The Chairman enters the arena once again. The light's come up. He's carrying a copy of Pendragon. What could it mean?

Iron Game Chef Contest!

I can wait no longer! We must know! Are there designers yet living who can accept the challenge to create a game in one week?!?!  Is there one of comparable talent to Iron Game Chef - Gamist, John Laviolette!

This episode's challenge! Create an entire Simulationist RPG  that incorporates three of the following four terms:

[*]Volcano
[*]Sphere
[*]Song
[*]Blood [/list:u]
Here are the rules:
[list=1][*]Submissions to this contest must be made no later than 11:59 PM CDT on May 16th, 2003. If you're not sure when that is, post early. In fact you may want to post early so that you don't get messed up by server death as all are posted at the last minute (not to mention being in early can be a good tactic).
[*]Post all submissions to this thread, and all work must be in the thread (though it can be in multiple posts). Graphics housed elsewhere and referred to in the code are excepted.
[*]Any submission edited after the deadline will be disqulaified.
[*]Submissions will be judged by myself on the following categories: Style, Estimated Effectiveness in Play, Creative and Effective Incorporation of the Above Terms, and Completeness.
[*]The winner and runners up will be announced on or before May 20th, 2003.
[*]RPG is defined intuitively. If you get too far from what may reasonably be constued an RPG you may be penalized! OTOH, you may get points for creativity. Do so at your own risk![/list:o]
Direct any questions to myself, or this thread.

Now, Iron Game Chef Gamist Challengers! Get Ready to create!

GO!


See here for the last episode.
Per the moderators: Mike Holmes is the only person that's allowed to do this (prevents these from proliferating impossibly). If you have an issue with this contact the moderators.

Ah, and here I was heaving a sigh of relief that he didn't do it last week.  Exam? What exam next Tuesday?  I finished my paper yesterday, so if the Muses are merciful, I'm in.

Question:  there's no set way that the terms need to be incorporated into the game, right?  They don't have to be in the setting per se?  


--Emily Care

No set way. There may be better and worse ways, but it's up to the designer to figure that out.

BTW, all synonyms are allowed as well.

These are both questions that were asked more or less in the last contest. A review of that thread may give insights.

Glad to hear you're in, Em. May the Muses be with you, indeed.

See what I mean, Jonathan?

Mike

  Hmmm....these are, as I recall, individual efforts.  Which is too bad -- it'd be fun to collaborate with you.  Ah well, that means that this weekend, amidst the other fun and games....

  WE BATTLE LIKE TITANS!

Bring It!
Tom

p.s.  Huh...my first thought on reading the list of ingredients is Blood Music by Greg Bear.

ok, I'll through my hat in the ring.

because one thing about all these competions/challenges I've found is: they spur me into action. I like that. when I have no deadline, I just keep twiddling things and it's much hard to complete the final product.

I was aiming to make this game less philosophical than Co9C and the (unnamed) Nag Hammadi/gnostic game, but so far the ideas I've come up with are leaning the same direction. oh well!

Drains blood, sings songs, dances in circles aruond the great KaluaHua("Who ha?").....  Nah, too obvious, But I'm in.

JOE--

Yeah, I guess I'm in as well.

I'm in. Since I have much freetime at the moment...

-Matt