The Fourth The Games Collective Pageant : 10 Years (8 July 2020)

[Stephen L]

Deadline: 8 July 2020

There's no theme for this one, just the deadline.  It'll run concurrently with other pageants.


So, to submit your entry, or to keep us up to date on how it's getting along, or to get feedback, just post a thread in the 'games' forum, prefacing it with '10 Years'  ( "10 Years - Collect only fifty sheeps" , say).

When you're done, change the post title to "10 Years - My Game Name - DONE", and modify the first post to contain links to somewhere where the works can be downloaded/played.

So, deadline is on July the 8th, 2020.

[agj]

Brilliant.

What inspired this?

[Stephen L]

Terry was categorising games-making events by duration for a talk, and it naturally arose as a possibility - also I like the idea for other reasons.

[PsySal]

Man, I'd really like to do this but I'm pretty booked up... Maybe the next one?

Looking forward to seeing what you guys come up with!

[Ian Snyder]

Now to begin procrastinating for the next 10 years!

[Perrin]

Very interested to hear what other people's thought on about how to approach this.

Myself I'm contemplating making something episodic, relasing one part every 6-months ish. Something designd to be on-going for 10 years but showing tangible progress along the way.

[george]

I like the idea of releasing something into the wild, where the game's journey through or with something is part of its development.

[HybridMind]

haha--what a hilariously weird game pageant idea.

I love it.

[Jonathan Whiting]

What an incredible idea.  For me it recalls the stop-frame videos people have made by taking a self-portrait photo of themselves every day for years, that and compulsive diarists.

I find something quite compelling about the idea of doing, say, a project in which I made say, a (small) level a day.  Would be one hell of an undertaking though.

[Luke]

This is nice because it lets me start something I have little chance of completing in the near future and letting it brew for a few years maybe into a finish product!

Who will be here in 10 years though? Who will remember?

I guess that is part of the magic though, eh?

Also JW since meeting you I read everything you write on the internet in your voice.

[NiallM]

Wow, I love this.  I'm going to have to have a good think about how to approach it.  I've kept most of the games I've written deliberately short to avoid burnout, but this will require a different approach entirely.

[SophieH]

yes. awesome. love. win etc.

it will really take some thought on how to approach this, even odd stuff like 'plan your game for 9 1/2 years' could be a good approach.
perhaps I could generate a game world with a procedural system left running for ten years?

and since it's so much time, what scale should we aim for? is quality more important now?
how will our games even be recieved in 10 years? won't gaming evolve and should we try to anticipate that and future proof our games?

I'm giddy! :D

(on a personal note, I've been in a big funk recently and the thought of even being alive in 2020 sounded depressing, but this is something to look forward to, thanks ^__^ )

[Mark C.]

I can get behind this. I can _so_ get behind this.

[Terry]

I'm really excited about this :)

[Michael Brough]

This is awesome.

I like Terry's idea of milestones (in the other thread).  Although maybe it wouldn't make sense for all possible projects?

I don't know what I'm going to do for this, but I guess there's a bit of time to think about it.  Something content-heavy might be the way to go - lots of detailed hand-drawn stuff I can just idly scribble in downtime?