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Judge & Game/Platform decider:
Truncated
Signed Up:
DarkKobold
adelikat
Atma
boct1584
FatRatKnight
MUGG
Tentative:
Mitjitsu
mz
Sonikkustar
Tompa
Cardboard
Tentative is a list for people who put caveats in their post.
OLD POST:
I'd rather participate than run the contest... however, we should get this started for 2010. I'd also rather see the competition go closer to a month, than a week, as most people have real lives, commitments, and we may see less drop-outs if people are given a chance to you know, balance it the real world. All-nighters shouldn't happen for a TAS.
I'm going to try and condense the 4 pages of discussion from
last years contest into one post.
On Game selection
From Moozooh:
- Good genres are platformers, adventures, and bomberman-style action/puzzle games.
- It must not contain excessive luck manipulation.
- It must not be "hold right to win" simple.
- It must not be too complex.
- It must be relatively short (definitely below 15 minutes for estimated completion time), but not too short.
- It must not contain emulation errors or require using a feature-incomplete or notoriously problematic emulator (PCSX, Mupen, FBA).
I disagree with the excessive luck manipulation... but of course I would.
From Andymac:
- Must be emulated correctly and playable by all team members, for obvious reasons. This rules out any PSX game because good iso's are hard to come by and are extremely large downloads. I'm okay with games on other emulators as long as the rom is not excessively large and the emulator is stable for all
- It must be short. It must be under 20 mins depending on the complexity of the game. The game should be able to be completed in one week by three team members whithin reasonable expectations.
- The game must be suitable for a TAS. Bad game choices like autoscrollers and generally crap games won't be accepted by the site, and they won't get accepted by me.
- The game should not have a run on TASvideos and if you are participating, don't tell me that you have tased this game before. I want everyone with an equal footing as soon as the competition starts. Also, I don't want to hear about well known games without a run. I'm looking for hidden gems, not obvious choices.
- The game should be awesome. I'm going to watch all of the submitted movies and I don't want it to be a waste of my time.
Truncated's Comments for future competitions:
- Set the starting date in stone well before the competition starts. For me it was a problem that this started two days late. I had more time last weekend than this one (which I knew beforehand).
- If I do this again, I will form my own team. There could still be a pool of people who are randomly grouped into teams, of course.
- Don't announce game info in the topic after the competition has started.
Baxter Suggests:
I think it's more important, like Truncated pointed out, that it's possible to enter as a team. Of course, people could also enter individually... and those would be grouped together like previously.
Edit: I also think it's important the date is set long beforehand, so people know if they have time then or not. It might also be a good idea to announce the console the game is for, and maybe even the genre of the game beforehand... to avoid people dropping out for those reasons.
FODA's advice for teams:
Someone on IRC was curious when I said before the game was revealed that we were already doing stuff. It was several things:
- deciding who could do what at first (find ram addresses, do a testrun, find bugs)
- we were planning what to do with the movie files based on our time zones.
- we set up a private IRC channel with some rules.
- and we set up the spreadsheets to organize the information for ourselves (with some working formulas to compare movie times thanks to truncated).
Who wants to take the reigns? How many teams should be allowed? How long should the contest run? When should the contest start? [/thread][/url]
I think this is what he means.