Game Challenge #7 has started!

[pseudobot]

****DRUM ROLL PLEASE*****

*dun dun dun duuunnnn*



After the 6 year long tradition of posting useless stories with the start
of a challenge, it finally changes to 7 years!

Here goes the story...
One day, a stickman named bob walked into an evil scientist's laboratory.
6 half-eaten tuna sandwiches (from the previous competitions) lay in a greenish, bubbling chemical.

It looked very interesting. Very very interesting. But to bob, it only looked tasty. Having a brain the size of a
walnut, he found out that the sandwiches where in fact laid in acid and not juice...

After a delay of 10 seconds, h finally started to scream. Glasses all around him shattered.
Even the one with EVIL microorganisms. Suddenly, a very sharp pice of glass (**Or was it a thorwing knife of a ninja?**)
struck through Bob's head. He falls dead on the ground.

Finally the question gets answerd....it wasn't in fact a ninja who threw a throwing knife,
but it was a pice of glass from the jar that contained EVIL microorganisms. Know, poor bob's brain is slowly
being eaten from the inside out by small, EVIL microorganisms.

Guess what the theme is?


Hint hint:








***AND***








YES, IT IS A HUMAN BRAIN AND MICROORGANISMS!
You have 48 hours (2 days) to make a game that is:

•Set in a human brain/on a human brain
•Includes Microorganisms


How you will include the microorganisms is up to you. For example, you could be a shrunken human
shooting microorganisms in a human brain to save the human from death.

NOTE: The microorganisms sholdn't just be a thing in the background, but play part in
the game.






**** JUDGING ****
You will be judged in the following categories:

•Best graphics/eye candy
•Most fun game
•Most original game

"Another GTA game!? Oh please, games should be “out of the blue” and completely random at best.
If the topic is Almonds and you make a tic-tac-toe game with almonds and nuts, you’ll have less of a
chance of winning than if you made an intergalactic conquest based on the adventures
of Sir Almondalot and that he is traveling to save his fellow nuts from becoming crazy(quite ironic).
Well this category is pretty self-explanatory, so just see what game is different from the rest(in a good way)."

•Category winner
Awarded to the person who wins in most categories

and

•All around goodness
This category will be voted by YOU! What game did you like the most?
Can't vote for yourself!

NOTE: There is an additional category of "Best coding", which you will be judged in if you make your game
open-source. The category is about how efficient your code is, and how well the code is documented.







****ADDITIONAL STUFF****
Prize: Sorry, no money. But you will get a nice banner to put in your sig, t
hat is for once not related to a half-eaten tuna sandwich.

Help: You can ask for help on a specific problem on your game in his thread.
Do not, however, ask someone to code/make something for you.
Example: ASking someone to code movemnet for you & do graphics for you is NOT okay.
Asking what is wrong with this timer *shows code* is okay.


Let me know in this thread if you are competing, too!
Good luck to all the participants!!


-Amoeba

[Squize]

Cool, that could have been a lot worse.

< slopes off into the night to write a tetris clone using micro-organisms over the background of a brain >

Squize.

[pseudobot]

Cool, that could have been a lot worse.

How about "Pudding and A run of the mill day at the office"?

[Dried Monkey]

Cool, that could have been a lot worse.

How about "Pudding and A run of the mill day at the office"?

That one doesn't seem that bad either.

[pseudobot]

^Too me it didn't sound very great, but nevermind...

Oh, and are you joining the comp?

[Squize]

"Pudding and A run of the mill day at the office"

Easy. Tetris with a pudding background and various office items for the blocks

( Tetris is the easy lame way out for any sort of branded game ).

I'm just about to start "Operation Cortex", who else is in the comp ? I hope this doesn't die on it's arse after so many people had so much to say in the build up to it.

Squize.

[mentuat]

I am out of bed, fully awake and standing proud

apart from the door frame that I gotta paint in the kitchen, the england match this afternoon and tomorrows grand prix i'm ALL IN for "operation cortex II : amoeba alliance"

BRING IT ON!

[Squize]

The England match doesn't help for this.

Squize.

[Captain_404]

I too am up early with an idea in my brain for a microorganism game!

Saturday here I come!

[renderhjs]

not a good idea so far- I guess this theme is not my home play

[PhobiK]

I think it's a tough one :P but I've thought of something already. I hope time won't be against me (my country also has a match today btw )

[pointguard]

I'm not good enough to compete in this comp but I'm excited to see what everyone comes up with. Good luck everyone!

[PhobiK]

You don't need to be good enough. It's just for fun!!

[rachil0]

I have an idea that I will try to implement. I had other commitments this weekend and am getting a late start - when is the due date(hour?) for the finished product? I think I will need all the time I can get!

[renderhjs]

I guess I have to skip this one,- I am feeling not so well today (eaten some wrong cookies) plus I have still no good idea so far.
Hopefully I'll have some mini experiment or graphics by tomorrow. Maybe its the theme as I dont like it - guess I was expecting something more in human scale of things, or something visible to the eye.

[Squize]

rachil0 it's midnight ( gmt ) Sunday ( Or maybe 1am as that's when pseudobot posted the comp details. I'm guessing bst messed the timings up slightly ).
Basically 48hrs after the time this thread was started ( Dunno if it shows the local time for a thread post ? ).

Glad I cleared that up :S

Render pity you can't enter mate. Before rachil0 posted it looked like I could have submitted untitled.swf and got 3rd, guess I'll have to code something now.

Squize.

[PhobiK]

So bad to hear that render It would be cool to have you in.

[tonypa]

Well, I spent my day trying to re-install Flash CS3 and I am sick of its useless, dumb, slow, bugfilled installer wasting my time. Dont want to see Flash now.

But best of luck to everyone

[691175002]

I'll probably submit something.
Mainly posting to see what time it gets tagged as and doing some math to figure out when I need to be done.

[pseudobot]

rachil0 it's midnight ( gmt ) Sunday ( Or maybe 1am as that's when pseudobot posted the comp details. I'm guessing bst messed the timings up slightly ).
Basically 48hrs after the time this thread was started ( Dunno if it shows the local time for a thread post ? ).

Glad I cleared that up :S

Render pity you can't enter mate. Before rachil0 posted it looked like I could have submitted untitled.swf and got 3rd, guess I'll have to code something now.

Squize.

No, it's in fact 7pm saturday, GMT.


_____

Glad to see a bit of activity in this thread now.
Sorry to hear that, renderhjs and tonypa though...