TIGSource competition

Competitions
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TIGSource is having its first IF competition here:
http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=824.0

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cool Lockett, thanks for posting that.

I’m going to write a game for this. Is anyone interested in collaborating in I7 (or TADS 3, my second choice)? The theme is Winter and/or the holidays/Christmas. Ideas off the top of my head this minute (who knows how they would work in IF):

  • a hunter comes down onto an ice plain and meets another hunter, they swap stories. A contest of stories, and at the end the hunter kills the other hunter because of a blood feud, made obvious in the telling of tales between them up to that point.

  • two Father Christmases have a contest

  • interstellar Christmas present delivery

  • Winter RPG, Santa’s elf quests to kill the Gingerbread Man.

The deadline is midnight of the 24th, btw.

[size=150]Proposed schedule[/size] (sure to be discarded):

12/11 to 12/14: design development

12/14 to 12/21: code development

12/22 to 12/24: testing

12/25: … fame and riches.

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Sorry, I’m going to do my own entry.

That’s the best idea on the list.

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Cool!

I like Christmas…I am all over this.

Thanks for letting everyone know about it.

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Another couple of ideas I had at work today:

  • soldiers in the trenches in WWI, play soccer on Christmas Eve (this is based on some story I heard)

  • Cold War spy shopping for his kid in Berlin on Christmas Eve, avoiding assasins.

  • Pacific Islanders face their first winter/Ice Age (Day After Tomorrow meets Kon-Tiki).

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Did anybody here enter?

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There are no entries posted yet, and since the organizer set the deadline to the author’s midnight, it might take a bit longer.

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Unfortunately for me with the combination of holiday travel and other things I didn’t enter and complete a game. I did get a few good game sketches from thinking about it though.

Also I would encourage any of y’all to check out the TIGSource forums, they’re really quite cool for people interested in games.

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Speaking of entries, the list of games entered is finally out! In total, there’s 4 Inform games, 2 ALAN3 games, 2 online games, 1 TADS3 game, and 1 Windows game.

A link has also been provided where all games, except “Breathe”, can be downloaded in one big ZIP file.