (Probably with a testing period tacked on to the end.)
So you don’t want any intents-to-enter or anything yet right?
Nope. I’m just figuring things out, and it makes more sense to do that out loud, so people can tell me when my ideas are terrible.
Not terrible! Sounds fun!
Mrm. Intuitively I was trying to veer away from that, because it puts you in a more Comp-like situation where downvotes are as important as upvotes. But any system is going to either do that or reward more-played games, so, enh.
I have a suggestion. Perhaps dealing out the songs to participants should not be totally random. I wouldn’t want to have, say, three songs that i suggested come back to me in my choice list. I’d want to maximize the chances that at least one person makes a game inspired by a song I’d like to experience as IF. Maybe you could ensure that no-one gets a song that they themselves submitted?
Neil
Huh, I think finding eight songs might be difficult for me.
That is, in fact, the plan. The ideal is that you’ll get no more than one song from each person - so that Alice doesn’t get stuck with a playlist that’s mostly tracks supplied by Bob, who only likes Estonian deathcore - and none from yourself. (This only works if there are at least nine participants, of course.)
Pseudonymous/anonymous submissions would address this problem nicely. (Well-known authors tend to do that in IF Comp anyway, out of a sense of fairness.) Plus, it seems fitting for a comp called “ShuffleComp.”
Ha! You know, I really like this idea.
I suggest that, in addition to 8 pieces of music, we send in 8 pseudonyms. Then we get to choose among the 8 pseudonyms we receive as well as the 8 pieces of music. And everything gets revealed at the end.
I love this idea and wish to enter into negotiations for a romantic arrangement with it.
(I’m likely to include a testing phase, since that seemed to do well for both Cover Stories and Apollo, but a paper-thin pseudonym will do the job perfectly well here, I think.)
+1, except authors should be allowed to say “don’t reveal my identity at the end” if for some reason they want to stay permanently hidden.
Good call.
Is it possible to participate by sending a playlist but not writing a game? (Without feeling bad for implicitly promising to write a game but knowing that you won’t.)
So one worry I have is that for certain YouTubable songs one might be tempted to do a tribute to the video rather than the song. Would that be a problem?
Actually it’s not a problem, I’m going to submit a playlist full of Kate Bush songs and you can go to town on the videos because they are CRAZY.
Seems reasonable.
I’ve thought about the possibility, and on the one hand I don’t like it much - ‘write me a game about this!’ is a lot nicer when you’re willing to reciprocate. On the other, there might be people like Tale who have trouble coming up with a full list, or late arrivals or whatnot.
So maybe allow it, but only as a second pool of songs for that kind of contingency?
Whatever floats your goats, man. I ain’t gonna tell you what part to be inspired by. You can base it off the title and never listen to the song, if you want. You can ignore the song’s content, speculate about what the band are like, and write a game about them trying to find breakfast.
You’re only allowed two songs per artist per participant, though, so no Kate Bush saturation.
thank god in hell
Yeah, don’t beat about the Bush.