Weekly Challenge: Expedition (due Jan 31)

Monday, January 24, 2011 - 15:17

As a hobbyist game designer I've been pondering games that don't involve violence or combat at all. This doesn't limit games to simple genres like puzzle or edutainment -- games can explore much more.

One aspect most of my favorite games share is exploration. The hero sets out to strange, uncharted, even alien lands.

I want to follow that theme with this week's challenge: Expedition. It is wide open for interpretation! Maybe items for an explorer's toolbag, or orchestral music, or art for unexplored landscapes.

Tag your entries: Weekly Challenge, Expedition
Entries are due Jan 31, 2011

johndh

joined 13 years 6 months ago

Tuesday, January 25, 2011 - 02:04

I might as well get an early start.

http://opengameart.org/content/spyglass

qubodup

joined 15 years 1 month ago

Tuesday, January 25, 2011 - 05:57

I hav a game idea for an exploration game - basically you search for berries post here.

I'll try to come up with some art for this challenge :)

PS: :\ :)

Cartoony(?) flask/...

Tartos

joined 13 years 7 months ago

Friday, January 28, 2011 - 09:11

Last events in tunisia and egypt made me think we could have a weekly challenge themed around arabian world (pyramids, mausoleums, mumies ... ).

Redshrike

joined 14 years 8 months ago

Friday, January 28, 2011 - 11:39

I dunno, would that be in good taste? It feels a little off, somehow.

shirish

joined 13 years 9 months ago

Friday, January 28, 2011 - 16:49

I don't think so.

Redshirke,

If anything it would help to highlight the issues which autocratic empires do and what the free world does in response. It could be a novel form of protest or novel form of taking note of importance of the goings on in Arab World.

<rant>In fact in most of the games there is next to no concept of art from most of the developing countries in the world, think Africa,South Americas, the whole Arabic world (just mentioned above) and then the whole of Asia. You could have enough to get things going on for over 2 months or more.

From where I come from India, we have just so many religious motifs and what not they could be a great source of art as well. Its just a shame that there is no public repository of such beautiful art anywhere. </rant>

So from my limited understanding/perspective Tartos please go ahead full-speed.

Just my 2 paise.

I just wish I was an artist

Blarumyrran

joined 14 years 2 weeks ago

Sunday, January 30, 2011 - 18:34