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The scariest game making competition since Scary Four Digits 2010

UPDATE Sunday the 30th of October 2011, 13:55pm GMT

The competition is officially over. You can still submit over Sunday (today), but please make this as soon as possible.

UPDATE Thursday the 27th of October 2011, 13:41pm GMT

I've decided to give everyone a full Saturday to work on their games. The submission deadline is now Sunday the 30th of October 2011, 12:00 noon GMT. You should aim to submit your entire game by this time. Please see "How To Submit Your Game".

This should give you just shy of 72 hours, as of now.

If you're a little late in submitting (ie a few hours), please don't freak out or anything, it's fine, just submit as soon as possible.

You won't get to play the games until Monday the 31st of October 2011, 0:00am GMT.

UPDATE Friday the 7th of October 2011, 0:00am GMT

The competition is now underway!

You can now start making your game.

Entering is officially closed, but if you're an active 64digits member or if you have a really good excuse for why you didn't enter earlier, feel free to try and convince me. =)

AND REMEMBER, you must submit your final game before Sunday the 30th of October 2011, 0:00am GMT, give or take a few hours for those confused by timezones and for other unfortunate souls.

On your marks!

GOGOGO

Original Post

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR GAME:

Submit your game at any time between now and before the 30th of October.

You can do this by sending a private message to me under the subject "Scary Four Entry" using the "Send Message" icon in the leftmost column of this page, near the top, under my avatar. Alternatively use the link below. You MUST follow the template when submitting your game.

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ENTRY SUBMISSION TEMPLATE:

You MUST follow this template when submitting your game. Those fields coloured red MUST be included.

GAME NAME:

The full name of the game as you want it written in subsequent posts.

CREATOR/S USERNAME/S:

The actual 64digits.com username/s of the creator/s of the game who entered the competition, as listed below in the list of entrants. This only need be the original entrant. You can use the field below to add your collaborators and your preferred name - if you don't, your 64d username will be credited.

CREATOR/S PREFERRED NAME/S:

The names of the creators of the game as you want them written in subsequent posts. Can include collaborators who didn't put their name in the list of entrants below, collaborators who don't have a username on 64digits, and can include the preferred names of the collaborators who do have usernames (they may not want to use that username).

CREDITS:

The full credits for your game. You must credit everything that you or your collaborators did not make yourself, and state who or where you got it from and how you received full permission. You can simplify this list if it becomes extensive, for example, "All sound effects from XXXXXXXX". You must also state the roles you and all of your collaborators played in the creation of the game. If it's a solo effort, "Created by XXXXXX" will suffice.

SCREENSHOTS:

You can link to up to four screenshots and a thumbnail here, as you want them listed in subsequent posts. There are no restrictions on the screenshots but the thumbnail must be 160x120 pixels. If you don't supply screenshots they will provided for you.

LINK:

Link to your game here. Use any file host you like. Direct links are preferable. Suggested hosts are the 64digits file manager or mediafire.com.

MIRRORS:

Provide additional links here if you like.

ADDITIONAL NOTES:

Anything else you feel is worth mentioning.

EXAMPLE SUBMISSION:

GAME NAME:

The Marvelous Adventures of Professor Flitwickel - Return of the Haunted Peanut

CREATORS USERNAMES:

Toast, BillH616

CREATORS PREFERRED NAMES:

Toast, Bill Hicks and George Carlin

CREDITS:

Code by Toast

Graphics by Bill Hicks

Music by George Carlin

The "Hedgehog enemy" sprite is used with permission from TheSpriteGuy.com

"Scream" sound effect from screamsfxs.com under Creative Commons license

All other sound effects from soundfxplace.com

SCREENSHOTS:

Imagehost.com/thumbnailimage

imagehost.com/screen1

imagehost.com/screen2

imagehost.com/screen3

imagehost.com/screen4

LINK:

filehost.com/professorflitwickel.zip

MIRRORS:

alternativefilehost.com/pf.exe

anotherfilehost.com/peanut.jar

RULES:

1. The aim of the competition is to develop entirely your own game within the time limit (7th Oct - 30th Oct). You will have to keep up to date with my blog posts to find out how and when to submit your final game.

2. You MUST have stated you are going to enter before the 7th of October 2011 (read further down for details).

3. You MUST submit your final game before the 30th of October 2011 (further details to come).

4. You MUST NOT include anything in the game that you don't have full permission to use.

5. You must not include anything in the game which has been in a game you have already released on the Internet - within reason and common sense. This rule is only valid until the 31st of October 2011 (0:00 GMT) - you can then share your final game entry elsewhere and do whatever you want with it.

N.B. You shouldn't release your final game before the 31st Oct because of this rule.

N.B. You can still post screenshots and videos anywhere you like - just not the game. If you want to send demos to each other, do it privately!

