Hi muties,
UPDATED DATE of the LAST SUBMISSIONthanks to the high demand for another competition round we hereby officially declare the second round.
This time I was forced by WMA to make a rule change so read again:
1. Competitors are to create a short one room game based upon the following theme:
„There is something hidden!“ with the following requirements
a, There's something in the room and you have to find it. What it is or where it is or how you have to find it is entirely up to you.
b, The most surprising revelation or impact upon finding what's hidden.
2. Jury will consist of Mnemonic, Metamorphium and nihil (who won the last competition round)
3. Jury will grade games on scale from 1 to 5 (5 being the best, 1 being the worst). Game will then receive a number which will be the sum of the three jury members scores.
The big change is that there are no longer thresholds so places are awarded according to score only.4. Deadline for the 2nd competition round game submission is 10th of February 2007 23:59.
5. Competitors agree that upon finishing the game, we’ll put their one room game project into the wme codebase repository for others to learn from. If competitors use external plugins, sources of those plugins will be published only upon their agreement.
6. Judged will be:
Quality of the theme realization (dialogs if any, plot twists, ideas)
Cleanness of the source code
Creativity in approaching the problem using only small scale means.
Judged will NOT be:
Graphics and other media dependent on non wme skills (sound effects, music, videos)
7. All judges will write, upon reaching the verdict, reasons for their scores together with the scores so authors can clearly see why they were or weren’t selected.
8. All projects must be created for use with WME engine.
9. Projects using ripped graphics / music / sound effects from other commercial games / projects will be disqualified. It’s possible to use free graphics downloaded from internet as long as it’s really free.
10. Games will be submitted into the competition privately via sending PM message to jury members with link to your game or with request of our help how to hand over the project. We’ll publish the games after the deadline will be reached to prevent idea stealing.
11. No tsipuro jokes. Those are copyrighted by the wma team.
12. Although there won’t be any material award, you’ll gain neverending respect of WME community and this can be a great stepping stone for new quality teams building up.
13. By one room we don't mean one WME scene. It can have multiple scenes (closeups, etc.) but it should be "real life" room.
Since many people voiced their wish to participate this time, we hope they will actually do it and our 2nd round will be more competitive.