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Welcome to the concept of the Olympics Games

Let me introduce myself , My name is Rafael and in this Forum I am known as Dyprax. I Am 21 years old.At the moment I'm doing small jobs until I start my studies. I used to organize some tournaments in online games.
A few weeks ago I had the idea that I have to make a great Olympics for 2D game developers.

What are you Imagine?
Normal Contest, there are some, but what about when you combine them into an Olympics with many "small" contests? To create a Game you have to make one small step after another. Each of those small steps can be made into one big competetion. Each of the small steps will be individually assessed and finally you count all phase together and you have the total score.

What about a theme ?
Yes, the Olympics have a big issue: Crime. All phases have to revolve around the issue of crime.

How many phases and for what is a phase?
There are 6 phases to get points . Now I will explain the 6 phases (all informations about time and points you will get in the forum):

1st Phase
Protagonist
Task: Your task is to create a Main Char for a crime themed Game. You have to create him in written form and graphically. For the Graphic form I just want a Face. Well draw it by yourself or use graphics that already exist ( Please credit them). For drawing a Face you can get extra points if it is good

2nd Phase
Screenshot
Task: In the second phase, you have to make a screenshot, which deals with the subject of crime and the protagonist from the first phase.

3rd Phase
Feature
Task: The third phase will be a little more difficult, you have to create a feature for a murder mystery game. As example a notebook, an opinion meter for every NPC or just other features.

4th Phase
Story
Task: The fourth task is writing a story that involves the protagonist. And the scene of the screen should be recognizable. The difficulty is to write the story interesting for the reader and not to reveal too much so that he would play this story as a game.

5th Phase
Minigame
Task: Your task is to create a minigame that matchs your Story.As example to get something out of the fire and watch out that you will not hurt by the flames.

6.Phase
Game
Task: Your final task. All previous phases are combined into a game that is supposed to have at least 15 minutes playing time.

Jury
Everyone who is interested to become a Jury-Member can send me a pm

Jurymember:
-Dyprax
-Elekami
-Magicflottant
-Kayden
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Participant
Anyone can participate. Groupings may also take place, but only up to 3 people.
The most important requirement is, there must be a 2D game. All 3D games will be disqualified.The game has to be english.

Participant-list:
-cecco4
-Old Pat
-servus
-Team LPDM : TTT, TheCloud & Choco-sama
-Jens of Zanicuud
-Imef
-"TeraZaky" : Teraglehn, Hicozaky, Velrogh
-polidoro

Prizes:
-Emblem ( made by Kerberos)
-I work as a Pixelartist for the 1. and 2. winner for free. ( My Art http://circledrain.deviantart.com/ )

We are always happy about donations. Songs, pictures whatever

The intent
Why I want to make such an effort to do something crazy? It is relatively easy. I love it. I want to see how big communities are willing to participate in something. Above all, some "game producer" get known and the communities are not only for themselves and you can see that the world is much larger.

If you have any questions feel free to ask.

The Forum:http://2dcontestgaming.top-forum.net

Rgds Dyprax

So any 2D game is allowed? For example, a 2D XNA game, a browser-based PBBG, a 2D Flash game, etc. would all be permitted?

Yes, that is right.
You can use what you want.

Another thing added.
We added a prize:
I work as a Pixelartist for the 1. and 2. winner for free. ( My Art http://circledrain.deviantart.com/ )

So the game is a crime game made in 2D.

Can it be made like in allegro and C++?

Also, it needs to be delivered in 27/02?

Can it be made like in allegro and C++?

Yes it can.

Also, it needs to be delivered in 27/02?

No. This competitions have 6 phases. 6 Tasks. Like the small steps to make game.

First you need an idea, you create a story. You make minigames and features and finally you put all this together to a game. The contest ist like this.
At the 27.02 you will get the first task like make a screenshot. You will get points for the round and then the second phase start like you have to make a story based on the screenshot.
But dont worry everyone has a chance. I wont ask for painting pictures or something.
And Teamwork is allowed.
This will be the final step

Well i was thinking in a 2D Police type game, like you were a detective with a nice background story and then solve crimes etc.
But right now i cant join any of these things since it has deadlines and im almost releasing my 2nd 3d game and revamping a browser based engine.. sorry, but nice contest.

i believe you PM'd me about this contest, sorry I did not get back to you. My Message box gets full on a bi-daily basis, Sometimes it is hard to keep up. I need to forward some to jack so he can answer some hehehe. Feel free to post whatever on this and I fully support any contest to help get people motivated. Post anything we can do to help.

Hehe, send the PMs my way if you need help with them

As for the contest, I would love to see an intermediary place where screenshots could be posted and where we could post messages with members of the other involved forums. Perhaps a basic forum setup somewhere specifically for the contest? I really do like the idea of having cross-community interaction. It really gives validity to the "Olympics" in the title, since entrants would basically be carrying the flag of their community lol. But beyond some simple competition, a lot of good could come out of members of different forums opening conversation. Who knows what kind of teams could come together and what projects could come out of it

I edited the first post completly. I explained all phases and what exactly to do. I also added the contest forum (http://2dcontestgaming.top-forum.net).

We ve got one more Jury-Member: kayden

And Hall dont worry