GID8 - Theme suggestions wanted

#1 Holiday stuff?

#2 Hmm. That would be the obvious choice. Seems a bit too sensible for GID ;-)

#3 Potatos!

Spud launchers, french-fired bad guys.... you name it

#4 Ha! I didn't even realize GID had gotten its own forum!

#5 Snow

Generic enough to make a xmas game, open enough to make something totally wicked

#6 Hmm, Snow seems good. Potatoes seems too specific.

Might be nice to try a wacky cross of two different things, like the Cash Cow theme. Something that can turn out a lot of different games, but keep an overall humour to all of them that use it.

Keep em coming :)

T.

#7 Snow Potatos

Wait, no...

That's the same weekend that we begin shooting for our next film (at least that's if schedules work out). If we don't end up doing production work that weekend, then I'll be entering.

EDIT:
Just thought I'd put in a vote for snow. If T2D is going to be used by the EA's that got it for GiD7, then it could lead to some amazing "snowy" particle effects, too!

#8 I'll be out oftown , can't make this one

#9 Snow does leave a lot of options. I like it, too. I still think it'd be good to combine it with something else (preferably nothing yellow or brown, which has been featured in many GID ideas that were fortunately thrown away before they started ;-)..)

Re: the date ... if more people cant make it then can, it may change to the previous weekend. We'll see on that one.

#10 --Avalanche addiction
--Snowman abuse (Why put flammable things on their faces like charcoal and pipes?)
--Dark toymakers: the underside of elven society at the north pole

#11 Snow Fort - a RTS-action title where you not only plow up your snow fort, but try to snowball the enemy into extinction. Actually, I kind of like the idea of that.

EDIT:
Here's a question. Will Torque 2D be made available again in EA release for GiD8 movers and shakers?

#12 Snow Ball? That might be an ok theme.

EDIT:

actually, snowball wouldn't be too bad, because it could be taken to mean either a ball of snow, or a situation that "snowballs"

"Slippery Slope" might be another good one.

#13 Penguins? heheh

/obvious?

#14 Are we allowed to use art that we made before?

Only the programming has to be done that day, right?

#15 David,

You'll have to wait and see on T2D/GID8.

Niko,

Re-using anything is fine. We like to think of GID as a compressed form of the entire dev cycle. If you were starting a full project and you had existing code or art that was suitable, you'd still use it, so thus you would in GID too. In fact, in some GIDs, a week of engine coding and drawing of art has occured the week before GID just to provide said code and art to reuse ;-) However, it must be said, the expectations of what you produce increase with what you reuse. For example, expectations of 21-6's entry were extremely high because they started with an existing game and the largest GID team yet, and they delivered.

Theme: Slippery Snow Penguins ? :)

T.

#16 Theme: Evil Snowmen, Yeti, Evil Santa, skiing

#17 Reindeer hunter with killer snow ball guns!

#18 Snow sounds good to me. Plenty of possibilities from that one. :)

- Melv.

#19 @Tom
Sounds good. I just have the same fears that people who got it for GiD7 had: learning a new system PLUS making a game.

#20 David,

If we do something along those lines again then we'll try and make sure people get it in advance so they can learn it first. We did send the GID build of T2D as soon as we could, but it just wasnt ready until Friday for various reasons.

T.