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 Post subject: Re: Cover Stories
PostPosted: Sun May 06, 2012 1:35 pm 
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JoeyJones wrote:
Given that there's only twenty days to complete the games, I think suggested length is 'whatever you can do in that time'. Type of games would, I think, be suggested by each individual cover.

Exactly right.


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 Post subject: Re: Cover Stories
PostPosted: Sun May 06, 2012 2:10 pm 
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Some great images, nice work folks.


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 Post subject: Re: Cover Stories
PostPosted: Wed May 09, 2012 3:55 pm 
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Question: Are you going to announce this to places outside the IF community?

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Before this I was thinking I would consider it a 6/10, but now? It's a solid 5.


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 Post subject: Re: Cover Stories
PostPosted: Wed May 09, 2012 4:42 pm 
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Healy wrote:
Question: Are you going to announce this to places outside the IF community?

I wasn't planning on it -- I don't really have the community know-how, outside this little corner of the world -- but I'd have no objection to anybody else doing so.

As an organiser, I'm treating this as a somewhat expanded version of a Speed-IF: basically a fun, low-pressure game jam held within a community. If a game or two gets produced that is of some lasting value or broad appeal, that's awesome; but if all anybody accomplishes is to amuse themselves and some of their friends, that's a success in my book. Similarly, if it's an IF Community And Friends event rather than an IF Community event, that's awesome.


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PostPosted: Thu May 10, 2012 3:27 pm 
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Also, man, that was pretty hard to choose; I came pretty close to going with zarf's recipe books, Jessie Bennett's wave-tree or Felix Plesoianu's superimposed cities.


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 Post subject: Re: Cover Stories
PostPosted: Tue May 22, 2012 9:00 am 
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A reminder: Saturday is your last day of coding (again, the before-I-get-around-to-organising-this-on-Sunday deadline applies; I live in Seattle and get up ridiculously early.)

After that, we're going into a two-week beta period, so you don't need to have your game in perfect condition; but you should aim to have it in a suitable state for betatesting. Now would be a good time to start recruiting testers; I'm going to ask authors if they'd be willing to test each others' games, but you definitely want a bigger pool than that.


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Hello!

What is the protocol for submitting our games? Are we e-mailing them? Also, what is the before-I-get-around-to-organising-this-on-Sunday rule?

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PostPosted: Sat May 26, 2012 1:48 pm 
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Benjamin Sokal wrote:
Hello!

What is the protocol for submitting our games? Are we e-mailing them? Also, what is the before-I-get-around-to-organising-this-on-Sunday rule?

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Yes: as mentioned upthread, email them to magadog, gmail.

The rule in question is, in effect: I will be sorting things out on Sunday morning once I've got up, had some coffee and . So the effective deadline is probably around 6 AM Pacific, maybe a little later.


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PostPosted: Sat May 26, 2012 9:07 pm 
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maga wrote:
Benjamin Sokal wrote:
Hello!

What is the protocol for submitting our games? Are we e-mailing them? Also, what is the before-I-get-around-to-organising-this-on-Sunday rule?

Cheers

Yes: as mentioned upthread, email them to magadog, gmail.

The rule in question is, in effect: I will be sorting things out on Sunday morning once I've got up, had some coffee and . So the effective deadline is probably around 6 AM Pacific, maybe a little later.


I'm going to have to abuse this leniency a bit. So it is appreciated. But if I miss out, I miss out. Hopefully my game won't give too much evidence of how much or how badly I delayed.


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PostPosted: Sun May 27, 2012 1:03 pm 
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"Monkey Business" will be updated later today - the second part wasn't working properly (might have something to do with working on it at 1am). I'll also put my e-mail address in the game when I send the update, but anyone who wants to contact me can send e-mail message to (Ben, ShadowK.com) with the @ sign where you would expect.

Edit: Upload was for testers only - games are not public yet, of course.

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