A new breed of competition

Nixon · Post by **Nixon** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 10:58 am

I got bored one day and found a crap zzt game and started to fix it up for the sake of it. This sparked an idea, why not have a competition based around rebuilding a crap zzt game from Z2.

Ando · Post by **Ando** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 5:08 pm

I suggested something similar like that two years ago and I got flamed and stuff.

burstroc · Post by **burstroc** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 9:02 pm

you are seriously the biggest fucking idiot ever. >:(

Post by **Quantum P.** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 12:05 am

Hey, be nice!

Personally, I would rather make an original game than try to improve an existing game by someone else. However, I think that there is a potential contest idea here. The contest could be about taking a crummy game's concept and radically revising and improving it. It wouldn't be a contest not about remaking crummy games, but about making games inspired by what the games could have been - like any other ZZT contest, only with the contest topic being in the form of a ZZT game.

Of course, a lot of crummy games don't have much of a concept to revise - the storyline is basically "fight pre-fab monsters until you get to the THE END sign." There isn't much there to improve on. If you held a contest, you'd have to stick with games that had an interesting concept but never did anything with it.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that it could work, but you'd have to be really careful to make sure that the resulting game had a lot of originality and wasn't just version 2 of the crummy game.

Ando · Post by **Ando** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 1:27 am

Well maybe it could work. I don't know.

superbowl shuffle · Post by **superbowl shuffle** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 7:03 pm

how bout really old games instead of bad ones

Aplsos · Post by **Aplsos** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 1:45 am

how about we can remake any game as long as the game we remake is code red: se

Post by **Zenith Nadir** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 11:17 am

i like that idea.

also burstroc are you talking to nixon or ando i hope you were talking to ando and not nixon because i like nixon's idea but i didn't like ando's idea so if you were talking to ando then i guess i agree

My Liver Hurtz · Post by **My Liver Hurtz** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 4:11 pm

SchoolZZT!

Post by **Dr. Dos** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 8:05 pm

If you do I will get stampede to judge.

burstroc · Post by **burstroc** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 10:18 am

nadir i was talking to ando because history repeats itself xd

i didnt mean to be disrespectin are we kewl guyz :)

Nixon · Post by **Nixon** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 11:24 am

Quantum P. makes a good point, the game would have to be chosen carefully to ensure that there is actually something worth while in it. I was thinking that there could be limitations such as you can only use as many boards as the original and the story has to stay relatively the same, though it can be bulked up at bit. but just a thought.

If this went ahead, who would enter?

Post by **Zenith Nadir** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 3:13 pm

not me, but i'd judge

i'm a good judge! just ask kjorteo!

Post by **MadTom** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 8:08 am

Post by **Fungahhh** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 10:08 am

This one's better