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$400+ RPG Making Competition at 64digits.com 
 PostSun Apr 15, 2012 9:51 pm
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LINK TO COMPETITION
On Tuesday the 1st of May 2012, at 0:00am GMT, you will have three months to make an RPG (see Rules for details).
You must then submit your RPG by Wednesday the 1st of August 2012, at 0:00am GMT, after which the winners will be decided.
This will be the grand finale of Competition Four Digits 2011/2012, a competition three times longer than any other in the year!

RULES:
1. The aim of the competition is to develop entirely your own game within the time limit (1st May - 1st August). You MUST submit your final game before the 1st of August 2012. You will have to keep up to date with my blog posts to find out how to submit your final game.
2. You MUST have stated you are going to enter before the 1st of May 2012.
3. You MUST NOT include anything in the game that you don't have full permission to use or significant amounts of game content that you had already made prior to the competition.
4. Your final game MUST have "RPG elements", specifically relating to the gameplay (eg anything such as experience points, inventories, quests, turn-based combat, etc. Fantasy themes and long storylines are common in RPGs, but not related to the gameplay).
5. There are no programming language/game engine restrictions except that the game MUST run on Windows 7 and MUST NOT require additional software installation.
6. Don't be a cheater.
7. ONE entry per person, maximum team of FOUR.
8. I reserve the right to update or otherwise change the rules and to disqualify any entrant who breaks the rules.

PRIZES:
(Subject to improvement from donations, keep checking back)

1st
$400 Prize Money
A copy of RPG Maker VX Ace each*
One copy of GameMaker 8.1, HTML5 and a GameMaker T-shirt
Featured on YoYo Games (if game created with Game Maker 8.0+)
Featured on Game Jolt AND a Game Jolt T-shirt
64d Comp Winner Badge each*
IUP Bundle each*
SPECIAL PRIZE: The winner gets to suggest ONE bugfix or feature that goes into 64digits next. Must be feasible and sensible.

2nd
$30 Prize Money
Steam games of your choice worth $50 total
Up to two copies of Ace (and any other RPG Maker for the remaining team)**
One copy of GameMaker 8.1, HTML5 and a GameMaker T-shirt
Featured on YoYo Games (if game created with Game Maker 8.0+)
Featured on Game Jolt
64d Comp Finalist Badge each*
IUP Bundle each*

3rd
$20 Prize Money
Steam games of your choice worth $30 total
One copy of Ace (and any other RPG Maker for the remaining team)**
One copy of GameMaker 8.1, HTML5 and a GameMaker T-shirt
Featured on YoYo Games (if game created with Game Maker 8.0+)
Featured on Game Jolt
64d Comp Finalist Badge each*
IUP Bundle each*

4th
Renegade Ops on Steam
Up to three copies of any RPG Maker except Ace**
One copy of GameMaker 8.1, HTML5 and a GameMaker T-shirt
64d Comp Finalist Badge each*
IUP Bundle each*

5th
Up to two copies of any RPG Maker except Ace**
One copy of GameMaker 8.1, HTML5 and a GameMaker T-shirt
64d Comp Finalist Badge each*
IUP Bundle each*

The RPG Maker honourable mention award
The best game made with an RPG Maker product receives additional prizes from the RPG Maker guys.

*These prizes are one copy for every member of your team, or just one copy for you if you're working alone. Your team members must have an account here to qualify.
**Number of copies depends on number of team members. See first footnote.

Remember, this is a communal effort! This competition is only for fun. If you want prizes, give as you wish to receive. Suggested donations would be Steam games, Amazon vouchers or something similar, rather than cash.

LINK TO COMPETITION

64digits Creative Community
Comp Four Digits 2011-12 Game Making Competition League Table

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Frosty Four Digits December 2011 Game Comp (Winter Theme, Finished)
Valentine Four Digits January 2012 Game Comp (Love Theme, Finished)
Sixty Fool Digits March 2012 Game Comp (Random Theme, Finished)
RPG Four Digits May 2012 Game Comp (RPG Theme, Ongoing)
King Slime
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 PostMon Apr 16, 2012 11:36 pm
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Sounds like HotOHR.
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 PostTue Apr 17, 2012 5:49 am
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If anyone is planning on entering hot ohr 2 action, I'd love to see them enter this as well. Big prizes, and a chance to REPRESENT.

They also had their own ridiculous contest, (the "Sixty Fool Digits" link.) 7 games entered. The winning game is actually kind of fun.

Psychedelic Ostrich Jihad:
http://64digits.com/users/index.php?userid=MMORPGguy&cmd=comments&id=272896

Would make for a cool game to knock off in the ohr, (looking at Spoonweaver~)
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 PostTue Apr 17, 2012 3:00 pm
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Remind me who this HotOHR character is
Liquid Metal King Slime
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 PostTue Apr 17, 2012 3:02 pm
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Toast wrote:
Remind me who this HotOHR character is


HotOHR is short for "Heart of the OHRRPGCE" which is a contest that we did a couple years ago, and that we are doing again this year. The timeframe overlaps with your contest, and I think the rules will be compatible, so some people might want to enter both contests with the same game.
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 PostTue Apr 17, 2012 4:42 pm
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Interesting. I'm not surprised you have something similar, every single community seems to have their own contests these days. "RPG" is kind of a one-off theme for us. Our themes tend to be more categorical than Ludum Dare-type themes.

By the way the idea behind Sixty Fools Digits is that you are given names from the random game name generator, here:
http://videogamena.me/
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 PostTue Apr 17, 2012 6:09 pm
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We did a contest with the random name generator once. It didn't work out so well.
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 PostTue Apr 17, 2012 6:55 pm
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Spoonweaver wrote:
We did a contest with the random name generator once. It didn't work out so well.


I don't think it was enforced.

"Crystal Chasers" was a randomly generated name, by the way.
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 PostWed Apr 18, 2012 9:44 am
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Another thing: I really like the prizes for your next HotOHR. Offering bugfixes and features suggestions to the site is genius. I'm going to have to inquire about doing that at 64digits.
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 PostMon Apr 23, 2012 8:33 pm
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First prize now worth well over $400. Start in one week.
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Re: $400+ RPG Making Competition at 64digits.com 
 PostMon Apr 23, 2012 8:55 pm
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Toast wrote:
2. You MUST have stated you are going to enter before the 1st of May 2012.


This compo sounds rad and I would like to enter. Is anyone else interested in teaming up?

Toast, the rules mention you can't use "significant amounts of game content you had already made prior to the competition." What qualifies here? To be specific, I would consider using the following:

- Graphical assets that I have made but not used in any game
- Music that I composed

Three months is a short timespan to put out a game with a fresh soundtrack, so I'd love to recycle where possible.

Also, I have read the rules and will be making my official "intent to enter" post on the actual site Smile
Mega Tact v1.1
Super Penguin Chef
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 PostMon Apr 23, 2012 10:48 pm
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willing to lend my artistic abilities if anyone's interested
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 PostMon Apr 23, 2012 11:24 pm
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Basically I've been saying that you can reuse some art/music, but the majority needs to be fresh, to ensure you're not just remaking an unfinished game.
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 PostWed Apr 25, 2012 12:18 am
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I'm thinking of entering this, does anyone want to art for me? I'm going to being making a fairly simple rpg so you might not have to art much.
Jack maybe?
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 PostWed Apr 25, 2012 5:02 am
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Spoonweaver wrote:
I'm thinking of entering this, does anyone want to art for me? I'm going to being making a fairly simple rpg so you might not have to art much.
Jack maybe?


count me in - so long as i'm not drawing nude muscley dudes.
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