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The Indie Game Jam
Rich Carlson writes "The Indie Game Jam is a yearly game design
and programming event designed to encourage experimentation and innovation in the game industry."
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Let's see:
black shirt, blue jeans
black shirt, blue jeans
black shirt, blue jeans
black shirt, tan jeans
grey shirt, blue jeans
grey shirt, black shirt, white shirt
(that guy in the back has a red shirt--must be gay)
"The Indie Game Jam is a yearly game design and programming event designed to encourage experimentation and innovation in the game industry."
Here's some real innovation and experimentation:
Dani Bunten Berry
Pardon me while I feel nostalgiac...every game that comes out lately (esp. in the arcade) is either two guys beating the stuffing out of each other, or some sort of Exxxtreme Simulation, be it piloting a helicopter, shooting a gun, or pushing a shopping cart full of your worldly possesions down the street while being chased by cops and skinheads.
Okay, that last one doesn't really exist but WHAT THE HELL IS UP WITH ALL THE SIMULATIONS??? You wanna be Deer Avenger Mega XL? Why not actually go hunt a deer. There are millions of 'em out there. You want to drive real fast? Go to the local racetrack and ACTUALLY DO IT.
I miss the quality games like Rampart, which was extremely playable as a multiplayer or single player endeavor...must stop ranting...trying to stay on topic:
A lot of the games on that web page are very, very cool ideas, and I'm really glad to see the big vendors (read: Intel) getting behind the local community. I would love to play Dueling Machine, because it sounds totally cool, and many of the others seem utterly hilarious.
God, I miss the good games. I think everyone fell in love with the "rich story line" after Wing Commander II and forgot about playability and the intense PLEASURE that comes from battling it out with a game like Lemmings. I bet the current crop of mainstream game designers has watched a lot more TV and action adventure movies and spent a hell of a lot less time playing lunar lander, drag racer, and Adventure on the mainframe.
100,000 sprites? You had to do something crafty with interrupts to get more than 7 sprites on my old C64. And yet, I have a game of MULE scheduled for right after I hit the submit button...
I light a candle for Infocom
The term innovation seems to becoming more and more overused. As much as I'm
sure that code will be created through this that will be very interesting to see
and see run, isn't innovation something rare enough to not be expected? What's so wrong nowadays with being proud to have simply made something of quality, even if it's not some earth shattering revelation.
Sometimes it just seems to me Microsoft's proclamations of their so called
'innovations' have lowered the bar considerably. I'm about to go make a bowl of
ramen noodles, and I'll be throwing in some pieces of broccoli. By todays
standards would that be considered an innovation in the world of everyday
nutrition?
Everything will be taken away from you.
This took place in March.. how come we hear it just now?
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