Only completed stories will be eligible to win prizes
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That’s it! You’re free to make it as long or as short as you see fit. Just remember that you only have 4 weeks to complete it! Up to 2 submissions per individual or team are allowed.
Prizes:
The winning individual or team will receive gifted copies of 10 CoG games of their choice currently on Steam: Steam Search
Second place will receive 3 games of their choice from the above list
Third place will receive 1 game of their choice from the above list
(Heroes Rise expansions count as individual games)
Voting will be held From January 11th to January 31st. A poll thread will be linked to from here with all submitted games. The game with the most votes at the end of this time (along with my own judgment) will be declared the winner along with their second and third place counterparts.
.chron files will NOT be shared publicly. If privacy is still a concern, then a “demo” project containing only your first scene will still be accepted.
SUBMISSIONS
May you all have a wonderful holiday and happy Chronicling!
Sadly I doubt I’ll have the time to actually finish something, in part because of a busy schedule, in part because I’m quite terrible at keeping stories short. It gave me a good excuse to download Chronicler though, so I’ll at the very least give it a spin to see if it suits me.
@BenSeawalker Good luck with organizing this competition, and I hope there’ll be a lot of contestants/fun things to read at the end of it.
Greetings, @BenSeawalker, I am a new poster but not reader, and I thought I would give your tool a whirl. Whether anything comes out of it remains to be seen, I fear. First time trying my hand at this. There is indeed a first time for all things, true, yet for some more than one, such as a time traveller stuck in a loop with no recollection thereof.
…ahem.
I shall attempt to enter in a timely fashion. If nothing else I hope this vague promise, or threat, of an entry might spark more certain ones. Time will tell, as a clock tells time.
Thanks for your interest! I look forward to both your contributions.
I’ve decided not to cancel the contest. If only two people enter then they get 7 games apiece (14 total, all that I was going to purchase anyway)
I don’t believe that should be an issue though, considering the 12 new downloads of the launcher, and it’s been used in “online mode” roughly 10 times per day since I started the contest.
Also depending on how much work I manage to get done on the new version of Chronicler, I may enter the contest myself with a story I’ve been bouncing around in my head the last couple of weeks. (I’ll be excluded from the prize pool of course haha)
@ShadowBroker Well, that’s unfortunate… I run it on my laptop without overheating problems. Do you have a can of compressed air for electronics to dust out your fans? If they are dusty, doing so will drop your temps at least 20 degrees F.
A trick you might use is to just write the story bubble snippets in notepad and copy/paste them into Chronicler.
That should greatly reduce the time spent running Chronicler as you just use it to develop the logic / flow of your game.
That’s perfectly acceptable as an entry. The only stipulation is that it include a reference to a winter holiday, how “original” the idea is is irrelevant. Besides converting any story to a game will allow plenty of room for creativity and uniqueness. (:
All genders, @ShadowBroker? I thought silly covered them all. Then again, so does dramatic. As do any other word, come to think of it. We’re all the same since we’re all unique!
Dark and witty, as in It was a dark and witty night?
