A New Challenge

Hey everyone, hope Xmas and New Years is going well. I’ve got a great idea for a future challenge if you want something to during the January blues. OK here goes, how about we do a weekend challenge where the theme is ‘Finish Each Others Games’. The basic idea is that you take an existing game, it can be incomplete or complete, retrieve the source code and add your own elements/levels/art to it. The aim is to improve the game in any way you see fit. The end result should be a mass completion of unfinished games and vast improvement on already finished ones.

RULES

  • You need to declare the source code you’re working from before starting so we can see the difference in the initial and finished games
  • You can use your own source code from a past game if you want
  • Team entries are allowed
  • Many different participant/teams can work off one source code if they want
  • Once finished at the end of the week we will vote for the best game.

Comments

30. Dec 2010 · 17:51 UTC
That’s a neat idea. Should really be a Mini-LD, actually.
30. Dec 2010 · 17:56 UTC
Good idea in principle, but considering how sloppy coding gets during an LD….
thristhart
30. Dec 2010 · 19:49 UTC
I like this idea, it’ll highlight the terrible coding practices we all have!
GreaseMonkey
30. Dec 2010 · 23:15 UTC
Pros:

* This’d be very interesting.

* Stuff that isn’t done can get done. I like stuff that is done.

* Finally, decent music!
hydroxy
30. Dec 2010 · 23:21 UTC
Thanks for the comments everyone.
31. Dec 2010 · 02:32 UTC
I like the idea. But dealing with other people’s code frightens me.

Probably I’d spend more time recoding it to my own style than actually making new content… =/