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posted by [personal profile] benlehman at 03:29pm on 17/01/2010
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." -- MLK

I'm holding a game design contest.

The contest is: Write me a game about love.
The constraint is: Express your unique creative vision.
The deadline is: next Sunday night, where-ever that is in your timezome.

If you would like additional constraints ask me and I will give them to you. Tell me what kind of constraints you want (mechanical, creative, social, genre, etc.)

I will give detailed feedback on all of the designs and may, if I'm feeling vindictive, declare a winner.

(edit: I decided to promote this.) If you would like to post it to your favorite forums and mailing lists, that's fine with me.

Everyone welcome, except for Elliot, who doesn't need another project.
There are 10 comments on this entry. (Reply.)
 
posted by [identity profile] cucumberseed.livejournal.com at 05:13am on 18/01/2010
I'd like to ask for one other thing. Doesn't matter what the thing is, just an additional one.
 
posted by [identity profile] benlehman.livejournal.com at 06:21pm on 18/01/2010
Use two out of three as ingredients, game chef style (as in: must be integrated into the game thematically, procedurally, textually, or something like that.)

Hands
France
Fruit
 
posted by [identity profile] cucumberseed.livejournal.com at 07:14pm on 18/01/2010
Hands (paws) and Fruit (wolf peaches), then. I don't know France well enough to include it.

 
posted by [identity profile] benlehman.livejournal.com at 01:10am on 19/01/2010
No need to lock it in now.
 
posted by [identity profile] benlehman.livejournal.com at 06:21pm on 18/01/2010
Only two out of three, please, not all three.
 
posted by [identity profile] benhimself.livejournal.com at 02:04pm on 18/01/2010
I'll take a mechanical constraint, please.
 
posted by [identity profile] benlehman.livejournal.com at 06:20pm on 18/01/2010
Must have a game master.
 
posted by [identity profile] joepub.livejournal.com at 08:30am on 19/01/2010
Somehow that constraint feels like the birth of post-modernism in game design.
 
posted by [identity profile] benlehman.livejournal.com at 08:27pm on 19/01/2010
Not really. All games about love thus far written (sans one) have no game master. Let's mix it up, please.
 
posted by [identity profile] l-the-fangirl.livejournal.com at 10:12pm on 19/01/2010
Everyone welcome, except for Elliot, who doesn't need another project.

No, I don't.

But I'm still watching this with great interest.

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