Sixth Annual 48 Hour Flashkit Competition BEGINS!

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********Sixth Annual 48 Hour Flashkit Competition******************


Well well well….The Sixth 48 Hour Flashkiterino Competition. Hoorah! I know some of you are probably disappointed that you can’t compete this year, but that’s what unfortunately happens every year. It's hard to please everyone. Also, it’s tough to get people to dedicate 48 hours of their lives to compete in a competition with no tangible prize(if you’re new to the competition, pretend you didn’t here that… hehe). Well actually, that’s not entirely true…Since as the tradition goes the prize is PRIDE and………………………..


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A HALF EATEN TUNA SANDWICH
(to previous contest winners….yeah I know… your sandwiches will be in the mail soon..I’m still working on them OK!?)

Sorry for that little digression. Back to what I was saying before, this competition is more like a novelty than anything. Compared to other ones that offer the big bucks(but no food), this one is pretty low key and isn’t hosted that professionally. Oh well, it’s fun fun fun. Yeah yeah, I know…you want to know the topic. Well, you see I can’t just tell it to you like that. I sorta need to explain where I got the topic from...


First of all, I wanted to create a topic that was similar to previous topics but that wastn’t too broad (like the Business Throughout the Ages one). I was a bit stumped on this…so I decided to look into the world of video games for answers!

So I needed a way to talk to video games…so I decided to turn myself into an 8-bit warrior.


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I then set off on my quest, asking video games about topics.

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I was really disappointed… No one had good ideas! Until I travelled to Hyrule!

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Bok bok bok? As in chicken language? What does it mean… Well I consulted my dictionary

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And found out that bok bok bok means: “me and stringsâ€�. Me and strings? Me as in chicken? So Chicken and Strings? Chickens……..and…..strings…chickens……†¦â€¦..CHICKENS AND STRINGS!?!?!

That’s IT!! That’s IT!!! The topic! CHICKENS AND STRINGS!


****END OF POINTLESS STORY****


Ooof, sorry about that. People who know me will recognize the fact that I hardly make any sense..so please forgive me for that little tale. Also forgive me if you hate the topic, but I think that it is quite interesting and can sure make for weird games.

So what now? Well STARTING AS OF NOW, Friday 15th 2006, you have 48 Hours to make a game involving Chickens and Strings. Before 5:00 pm EASTERN, 10:00 pm GMT on Sunday 17th 2006, all submissions must be entered. How do you submit?
Well there will be a new thread called Sixth Annual Flashkit Competition ENTRIES. All you have to do is post the link of your game in that thread. When the time is up, a new thread called Sixth Annual Flashkit Competition VOTING will be made. It will explain the voting process, and will contain a list of all entries.


Remember, these are the categories you will be judged in:


-Best Art


-Most Fun


-Most hard work


-Most original


-All around goodness


But wait! There’s more! This year, there is a new category that is being introduced! No, it’s not smelliest .swf, but rather Most Potential Award. That’s right, people will be able to vote on which game, given more time to be developed, would have the most potential to be the best. More about this topic will be posted in the voting thread.

Now before worrying about voting, let’s start worrying about starting! So keep in mind that your game should be fun and original! Think about it! Strings and Chickens. What’s a string? What’s a chicken?(well maybe that one’s obvious). Come up with insane ideas! Come up with cool stuff that will make everyone lose their shoes in excitement(however that happens). Remember that everyone in the end is a winner! Hopefully you can participate! Good luck, and you have till Sunday the 17th 5:00 PM EASTERN, 10:00 PM GMT to have a game submitted. Check out Time Zone Converter to find out what time that corresponds to in your area.

GOOD LUCK!

-Mr. :cow:

P.S=> Thanks to everfornever for the image hosting! I tried your site and it works like a charm.

Woo, ok, thinking time :). I think the topic is pretty sweet, random, but that makes it better. Time to get to work.

Ali

Very interesting idea. :)

interesting topic. My brain is churning with ideas. Good luck to all participants, but the 1/2 tuna sandwich is mine. ;)

Just on a side note, to any less experienced developers who are thinking of avoiding this contest due to the lack of prizes... this is a great chance to get a game finished. You won't find many better opportunities than this to get you motivated and on top of that, its great fun and can earn you lots of respect here :). So if you are free most of this weekend, give it a go, you have nothing to lose!

Anyway, I have an idea now and I think I will go with it. Got a litre of lucozade and a litre of blue bolt next to me so I'm ready to go! :p.

