Christmas Contest 2015

Post by **TMC** » Fri Nov 20, 2015 10:25 am

I'm sure Southern tradition qualifies too.

Post by **Mogri** » Fri Nov 20, 2015 5:48 pm

BMR wrote:Christmas traditions. Is that specifically western tradition?

No. I don't know how Christmas is traditionally celebrated in the Philippines, but I'd certainly be happy to play a game about it.

kylekrack · Post by **kylekrack** » Fri Nov 20, 2015 10:55 pm

Ok, I have a more serious idea now, but I still want to make sure it fits the guidelines.

I'd like to make a game which focuses around a family somewhat in shambles. You, the daugher, among many other relatives, are visiting for the obligatory Christmas dinner held every year at your parents' house. Unsurprisingly, the point of Christmas in general has been lost on the family. In other words, they've forgotten the reason for the season. It's the player's duty, if they take it, to rekindle the connection the family has and attempt to make everyone understand the reason Christmas brings them all together.

The point is that Christmas is about love and sharing and kindness, blah blah blah. Would that work? Or is it too focused on family issues? My intent is to make the family issues the catalyst through which the game explores the meaning of Christmas.

Post by **Mogri** » Sat Nov 21, 2015 12:25 am

That would definitely work.

Fenrir-Lunaris · Post by **Fenrir-Lunaris** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 4:32 am

Welp, got the game's intro scene working at least.

Feenicks · Post by **Feenicks** » Thu Nov 26, 2015 7:42 pm

Figuring out what exactly one area of the game is going to look like.

I know how I'm going to do what I'm doing... it's just that it'll be a good amount of drawing stuff between now and the due date.

Fenrir-Lunaris · Post by **Fenrir-Lunaris** » Sun Nov 29, 2015 6:24 am

Decided to give myself a challenge and try to use a single 16 color palette for the whole game. The enemy sprites came out okay, but I'm convinced that some future anthropologist looking back from 1000 years would find the iconography surrounding the holiday to pretty much be a mishmash of 'whatever goes'.

Gizmog · Post by **Gizmog** » Sun Nov 29, 2015 6:52 am

You know I've been thinking, I generally release something stupid around Christmas every year.. does that mean that my games are themselves a meanginful Christmas tradition and thus counted on a meta level?

Or should I even bother since Fenrir's graphics are soooo sexy!

Feenicks · Post by **Feenicks** » Sun Nov 29, 2015 5:32 pm

Man, I really gotta get going with drawing/designing my enemies. Fen's graphics are really nice (and are reminding me to swap out some of the enemies I have planned with more christmasy ones).
Did get doors (two-way and one-way) set up in my game last night, which will be really useful going forward.

Post by **Mogri** » Tue Dec 01, 2015 10:00 pm

Gizmog wrote:You know I've been thinking, I generally release something stupid around Christmas every year.. does that mean that my games are themselves a meanginful Christmas tradition and thus counted on a meta level?

I don't know if this was a serious question, but no, private traditions are excluded.

Gizmog · Post by **Gizmog** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 1:38 am

Mogri wrote:
Gizmog wrote:You know I've been thinking, I generally release something stupid around Christmas every year.. does that mean that my games are themselves a meanginful Christmas tradition and thus counted on a meta level?
I don't know if this was a serious question, but no, private traditions are excluded.

Of course it wasn't a serious question.

Feenicks · Post by **Feenicks** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 4:24 pm

video footage of the maze

Fenrir-Lunaris · Post by **Fenrir-Lunaris** » Mon Dec 07, 2015 10:20 am

Damn Phoenix, the fact you managed to get all that working AND have it look good deserves major props. At this rate the only way I'll be able to seriously compete is if I manage to get the entire game's core story/gameplay done by the end of the week, then spend the next two weeks on fleshing it out and plugging in excess content.

That said, 3 dungeons down, one to go.

kylekrack · Post by **kylekrack** » Thu Dec 10, 2015 9:33 pm

I'm not going to be able to follow through with this contest. I'm in the process of moving currently and I honestly don't have the time or energy to make the graphics for the game. I hate to say that's the only reason I won't be able to finish, but I'm not going to lie. Graphics are hard.

Fenrir-Lunaris · Post by **Fenrir-Lunaris** » Fri Dec 11, 2015 7:00 pm

All that's left at this point is the ending credits and to pad out the game's NPC banter with minor fluff. Working with a low color palette was absolutely a smart idea, insofar as getting this project off the ground.