In the same way that a yearbook of The World Book Encyclopedia* updates older articles, the remix volume would act like a "yearbook". Its games would come from a compo whose theme is improving on an existing game from one of the first four volumes. One might start from the source code of an existing game from a previous volume. Or re-create an early game in the more sophisticated engine, such as integrating NES15 with 2048. Or port it to Pygame or something, polish the tar out of it, and port it back to NES.
* You might not recognize it, but it's how people looked up basic information on subjects before there was a Wikipedia.
I approve of the remix idea. It at least gives me an incentive to work with other source code bases, instead of tending to reinvent everything all the time.
As the flash save functionality is worked out, the app compo would become more desirable. Being able to load and save data is kind of a requirement for computer like tools. For example, after working a bit with simple physics math I felt like I wanted to make a movement designing tool that runs in the NES.
So it was recently mentioned that the ultimate game should have DPCM orchestra hits. Would it be cool to have a shared dedicated bank of dpcm samples to be used by future (or remixed) compo games? Of course there would have to be a solid agreement of how to do sharable interrupts. Like maybe a jmp indirect from $07fa-$07ff as described in blargg's romless format.
I like bees, probably more than most! I plan on raising them once I move into my new place. That aside, I like the idea of going with a theme. This seems to work well in other competitions.
I was talking with infiniteneslives just the other day. I figure it is about time to do an update in terms of funds and such. There has been a bit of an influx of sales since the AVGN video came out.