Ali

The question is: How many people are doing suicidal chicken games :P

Beatcow, you have far too much time on your hands mate :)
( And don't visit here enough with your beautiful posts )

Although I'm not able to join the fun this time, I'd just like to agree with alillm's excellent post.
Everyone who's got some free time really should give this a bash. It's great experience and in the past a lot of people have completed their first ever game during one of these comps.

It doesn't have to be stunning, it's just a pure for fun thing. The difference between the winning game and the lowest rank game in term of polish and fun is always really low. Such a tight deadline really levels the field.

So come on kids, give it a bash.

Squize.

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Originally Posted by Squize

Beatcow, you have far too much time on your hands mate :)
( And don't visit here enough with your beautiful posts )

Although I'm not able to join the fun this time
Squize.

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PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE JOIN! comon, you can whip something together.

Can't babe, I'm in the big bad world of working for a living these days, deadline the 18th and then another one the 21st.

Would love to though, the subject is just begging to be made into a game.

Arse.

Squize.

I'm going to have a crack. Just need to come up with a game idea :).

Nice topic for comp. Definatley give it go.

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Originally Posted by UnknownGuy

The question is: How many people are doing suicidal chicken games :P

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How many people are doing suicidal string game?

I would assume 0, but just a funny idea that popped into my head. :)

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Originally Posted by tonypa

How many people are doing suicidal string game?

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You better be in this competition Tonypa.l :hug:

wish everyone good luck,nice competition :)

Can I submit already? Don't have time this weekend, but really wanted to join, resulted in an ugly piece, but I joined :)

The url:
http://members.chello.nl/w.visser8/newconv.html

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Originally Posted by walnoot

Can I submit already? Don't have time this weekend, but really wanted to join, resulted in an ugly piece, but I joined :)

The url:
http://members.chello.nl/w.visser8/newconv.html

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I'll post this in the entries thread when it gets created. I really love the idea of it. Good job!

Hehe, that is so hard :p love the idea though, if you had the time to give it some pretty graphics it would be awesome.

Mines almost done too, I wont have a lot of time tomorrow, only enough to add some sounds and make some minor changes, so ive had to rush it a bit. At least I should get it finished, thats what counts :)

Ali

Walnoot, awesome idea. It is way hard, but right up my alley. I have also finished my game. I'm not sure what tomorrow brings, so I will post it in here as well.
http://tlgames.siteburg.com/chicken.htm

Nice one, the gameplay-mechanism of "don't catch the black ones" works very well.

Fantastic stuff LostGuru,
Thats awesome for something developed in such a short time period. I cant wait to see the rest of the entries :D.

Viza

P.S. Sorry for not posting this when the voting thread comes, but I wanted to say good work to lostguru now, because I will be away for the next 5 days

My entry:
http://www.tonypa.pri.ee/chick.html

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Originally Posted by TheLostGuru

Walnoot, awesome idea. It is way hard, but right up my alley. I have also finished my game. I'm not sure what tomorrow brings, so I will post it in here as well.
http://tlgames.siteburg.com/chicken.htm

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this is great! I can't believe you've created that in 48 hours or so...
nice work :thumbsup:

Nice work guys :). Don't know if mine will offer any competition :p

Ali

Nearly done dudes. Hope you take timezones into consideration with this comp. It's still Sunday evening over here.

Well the comp finishes in just under 7 hours no matter where you live :) I dunno if I'm going to get sound done in time..

Ali

I've tried my best and this is what I came up with:

yarn chicken (FP9 only)

I would have to emit I was a little amb_it_ious ;). Sadly I have run out of time to take this any further, but here it is in all its glory. Hope you like.

Everyones entries are really good, and all very different. I am very impressed guys.

Games are looking great so far. Since I was going to be a bit late with posting the ENTRIES thread, I think it's fine that people are posting their games in here. Plus I don't have to anger mods with my thread creation x 1000.

Hi!

Here is my entry. Only one level for the moment, but could be quite nice as a postcard :-)

http://www.rezet.com/web/h48/

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I will not be present at 10 PM to post it into the right thread.

GOOD LUCK!

ps: some bugs, of course ;-)

YES!
I made it. Ok here's my entry.

THE FLYING CHICKEN

Enjoy it bugs and all, and don't expect something to marvel at- the game was 90% built from scratch within a day. I'm tired and I can't believe I stayed up all night on the game for such a daft competition, lol..

Evilkris, a bit late (38 min) on the submission. But I know you've been away for some time this weekend,plus it's christmas time, plus I'm a nice person(hehe). So I'll allow it.