Hi all, it seems a lot of people are already ready for the next Blender Game Making Contest.
What is BGMC?
The Blender Game Making Contest is a chance for people to make a Blender game in a week, it’s a good opportunity to try out game ideas which you’ve been thinking about but didn’t have the motivation to try. It’s great for learning new things, and a really great chance to field a finished game (for some people, BGMC is the first time they’ve ever finished a game!). You get to experience player feedback, bug fixing, developing a game to a schedule and many other skills which are essential for a game developer.
BGMC 15 will run for 9 days, during this time you can devote 7 days to making a game. If you like you can use the extra days for either getting feedback and fixing errors (after making it), or planning your game (before making it).
It will run from a Saturday to the following Sunday, final date TBA.
The winner will be decided by community vote, basically, the most popular game wins.
This thread is to find out which of the possible themes are more popular, and to find out if anyone has a particular week during February when they can’t take part. Also to see who would like to join the contest.
Here are the possible themes:
1.Blender-Beat-em-up. (Not many games like this on blender artists, but maybe thats because they are unpopular. Do we hate em?).
2.*Girl’s Games. (These days many gamers are female, but game developers continue to ignore like 50% of the population. Make a game your sister, girlfriend, daughter, mum or wife would like to play. What do they like? Maybe you need to do some market research, always a good idea for a game developer).
3.Big Stompy Robots (Always popular since the dawn of video games, titanfall, mechwarrior, armored core, etc…)
4.Spectrum 48k (my first computer is about to be rereleased with all its original games. I’m not suggesting any graphics restrictions like the last few BGMCs but rather the type of game from that era. Games like treasure island dizzy or frogger would be great canidates for a week long game contest, of course updated with modern graphics. Commodore 64 games or similar could be included).
Please vote for the theme you find interesting, or have an idea for a game for.
(*When I thought of the “Girl’s Games” category, I had this webcomic strip in mind. What I mean is, if you were going to stick a ponytail on Doom 3, how would you go about it? What I really don’t mean is something likeTHIS! )
There aren’t going to be any graphical constraints this time, but as usual you have to make the thing in a week, using stuff you make yourself, or things that have been uploaded in the Blender Artists Resources Forum.
If you don’t have a lot of time you can try out some software that people often use for short game jams, such as:
Auto tracker- a script for automatically generating music.
CFXR - a tool for automatically generating sound effects.
Spritely - A tool for auto generating simple sprites from the web.
Once a date and theme is decided I’ll be making a thread where you can ask any questions, get some more information and find some inspiration for you contest entry.