Hippodice is on again!
Mon, 10/05/2009 - 21:51 — sedjtroll
It's time once again for amateur designers to put their best foot forward, get their stuff together and enter a game in the annual Hippodice game design contest!
Follow the link to the Hippodice webpage and follow directions to enter your game. Feel free to post rules, questions, etc here for last minute critiques! We're a community, and while we'd all like to win the contest, I'm sure many of us would be happy to see anyone from the BGDF with their game in lights. Last year BGDF member Xaqery (Dwight Sullivan) won first place with his entry Noblemen. I've played Noblemen, and I can see why it did so well! Good work Xaq! So who will be this year's winner? Will it be another BGDF member? What game will take the title, and will it get picked up by a big name publisher?
Let's get those games polished - only 25 days to go!
- Seth
Mar 12 2010
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Comments
and now....???
So, we sent in our Applications... but have received no word if they were even received.... still not 100% sure how this is supposed to work. The cutoff was yesterday [Nov 1st] - I get that. But if they need to have the prototype in their hands before Dec 1st, I hope they'll be letting us know soonest. Some of us are on the opposite side of the world. :-)
The other part that makes me crazy is the rules for submission. I quote -
"1. Therefore the application must comprise:
[snip]
• the rules
[snip]
Under no circumstances may the application contain the orginal rules (copy only)"
The Application MUST contain the rules, but then it says under NO CIRCUMSTANCES may the Application CONTAIN the rules... say what?
I went with the bullet point that said the rules MUST be there and hope I'm losing something in translation on the second part.
Anybody out there have experience with this? Am I the only guy worried about messing this up?
It's left over from mail-in submissions
I believe that wording about not wanting the "original rules (copy only)" is left over from the days when most submissions came via physical mail.
They did not want to have the 1-and-only original paper rules ... they wanted to have a *copy* of the rules -- but not be burdened with the risk of possibily losing a unique item.
So, yes ... you want to send along your rules. If you're entering via e-mail then it's already a digital copy, so you're fine.
I think they usually respond within a couple weeks with the results. In the past, I think there's been 2+ weeks to get the prototype to Germany ... of course, I've never had to do it (yet) -- so others here who have gotten in before might have more detailed memories of it.
Good luck with your entry ... and the same to everyone else who submitted.
-Matt
thanks Bryk!
Good luck with your entry ... and the same to everyone else who submitted.
-Matt
Well - that answers that question at least - I won't worry about that any more. Thanks for clearing that up.
I guess we just sit back and wait for the 15th...ish.... :-)
"God bless us, every one!"
Tiny Tim
RYB and Magma
I submitted:
* RYB: http://www.invisible-city.com/play/32/ryb
* Magma: http://www.invisible-city.com/play/527/magma
We'll see what happens...
Jump Gate submitted
I submitted Jump Gate ... wish me luck.
-Matt
Good Luck!
Good Luck with Jump Gate, Bryk... and to everyone else who's entered.
Post the name of your entry here, so we can follow the progress and root for BGDF games!
Sadly, I did not enter anything this year - so help me live vicariously through you!
- Seth
two entries
I submitted two of my older games - I've been designing games for a while now, but it's been more of a hobby than anything else.
But when I was looking at the forum post here for hippodice, one of my friends looked over my shoulder and said - "hey, you should send them something..."
Well, here's hoping - I submitted "Fugo", a samurai war game with cards, and "Scavenger Hunt", a children's math game with a customizable (and ever-changing) board.
Good Luck to all others of you who also submitted -- GO BGDF!!
-Stubert
Bricking It?
I have created the brick flicking game of KingBrick http://kingbrickgame.com/ which i have interest in locally but am having problems getting out to a wider audience, so have decided to submit it to Hippodice.
I'm keeping my flicking fingers crossed!
what will the GODS do next?
Well, I decided to take the plunge, and entered an email application for GODS ALONG THE NILE. Thanks to Matt and Franky for helping resize the documents! Couldn't have done it without you guys!
Dirty dirty cards
Just a tidbit that someone may find useful in the future. As I was shipping my prototype to Germany, I looked at the restrictions placed on sent items in Germany. Most of them seemed reasonable, but then "Used playing cards" caught my eye. I don't know the reasoning behind it, but be careful when sending something to Germany not to mention "cards" specifically in the customs form. Most likely any cards to your prototype will be somewhat used. Yort