{"author_name":"MegaBrutal","cat":"Uncategorized","comments":[{"author_name":"goerp","time":"October 9, 2012 11:42 am","epoch":1349800920,"text":"Linking to TVTropes? That’s just irresponsible, when everone’s got games to finish!
\n Or is it an evil plot to slow down the competition?","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1349726220,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"51272","p_author":"MegaBrutal","p_authorkey":"16637","p_urlkey":"86965","p_title":"Idea for a game dev jam","p_cat":"Uncategorized","p_event":"LD24","p_time":"1349726220","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"1","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"16637","us_name":"MegaBrutal","us_username":"\/author\/megabrutal\/","event_start":"1345766400","event_key":"12","event_name":"LD24"},"text":"

So I have an idea for a game development jam (or compo). Quite simple: the declared themes would be tropes<\/a> to follow. One thing is sure: any games you ever made do have tropes – it couldn’t be anyway<\/a>. Any time you designed a video game, you did think with tropes – whether you did it consciously or not. What if you had to use tropes very<\/em> consciously? In every round of the game jam, you were given a specific trope to focus on. This trope could be a video game trope<\/a> (of course), an illustration (art) trope<\/a> or a plot<\/a>\/narrative <\/a>trope or basically, any kind of trope which can be somehow applied to a video game.<\/p>\n

For example, once you had to make a game which features Item Get<\/a>, the next time you would focus on Deliberately Monochrome<\/a>, and then you would make a story-based game with a Heroic BSOD<\/a>. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

If you’re not familiar with the terminology, visit TVtropes.org<\/a> to get educated! \":)\"<\/p>\n

What is your opinion of this?<\/p>\n

Probably it would be a problem that since I have no reputation as an indie game developer, no one would join my jam. So I could use a little help there… Since myself don’t have much (enough) free time, I would most probably have a hell simple submission system like the Experimental Gameplay Project<\/a> has. But it could be fun anyway. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>","time":"October 8th, 2012 2:57 pm","title":"Idea for a game dev jam"}