Hello all. To bring some excitement to the community I’m holding a competition with prizes to be won! If you intend to participate, please read this post fully and carefully, thanks.

*Goal:* You must pitch your idea for an original computer game to the judges. We will be judging on originality, gameplay mechanics, potential and conciseness of your pitch (short, clear and vivid vs. rambling and incoherent :P)

*Time:* The competition will run from now until midday GMT June 1st

*Judges:* Kroc, theraje

*Prizes:* I am giving away three copies of Minecraft http://minecraft.net to the best three entries posted. If you already own Minecraft, you’ll be able to give your prize to a friend instead.

*Rules:*

• The game idea must be original and not based on any existing franchise or characters

• You can pitch more than one game idea (please do so separately, and not in the same thread), but can only win one prize

• You may use any tools at your disposal. You may include images and videos in your pitch, but this will not influence the judges’ decision: A concise, well described game concept can easily beat a well presented, bad idea

• Your game idea can be intended for any platform (e.g. PC, games consoles, retro &c.) even currently non-existent ones (though this is riskier to convey clearly) but must be a "computer game" as is commonly understood

*How to Participate:*

Please post your game idea as it’s own thread on these forums, prefixing the title with "Game Idea: "

Your thread can then act as a question and answer discussion for the judges and readers.

Note that NNF has a 50’000 character limit on the input form. Consider that your pitch-limit.

*Criteria:*

Judging will be based on these criteria:

• Originality: concepts or gameplay mechanics that are new and unseen, novel, exciting and imaginative

• Gameplay: A game that ultimately sounds engrossing and fun to play, rather than more of a chore

• Potential: The ability for the game idea to break new ground and excite people, what we feel could potentially become a big hit

• Conciseness of your pitch: Is this pitch short, clear, and to-the-point?

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This thread will be for questions and answers about the competition, please remember to post your pitches in new threads and not here.

Kroc added on 01 Jun ’11 · 18:18

Competition is now closed, thanks everybody for participating. Me and theraje will be working on the judging over the next couple of days.

Kroc added on 04 Jun ’11 · 08:42

Results are now here, should anybody be looking at this thread in the future: http://forum.camendesign.com/competition_pitch_your_game_idea_results_