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Apr 8 2010, 12:11 pm (Edited on Apr 8 2010, 12:51 pm)
As I hinted to in last week's post, this year's Get Something Done challenge is almost here.

This is an annual month long challenge for developers where the goal is to have a finished and published game by the end of the month. So many of us on BYOND call ourselves game designers or programmers yet we can't point to a single game we've actually finished. This is a call for you to change that.

Unlike other challenges, the game you'll be finishing in the the Get Something Done event is an old game you've already started... but abandoned for whatever reason. Perhaps you never got that endless procedurally generated dungeon finished, or the multi-tiled boss mobs kept giving your grief. Now's the time to ditch the endless dungeon and make a couple hard-coded dungeons instead, or to give up on those multi-tiled mobs and add single tiled bosses. This challenge isn't about making the game as you dreamed it would be - it's about finishing it so that people can actually play it.

[Edit: If you do not have an old game to fix up there will be other options which I'll explain as the event draws closer. Don't feel like you can't take the challenge for that reason.]

That's it for me for now. in another two weeks or so I'll be posting an official announcement and a list of rules, etc.. In the meantime, give some thought as to which of your old and abandoned projects could be revived, and tell other developers about the challenge.
#1 Apr 8 2010, 12:12 pm
Whats there prize?
#2 Apr 8 2010, 12:31 pm
There are currently no prizes. Healthy online communities that focus on creating things (like art or music) usually hold challenges of some sort or another, often monthly.

I'm very thankful to the senior members of our community who often donate prizes to the GiaD event. Who knows, I may have a prize or two to distribute at the end of this challenge.

Edit: Of course, you'll also get a nifty medal from my Events hub entry, the admiration of your peers, and a warm fuzzy feeling not to exceed 5min.
#3 Apr 8 2010, 12:37 pm
I will give 50 USD May 2nd so you will have it by the end of the month when the challenge is over towards a prize of some kind. I usually buy someone memberships but I will gladly use it that month for this challenge instead.
#4 Apr 8 2010, 12:38 pm
Thanks, I appreciate it. I'll have to tighten up the rules a bit to ensure there's no cheating, though.
#5 Apr 8 2010, 12:40 pm
Alright.
#6 Apr 8 2010, 12:43 pm
I so want to enter this. I'll have to see about my friend programming while I do the graphics.
#7 Apr 8 2010, 2:49 pm (Edited on Apr 8 2010, 3:13 pm)
I almost feel as though I'm being specifically called out here. ;)

The thing is, the end of May would actually be a pretty good deadline for me with my current project, tentatively framed as a Sci-Fi open multiplayer Dwarf Fortress clone.

It probably qualifies as an old fixer-upper because it's incorporating the backbone of my old "Vehicle Wars" project and even importing some from my "Project Shock" project code.

I finalized a barebones GUI that should make up the majority of the game last night. I'm adding the code elements this weekend and expect to have a rudimentary functional GUI up and running by then. However, a month and a half of refinement - tweaking playability and multimedia - before releasing would be for the best.

Unfortunately, I have a nasty history of falling off the development wagon, my conduit to the muse folding like a cheap paper crane. Crossing my fingers that doesn't happen this time. Is that's not a candidate for a "get it done" challenge, what is? ;)
#8 Apr 8 2010, 4:21 pm
I will probably join in this time, while I usually do GiaD, the last Get Something Done I was pretty busy so didn't try.
#9 Apr 8 2010, 4:44 pm
I dunno if i should start up my rts again... What you think iain??

PS
I never got my GIAD medal from last year.
#10 Apr 8 2010, 4:59 pm
I actually have a project that I abandoned that I need to get done. This should work perfectly as it will probably take me until May to get everything working.
#11 Apr 8 2010, 5:02 pm
Or i could work on the Build a space game that i abandoned due to me losing the source code i could start it from scratch again and fixing it up a lot more.
#12 Apr 8 2010, 6:57 pm
I'll definitely enter. Probably work on Zombie Wars.
#13 Apr 8 2010, 7:23 pm
Should this become something that is judged, ATP Host will throw in a month of free hosting for each of the top 3 entries.
#14 Apr 8 2010, 8:32 pm
Edit

I'm in. I'm sure I have somethingtaking up hard disk space somewhere that realy should see the light of day again.

/Edit

Yeah, I'm posting from my phone, it has a bad habit of double posting, I had it fixed by the time you had posted about it. As for Final Frailties, well. I've pretty much got way to much other stuff going on right now.
#15 Apr 8 2010, 8:33 pm (Edited on Apr 8 2010, 8:43 pm)
Madcrackfiend wrote:
I'm in. I'm sure I have somethingtaking up hard dicc space somewhere that realy should see the light of day again.

You have a double post. And What about final fratilies?
#16 Apr 8 2010, 10:40 pm
I don't quite think Decadence would qualify since it's in active development, but what about something like RetroGame?
#17 Apr 9 2010, 6:02 am
I would like to join this May Challenge!
#18 Apr 9 2010, 3:23 pm
I didn't expect this much interest in the challenge so soon. To clarify, current projects are not eligible. This may be pretty hard to enforce, but this isn't the "get praised for releasing something you were going to release this month anyway" challenge. I'll have a full list of rules a week in advance of the challenge.
#19 Apr 9 2010, 8:42 pm
Alright. I have a few questions. I know that you will have a list of rules in a week, but that is hardly the point.

Question the first.) As you can clearly see, there are several of us who would like very much to compete in your get something done challenge. This begs the question, would you realy discourage/penalize fellow developers from trying to get something done simply based on wheither or not they were going to release it this month anyway? To this end I would sugest that those of us who have something that is almost ready for release please not enter it into this contest that is clearly designed to revive and finalize long dead work, If you must, at the very least please mark your entintions to release a work in pregress and leave those of us working on the long dead projects in a seperate category.

Point Bravo.) I realize that you had intended for this contest to run the month of May, however I like many of my collegues have been empowered by the very mention of the event. Personally I am going to enter with a long time back burner project of mine titled "Kurt's Quest". As soon as I saw the original post on the subject I thought that this would be the perfect time to seriously drag this project from the depths of my Byond archives and breathe new life into it. I mmust surely not be alone in this sentement. By even mentioning the contest you have placed things in motion. Surely you would not stop the gears from turning by enforcing a strict May 1st deadline for begining to work on our entries? That would almost seem to be an insult to the very spirit of the contest, as it would cause many a brave designer/developer to procrastinate even longer on something whixh months or even years ago should have seen the light of day and the consoles of Byond players every where.

I know that I may seem long winded, yet I do feel a great deal of passion about the subject at hand. I know that there will be those among us who would seek to cheat and defile the system, yet the largest part of the participents must surly feel the spirit of the compitition in their hearts and minds.
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