Christmas Contest!

[Xyphien]

Banner By @PandaMaru

Ladies, and Gentlemen of RMMV! I am proud to announce our biggest, best, and most thorough contest yet!​

From November 1st through December 20th, you can participate by making a Christmas or holiday-themed game for the community to play and review. Anything winter-related is acceptable, as long as the main plot involves the holidays.

If you're interested, please read below:

Rules:

• This game MUST be made entirely in RMMV, and be a brand new project. This means no transferring your old Christmas game from Ace to MV.

• If you use any resources that are not yours, you MUST give credit to them in some way, shape, or form (even if it's not required by the creator).
  
  
• If you are found with a project that has been started prior to November 1st 2015, you will be disqualified, and banned from any future contests on the site.

• When you submit your game, post it in the resource section with the beginning of the title [CCE], meaning Christmas Contest Event. Please include a list of credits in this post, as well as your actual game.

• You must rate and review at least 5 other games in the resource section, giving honest, helpful, and genuine reviews. The games MUST be in the MV section. As of now, it does not matter if the games are apart of the CCE or not.

• You're allowed multiple entries. If you feel you want to make more than one game, by all means feel free to do so.

Prizes:
At the end of the event, we'll have some awesome prizes! These prizes will be updated and added as time goes on, seeing as there isn't much amazing paid RMMV content out yet.

First place receives:

• The CCE 2015 Gold Badge! (Worth 15 EXP)
• Year of Sponsorship
• A random high tier game donated by: http://www.gamehandout.com
• $10 either Paypal, or a $10 worth of games on steam. Donated by: @MinisterJay

Second Place Receives:

• CCE 2015 Silver Badge (Worth 10 EXP)
• A month of VIP
• A random middle tier game donated by: http://www.gamehandout.com
• $8 either Paypal, or a $8 worth of games on steam. Donated by: @MinisterJay

Third Place Receives:

• CCE 2015 Bronze Badge (Worth 8 EXP)
• A month of of VIP
• A random low tier game donated by: http://www.gamehandout.com
• $7 either Paypal, or a $7 worth of games on steam. Donated by: @MinisterJay

Everyone else who participates will receive:

• Badges for all participants. (Probably 5 XP towards level)

Sadly, there are no paid resources on any RMMV site or on steam, so I cannot offer you anything like that. However, I am contacting the resource team to see if they can get something made for this separate to the RMMV Christmas Package.



This post is simply to inform you all that the contest is here! So what are you waiting for? Start making some games :D

 

[PandaMaru]

Groups allowed?

 

[LTN Games]

^^ Yea I'm curious about this as well.

 

[Xyphien]

Groups allowed?

Sure, but the prizes will be singular. So you will have to discuss a way to distribute the prizes individually. (A free game, hopefully some plugins/resources, etc.)

 

[Trumully]

^^ Me three! It would be cool to work in groups :P
Another question I do have though.
If you made this game before, are you able to use characters from that and put them in a brand new project? Or does it have to be 'Super Duper 1000% brand new'?

 

[PandaMaru]

I must find someone to build a party. I couldn't make a game in english myself. >.<

 

[Xyphien]

^^ Me three! It would be cool to work in groups :P
Another question I do have though.
If you made this game before, are you able to use characters from that and put them in a brand new project? Or does it have to be 'Super Duper 1000% brand new'?

If it's just a character (IE. Santa Clause) that's fine, but you cannot use pre-made maps, quests, etc. from another product and move it into a new one and call it 'new'.

 

[Erie]

This feels like something I could get in on :P any requirements on how long the game should be? :3

 

[Storytailor]

I'm so torn... do I spend time making something on the side like this, or do I focus on my main project and finish it before branching off? Xyphien, you make this decision so hard... =/

 

[HotfireLegend]

I must find someone to build a party. I couldn't make a game in english myself. >.<

*raises hand*

 

[Micro]

Does it have to be a certain length? Must it be something actually playable, or is something like Slimey - A Romantic Movie allowed? If you don't know what Slimey is, check here:

It's basically just a "movie" about a slime who turned into a human.

 

[Xyphien]

This feels like something I could get in on :P any requirements on how long the game should be? :3

No time limit requirements on the game. :)

I'm so torn... do I spend time making something on the side like this, or do I focus on my main project and finish it before branching off? Xyphien, you make this decision so hard... =/

I try my best :) Easy decisions are so... boring.

Does it have to be a certain length? Must it be something actually playable, or is something like Slimey - A Romantic Movie allowed? If you don't know what Slimey is, check here:

It's basically just a "movie" about a slime who turned into a human.

No certain length. This is going to be a our first huge event, and we're allowing everything in hopes that it will allow us to better improve on our next events. Allowing us to find out which time best suits the site, what to allow, what not to allow, etc. As for the movie, it's a game competition, so as long as it has some playable parts that's fine.

 

[Wingedwolf]

Can it be a RPG MV remake of a christmas story? Like a charles dickens story or umm.. grandma was ran over by a reindeer? and has to be all original maps correct, not pre made maps that came with the editor itself...

 

[Chibae]

I think I may join in this event :P hehe

 

[Zebestian]

I might make some holiday-themed soundtracks, but other than that... I'm not gonna compete. I'd rather make an own original game first before entering a contest. :D

 

[Wingedwolf]

I might make some holiday-themed soundtracks, but other than that... I'm not gonna compete. I'd rather make an own original game first before entering a contest. :D

It could be an original christmas game ;D that you could release on app market for sale just in time for xmas to rack in the dough bwahahaha

 

[James]

I htink i may give this a shot ..i gotz me some Winter tiles in a bundle a while back ...been wanting to use them for something ,lol

 

[Xyphien]

Can it be a RPG MV remake of a christmas story? Like a charles dickens story or umm.. grandma was ran over by a reindeer? and has to be all original maps correct, not pre made maps that came with the editor itself...

As long as you make it original, with your own spin around it. I believe it's 70% of it has to be yours in order to meet the copyright laws of using n idea.

 

[Companion Wulf]

It's Christmas already? :I I've just gotten over Halloween!
I won't be able to participate (unfortunately) because of my own projects and work schedule, but I will look forward to playing, reviewing and rating as and when I can.

As long as you make it original, with your own spin around it. I believe it's 70% of it has to be yours in order to meet the copyright laws of using n idea.

That's right. Although you can't copyright an idea, making a game concept almost exactly the same as the original may count as "copyright infringement". It's actually a grey area depending on how the publishers/copyright holders feel about it. Some might be flattered; some might just be assinine about it! However, using a "variation on a theme" doesn't step on legal toes if the game concept is based on an original idea, but with a few major changes, like Ebeneezer being a good person at the start and the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future forcing him to become mean.

 

[Chibae]

will i be able to upload it via a site so people can play online or both or is it just meant to be downloadable
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• You must rate and review at least 5 other games in the resource section, giving honest, helpful, and genuine reviews.

Does that mean I have to rate and review 5 other games to participate in this event