Yes, I'm still alive. I'll update this blog some more in a little while with a sneak preview of something exciting. For now, here's some shameless advertisement, unfortunately only for people from the Netherlands.
Do you care for the climate? Do you want a 360? Do you like making games? Do you want to learn more about Game Maker? If so then I got a solution for you. Climate Quest has just started a competition to make a game around climate change and the first prize is an Xbox 360. The goal is to create a game to make people thing about climate change and what they can do to stop it. For instance, promote using public transport, switching lights off when you leave, spend less time in the shower, recycle materials, … The competition goes through the entire summer holiday and your game has to be finished on the 31st of august. For those that are interested, Climate Quest will give several day long masterclasses on how Game Maker works and also how to create interesting and compelling games around climate change. If you are interested, check out there website for further details:http://www.climategame.net/(for those who think this sounds like an advertisement, it is one. I'll be giving the Game Maker part of the masterclass and I want to meet as much readers from this blog as I can. So go compete, sign up for the masterclass and win that 360, the upcoming sneak preview is about gamemaker.info which is undergoing a total metamorphose)
Ironic, it just so happens I read this on EO only an hour ago or so. =P
2*irony can't be healthy…[:S] Hope the masterclass turns out to be successful.
Sweet dude, I was actually going to Africa to do volunteerin in nature consveration but I think ima enter this competition first XD Everything for the climate!
"Yes, I'm still alive."
:oI instantly thought about a cross between GTA and Carmageddon, where you drive over people with various public transport vehicles.
I probably shouldn't join that contest.Cesque - that sounds awesome. I want that game.
hmm… does it have to actively promote the prevention of climate change, or can it just be climate change themed?
Is there an English translation for the website and workshop? If not then I would have to struggle to make sense of it through a translator.Well, as I mention in the first paragraph this competition is solely for people from the Netherlands. That's likely why the website is in Dutch and not English.
One of the sponsors is Essent, a big power company in the Netherlands. The goal is to make people think about how they can make a difference so yes you will need to make the game around how normal people can make a difference. Not on how politicians can change the world or how CEO's can but how the average joe can. @Bone, airplanes are bad for the environment. Stay home and join the competition ;). @DFortun81, indeed :). @NoodleNog, the presentation will be in Dutch. If enough people within the Netherlands are interested in an English edition then that can be arranged but people in the Netherlands tend to speak Dutch. (or Frysian)I would make it in gm6 to conserve energy/space.
So this competition is only for people in the Netherlands?
Well, you didn't make that very clear when you wrote: