The UGJ-2018 story fiasco: how to make a game that nobody would like (do not do that!)
UGJ is the Ural Game Gem, which takes place in Yekaterinburg (the event is held online, the onsite is the only award). The theme of UGJ-2018 was “PARASITING” (the rules ). This Game Gem is two weeks. The first week is given to make demos, the second - to finish games from demos.
Discussing in the morning with a colleague for a cup of chicory, another gamej (at the same time, the annual js13k took place), I called the topic and jokingly offered to make a simulator game of a corrupt official, i.e. the parasite. A colleague supported the idea, and gave a prototype literally in the morning, at the same time naming the project Kiseijuu (from Japanese it means a parasite). Unfortunately, his enthusiasm quickly faded away, so I finished the game (for a couple of free evenings from other hobbies and concerns).
It turned out the following:
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With this we reached the final line.
We received the following marks from the judges, in the format
Rating (0-10) | What did you like | What did not like:
The most winning mechanics - first increase GDP and happiness, then increase (heavily) taxes, then rob accumulated budget funds)
If someone is not too lazy to describe all the bugs, of which there is an incredible amount (I personally counted about half a dozen in the final version for game gem), then the issue start there: github.com/Areso/js-kiseijuu/issues
At itch, our game received the lowest rating of all the games, which influenced the final rating. Other participants rated our game more modest than others)
If we talk about other participants, I want to mention the game LANDERAID
which, unfortunately, is not about parasites at all (but still cool!). Decent physics, falling off blocks of a spacecraft (almost the entire modular ship), explosions ... IMHO, the developers would occupy the top place if they had made some story that would tell us about what the parasitism and the spacecraft would do here and tell before the game starts in the style of Star Wars (it would be a bomb!). For example, it was possible to creatively rework the script of the film Life (2017), published in Russian hire under the name “Living”. The film is recommended for viewing, very much nothing.
Prizes were taken by:
1. M_dak - simulator office parasiteemployee , projection 3/4. Great game with pixel graphics, you can safely pozalipat some time.
2. Tsvyv: Parasite - 2d toy, something like Agar.io and Spore.
3. Shadow Reactor - top-down action with elements of stealth, there are some problems with the management, but you should try at least to appreciate the cool menu (under the spoiler)
And the jury specifically noted the following game:
4. KNYAZ 'T'MY (Prince of Darkness) - a strategic game about construction, the prince of darkness and refugees with an incredibly stylish interface.
I hope, now your Friday will not be in vain!
Discussing in the morning with a colleague for a cup of chicory, another gamej (at the same time, the annual js13k took place), I called the topic and jokingly offered to make a simulator game of a corrupt official, i.e. the parasite. A colleague supported the idea, and gave a prototype literally in the morning, at the same time naming the project Kiseijuu (from Japanese it means a parasite). Unfortunately, his enthusiasm quickly faded away, so I finished the game (for a couple of free evenings from other hobbies and concerns).
It turned out the following:
')
With this we reached the final line.
We received the following marks from the judges, in the format
Rating (0-10) | What did you like | What did not like:
5 | Subject | Few. It is necessary to set the parameters in percent. For budget surplus should also be hung. © Grigory Ivanov
2 | The parasite is, in a sense. | It was something so polite, right? it was possible to make a plague clicker on such technologies. what are already available © Alexey Chestnykh
5 | Ideological game in Excel | No surprises, pure bone mathematics, it's boring to play for a long time, you need to set a different, closer goal and give plot plot circumstances that secretly affect the mechanics © Yury NekrasovYes, random events (aka plot circumstances) were in the plans, but did not have time to realize. So forgive Jura, we all lost.
The most winning mechanics - first increase GDP and happiness, then increase (heavily) taxes, then rob accumulated budget funds)
If someone is not too lazy to describe all the bugs, of which there is an incredible amount (I personally counted about half a dozen in the final version for game gem), then the issue start there: github.com/Areso/js-kiseijuu/issues
At itch, our game received the lowest rating of all the games, which influenced the final rating. Other participants rated our game more modest than others)
If we talk about other participants, I want to mention the game LANDERAID
which, unfortunately, is not about parasites at all (but still cool!). Decent physics, falling off blocks of a spacecraft (almost the entire modular ship), explosions ... IMHO, the developers would occupy the top place if they had made some story that would tell us about what the parasitism and the spacecraft would do here and tell before the game starts in the style of Star Wars (it would be a bomb!). For example, it was possible to creatively rework the script of the film Life (2017), published in Russian hire under the name “Living”. The film is recommended for viewing, very much nothing.
Prizes were taken by:
1. M_dak - simulator office parasite
2. Tsvyv: Parasite - 2d toy, something like Agar.io and Spore.
3. Shadow Reactor - top-down action with elements of stealth, there are some problems with the management, but you should try at least to appreciate the cool menu (under the spoiler)
That same lamp menu and loading screen
And the jury specifically noted the following game:
4. KNYAZ 'T'MY (Prince of Darkness) - a strategic game about construction, the prince of darkness and refugees with an incredibly stylish interface.
I hope, now your Friday will not be in vain!
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/424541/
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