The Week of awesome II! - The second annual unofficial gamedev competition!

Oh goodie! Hopefully this time I don't have a 5-day concrete pour and a family semi-reunion in the middle of it.

Mark me down as a 'maybe', with a maybe +1 partner (same as last year).

Oh, and same question as last year:

Can I repurpose art and code from my previous (and ongoing) projects?

Repurposing art might be a little unfair, but I don't think existing (code-library not gameplay) code would harm anything.

Last year the official rules were decided to be:

"You may use any library, game engine, tools, art, or audio to develop the game, provided you have the appropriate license to do so (if licensing is required for what you use); note that this means you may use code, art, and audio that you or others may have made in the past (the explicit limitation is that you may not use existing game logic (i.e. you may use libraries and engines, but you still have to actually make the game during the 7 day period))"

Can we adopt the same ruleset?

I would be interested in participating again, I had a lot of fun last time around.

The date slot is perfect for me, I've got a few days off :)

Also, same rules please! I've just attended LD#30 this weekend, and having to open source has severely hampered me. Last years compo I could use my own framework which makes me a lot more productive.

Oh goodie! Hopefully this time I don't have a 5-day concrete pour and a family semi-reunion in the middle of it. :P

Mark me down as a 'maybe', with a maybe +1 partner (same as last year).

Oh, and same question as last year:
Can I repurpose art and code from my previous (and ongoing) projects?
Repurposing art might be a little unfair, but I don't think existing (code-library not gameplay) code would harm anything.

Last year the official rules were decided to be:
"You may use any library, game engine, tools, art, or audio to develop the game, provided you have the appropriate license to do so (if licensing is required for what you use); note that this means you may use code, art, and audio that you or others may have made in the past (the explicit limitation is that you may not use existing game logic (i.e. you may use libraries and engines, but you still have to actually make the game during the 7 day period))"

Can we adopt the same ruleset? :ph34r:

I'm interested in doing this again, Hopefully less frustation getting what I want and not having to cut out a lot of intended stuff.

But the date is a slight problem, I will be away for most of the first week of September :(

If that can be worked around: I will be using the D3D11 prototype rendering system I've been working on, Unfortunetly the D3D9 part was based on the FF pipeline and would take a few days to work out better D3D11-D3D9 interop in the loader.

Best of luck to the competition :)

I can't say for sure that I will participate, but this sounds interesting and last year's theme was rather promising. If I participate, it will probably be with a friend. And if I don't participate I'm still curious of what people will do :D

Secondly i was considering adding a participation category to the score system which is based upon posting images/dev journals/general community participation with the competition threads to give better atomosphere to the entire thing. However this category is still up for debate.

Nice idea. I like it!
How the theme will be chosen? It is entirely up to the judges?

You have no room for artists, but Ill join... if a team will have me!

My portfolio is currently in the works but you can see it here:

http://www.riuthamus.com

I'm tempted to dip my toes in it.

I'm tempted to dip my toes in it.

We can use Unity, right? I've never done this sort of thing (gotta start some time) and I'm a tad busy with uni at the moment, but hopefully I'll find some time to get something in.

We can use Unity, right? I've never done this sort of thing (gotta start some time) and I'm a tad busy with uni at the moment, but hopefully I'll find some time to get something in.

"You may use any library, game engine, tools, art, or audio to develop the game, provided you have the appropriate license to do so (if licensing is required for what you use); note that this means you may use code, art, and audio that you or others may have made in the past (the explicit limitation is that you may not use existing game logic (i.e. you may use libraries and engines, but you still have to actually make the game during the 7 day period))"

I'm in! Won't be able to put a full week on it cause of work, but a few days hopefully.

I'm in! Won't be able to put a full week on it cause of work, but a few days hopefully.

I'm a total noob, but I'm up for a challenge.

to try to choose the best week that can meet the most people's capabilitys, i've added a poll to this thread for voting on the week that you can most comfortably participate in.

to try to choose the best week that can meet the most people's capabilitys, i've added a poll to this thread for voting on the week that you can most comfortably participate in.

You should probably make the poll for what weeks people are unavailable instead, and choose the week were fewest people are unable to attend.

EDIT: Missed that I could vote on all weeks already :)

Given that we might have some participants unable to do one particular week but possibly another. Splitting the competition into 2 separate week run with different themes for each might be a thought.

Getting back to the choice of the theme. The Ludum Dare GameJam use a system of poll to determine the theme. I'm not sure there is enough user for this method. But maybe letting the user vote for a global theme and the judge will be able to choose a smaller theme depending on this global theme.

For a maybe bad exemple : the participants chose the global theme : Sea, and the judge chose the smaller theme : pirate.