Slime Salad

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2008 Collaboration Game


Well, the last one went pretty darn well and it's been quite a while.
Let's go!


[WAIT. WHAT IS THIS?]

For those unfamiliar with the Collaboration Contest, I would refer them to link to the previous thread,
but I seem to have deleted all of the rules from that

But basically, it consisted of a marathon-type of contest in which one chapter of the game is sent to an entrant for him to use to base his chapter off of.
There was a chain of games and in the end, the series was composed of 7 individual chapters.

The old dinosaur can be found here! http://www.slimesalad.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=27

This time, the rules will be tweaked a little bit, as explained BELOW!

[RULES!]

[Time: ~One Month]

I really want each entrant to have more of an opportunity to showcase his/her game-making styles, so I will not allow the same chapter-sharing that permitted last time >:[

Instead, once entrants have signed up, a chain of the game's storyline will be quickly formed and that will be passed out.

With these bits of storyline, everybody will have roughly a month to finish their chapters.

This way, if all goes well, all of the chapters will be released at the same time.

To give you a general idea of how things go down:

Week One: Setting up the story

* I will have collected a list of entrants (hopefully) and will randomly sort them into an order.
* I will send a text file to the first person in line consisting of new characters (Physical as well as personality descriptions), settings,
and the current progress of the STORYLINE.
* The first person in line will quickly write up a story, adding new characters if he wants, and send his/her text file to the next person
in line.
* The first person in line will also give the second person a summary of the summary that I gave to the first person.
S/HE WILL NOT COPY AND PASTE the original text file.
* Process continues until everybody has thought up a bit of storyline for their own games.


Rest of Month: Making the chapter
*Details to Come

[Resources: Everything you've got]

I'll let you use graphics and anything else you've made in the past to incorporate into your chapter this time around. However, you've got a whole MONTH, so try to make some new stuff too!

[AND SO!]

This is all I could think of at the moment, but more things will be added.

But first things first, who will be able to sign up to dedicate themselves to working on a chapter this month?

Currently Signed Up:
*Surlaw
*Blue Train
*RedMaverickZero
*Lonely Rolling Star
*Rurouni Catholic
*Calehay

[Surlaw]

I really want to participate once we know exactly what the time frame will be. I'm going to be extremely busy for the next month to month and a half.

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[Blue Train]

i really really really wanna do this. the last one was so fun to make and play, how everyone had there own style in it. i have nothing but free time all summer (and probably fall and winter if it takes that long again, haha.) and my graphics and concepts are better then they were last year. the remaining time until the colab starts ill use to learn advance plotscript and practice pixels until im able to make the best game to my ability for you. (and ill be sure to use spell check on hard words ; ).)

but this time i think we should all work in the same gamefile if possable so items and levels actually matter.

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[Blue Train]

i can see your point there. regaurdless id still like to enter. do we start asap? and could you at least tell us the plot of the previous storyline so the plot can be consistant rather then random charicter here, random charicter there.

[RedMaverickZero]

I really liked the last theme we did with this.

But, the only way I'd want to enter is if the theme was something really different that none of us had ever really done before.

And providing it's an awesome theme, I'd volunteer myself to go first if no one else has already.

[Only One In All]

Yes, something new and different and unusual would be nice. As long as this contest runs in the summer and ends before the end of August, count me in. I'd like to participate like last time (and I'll actually get it done on time too).

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[RedMaverickZero]

That pretty much means you've given us complete control to make this the wackiest collaboration game yet.

I like it! Even if the theme sucks, I can make it awesome.

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[Mogri]

Shoot, I'll enter. Even if I have to end up making something that's five minutes long.

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Excellent.

The Story-writing has started.

You still have until tomorrow to sign up.
I'm not sure how I want to do the finale, so people are still welcome to enter anytime during this week.

You are not to share anything with anybody but me.
Your written chapter and chapter summaries will be submitted back to me either through a Private-Message or through E-mail.

More directions will be PM-ed to whoever is up.

Good luck and have fun everybody!

[Rurouni Catholic]

Mind if I ruin your collaboration?

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