I really think that for the time being the coding challenge has to accept graphics from all over the site just to have a large enough set. That gives whoever does the coding challenge more flexibility in their themes too. (Is someone doing that? Am I doing that? I've used itch.io for personal projects and could learn to use the others, but I don't want to bite off more than I can chew.)
Though it's a possibility. They wouldn't necessarily have to be a duality, but the trick would be to make theme related (or relatable, which isn't quite the same thing) but not repetitive. Might even give me some themes by thinking about how it could work, theoretically. Hrmmm.
@MedicineStorm: If the last time around we took a week as the end period for votes they probably had a good a reason. Might as well do it this time too.
Since I give a little time to think about the challenge before it starts I guess there's no reason not to set it off soon. That way we can announce the winner the same time submissions start for the next one.
And looks like everyone's on the same page for theme selection, so that's set too.
I'll have the new thread up when it's ready to go.
We're winding down and will be past the deadline very soon. I'm giving it a bit for it to still be Jan. 15th in all time zones. The counting of favorites and declaring a winner will come after that. I figure we have to give that a few days to be fair to any last second entries, if there are any. Keep in mind I know the theme ahead of time and advertise more than participate, so my entries will never count unless someone else is hosting it and I don't know the theme.
The current plan is to announce the new theme this week after the first winner is declared and then set the week of Jan. 22nd to the 28th for the entry period for the second challenge. It kind of becomes staggered that way and gives a little extra time to think about the theme before doing it.
Love seeing the result so far. There's a little bit of a mix on theme.
There's still time yet to get more official entires for anyone still working on it.
@chasersgaming: For right now I have no problem with picking themes. I figure we can do that for right now to get the thing going. I can do it a little while for sure, maybe longer. We'll see.
Voting for themes is not really my favorite. I know Ludum Dare and some others make that a huge part of the process, but I don't think that works real well at the end and just wastes a lot of time for most people. Ideas are welcome, and old threads are good inspiration.
I have no problem with anything the community decides to do, though.
The idea of a partnership site for a coding competition makes sense, but most places I have seen either by who is there or purposefully encourage a specific toolset or language. I think that kind of goes against the idea of openess that we have here. But I admit I haven't done a lot of looking.
I'm up for anything the community wants, though. Certainly I think an all inclusive approach to the idea of making games can only help things. Coding without the language focus I guess. The logic behind it, I guess, and the specifics of how to pull that off would depend on the tool.
This is a false equivalency here. Commenting that someone is violating the rules in a bad way is not as bad as violating the rules yourself. I'd rather not chastise a valued contributor just to appear to be fair to someone breaking the rules left and right and demanding to get away with it. People who act that entitled to anything should be slapped down just so they don't think they can do worse.
That being said, if ChaosMikee is now banned, there's no reason to have additional comments on the whole situation. The threads should be locked and preferably made invisible. Not deleted, though. If the guy really makes a nuisance lawsuit (because that's all it'd be) it'd be nice to have copies of his posts that clearly indicate who we're dealing with here. No lawyer or judge or anybody can feel sympathic to this guy in even a small way after seeing his posts.
Since he's not going to sue (he'll just threaten it a few more times to try to save face) we should just ignore Mikee here. Like all trolls, he thrives on feeling important.
Again, dude, prove you know what you're trying to talk about. Sue. Or shut up.
We think you know less than a gnat about anything. We don't want to hear your theory about, well, anything. If you think you're right, then sue. Then we'll have an outside source saying you're ignorant instead of just all of us saying it.
I submitted early again to promote the challenge: http://opengameart.org/content/lab-rat-labyrinth
Another small pixel thing, and pretty basic. I'll have to try something more advanced sometime.
I really think that for the time being the coding challenge has to accept graphics from all over the site just to have a large enough set. That gives whoever does the coding challenge more flexibility in their themes too. (Is someone doing that? Am I doing that? I've used itch.io for personal projects and could learn to use the others, but I don't want to bite off more than I can chew.)
Though it's a possibility. They wouldn't necessarily have to be a duality, but the trick would be to make theme related (or relatable, which isn't quite the same thing) but not repetitive. Might even give me some themes by thinking about how it could work, theoretically. Hrmmm.
@MedicineStorm: If the last time around we took a week as the end period for votes they probably had a good a reason. Might as well do it this time too.
Since I give a little time to think about the challenge before it starts I guess there's no reason not to set it off soon. That way we can announce the winner the same time submissions start for the next one.
And looks like everyone's on the same page for theme selection, so that's set too.
I'll have the new thread up when it's ready to go.
We're winding down and will be past the deadline very soon. I'm giving it a bit for it to still be Jan. 15th in all time zones. The counting of favorites and declaring a winner will come after that. I figure we have to give that a few days to be fair to any last second entries, if there are any. Keep in mind I know the theme ahead of time and advertise more than participate, so my entries will never count unless someone else is hosting it and I don't know the theme.
The current plan is to announce the new theme this week after the first winner is declared and then set the week of Jan. 22nd to the 28th for the entry period for the second challenge. It kind of becomes staggered that way and gives a little extra time to think about the theme before doing it.
Love seeing the result so far. There's a little bit of a mix on theme.
There's still time yet to get more official entires for anyone still working on it.
@chasersgaming: For right now I have no problem with picking themes. I figure we can do that for right now to get the thing going. I can do it a little while for sure, maybe longer. We'll see.
Voting for themes is not really my favorite. I know Ludum Dare and some others make that a huge part of the process, but I don't think that works real well at the end and just wastes a lot of time for most people. Ideas are welcome, and old threads are good inspiration.
I have no problem with anything the community decides to do, though.
The idea of a partnership site for a coding competition makes sense, but most places I have seen either by who is there or purposefully encourage a specific toolset or language. I think that kind of goes against the idea of openess that we have here. But I admit I haven't done a lot of looking.
I'm up for anything the community wants, though. Certainly I think an all inclusive approach to the idea of making games can only help things. Coding without the language focus I guess. The logic behind it, I guess, and the specifics of how to pull that off would depend on the tool.
I added my promised submission:
Baby Bounce NES - http://opengameart.org/content/baby-bounce-nes
Silly, I know, but it was mostly from scratch (I think I reused a heart from an earlier submission) and made to advertise this challenge.
Now let's see what you come up with!
This is a false equivalency here. Commenting that someone is violating the rules in a bad way is not as bad as violating the rules yourself. I'd rather not chastise a valued contributor just to appear to be fair to someone breaking the rules left and right and demanding to get away with it. People who act that entitled to anything should be slapped down just so they don't think they can do worse.
That being said, if ChaosMikee is now banned, there's no reason to have additional comments on the whole situation. The threads should be locked and preferably made invisible. Not deleted, though. If the guy really makes a nuisance lawsuit (because that's all it'd be) it'd be nice to have copies of his posts that clearly indicate who we're dealing with here. No lawyer or judge or anybody can feel sympathic to this guy in even a small way after seeing his posts.
Since he's not going to sue (he'll just threaten it a few more times to try to save face) we should just ignore Mikee here. Like all trolls, he thrives on feeling important.
Again, dude, prove you know what you're trying to talk about. Sue. Or shut up.
We think you know less than a gnat about anything. We don't want to hear your theory about, well, anything. If you think you're right, then sue. Then we'll have an outside source saying you're ignorant instead of just all of us saying it.
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