RPGDX Sidescrolling Contest, Klik of the Month #26

Hey Ludum Darers!

Just a quick heads up: If you can’t contain your anticipation of this month’s coming LD, there are two opportunities to vent this weekend!

First up, RPGDX are holding a 48 hour contest, with the theme “Sidescrolling Mini-RPG“. It’s not a sub genre you see a lot of, so there’s bound to be lots of room to explore it! A few of you might remember the LoFi RPG contest earlier in the year, which went down quite well :) The rules are loose, and attempting to make an RPG in that kinda timeframe is a pretty interesting experience, to say the least. More information here!

Also, if you happen to have two hours free at midnight on saturday (GMT),  Glorious Trainwrecks host a rather cool monthly jam called Klik of the Month, which happens to fall this weekend. Klik and Play is the recommended development environment, but you can use anything you like – the only rule is that you finish whatever you’re working on in just two hours. More information on that here!

Personally, I’m planning to do both :) And can’t wait for Ludum Dare!

Comments

Anonymous
12. Aug 2009 · 17:58 UTC
good to hear that you’ll be in for sidescrolling minirpg (also, I totally overlooked the theme ;p )
13. Aug 2009 · 10:48 UTC
What exactly is a “side-scrolling mini-RPG”? Well, I can imagine from the name what it would include but I never heard of that as a genre.
Radix
14. Aug 2009 · 00:41 UTC
Like Wonder Boy in Monster World only… mini. Small RPGs, presumably platformers, I guess.
14. Aug 2009 · 08:01 UTC
So basically it’s a side-scrolling platform game with RPG elements. That sounds like fun. I’ll try to participate.
jovoc
15. Aug 2009 · 18:02 UTC
very sad i don’t have time for this. i love sidescroller rpgs like paper mario and cave story.