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Indie Game Jam Results Posted

Posted by chrisd on from the got-to-be-jelly-cause-jam-don't-wiggle-like-that dept.

baruz writes "You may remember a previous story on Slashdot about the Indie Game Jam organized by Chris Hecker and company. The game sources have been posted." Anyone feel like porting these to Linux?

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  1. Some Hurdles by P!Alexander · · Score: 5, Interesting

    From story:
    Sadly, most of the games do not have documentation for their user interfaces, and a number of the games require gamepads, usually with specific control layouts.

    I'm not familiar with programming control interfaces in Linux but it seems like the lack of documentation plus the need for controllers would make this rather difficult.

    Not to mention (In big, bold print):
    NOTE: THESE GAMES WERE DONE AS EXPERIMENTAL GAME DESIGN RESEARCH, NOT AS FINISHED PRODUCTS. THESE ARE NOT POLISHED AND COMPLETE GAMES!

    Plus some of the games used proprietary sprites from Doom 2 which are not re-distributable. Almost sounds like it would be better to start from scratch.

    Other than that the games look very cool. Especially for four days of work!

  2. Innovations in game design? by Kirby-meister · · Score: 5, Interesting
    "A Missile Command style game..."
    "It works a bit like the old Robotron 2084 arcade game..."
    "A super-RTS..."

    Maybe I'm not getting the point; was this contest just to make quirky titles from standard, well-defined genres with a gimmick, or to actually make something that is completely different?

    I'm not saying none of the results were original or unique; I just noticed a lot of sentences like the ones above.

  3. Duelling Machine with a twist... by jonr · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The Duelling Machine stirred an old idea that I have been thinking about for a long time, but the technology hasn't been up to it: Add GPRS/3G phone/pda, sign up, and you get a target you have to find (preferably in your home town). But there is a twist, you automatically become somebody elses target, so you never know who is after you. Any venture capitalists reading this? :)
    (Patent pending, patent pending, patent pending)

  4. not all that original by lingqi · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I mean... Yeah sure there are interesting twists, but they are just *TWISTS* from the same genre, not really anything innovative.

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