Interest in a nesdev coding compo?

[MetalSlime]

Cool. Just let me know when you get the NA site up and I'll take mine down. I just wanted to help push things along.

[clueless]

Since nobody has done it yet, I went ahead and made a website for the competition. If we decide to use another host that's fine, but I thought this competition needed a little initiative so I just did it. For the record, I am happy to host this and future contests on my server space.

MetalSlime, I think that it is great that someone has finally (I could have too, I guess I'm just as faulty as the next guy) shown some initiative.

Actually I do have a website. Just waiting for Dain to setup the domain.

It's less of a blog style, and more of an actual website. I think everyone would like it, I just need to get it set up. Maybe memblers would like to host it temporarily till Dain gets things going.

The only reason I'm pushing for nintendoage as a host, is that it will always exist, and it will get more publicity that way.

However, I do agree with WhatULive4 on both points:

1) Blogs are fine, but possibly not the best presentation style for a contest. They are more suited to a chronology of independent topics, not a contest with some (possibly) dynamic content (list of entrants and their submissions, all in a table on one page).

2) nintendoage.com would get a lot more exposure, and is more likely to exist years from now, where our works can be semi-immortalized.

[NESHomebrew]

Website is UP! http://nesdevcompo.nintendoage.com/

Comments suggestions all welcome.

[tepples]

For example Dr Mario could be considered a Tetris clone, but it's very different, you destroy blocks by matching them instead of by completing rows, and you win when all viruses are deleted, which makes it funnier to play than tetris (IMO).

Then I guess that's why The Next Tetris (and the corresponding mode of Tetris Worlds) was based on drilling through garbage to clear one line on the bottom row.

Huh ? The GBA version is turbo as well.

I own an authentic cartridge of the GBA version, and the box does not say "TURBO".

Super Street Fighter Alpha Turbo 2

The Wikipedia article about SFA mentions no "super" or "turbo" version of any Alpha series game.

For example, never in my life before have I ever played a video game about "curling" (some weirdo winter Olympic sport).

Have you ever played the original WarioWare for GBA or GameCube, which includes a curling microgame?

[clueless]

For example, never in my life before have I ever played a video game about "curling" (some weirdo winter Olympic sport).

Have you ever played the original WarioWare for GBA or GameCube, which includes a curling microgame?

No, I have not. That's kinda funny though. I just picked "curling" totally at random.

I'm not very good at the mario-style games, fighting games or sports games, so generally ignore them. I totally suck at Raymond Raving Rabbits and similar games. Which sucks for me, as my wife loves that kind of game, and I can't stand them. I prefer RTS, RPG and the various Zelda games and similar titles (Crystalis, Faria).

[Bregalad]

The Wikipedia article about SFA mentions no "super" or "turbo" version of any Alpha series game.

All I have is a dump of my Brother in Law's cartridge, and it says "turbo" on the title screen. I don't know about the box or the cart, I'll might check that next time I'll visit them (if I remember).

The Wikipedia article about SFA mentions no "super" or "turbo" version of any Alpha series game.

Oops
I guess it was based on Super Street Figthter II Turbo then ? I'm not much into the SF series anyways.

I disagree. I think that I have a really inventive idea for a game. In fact, I'm not worried about someone "stealing it", I just don't want to leak it before I have a chance to document it and scrutinize it.

In my mind, a game is only a "clone" if the author had knowledge of a previous example, and that he or she intended for the new game to have something in common (game play wise) with the original.

Well maybe you're right, but even if you were doing a NES curling game you'd use similar element that other sprots games uses.
Personally I really hate non-racing sport games, so I wouldn't be too much interested.... you'd rather want to play the actual IRL game instead if you get the chance to.

Racing games are good because they allow you to have fun without taking the dangers of IRL racing, and with much less damage to the environment.

I agree there is different levels of cloning, the one is do do a really similar gameplay, such as Tepple's tetris clone.

If you do a platformer, noone can call it a Mario / Megaman / Castlevania clones because those games are characterised by their levels, which are copyrighted. This isn't the case for games such as Tetris, where there is no levels.

Then there is the stadium where you do a game similar in genre, but which plays quite differently such as Dr Mario being based on Tetris, or Final Fantasy being based on Dragon Quest. Then there is the stade where you come with many ideas merged from different games from different genres and mix them all, then it's not a clone anymore.

[tepples]

Yes, Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo was named after SSF2T.

Racing games are good because they allow you to have fun without taking the dangers of IRL racing

Of course you don't mean IndyCar, formerly Indy Racing League. Even so, one of my employer's clients might beg to differ. Alternate Universe Toad has something to say about this as well.

[MetalSlime]

1) Blogs are fine, but possibly not the best presentation style for a contest. They are more suited to a chronology of independent topics, not a contest with some (possibly) dynamic content (list of entrants and their submissions, all in a table on one page).

2) nintendoage.com would get a lot more exposure, and is more likely to exist years from now, where our works can be semi-immortalized.

Wordpress doesn't have to be blog style. You can make everything with "Pages" instead of "Posts" and no one would be able to tell it wasn't a regular site. But that's beside the point. I didn't realize that WhatULive4 was so on top of this. I completely agree that NA is a better choice for hosting this. The placeholder site I put up is now down.

[Dain]

BTW, if you guys want, we have Wordpress available and also have Drupal installed on the server. For database needs, if any, we have SQL Server 2005 as well as MySQL. But if you want to go the static HTML route, that's cool too... just let me know if you need anything.

-Dain