~The order in which you create things is up to you. ~Each day your progress will need to be posted on this forum. ~On the final day each of the participants will post their finished product with full description and author's name to be voted on at www.risen-online.com
As an individual representing Risen Online Entertainment Game Studios, I may or may not participate in this development chaos, this has also been another reason for the pushing back the dates.
The Prize for winning will be the following (given the requirements are fulfilled)
Risen Online Entertainment will design a standard basic game, provided that the winner has TWO (minimum) or more individuals to setup the designs, and artwork that will be used to create the game. You will be given full credit for the games design not the development.
Prize may change before the beginning of the competition but will be announced the day before IF any changes should occur.
OK, so let me get this straight. You want the people of this forum to write a First Person Shooter, within 15 days. Then, you (and your unproven team) will pick one and design your own game using the winning project as a base. Afterwards, you and your team get credit for the game, while the author of the winning project gets a line in the credits.
Why would anyone want to do that, when they could write their own and then reap the benefits of their work themselves? Or am I totally off here (in which case just ignore me).
UssNewJersey4, Im not going to reap the benefits from anyone, the competition is a friendly one, just to have fun, the games that the participants make will not EVER be used for anything else other than show, and as for the Prize: that is a completely new game RPG, Adventure, Anything the winner wants, but they have to design it, and we will develop it, in which case they will receive the game (of course) for free, and have the decision to let us sell the product or not, and royalties will be discussed at the time of the decision to sell the game or not, but only with the Winning Contestant.
OK, so let me get this straight. You want the people of this forum to write a First Person Shooter, within 15 days. Then, you (and your unproven team) will pick one and design your own game using the winning project as a base. Afterwards, you and your team get credit for the game, while the author of the winning project gets a line in the credits.
Why would anyone want to do that, when they could write their own and then reap the benefits of their work themselves? Or am I totally off here (in which case just ignore me).
Your VERY off base... It's a shoot em up :P
PS to OP: Ideas are a dime a dozen in the games industry...
Original post by Mr_Cruse First Place also gets a hug from Mushu
I'm out [wink].
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PS: I guess my tank game might qualify as a shoot'em up. And will have built-in content creation tools. I might try to cheat it in as a submission if I finish anywhere near the deadline. I want that prize!
I think this is a very bad idea, but I'm not here to put you down... so I'll just pretend it's a good idea and go from there.
You should give more information about what is expected. You say a "shoot em up" game, then in your next post it is a first person shooter. When you say shoot em up, some people think first person, some people (like me) think Ikaruga or Gradius...
Lots of props. Vague and a bit worthless, since props often do nothing to improve the quality of the game.
Minimum five weapons? Why? Is the quality of shooter dependent on the number of weapons it has? How can you create five weapons that act differently enough to be worthwhile in such a short time, on top of all of the other tasks. And if you have that skill, why would you want to win the "honor" of having somebody else do the task for you?
Anyway, as a "good idea", I think alot more thought needs to be put into it before it begins. Of course, my real opinion is that it's a shameless attempt to get a free game idea. But if you insist on doing it, at least do it right.
Ok, this is something to get people involved in game design, it is just something fun, nothing for profit and nothing lost, everyone has everything to gain and nothing to lose, at the very least, see where your type of creative idea compares to others, see where you need to improve, if at all. quit looking at this as something that someone will profit out of, unless you are the winner of the competition, everyone just have fun, and be creative.
Thank You all who posted against having a competition, im too frustrated to contact you each individually, but aside from that It was you who made this whole thread seem as a bad thing, something that a company was going to steal from other's hard work, and make profits off of... All we were trying to do is have a competition, and see what kind of creativity is out there, and offer them a position in game design, Thanks to all you who F*cked it up for the people who were interested!!!
