Game Chef

Potential Ingredients 2010

Jonathan Walton — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:07:13 +0000

- Autumn
- Banditry
- Bones
- Circus
- City*
- Crime
- Desert*
- Edge*
- Ghost
- Hyena
- Lake
- Mirror
- Skin*
- Summer
- Wild

Submission Guidelines: 30 Days

Jonathan Walton — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:45:49 +0000

This will teach me to run a contest and try to start grad school in the same month. My deepest apologies for flaking out over the past week, but things have gotten crazy on my end.

Make your One Month submissions to this thread, same rules as before!

NAME / HANDLE
GAME
LINK
DESCRIPTION (140 characters)
AWARDS

Folks who are resubmitting must have played and revised their game in the meantime.

The One Month submission date is supposedly in the next 15 minutes, but that’s insane considering the short notice, so I’ll give you folks until 11:59:59 on this coming Sunday, Oct 4th.

Masterlist Updated!

Jonathan Walton — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:30:08 +0000

Check it out. There’s a handful of new games and several updated versions of previously submitted games. I’ve also finally updated the contest blog a bit to make note of the progress we’ve made, linking to the Venerable Masterlist and previous submission guidelines.

Coming soon are the One Month submission guidelines and a new surprise challenge that you don’t even have to do anything to enter!

Submission Guidelines: 14 Days

Jonathan Walton — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:26:36 +0000

The submission guidelines for Week Two are exactly the same as Week One. However, note that folks who’ve already submitted their games can only resubmit their games for more medals if they have played and revised their games since their last submission.

The Week Two deadline is Monday night at 11:59:59pm (or by whenever I wake up the next morning).

Reply to this post with the following info:

- Your NAME(S) and/or handle(s)
- The name of your GAME
- A LINK to a place where folks can read / download / acquire it
- An elevator PITCH with a maximum length of 140 characters (NOT words; includes spaces)
- A list of all the MEDALS you’re claiming for this submission period
- Optional: 1-2 people who were of major HELP

So, for example, here’s an imaginary submission for a game I didn’t actually write:

Jonathan Walton & Sam Totman
Carrying On Through the Flames to Eternity

http://plays-well.com/foreverweride.pdf

For the dream of undying glory, the Heroes of All Time ride valiant steeds to victory over the Burning Fields of Despair.

One Week, Two Weeks, Fleur-De-Lis, Star, A/V, Heritage (remix of Polaris, GC2004), Flatland, Save Water (co-written).

Special thanks to Herman Li and ZP Theart.

If you don’t end up making this deadline, there will be another one coming more than two weeks later, at the end of the month.

The Masterlist

Jonathan Walton — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:07:30 +0000

The master list of Week One winners is up here, listing the 12 games that have been submitted so far and their medals in an easy-to-navigate chart.

Let me know if you spot any errors. Personally, I think Tony Dowler is missing at least 2 medals, since some are readily apparent from his game’s description, but he only asked for 1 medal, so that’s what he got!

Good luck with the upcoming weekend! Next submisson date is this coming Monday night at 11:59:59pm! Week Two, baby! Woohoo!

(Those who have already submitted games: note that you must have played and revised your game to resubmit it for additional medals.)

Submission Guidelines: 7 Days

Jonathan Walton — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:50:02 +0000

Here’s how you submit your game, if you’ve got a draft finished before Monday at midnight (for whatever time zone you’re in).

Reply to this post with the following info:

So, for example, here’s an imaginary submission for a game I didn’t actually write:

Jonathan Walton / Jaywalt
5000 Megawatts of P-Funk Power II: Dr. Funkenstein’s Boogielicious Revenge

http://plays-well.com/gottagetuptogetdown.pdf

The clones of the late Doctor Funkenstein attempt to assemble a very funky machine that will “tear the roof off the sucka.”

One Week, Intrigue, Dividers, Star, Al Gore, A/V, Brevity, Zombies

Special thanks to George Clinton and Bootsy Collins.

If you don’t end up making this deadline, there will be another one coming 7 days later.

Medal Pics Finished

Jonathan Walton — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:33:34 +0000

Yes, the Brevity Award is a demisemiquaver rest. That’s the best I could come up with.

Haha: Problem Solved!

Jonathan Walton — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:13:10 +0000

I figured out a work-around that doesn’t even need SQL-hacking. How cool is that? I still have to manually add some folks to the Freshman Mixer, but everything seems to be coming through the Combobulator.

Everybody should be good to go, now. Let me know if anyone continues to have problems.

Temporary Measure

Jonathan Walton — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:30:29 +0000

I’m trying to manually enter new feeds into MySQL, but I’ve never really hacked SQL much before, so wish me luck. Apparently this hangup is a known problem with FeedWordPress, but one that was supposed to have been fixed two updates ago.

In the meantime, check out these new Game Chef blogs and help support folks until I can get the Combobulator to accept their feeds:

- http://dragavangameschef.wordpress.com
- http://dogdaygames.blogspot.com
- http://nuts-playtest.blogspot.com
- http://www.whereismypowerring.org/wordpress/?cat=10
- http://jtarkpalmerwritings.weebly.com/new-blog.html
- http://madunkieg.wordpress.com/feed/
- http://abstrusemute.wordpress.com/

Odd Combobulator Error

Jonathan Walton — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 06:11:17 +0000

Hey Chefs,

Unfortunately I just encountered a little error with the Combobulator, where it’s refusing to add new feeds to the aggregator. Consequently, I’m not able to add newcomers to the Combobulator for the time being, which sucks, but I’m trying to figure out a way to either fix the error or work around it. Hopefully I’ll have a solution for you in 24 hours. My apologies and I hope this does not at all discourage folks from continuing with their games and posting to their blogs. Rest assured that everyone’s posts will eventually be shared.

Jonathan