#091 : The MyGameIdeas.com Challenge

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Socoder -> Wednesday Workshop -> #091 : The MyGameIdeas.com Challenge
Tue, 13 Mar 2007, 16:52
Jayenkai	Wednesday Workshop #091 : The MyGameIdeas.com Challenge Time until Deadline Week : 14 March 2007 The Reason : Magicman's suggestion (+ a really nice website). The Challenge : Pick a game suggestion from MyGameIdeas.com, and make it! Extra Info Make the game as true to the suggestion as possible. (but, obviously, don't go mad) Weekly Rules/How to Enter You have until Tuesday Night/Wednesday Morning 00:00 BST to submit your levels. ^ See Deadline Link! ^ Wed.Workshop is at SoCoder.co.nr. If you can read this, you're probably already there! Stick your entry underneath this post, leaving a link to your zip or the source of your game, or whatever. (I really should get round to that Upload thing, shouldn't I!) If you can't figure it out, or have a really rubbish server, send it to Jayenkai@Gmail.com and I'll stick it straight onto the SoCoder (Official Wed.Workshop) site. Entries will be collected during the week, and entered into next week's voting. (If there are any entries..) All entries will be entered into voting which will take place if there's more than one entry.. Please try to keep all entries within small file sizes. 2Mb is the average maximum for files. Additional Rules are available at the SoCoder (Official Wed.Workshop) site, under the list of previous workshops. Last Week's Games Nobody entered last week, not even shroom! (That's 2 week's he's not entered!) -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Wed, 14 Mar 2007, 01:00
shroom_monk	Jayenkai Nobody entered last week, not even shroom! (That's 2 week's he's not entered!) Aaah, come on, Jay! I didn't have any ideas again!!! I'm having an idea shortage. Besides, I have a rule: all my games must include mushrooms! That makes things more complex! -=-=- A mushroom a day keeps the doctor away... Keep It Simple, Shroom!
Wed, 14 Mar 2007, 06:41
garand	For the next challenge jay should click this: www.mygameideas.com/random/ and witch ever one comes up thats the idea for the next week?
Wed, 14 Mar 2007, 09:25
Jayenkai	You know, I've just spent a good half hour reading through a LOT of those ideas. Some of the ideas have potential, but most are... "MMORPG! WITH BUGS!!!" or "Generic, BUT ONLINE!" So, slight tweak of the rules. If you see an idea you like, but it's insanely complex, go with the flow of the idea, as opposed to the fully laid out plan! That is, if it says "Super Sandbox GTA with Dinosaurs!" then feel free to make a small game with dinosaurs! Obviously, try to stick to the original spirit of the idea, just make the best that you can. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Wed, 14 Mar 2007, 11:54
shroom_monk	Well, for me, it's just a matter of sticking in some mushrooms and me into the game. Hmm... Got it! Now I just need to program it... \|edit\| Oh fiddle... I spent all day at school thinking how to put shrooms into this game... Now I've re-read the description, my plans have gone all pear-shaped. \|edit\| -=-=- A mushroom a day keeps the doctor away... Keep It Simple, Shroom!
Wed, 14 Mar 2007, 18:23
power mousey	shroom, I have some ideas for you. And inspired my mushroom madness and forged with fantastic fungi. cheers,
Thu, 15 Mar 2007, 09:29
Jayenkai	If I don't finish off my week's entry on time, I'm definately going to finish it off for the Showcase. I'm attempting to do Zombie Golf It's a quirky little game, with a very odd name.. Exactly my type of game Today I started off doing the graphics. At first I tried making really complex course graphics, but eventually came to the conclusion that Less=More, and redid it all with the "4 Colour Rule" That is, if you stick to 4 colours per tile, it's meant to give the illusion of more. It seems to do the trick. Clicky for Biggy (The ball was added in Painshop Pro, since I haven't gotten balls working yet!) And the entire golf course is loaded from a lovely big 800x600 map image. Cracking stuff! Next up, drawing some zombies -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Thu, 15 Mar 2007, 10:27
garand	I like the trees
Thu, 15 Mar 2007, 11:01
Jayenkai	Yep. Can't beat super-simple trees
Thu, 15 Mar 2007, 11:05
garand	This may be an Idea for it jay: what about animating the water? and maybe adding a waving effect to the flag? This game sounds really cool.
