The Great ScoreHero Game Design Challenge!

**Tomcove** · Joined: 02 Feb 2007 Posts: 340 Location: USS Moisthero

GAAAAAAAAAAH!

I totally forgot to submit my entry for this week. I have it done, it's sitting right here on my desktop, I just didn't email it to Kaiser or Carrot. Stupid real life getting in the way...

I had a really good idea, too. Bah.

Can we still submit ideas for the next rounds if we missed week 1?
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**ImaCarrot** · Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 2687

**rkcr** · Joined: 05 Feb 2007 Posts: 2518 Location: Minneapolis

Given this focus on deadlines, could you send us a confirmation that you received our entry on time?

**ImaCarrot** · Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 2687

Heh, I was actually just about to do that

We received 10 submissions! Very awesome, more than we were expecting! I was just about to take a look at the submissions, and if the first couple I've glanced at are any indication, I think this will be a very successful challenge!

One little thing I noticed that may become a problem, when I send the response email back to you, please respond back with your ScoreHero username, so I know for sure who did what.

Thanks guys!
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**Smoses** · Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 2:38 am Post subject:

It looks like I won't be able to submit this week's challenge... Unless I come up with an idea and write it all out within the next hour and a half.

Rather out of the blue, it looks like I'm going out of town for the weekend. I'll have access to a computer, but I doubt I'll actually have any time to get on it.

But, who knows, maybe I'll get an idea whip something up in the few minutes of free time I get and send it in, yet.

Anyways, I'm rambling... sorry.
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**burningtoad** · Joined: 12 Nov 2007 Posts: 373

**ImaCarrot** · Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 2687

Just a little heads up to everyone participating; chances are we won't be able to get the results up by today. Real life interfering and all that. They will be up by tomorrow though, and we will get the rules for Round 3 up today some time.

Round 1 was really good overall; we can't wait to see what you guys came up with for the decidedly tougher Round 2.

Sorry for the delay.
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**rkcr** · Joined: 05 Feb 2007 Posts: 2518 Location: Minneapolis

I've had a pretty busy week, so it's only today that I've got a lot of time to think about this challenge. I've got an idea, but after much thinking I am still not quite sure what a coop-SP game really is. To put it in a different way, I can't think of any coop-SP game that doesn't involve a very particular sort of time manipulation would be.

I started with the idea that a coop game is one wherein a person controls two (or more) characters. However, this concept ran into big problems right off of the bat. The main dilemma is that most games with multiple characters still only have the player controlling one character at a time.

Take an RPG for example. Most SP RPGs have you control a team of characters - unless you consider the whole team a single character, this game would be considered coop. But it's not really coop in the same way that you would consider Cursor*10 coop. Even if you were, say, controlling two different teams that moved simultaneously throughout the game, you're still controlling only one character at a time. You could use one team to assist the other, but you're still only controlling one character at a time.

In any action-oriented game, one could give you two character tokens to play with. But if you're controlling both at once, then (to me) it seems more like you are just controlling one complex character who can occupy two spaces at once.

So then I took a step back, and looked at games like Maniac Mansion, where you have to use multiple characters to get past puzzles but only control one at a time. In Maniac Mansion, you controlled multiple characters who would go adventuring about the house. They most certainly assisted each other in solving the puzzles, but you're still only controlling one character at a time - so what disturbed me is that in no way could this game ever be played with more than one person. So while you are using multiple characters to one goal, there's no way it could ever be coop among multiple actual people. Again, you're sort of controlling one very complex character.

In these situations (and many more I've played with in my head), you either have to consider the definition of coop-SP to be VERY broad (any game with two character tokens) or VERY narrow (you manipulate time so that you are playing two characters at once, but at *different times*).

So I guess I'm asking for clarification - is a coop-SP game based on how many characters you control at once, or controlling multiple characters at different times (but their actions taking place at the same time)?

**WaffleCake** · Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 2:32 am Post subject:

What I understand is that in a coop single player game, all characters/objects/whatever must be controlled by the player. Therefore, an RPG would not fit in to that because the other characters are controlled by AI. But to be sure ask ImaCarrot.

In other news, I have an idea! I got it from one of my favorite games as a kid: Zelda - A Link To The Past. Don't want to give to much away so that's all I'll say. Right now I just have a basic idea anyways.
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**mamlfj** · Joined: 27 Feb 2007 Posts: 77 Location: São Paulo, Brasil

**ImaCarrot** · Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 2687

**ImaCarrot** · Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 2687

Here's Week 3's twist, enjoy!

Twist: Create a game combining two or more established game genres.

There are literally dozens of different video game genres that are just begging to be mixed and matched together, feel free to use this list from Wikipedia to get the creative juices flowing. So the goal for this challenge is to create a game that creatively combines at least two genres. There are plenty of examples out there to check out, there are plenty of games that fly under the Action-RPG banner, for example.

To give you an idea of the fun that can come from this challenge; just imagine the kind of game you can get if you make a Karaoke Flight-Sim game.

Good luck!
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**ShinobiAC** · Joined: 04 Dec 2007 Posts: 1065 Location: Raleigh, NC

I call the stealth pet-raising sim. Nobody else make it! It's mine!

Premise: You have been shrunken down to miniature proportions after a freak lab accident and are the size of a small rodent. The effects will wear off in the span of 2 weeks, but in the meantime your dog must be taken care of. Unfortunately for you, he sees you as no more than a tasty morsel. Feed and take care of your dog, but don't be seen by him or his army of cockroaches, bent on destroying you!

ok, maybe not, but it's on the back burner.
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**riyunoa** · Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 711 Location: Dragonforceland

Yay week 3's challenge sounds fun.

And I sent in week 2's like yesterday. Hope it got there on time, it WAS still 30th in singapore... >_>
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