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

Taking inspiration from existing work is still allowed, I hope :)

If in a game, there's a particular idea that's not a defining part of the game, but strikes you as being great and under-exploited, is taking inspiration from this idea allowed ?

Neolander added on 22 May ’11 · 12:18

(As for Mary Sue, I have yet to fully understand that concept :) It seems to me that this name designates a character that the writer is extremely fond of and/or has put a lot of himself in, but I've yet to be sure)

Ah, this "keep it short" rule truly kills me :)

Well, I've completed a review of my game, which proved to be the easiest way to work on its design :) Now, the question is, is a review a legit form of pitch, or should I convert it to some more common first-person marketing speak written by the author of the game ? ^^

Are mobile game ideas allowed or only desktop?

I'll be participating. Refining my pitch still.

“even if you pitched a game about balancing bananas”

WHO TOLD YOU MY GAME IDEA?!

In seriousness, I hope more people participate; I was hoping this would be mildly fun, 'cause I've got an extra copy of terraria with no home.

“Not that I am in for the prises”

I already own minecraft as well but I'm _really_ trying to get a friend to start playing but he won't or can't buy it (and I've got game ideas like crazy, some good, some awful).

Of course I am. Soon publishing v1, should probably make it shorter afterwards. Like Martijn, I play more for fun and the pleasure of seeing how other people would view what I see as an awesome game than for the prizes, since I don't persistently play games on my computer anymore. Just like to finish one "cover to cover" from time to time, or have bursts of "gaming frenzy".

The game is about to survive various disasters. The game takes place in a number of places: Hotel/volcanic area behind, and the sea at front, marina, airport, city, big city, cruise ship / port, a town on the lake, amusement park / water park, metro station / city and more places.

At the different places it can occur different catastrophe. You never know what disaster that may occur before the last second. Starting with a small amount of time before disaster strikes. the game is in 1st person. You can see in front of you when you run and do things. In some of the disasters you get weapons with little ammunition, use it right to defend yourself. You can also pick up weapons. In some individual houses or areas with doors and windows can be barakated with a cabinet or similar. Almost everything in the entire game can be destroyed, from big buildings to almost very thing

Disasters: Tsunami (Tsunami brings boats and Cruse ships on the way to the site, earthquakes, floods (where cars and other things floating in the streets and houses can be torn away), rolling stones are blasted from the mountains and going to cause major damage , large insects, large Cruse ships uncontrolled and on the way into town at high speed, volcanic, aircraft that are heading to downtown / airport / buildings with no persons controlling it, installation hurried bombs that are placed around the buildings (it can be detonated or just blow up) the installation hastened the bombs going to hurt a lot and trap down buildings if they are not stopped, bombing planes which drops bombs (destroying large parts of the city), runaway subway that crashes in either the city or the metro station, dam will be sprung up and lots of water is on its way to the city and much more.

game can be played both online and single player.

In the different courses you can do different things. For example on the pitch with hotels on the beach you could take on the diving suit to go into the water, it may save your life or not.

The path "Port" when disaster 'tsunami' strikes, both large and small boats brought by the wave and thrown into the country. That will create great misfortunes on the house, other things. Nets everything can be crushed and destroyed, but almost everything can also duck into and hide themselves for disasters.

The game also plays with 4 players. On every track, it is the people walking around, they never know what's coming. But when disaster will begin to run and scream if they see the disaster then. Sometimes a alarm over the place that alerts her father as if the bombing planes coming. Disaster response animals, such as if a tsunami comes, birds begin to fly, and animals are completely wild.

You never know how the disaster might occur, not big on it. For example, a tsunami, you never know if it is mega big and visible.

There are different ways to play.

Good-for-nothing lurker over here! I could give it a shot. It sounds like something right up my alley, and it might give me an excuse to come out of the shadows and comment on other threads once in a while.

Now all I have to do is figure out what sort of idea to put down. I'm pretty paranoid about keeping ideas I intend to develop away from other people, so maybe something new. I've had too many good ideas that were realized by people who are smarter and have more free time than I do. :P

@marcus : Very interesting idea ! But looking at the rules above, you should fine a name for it and create a dedicated topic instead of posting it here.

Hi, my name is Marcus tveit karkash and I am sorry that I did not read the rules

I was saying that you should give a name to your game, not write down your own name :) And don't worry, it's not as if we're going to make a big deal of you not fully reading the rules at first because you were too interested in the competition. It just happens that putting game ideas in separate topics helps separating discussions related to each individual games and discussions related to the competition and its rules.

Ok, than i will call the game "Epic Disasters" or "The laws of Disaster"