Design Contest

[benlehman]

"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.

Comments

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

I'd like to ask for one other thing. Doesn't matter what the thing is, just an additional one.

[benlehman.livejournal.com]

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

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Hands (paws) and Fruit (wolf peaches), then. I don't know France well enough to include it.

[benlehman.livejournal.com]

No need to lock it in now.

[benlehman.livejournal.com]

Only two out of three, please, not all three.

[benhimself.livejournal.com]

I'll take a mechanical constraint, please.

[benlehman.livejournal.com]

Must have a game master.

[joepub.livejournal.com]

Somehow that constraint feels like the birth of post-modernism in game design.

[benlehman.livejournal.com]

Not really. All games about love thus far written (sans one) have no game master. Let's mix it up, please.

[l-the-fangirl.livejournal.com]

Everyone welcome, except for Elliot, who doesn't need another project.

No, I don't.

But I'm still watching this with great interest.