Writing Contest

Chase Dickerson · 2005-01-23T18:28:02

I started thinking the other day about how there are always so many people who come on here who want to have portions of their stories and ideas critiqued, to see if their writing is at least half-decent in the eyes of others and just simply get a second opinion. Well I was thinking, “Why don’t we just hold a writing contest?” We'd pick a genre or a time period in which the story should take place (if any), give a few outlines as to what's expected in the story like how long it should be and the deadline for submissions, and then judge. I was also thinking that this would be a good idea just because I always see other contests out there mainly for the programmers and hardly any writing contests for us creative types. I don't know how many of you would be interested in this contest though... I have no means to which to reward any of you if I were to be the host or one of the judges of the contest. Sunandshadow, maybe you can pull some strings with the other admins and set it up so that the top three winners get a month's subscription to the GDNet+ deal, which is only a 5 dollar value, but it's better than nothing. Maybe their stories can be posted somewhere public for others to read too. I don't know, we’ll think of something. Anyhow, just basically wanted to see how many of you would be interested and to try and get this going. I'd supply further details about the contest if it gets the green light, or perhaps we can make it a collaborative effort on the contest outlines. But yeah, let me know what you all think.

Writing for Games Game Design

Started by Omega147 December 17, 2004 04:03 PM

32 comments, last by Think128 20 years ago

snifty

129

January 16, 2005 11:47 AM

I just registered to watch the progress of this contest, and maybe enter. I think it's a great idea, and good practice for everybody.

"I found that somewhat amusing" -Onikage

Rayno

511

January 16, 2005 07:36 PM

Quote:
Original post by stimarco
I would suggest defining a category using a cookie-cutter approach like this:

1. Key Purpose of Document
E.g. "Mythology Background", "Cut-scene Script" or "Character Description".

2. Theme or Premise
E.g. "Historical", "Contemporary Middle East", "Neolithic Britain"

3. Game Type / Genre
E.g. "MMORPG", "RTS", "FPS", "Racing Game", etc.

I'm already working on my character description for a neolithic british racing game [wink]

Seriously, this sounds like fun.

hewhoisnot

122

January 22, 2005 03:05 AM

hey i just found this forum but is it too late to join this comp. i would love to and if it is too late will you guys be holding another one soon. i got ideas oozing out of my noodle that i need to get out before my brain explodes.

say "what" one more time

Think128

124

January 23, 2005 06:28 PM

It hasn't even begun yet. From what I know anyways.

The guy hasn't come back with anything new.

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