Bugger! Only one entry 
Can’t really offer a prize based on that. What’s up with that? Prize too small? Effort too great? I plan to run another compo but at least get some entries next time around…
Cas 
Twas the theme for me - too hard to come up with ideas.
Kev
I was going to enter…but stuff got into the way. The prize was right, it was the theme i think. The only game that was conformant to all of the themes was lemmings…
Make the theme broader and they shall come
DP
I think your very own ultra-slick games raised the bar a bit to high.
Think about it, would anyone send their trival game to a big game company? No, they’re affraid to be laughed at. Here, the game company might not be so big, but the same rule applies.
So devs should have the feeling they can make something that is has roughly the same quality as the products of the contest-initiator, and then, 6 weeks is very little time.
At least, this would have been my way of thinking, when I actually would have had time to enter…
Worst timing ever for me. :’( I didn’t even manage to enter the LD48 hour compo last weekend as I was aiming to.
Same here - I was just really busy. Had a trade show (NAB) to prepare for.
i got an entry but it is not finished and like others its a busy time of year. i can post what i have if you like
bad timing… the 4K had just ended, LD48 was in the works, I had finals to study for… plus the theme kinda killed it for me. prizes were cool though
Ah, I think I see where I went wrong now… if you can’t invent a game with “rocks” in it there must be something wrong with the way I described the theme. You didn’t have to use all of the themes! Any creative use of one or more of the themes would do.
As for raising the bar… did you know that Puppy Invaders was written by a novice in 15 hours flat - and it was his first ever Java applet?
I suppose I shall try again next month perhaps and clarify the themes a bit. Might shorten the compo to 1 week deadline as well to focus.
Cas
I ran into my usual problem.
I got a prototype of an opengl version of miners4k running, supporting freeform mining and hundreds of miners, then realized that the rest of the work was just boring boilerplate, decided to focus on something more fun, and gave up.
4k competitions work better for me personally, as even the most mundane parts are interesting and challenging to code.
It was the theme… I had two ideas… but after prototyping, they were not fun at all…
The only characters to be used were miners and moles…
Rafael.-I can’t believe no one told me about the comp.
Where do I find this information?
Ye the theme so totally didnt click with me at all. Didnt manage to come up with a single usable idea. Everything was too complex, too media-hungry or both.
I’ll have to agree with the others about the theme. That and bad timing for me(end of semester).
I can think of tons of games involving rocks or digging or dirt or channels! There are even quite a few famous ones already… Asteroids, Dig Dug, Mr Driller spring to mind. Oh well.
Cas
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it wasn’t very well promoted; was there a thread in the contest forum about it? I don’t recall
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my dislike for themes is well known so I won’t go there (unless I just did…)
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the bar for quality and game play is quiet high around here, that can make it seem ‘not worthwhile’
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prizes are cool, maybe next time…
This high bar thing seems like a wierd one to me. I thought most people competed in these things for the challenge, to get some complete rather than to win? Given how subjective voting always is, winning is just sort of added bonus.
Kev
I see contests just as a reason to make a game, some kind of personal goal setter. without reason I don’t really accomplish much (there’s no way I would’ve wrote that Goomba game just out of boredom)
I for one had no problem with the theme… it was open to all sorts of possibilities… I had ideas… I lacked time.
For some reason I wasn’t allowed to post in that thread in Contests (no permission).
Cas