Well, I guess I'll go for it, worst case scenario - a new genre is added to the free software gaming world.
Just to be clear though, I have to say - I definitely did not mean "shooter" or "RTS" when I said "esoteric genre". I meant it's a genre that many gamers quite likely have never played in their lives... So my worry wasn't that the LPC as a policy encourages certain genres (and in fact, if my game goes according to plan, it will make great use of the given art), but that the judges, being (I assume) gamers with their own preferences for games, might be less excited about a genre, that on average, people are less excited about (I hope that made sense :-)).
Terramancers is available right here on the game's page, including a Windows binary (which is the only thing added since submitting to the LPC):
http://shaishapira.com/terramancers/
This it it - the game is finished, sumbitted to the contest and now also available for download on the website:
http://shaishapira.com/terramancers/
Enjoy!
Me too. So I understand it's not something to be worried about?
Well, I guess I'll go for it, worst case scenario - a new genre is added to the free software gaming world.
Just to be clear though, I have to say - I definitely did not mean "shooter" or "RTS" when I said "esoteric genre". I meant it's a genre that many gamers quite likely have never played in their lives... So my worry wasn't that the LPC as a policy encourages certain genres (and in fact, if my game goes according to plan, it will make great use of the given art), but that the judges, being (I assume) gamers with their own preferences for games, might be less excited about a genre, that on average, people are less excited about (I hope that made sense :-)).