6. Your final game MUST have Halloween/horror/terror themed elements or references.

7. There are no programming language/game engine restrictions except that the game MUST run on Windows 7.

8. Don't be a cheater.

9. ONE entry per person.

10. You MUST be at least 15 years old to take part… the competition entries are likely to involve mature content.

11. I reserve the right to update or otherwise change the rules and to disqualify any entrant who breaks the rules.

PRIZES:

OK, for those expecting to win $1000 - which toads are you licking? I'm not trying to sell you anything. I gain nothing if you take part (in fact, keep reading, I lose a buck). I won't own anything you make, it's yours. HUNDREDS of people take part in the most famous game comp, Ludum Dare - they don't offer anything at all except the fun of taking part. If you want prizes, give as you wish to receive. If you're in it for the money, you don't deserve anything anyway.

ACE (1st)

-Congratulatory Note

-$55 Prize Money (donated)

-$13 Amazon.com Gift Card

-1 Bitcoin Prize Money (donated)

-Amnesia: The Dark Descent + Penumbra on Steam (donated)

-Award

KING (2nd)

-$25 Prize Money (donated)

-$6.66 Amazon.com Gift Card

-Amnesia: The Dark Descent on Steam (donated)

-Award

QUEEN (3rd)

-$15 Prize Money (donated)

-Award

JACK (4th)

-$10 Prize Money (donated)

-Award

JOKER (Booby Prize)

-Commiseratory Note

-Award

Donations by:

TRICK-OR-TREAT (EVERYONE)

Trick-or-treating is a tradition which promotes greediness, hostility and obese children.

To protest and as a companion to the prizes above, for every successful entrant* I will donate ~~$0.50~~ $1.00 to UNICEF (up to an undisclosed maximum).

Less candy for those little shits knocking on the door and more food and medicine for the dying.

Now you have no excuse - do it for the children, you cold, heartless bastard.

DO YOU LUDUM-DARE** COMPETE?

*A 'successful entrant' is defined as an entrant who submits a legitimate game within the time limit, gets at least one vote in the preliminary judging and is someone who I determine has actually bothered to make a decent game.
** :3

LIST OF ENTRANTS:

(72 Entrants)

-Rolf_Soldaat (Donating prizes!)

-badpilcrow (Donating prizes!)

-Moikle (Donating prizes!)

-Carlos508 (Donating prizes!)

-death (Donating prizes!)

-Zac1790 (Donating prizes!)

-Rez (Hosted last year's Scary Four!)

-Mush (Made the banner!)

-Ferret (maybe)

-RC

-SMP

-Taizen Chisou (maybe)

-hel

-svf

-Rob (maybe)

To contact any user on 64digits, just click on their page and "Send Message". You're already on my page!

p.s. If you want to discuss the competition with other competitors on one of those IRC doohickies for some strange reason, use the 64digits one. I'm sure they'll ~~not~~ mind.

Lapixx 13 years, 1 month ago

Count me in as well.

…what Cesque said

Toast 13 years, 1 month ago

@Alert I'm mixed on the idea of announcing a comp any later than I did. The two conflicting arguments are that announcing late means less cheating, but announcing early means you give people time to actually see the thing.

I think it may be conditional - because this is a completely new competition with a completely unknown time frame so people won't be expecting to join before the announcement. Once it begins to build up a reputation it can be announced later, ie, if there's a next year. I also wasn't sure how slow the "trickle" of people entering would be - whether everyone will have joined in the first couple of days or if there would be one or two people joining every day until the start. Fortunately it seems to be fairly exponential.

Concerning the rules… as a general guide, I don't know what's wrong with them until someone tells me. The old competition rules do not apply for two reasons - A, there are participants who haven't been existing members of 64d and I ~~knew~~ hoped that would be the case, and B, there is money involved, however small. Therefore the rules have to be put in place in an attempt to stop "greifing", illegitimate attempts at getting the prizes and (here's one I won't have mentioned) cheating on the votes/judging.

If there was nothing at stake here, I'd be the first to suggest no rules at all, believe me, they're very off-putting and feel intimidating and self-righteous. Most other competitions have no rules in practice anyway because half of them aren't enforceable and the other half are trivial (eg, must run on Windows).

svf 13 years, 1 month ago

I want to join. :D

Moikle 13 years, 1 month ago

graa, I have plenty of ideas for game mechanics, just none for the story/enemies.

badpilcrow 13 years, 1 month ago

I'm in. ಠ_ಠ Also, I'm willing to donate towards the prize fund. Can you e-mail me, Rez?

Who are all these new people crawling out of the woodwork?

colseed 13 years, 1 month ago

It's like the new comp has opened some gate and now ~~demons from hell~~ new people are flooding into 64digits D:

someone should totally make their game about this

@badpilcrow I'm guessing you were confused by the way I credited his name as 2010 host? I would be the 2011 host, if that's what you're looking for.

Edit: I fixed it so it is less confusing, sorry about that.

@Toast, ah, yes… :-) Just let me know what would be the best way to donate. I'm trying to get my students involved in this competition, so I figure a bit of "Win Prof. Sushil's Money" wouldn't hurt.

Haha that sounds brilliant. And no problem! I've sent you a message, just check your "Inbox" at the top of this page.

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