i was just wondering if there was any chances of this happening, because it would be pretty sweet. i know a lot of you are programmers, and maybe you would find this interesting. just a neat thought that i thought i would share with you.

I've actually been kind of toying with the idea of making a new game, I'm a programmer and I always get hung up on graphics and artwork and stuff, also i'm not "super great" at coming up with fun game mechanics. I have a little "tech demo" of a simple 2d RPG (like early final fantasy, it has a side-view battle system working and it uses the Tiled map editor and stuff, it's cool) but that's kind of a boring system unless you come up with really neat story or unique artstyle or something, or both. I might take interest.

But honestly there's not enough people here to do any kind of game jam or whatever, unless that just means we all team up to make 1 game because that could be doable.

What kind of time limit do you have in mind? I would love to try getting involved in something like this.

i think having everyone team up on a single game would be the opposite of doable, at least in terms of getting something finished :o /
 
i would definitely be up for this though!

What if we find some comp at like TIG or somewhere (I don't know what other sites have comps but I know there's quite a few that do) and create a Salt World team to create a game? Not necessarily everyone on the site but we could assemble a smallish team maybe and enter a game. I think that'd be fun.


Otherwise yeah if we just did a small comp here at SW with a nice theme and decent time-limit (I don't have tons of time to work on a game outside of work, maybe just on the weekends and a couple days after work during the week) I'd still be up for trying. Finding graphics is always the hardest part for me.

hm... we could work out a time limit between ourselves! i've heard of a few jams with time limits like 2-4 hours, but then some, like ludum dare, are 48 hours. maybe we could do something in the middle?

maybe we could do 24 hours?

will i have to talk to the admins about organizing this? just curious.

what topic do you think i should post it in? gaming? programming?

I agree that a relaxed deadline like a week would probably be more successful than a tight deadline like 24h... it's up to you, though, of course.

the thread has been made!
http://www.saltw.net/index.php?topic=83364.0