Post something you've done today game-making wise, and I'll buy the best one a HBGames sponsorship. Gogogo, no special rules, ends on Friday night I guess!
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Post something you've done today game-making wise, and I'll buy the best one a HBGames sponsorship. Gogogo, no special rules, ends on Friday night I guess!
Jumping Jack Flash
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StrawberrySmiles
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I already have a sponsership. Silly, Jay Jay. 
Sorry Wyatt.
Sorry Wyatt.
StrawberrySmiles
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Oh right. XD
I wonder though - does it have to be today? I've done tons of things game-making wise lately, just not today. I also have no more visuals to do for my game except portraits, which I'm waiting on help for. XD
I wonder though - does it have to be today? I've done tons of things game-making wise lately, just not today. I also have no more visuals to do for my game except portraits, which I'm waiting on help for. XD
StrawberrySmiles
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cheetahxing
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I'll go ahead and post some stuff. It's a mix of 2 projects i've been working on.
First on an independent project
This is from a game I'm working on with a couple of other people
First on an independent project
This is from a game I'm working on with a couple of other people
(Yes that is my hand. I did it during college.)
This is the element tree from the game I want to make. (Don't question my reasoning...)
Outside:
Fire > Wind > Sol > Luna > Water > fire
Star inside:
Fire > Luna > Wind > Water > Sol > Fire
In the middle (although you can't see it)
Atos > everying
(Atos can only be created when all the elements are combined, and that is a hard process.)
This is a potential bad guy.
He is deluded by the power of Atos and wants to use it to bring "judgement" on all the creatures of earth.
Glitchfinder
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I just spent two hours working on an evented door for this, then realized that I have to leave for work. (And yes, I realize that a scripted version is the obvious way for me to go, which is why I'm making the evented one. I made this thing from scratch, despite having something very similar in the past.)
coyotecraft
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I think these kinds of thing hinder productivity.
Intrinsic motivation Vs. Extrinsic motivation.
Intrinsic: interest the task itself, self improvement ect...
Extrinsic: In it for the rewards.
Experiments show that people reach goals faster when motivated intrinsically than the people who are offered a reward. I think because the extrinsic group are focused on the outcome and maybe the time limit, basically over analyzing the situation. You can't really fail with intrinsic motivations. But I think after failing to reach extrinsic rewards, you become less and less motivated to do the task just by association.
I was going to work on something today anyways. But now, I feel like I should make it a goal to post something here which would require some time management and preparation which would just distract from whatever it is I would be working on.
Sometimes I think the forum itself is a distraction because you feel obligated to prove your working on something. Or whenever there's a contest, I'll just stop working on the game I was doing for fun because developing a game for a prize sounds much more fruitful.
Intrinsic motivation Vs. Extrinsic motivation.
Intrinsic: interest the task itself, self improvement ect...
Extrinsic: In it for the rewards.
Experiments show that people reach goals faster when motivated intrinsically than the people who are offered a reward. I think because the extrinsic group are focused on the outcome and maybe the time limit, basically over analyzing the situation. You can't really fail with intrinsic motivations. But I think after failing to reach extrinsic rewards, you become less and less motivated to do the task just by association.
I was going to work on something today anyways. But now, I feel like I should make it a goal to post something here which would require some time management and preparation which would just distract from whatever it is I would be working on.
Sometimes I think the forum itself is a distraction because you feel obligated to prove your working on something. Or whenever there's a contest, I'll just stop working on the game I was doing for fun because developing a game for a prize sounds much more fruitful.
However coyote, if you notice, most people who entered were not thinking about this contest at the time. I know I wasn't doing those doodles to try and win this...
It's more of a "show me what you've done." thing. Like when a teacher walks over to you in class and notices you've done some work. and when that work is awesome and amazing, the teacher gives you a merit (I hope you guys had merits)
Edit: Glitch was the only person who made something specifically for this.
It's more of a "show me what you've done." thing. Like when a teacher walks over to you in class and notices you've done some work. and when that work is awesome and amazing, the teacher gives you a merit (I hope you guys had merits)
Edit: Glitch was the only person who made something specifically for this.
coyotecraft
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Turns out the thing I was referring to is called the Overjustification Effect.
cheetahxing
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While you bring up a good point @coyote, I'm believe the effect is negligible if it's done infrequently. Plus, competitions like this are a good way to spur social change, like making more games, if it results in something that makes you intrinsically motivated (winning a competition and suddenly realizing you have a passion for pixel art, etc). Full disclosure, I like competitions so I'm probably biased.
@Hiccup, did you happen to be inspired by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Xing? I tried to create a battle system around that but never quite finished it.
@Hiccup, did you happen to be inspired by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Xing? I tried to create a battle system around that but never quite finished it.