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Fenrir-Lunaris
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 Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:46 pm Post subject: TERRIBLE GAMES CONTEST - 2007 |
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OPENING
The time has come again for the Official Terrible Games contest. This year, there are a few additions and alterations to the rules, which should streamline the process of entry and also voting. I'm looking forwards to the entries this year, and have some interesting prizes to hand out as an incentive. This year's theme is perhaps its most controvesial ever. Your goal, is to create a game in the theme of "Edutainment".
CONTEST RULES
Previous TGC entries had rather elaborate rules regarding their eligibility, which some people felt detracted from the spirit of the contest, which was to make a terrible game. The definition of a Terrible game is intentionally vague of course. Some of us like Arfenhouse. Others have nothing but disdain for it. To each their own.
*0* The most important rule, and the theme of the contest, the "Zero Rule". Your goal is to produce a video game that teaches something - Edutainment, in other words. The game must seek, in its own manner, to educate its player on something. This could be anything - Putting on Shoes, Not pressing Buttons, and so forth. It is your decision what your game will teach.
*1* You MUST construct your game using the OHRRPGCE engine. Hasta-la-QB, a nightly version, or even a custom build are acceptible. If you use a version of the OHR that is in testing, or one which is no longer widely availible (the 4 map version perhaps), you MUST package a version of the game.exe so we can play it! In fact, I reccommend using a nightly version so you can find and report bugs directly to James, or the other programmers!
*2* The actual opening date for the contest shall be April 1st, and will last an entire month until April 30th. If you begin work on your game within this timeframe and submit it before the deadline, you will not be penalized (obviously). Until then, you are free to do much of the prep work for your game, making sprites, collecting music, planning the scripting and everything, and may even import them into your game file ahead of time, but you may NOT begin actual work in the file itself until April 1st. Otherwise, 5 points are deducted from your game's score.
*3* You are only allowed to release your completed abomination to the public on April 30th. This is primarily to allow everyone an equal shot at the prizes, and also to not intimidate potential contestants into dropping out. You may however post spoilers, and screenshots, etc., so long as you do not leak your game early. If you pass it to a few friends/rivals/whatever ahead of time, then I'll be officially taking a "Don't ask, don't tell" policy, but your game must be released on the 30th of April. I can't guarantee CP will be up on the 30th however, so if it's down, I'll be checking back every night until it goes back up for new entries. If you release your game before April 30th, I will deduct 5 points from your final score.
*4* You MAY rip and use ANY and ALL graphics from the game "Vikings of Midgard" should you feel an extra two months of prepwork to make sprites is not sufficient for your project, or if you feel your entry will be penalized by other contestants' voting because of a lack of graphical abilities. The game is availible in the CP download list for you to use for this reason. You may also modify these graphics for your own purposes, but do not claim either the original content nor the modified graphics as your own original work. That just wouldn't be cool.
*5* The meat of what makes a terrible game - content! Your game must strive to include as many of the following, which would cause your game to be rated for Mature or Adult only audiences were it a marketable game rated by the ESRB:
| Code: | * Alcohol Reference — Reference to and/or images of alcoholic beverages.
* Animated Blood — Discolored and/or unrealistic depictions of blood.
* Blood — Depictions of blood.
* Blood and Gore — Depictions of blood or the mutilation of body parts.
* Cartoon Violence — Violent actions involving cartoon-like or animated situations and characters. May also include violence where a character is unharmed after the action has been inflicted.
* Comic Mischief — Depictions or dialogue involving slapstick or suggestive humor.
* Crude Humor — Depictions or dialogue involving vulgar antics, including "bathroom humor".
* Drug Reference — Reference to and/or images of illegal drugs.
* Fantasy Violence — Violent actions of a fantasy nature, involving human or non-human characters in situations easily distinguishable from real life.
* Intense Violence — Graphic and realistic-looking depictions of physical conflict. May involve extreme and/or realistic blood, gore, weapons, and depictions of human injury and death.
* Language — Mild to moderate use of profanity.
* Lyrics — Mild references to profanity, sexuality, violence, alcohol, or drug use in music.
* Mature Humor — Depictions or dialogue involving "adult" humor, including sexual references.
* Mild Violence — Mild scenes depicting characters in unsafe and/or violent situations.
* Nudity — Graphic or prolonged depictions of nudity.
* Partial Nudity — Brief and/or mild depictions of nudity.
* Sexual Themes — Mild to moderate sexual references and/or depictions. May include partial nudity.
* Sexual Violence — Depictions of rape or other sexual acts.
* Simulated Gambling — Player can gamble without betting or wagering real cash or currency.
* Strong Language — Explicit and/or frequent use of profanity.
* Strong Lyrics — Explicit and/or frequent references to profanity, sex, violence, alcohol, or drug use in music.
