Hey! Somebody actually wants to hear your half-baked video game ideas!
Rejoice, all ye kiddies who have “this totally bitchin’ idea for a video game” but don’t have the impetus or means to actually make it! As long as your idea is vaguely horror, sci-fi, or suspense themed, you can enter it in the 2007 Eerie Horror Film Festival Game Competition! The competition’s categories range all the way from “complete game” to “game concept”, and although the prizes have yet to be announced, they’re sure to be better than the uncomfortable silence you get from most people who you tell about your game idea!
OK, I kid. Although the vast majority of “bitchin’ video game ideas” I’ve heard from people over the years have been incredibly stupid, I actually have heard a few that would make awesome video games. So if your game idea sounds totally awesome in your head, and especially if it ALSO sounds totally awesome to all of the friends you’ve told it to, then by all means enter the competition, and I wish you the best of luck. The “early entry discount” deadline is March 1st, and the absolute final deadline is September 1st.
In other game competition news, IndieCade 2008, which commendably hopes to be another showcase of independent video games, begins their call for submissions February 28th of this year, and the Experimental Gameplay Project just began a new two-week competition today. The theme is attraction, and the grand prize is an internship at EA. Although it’s not explicitly stated on the competition website, entries involving a gigantic corporation that attracts fresh-faced, naive young programmers, crushes their souls with 80-hour work weeks, chews them up and spits them out and thinks nothing of it because there’s an endless supply of those fresh-faced, naive young programmers, probably will not be regarded kindly.
Super-clever (by which I mean “lazy”) developers will make an attraction-themed horror game and submit it to all three competitions.
May 8th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
You arrogant prick. What makes you think you have the impetus or means to actually make it? You’re just a jackass. Most people who have ideas for games have more talent than you, but–guess what–their talent is best put to use on more important things than fucking video games! You’re a loser and nobody likes your ideas anyway!
You know what that (above comment) is? That’s KARMA biting you on the ass. You project that egotistical shit into the universe and it’s going to come back to you!
May 8th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
Thanks for commenting, Allen Yu! I’m really impressed by your yale.edu email address, and am touched that an ivy league scholar takes the time to “slum it” in the blogs of us proles!
July 9th, 2007 at 4:45 pm
you can make a pokemon game on PS2 or something but make it world of warcraft stile where you can travel the whole world through caves, water, and other obsticles and you can go into tall grass and capture pokemon 3-d style and when you battle you can fight like in dragonball z, you know how you can move all around in 3-d and stuff and if you have charzard for example you can have it fly and then press buttons to use an attack. You can beat the Kanto region then go on to the jhoto league then so onuntil your done with the sinoh region or you can make them into 4 seperate games. remember it should be world of war craft style in were you can travel the whole world and 3-d style battling because some people like to win in a way where you can dodge and have more than 4 attacks. people want to do thier own little quests too, you can make it an online game so that in the battle arenas you can fight people all over the country/ you can have alot of buyers because kids love the shows and the games and any other older person who likes pokemon would play it / your own pokemon world.
July 9th, 2007 at 8:08 pm
brilliant!