I’ve unfortunately ignored this blog for the past few months and there are any number of reasons that I could pin the blame on, but I’ll leave it up to your imagination to decide why I’ve been so neglectful. Maybe I was traveling the world, perhaps I was in a major car accident and only recently regained my memories, abducted by aliens could be a solid choice. Regardless, I am now back (stronger than ever?) and ready to discuss a bit about the little event I organized and talked about in my last blog post before my disappearance.
The results have all been posted here and I must extend my congratulations to rkcr for seeing the entire challenge through to the end, it really wasn’t easy and he was the only one to submit an entry for each phase. There were a lot of really cool ideas generated from this challenge and I really do hope that some of the entrants take their ideas further. Some of my personal favorites include:
Troli – A puzzle game that uses music in creative ways to bypass obstacles, I love the possibilities with this one.
Der Erlkönig – An Action-Adventure/Rhythm/Fighting game with some really unique ideas about how to mash the fun elements from various genres into one. I love the style and theme of this one too.
Hydro – An Action-Adventure game where the main character is nothing but bipedal water. There are some solid an unique ideas presented, but the sky is the limit with a concept like this. Just have to worry about how to actually implement this game, I know my tech director would freak out after reading a concept like this.
That is just a few of the more standout treatments, overall there are 30 treatments to be read. I really must applaud everyone that participated, it was a lot of hard work, but fun and rewarding (I hope). I do plan on doing something similar to this again in the future, but I’ll likely revise the structure a bit, please sound off if you have any ideas that you think would make this a better challenge.
In other news; my son has graduated himself from playing Dora Saves the Mermaids and now plays Lego Star Wars: The Original Trilogy. He can beat a majority of the levels all by himself, which is just crazy to watch. He can’t even hold the 360’s controller as designed, it sits on his lap and he uses the movement stick like you would an arcade stick. I’m going to have to make a video of him playing one of these days, he’ll sit there and laugh his ass off while he drops R2-D2 off of a ledge and mimic the screaming noise that he does on the way down. I’ve started trying to teach him how to play the Rock Band drums, like seriously hit the notes at the right time and not just wail on the kit randomly, and he can get through the tutorials alright but still has a hard time with any real song. The foot pedal is really hard for him to hit, he has to look down at it and put a lot of his weight onto it, I may have to rig up some sort of special kit for him to use. Maybe I’ll mod this one when the Rock Band 2 bundle comes out…