Thu, 15 Mar 2007, 11:11
garand	and for the ball what about this: ballheight=0 ballpower=0 ballx=0 bally=0 color 255,255,255 oval ballx,bally,5,5 color 150,150,150 oval ballx+10,bally+position_on_curve,5,5 --v That is something that i just wrote up really quick. I thought that it might work for the ball and its shadow.
Thu, 15 Mar 2007, 11:45
power mousey	how about adding a golf house or building too. where you...a golfing zombie meet and um zombinize with fello zombie golfers. hey turn it into a House of the Dead game. ahhhhhhhhh!!! true ha heeheee House of the Undead Golfers this time around...being a zombie you try to save the surrounding golf area and decreped and rotting buildings from being torn down and rennovated into a shopping mall. armed with your golf club and your worn and torn golf bag you attempt to hold off the construction crews and bull dozers as golfing ghouls n ghosts and fellow zombie golfers eventually materilaize on the scene to help you out. ghastly ghoulish golfing power mousey
Thu, 15 Mar 2007, 12:06
Jayenkai	Sorry Garand, all 3 are already done! Ball shadow and ball are both pre-drawn images, just 'cos it saves having to deal with Blitz's slightly slower Oval command. Wave effect is already animated on flag. Water, quite neat.. Random blue pixels drawn to 64*64 area (with about 20 pixels drawn per frame) 64x64 tile then TileImage'd onto screen, moving slowly up+right, with the rest of the game drawn over the top. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Thu, 15 Mar 2007, 15:38
magicman	sweet! nothing quite like zombie golf!
Thu, 15 Mar 2007, 15:59
mike_g	Looks like it will be fun to play
Thu, 15 Mar 2007, 17:31
garand	Yup! Cant wait for it.
Fri, 16 Mar 2007, 14:18
shroom_monk	Realises he needs to do an entry... -=-=- A mushroom a day keeps the doctor away... Keep It Simple, Shroom!
Fri, 16 Mar 2007, 23:20
power mousey	sorry shroom, I guess Simon,Randy, and Paula will have to cook and eat their mushrooms later.
Mon, 19 Mar 2007, 15:30
shroom_monk	OK, it's sorta hastily bunged together due to time constraints, so I can't guarentee that it'll work , so if there are any errors, please let me know before Wednesday!!! Anyway, here is my game based on 'Tank Mayhem': shroom.monk.googlepages.com/ww91_entry.zip I can 99.9% guarentee that you won't beat it - if ya do, then I'm finished... you'll see why if you get to the end... Have fun!!! -=-=- A mushroom a day keeps the doctor away... Keep It Simple, Shroom!
Tue, 20 Mar 2007, 15:03
PieMan	That game is hard, i get so far, then i just get stuck and can just drive around for a bit, haven't reached the end, which i won't say at the moment, Shroom told me on the bus -=-=- A pie a day causes heart failure
Tue, 20 Mar 2007, 15:40
power mousey	pieman, I wish I could try out and play his game. But my Windows downloader is acting quirky. First I thought it was either the Winzip and/or the Winrar. I think in the future, I'm going to use and should use a download accerelator or manager. I'll get one over at www.tucows.com Then, and only then can I download and play shrooms' game. cheers power mousey
Tue, 20 Mar 2007, 16:34
Jayenkai	I tried my best.. But unfortunately there's still way too much unfinished on Zombie Golf. For starters, the Zombie AI's pretty useless. There's no combat done. The menu system's none-existant. And I've only made 5 holes! Way too much stuff to do within the next 1 hour 30 mins. Bah, humbug. So, I'll have to just finish it off for a Showcase, instead. Looks like Shrooms won, then! -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Tue, 20 Mar 2007, 17:03
magicman	i would have made somthing, but i couldnt find anything yesterday that i could make in 2 days. -=-=- Stuff... Yeah...
Wed, 21 Mar 2007, 11:50
PieMan	Ow, i'm sorry about that mousey, i almost got to the boss by trying to commit suicide, but it didn't work i'm realy sad now -=-=- A pie a day causes heart failure
Wed, 21 Mar 2007, 12:15
power mousey	hey, its cool Pieman. I should've had a download resumer or accelerator to begin with. I don't know why the Windows downloader system acts up at times and doesn't download the whole file. So you know, I'll be milking 2 cows now. new editey: downloading now...at the moment and from Westlin Bunker Datacenter. cheers power mousey