Dominos - Winter Comp

Posted by marbs on Jan. 11, 2008, 2:37 p.m.

I would be lying if I said I wasn't a bit disappointed that Dominos 2 didn't win anything in the Winter Competition, however it was fun to take part. Having a deadline to work to made me get so much more progress done than I would have thought possible, but of course I couldn't have managed it without help from Shadow Yoshi, Juju and gamerman, who each contributed a lot to the development:

Shadow Yoshi did a fantastic job of making a really professional level editor, which was a great improvement on my editor, as it's easier to use, and also looks a lot better =D

Juju helped me along the way with various things, and designed quite a few of the levels. Thanks also for staying up till 3am on the last night to keep me working =P

Gamerman was the person who persuaded me to restart Dominos, which conveniently happened to be at the time the Winter Comp was announced, and he also made a few levels, and contributed a lot with ideas for the game.

All in all I'm really pleased with how Dominos turned out. Sure, there's plenty more I would have liked to have added, but time didn't allow. Whether I'll enter the next competition or not, I don't know. It was good fun making a game for a deadline, but I'm not sure if I can go through it all again, what with school and all that.

If I do enter the next competition, it will likely be a much small scale game, so that I can get the engine done within a small amount of time, leaving me a while to polish the game, as that seems to be what defined the winners of the competition.

Incase you have no idea what game I'm talking about, here are some links to it:

Yoyo Games: http://www.yoyogames.com/games/show/20418

GMC: http://gmc.yoyogames.com/index.php?showtopic=348235

Fun-motion: http://www.fun-motion.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1620

64D: http://64digits.com/games/index.php?cmd=view_game&id=4453

Comments

frenchcon1 16 years, 3 months ago

FIRST COMMENT =O

Mat 16 years, 3 months ago

*Moderately Contains anger from FCON*

Donimos was betar than the rast =| Hurumph

frenchcon1 16 years, 3 months ago

Quote:
that seems to be what defined the winners of the competition.

I thought that myself: 'all of these seem to be judged on "polish"'.

Yoyogames phail ._.

frenchcon1 16 years, 3 months ago

Quote:
Donimos was betar than the rast =| Hurumph [/quote[]

*agrees*

Juju 16 years, 3 months ago

^ - ^

Polystyrene Man 16 years, 3 months ago

Pfft. YoYoGames.

OBELISK 16 years, 3 months ago

If it makes you feel any better, I thought Dominos was the best.

marbs 16 years, 3 months ago

Thanks Obel, I appreciate it =)

sirxemic 16 years, 3 months ago

Dominos was one of the 3 best imo. With that I mean, you should've won something.

FredFredrickson 16 years, 3 months ago

Was Dominos listed as an honorable mention? I don't remember seeing it there, and I found it awfully strange that a game that kept flirting with the top 3 wouldn't even get honorable mention. :/