* Strong Sexual Content — Graphic references to and/or depictions of sexual behavior, possibly including nudity.
* Suggestive Themes — Mild provocative references or materials.
* Tobacco Reference — Reference to and/or images of tobacco products.
* Use of Drugs — The consumption or use of illegal drugs.
* Use of Alcohol — The consumption of alcoholic beverages.
* Use of Tobacco — The consumption of tobacco products.
* Violence — Scenes involving aggressive conflict.
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WHAT IS A TERRIBLE GAME?
I will not be judging what constitutes a "terrible game". For example, I like Final Fantasy 8, which other people abhor like a Wisdom Tree game. Therefore, I am continuing last year's practice of allowing the community members to vote for which games were the "best/worst/whatever". Beauty, or in this case Ugliness, is entirely in the eye of the beholder. It is your obligation to construct your game according to your own notions on what makes a game good or bad.
A final point concerning the entries. All the previous winners of the contest actually put effort into their games - they were fun to play (more or less). This is your opportunity to make the game that you'd have to be criminally insane to produce otherwise, or for which no other contest exists to release one.
VOTING AND SCORING
Voting this time is a bit less complex, and more streamlined than in previous contests. When the contest ends, voting will begin from May 1st to May 14th, effectively giving two weeks to play each game and vote whose games were the best. Again, this is partially because of CP's irregular uptime, and also to give the community enough time to play these games, and then judge them respectively.
Anyone may vote on the games, and may rate each one on a scale of 1 (awful) to 5 (best). What constitutes a bad or good "terrible" game is your decision, as is the nature of the contest. Your score sheet should look something like this:
| Code: | Put on socks - 2
Put on pants - 3
Put on hat - 2
Cross the street - 5
Barely Legal Seals - 1
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If you fail to vote on any one game, I will assume you DID NOT play it, and accordingly give it an automatic score of 3. If enough people fail to play one particular game, it may quickly rise to the top of the voting and be a declared the winner. Consequently, it is in your own interests to play each game, even if only for a little bit, so you can judge it yourself.
Moreover, if you release your game early (before the 30th of April), you lose 5 total points. If you start putting your game together early (before the 1st of April), you lose 5 points. Remember, you CAN gather your materials first, just don't put anything together before the 1st!
You may only vote ONCE, and I will not be accepting PMs or Emails about your votes. Yes, you can vote for your own game. I will officially be taking your votes on a thread to be created at some point in the future in Castle Paradox, and on the Surlaw home of Squids and Walruses since some of the entrants may be exclusive to one or the other. Voting shall begin May 1st and will end on the 14th, to allow people enough time to play the games and vote on them.
After the votes have been tallied and the points added up, any deductions incurred on your behalf will be subtracted from your score. At this point, a maximum number of deducted points can be 10, so if you feel you can beat out your competition by a wide enough margin then more power to you. The game with the MOST points on the 14th of May wins, and its creator gets a -PRIZE-!!
PRIZES!!
The 1st Place Winner will recieve $50 USD (by check) sent by mail to your home adress. I will be coordinating with you personally regarding this. I will be entering too, so if I win, then I keep the prize money. If you wish for some other prize instead, I will coordinate with you to get you that preize - be it artwork, or whatever. Consider it a reward for hard work.
$50!!!!
Good luck, and godspeed.
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Moogle1
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| Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 11:10 pm Post subject: |
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Oh man. I was wondering when this contest would roll around again. I think I have the perfect game idea.
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Fenrir-Lunaris
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| Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 11:12 pm Post subject: |
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And now the annotated version for people who don't read posts. You know who you are. Consequently, you get no blue in this post.
OPENING
The time has come again for the Official Terrible Games contest. Your goal, is to create a game in the theme of "Edutainment".
CONTEST RULES
The definition of a Terrible game is intentionally vague.
*0*Your goal is to produce a video game that teaches something - Edutainment, in other words.
*1* You MUST construct your game using the OHRRPGCE engine.
*2* The actual opening date for the contest shall be April 1st, and will last an entire month until April 30th.
*3* You are only allowed to release your completed abomination to the public on April 30th.
*4* You MAY rip and use ANY and ALL graphics from the game "Vikings of Midgard".
*5* Your game must strive to include Content that would cause your game to be rated for Mature or Adult only audiences were it a marketable game rated by the ESRB:
WHAT IS A TERRIBLE GAME?
It is your obligation to construct your game according to your own notions on what makes a game good or bad. All the previous winners of the contest actually put effort into their games - they were fun to play (more or less).
VOTING AND SCORING
Voting will begin from May 1st to May 14th.
Anyone may vote on the games, and may rate each one on a scale of 1 (awful) to 5 (best). What constitutes a bad or good "terrible" game is your decision, as is the nature of the contest. Your score sheet should look something like this:
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Put on socks - 2
Put on pants - 3
Put on hat - 2
Cross the street - 5
Barely Legal Seals - 1
If you fail to vote on any one game, Iit will get an automatic score of 3. Moreover, if you release your game early (before the 30th of April), you lose 5 total points. If you start putting your game together early (before the 1st of April), you lose 5 points.
You may only vote ONCE, and I will not be accepting PMs or Emails about your votes. Yes, you can vote for your own game. The game with the MOST points on the 14th of May wins, and its creator gets a -PRIZE-!!
PRIZES!!
The 1st Place Winner will recieve $50 USD (by check) sent by mail to your home adress. I will be coordinating with you personally regarding this. I will be entering too, so if I win, then I keep the prize money. If you wish for some other prize instead, I will coordinate with you to get you that preize - be it artwork, or whatever. Consider it a reward for hard work.
$50!!!!
Good luck, and godspeed. Also learn to read long posts. |
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J.A.R.S.
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| Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 11:16 pm Post subject: |
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Absurd games?
Is it even really worth the 50$?
Actually, could you list the games that were produced for the last edition? I'd like to have a look at what it ended up doing last time... |
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Fenrir-Lunaris
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| Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 11:22 pm Post subject: |
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| J.A.R.S. wrote: | Absurd games?
Is it even really worth the 50$?
Actually, could you list the games that were produced for the last edition? I'd like to have a look at what it ended up doing last time... |
1 - Hardly, though they are well remembered.
2 - $50 is a non insignificant amount of money. That's the price of most video games, or even two to three used ones!
3 - Certainly
Shadowiii vs Santa Barbara Airport DX
RAYP HUR
Super Concentration Headache Master Pro
FFXXX-2
OHRhouse2
P the Super Virus 3
Horrible Fantasy
Nameless Slime Gaiden
Racing Gon Extreme
Violence
Get in the Hole
Dr Rape
OHR IRC Simulator
MrTriangle's adventure
Barely Legal Bitches |
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J.A.R.S.
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| Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 11:27 pm Post subject: |
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Barely Legal Bitches!!!
I was wondering on what occasion this game had been made 
So who won? I'll have a play at the last winner and this will give me a fair idea of what's to come... |
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Moogle1
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| Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 11:37 pm Post subject: |
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I think BLB won last time. Super Concentration Headache Master Pro was the winner the year before. (edit: never mind)
This contest has produced some of the most amazing games (for widely varying reasons).
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Fenrir-Lunaris
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| Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 11:37 pm Post subject: |
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[First Place]
Super Concentration Headache Master Pro
[Second Place - Tie]
Dr Rape
OHR IRC Simulator
[Third Place]
Shadowiii vs Santa Barbara Airport DX
Also, Barely Legal Bitches and Mr. Triangle's Adventure won 1st place in their respective divisions. Moogle1's enthusiasm is well noted, since he did win the general division last time around 
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| Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 1:43 am Post subject: |
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FFXXX won the first contest, I highly recommend it. It was so bad, it even beat out my rabidly racist/neonazi entry!
EDIT: Whoo, found the file from RollingStone/Gilbert's original Terrible Games Contest! http://www.castleparadox.com/gilbert/BadGames.zip
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RedMaverickZero
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| Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 5:50 am Post subject: |
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If I can find an able bodied and twisted enough plotscripter to construct the outline of my idea, I will surely win. If anyone's interested, there will be things exploding, sound effects, and something amazing that will rock anything you could imagine.
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TwinHamster
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| Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:30 am Post subject: |
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Defile the community and win money?!  |
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Blue Pixel
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| Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 11:50 am Post subject: |
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hmm ill give it a try, but be warned, THIS GAME INCLUDES FLASHING LIGHTS AND MAY CAUSE SEIZURES!
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Moogle1
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| Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 12:08 pm Post subject: |
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| the_dude257 wrote: | | hmm ill give it a try, but be warned, THIS GAME INCLUDES FLASHING LIGHTS AND MAY CAUSE SEIZURES! |
You wouldn't be the first to try. The only two games I know of that caused users to experience real adverse effects are Tarot Master's Seizure Master (I think that was the name) and Super Concentration Headache Master Pro (see Shadowiii's review -- the game actually did give him a headache).
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Blue Pixel
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| Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 12:21 pm Post subject: |
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well are any of there games button mashers? i hope not, and for a bonus ill disable the esc key. thatll be enought to win the contest for sure!
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TwinHamster
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| Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 12:26 pm Post subject: |
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| the_dude257 wrote: | | hmm ill give it a try, but be warned, THIS GAME INCLUDES FLASHING LIGHTS AND MAY CAUSE SEIZURES! |
That's hardly original anymore.
I mean, which of the entries won't have flashing seizure-inducing lights? |
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