Quite a few of them, actually. I'm starting to feel like I'm chasing my tail trying to keep track of all the game making competitions cropping up. And they're conflicting, which means I need to be picking and choosing.

Holy crap the activity on the site has gone up a lot in the past couple days. It's been slowly rising for the past couple months, and then all of a sudden, BAM. All thanks to the RPG competition.

I have started on character sketches and the story. The story basically starts off with the character waking up, eating, and grabbing his stuff (namely his notebook(for quest logs) and his backpack(to carry stuff in)). After that, you go outside. Then you have three different ways to go.

I signed up for this contest with very little experience in game programming. I have done basic games ( a catch game, a snake like game, a very small rpg etc.) in multiple languages. This first game I ever made was for my TI-82 i believe in high school. I …

Introduction

Sounds more dramatic than it is, I suppose. I'm here because someone *cough*TOAST*cough* dropped an announcement on the Ludum Dare front page about an upcoming contest. My first reaction was trying to ignore it. I'm just getting back into programming and game design, and I'm already preparing for a somewhat …

alternate title: Taizen Chisou is Being Too Hopeful

The RPG4D entry my team is going to be developing will be known as Ember Skies. At this point we are in the planning stage. Ideas are jumping up, concept designs are being scribbled on paper, storyline ideas are being pieced together, and more. Once May 1st comes around we …

I've decided to keep the basic idea behind my RPG secret until sometime next month, but I can reveal that the game will be called Total Cheese and will of course involve lots and lots of cheese. In fact it might have more varieties of cheese than any other game …

First, a notice