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Silly Freyja, I've invited you guys to come play sometime

I'm with Logan. The Collective is doing well and great for them. They made a good game, and it if it happens to be a perfect fit for the style of competition this year then great on them. I'm competing against them as well, and I will also congradulate them on thier good work.

Most of the game developers don't seem to have problems with one another, so I don't see why any of you who aren't competing with them seem to be so concerned about these issues. The point is to showcase new games and have some fun.

Spend more time supporting the games you do like and less time complaining about the ones you don't.

Great job to all game developers this year, despite what any one in these forums say, you all did an excellent job and I'm honored to be in this Expo with you!

Salem Penguin
SLictionary

They do have freebie cards avaliable. Gotta pay for the hip pack though. Also giving away everything is not what the contest is about...

I'll agree in part - an interesting contest could be made with stricter rules and regulations about how the profit was made. One of the games I was lucky enough to play so far had all the money paid into a single pot, and all of the money was paid right back out to the players, many who paid it right back in to keep playing. Do I think this is unfair? Not in the least, it's a genius way to compete, given the nature of the competition set up by the Lindens. But, the way it stands, I think it is geared a bit towards "finding the best business model for a game", or moreso "showing how games can be fun and profitable in SL", which I think is fine.

Been quite busy with DL and when I DO want to play you're not around and I thought it would be fun to play with you! Maybe once things settle we can all play together!!!

You know I'll hold you to that.

I've been out of town this weekend myself and just got back in town, so yeah, I haven't been around *too* entirely much.

Because people might, now, be designing games for next year's Expo. They need to know if they need to be focused on making people want to play, or making them want to spend.

I agree, while I am trying to get in the first 4 (I wouldn't want to miss out on a free 1/4th SIM) I do not feel a real competition 'drive'. I haven't had time to play the other games (I did try castle war once, which gave me a good time) but I'd like to play them soon (I had the big pressure of opening darklife, which caused me to work until 6 AM in the morning for 2 days at a row!)

But I really don't have any problems with the developers of the other games. I think their parcels all look very interesting and I see a lot of people playing their games so I bet they are fun. Darklife team will be testing out all the other games really soon!

I just want to ask everyone to stop asking to disqualify DarkLife. My granddad got really sick in the last 2 weeks before opening and he had a really bad two last weeks before he passed . Therefor I couldn't work on DarkLife, and it was impossible to let someone else finish the game really believe me, explaining to someone how to finish the game (because we also generate scripts using PHP) would be more work then finishing it myself....
I know we 'broke' the rules, but LindenLab made those rules and it's their competition and their rules, so if they want to make an exception for us that's their call.
If any of the other games were late because of RL-problems I wouldn't want LL to disqualify them either!

Probably both.

as of April 3:
Tech Warfare: 134025
The Collective: 90250
Boogie Board: 42590
Danger Zone: 22550
Dark Life*: 22094
Castle Wars: 10413
SLictionary: 9413
BloxSL: 5248


*Darklife, which was late to be finished, was penalized all pre-opening points.

Ben

If you have an idea for a new game, just build it! Who knows what the rules will be for next year's expo. We're still working out what the rules are on this one . There might not even be an Expo next year, for all we know.
So don't let any potential Expo become an excuse for not realizing your idea. The Expo should be the last thing on your mind.

Hello,

BLOX is an action puzzler hosted now in Arcadia 2 at 130/116/22.
BLOX Team is looking for the best picture of players playing BLOX (any version, Sumo or Classic) in Arcadia.
The photographer will be paid according to the following rules.

1. Three pictures should portray players under the following conditions:
-A win with a player's ball hitting his appropriate goal post (20 L$)
-A win with a player forcing his opponent's ball to hit his own goal post (20 L$)
-A win with two 'balls' colliding directly (20 L$)
Pics showing the same pair of players will not be paid.
Pics should be sent as postcards to the following address
[email]Blox.Sumo@gmail.com[/email]
Emails to Blox.Sumo will be checked everyday at 10 AM Game Time.
Payments will be made 1 day after submission.

The 60L$ will be paid out only if the set of 3 pics is complete. This event will end on the 30th of April.
At the end of the competition, the quality of the sets will be judged and the top 20 photographers will win a set of BLOX Classic and BLOX Sumo games (value 8000 L$ each).

Splash

Im getting deja vu...what is Blox about?

Hey Calix, I like your humor. I am thankful one of the kids on my team came up with this experiment. Let's see how it goes for a game that is strickly pay $1L per play. We are looking at alternatives to event hosting. None of us have the time .... and we dont have money to create the incentive....and we dont have big donors too. I wished the statistics that were collected also reflected the number of different players... If I have time, I will drop in a few lines of code to check that for my team's game. Blox is the category of casual games... in Walmart, the latest version of Zuma is $8 while the latest version of any PC game is on the average $35-45. The goal of casual games is totally different from other games, they got their own economics which of course does not fit at all this competition is designed. I think somebody was right on this forum to mention something about RPGs for e.g. which does fit. Many games in Arcadia already had a following before Arcadia.. people did not even have to learn the rules of the game... We have a learning curve. BLOX is new, even though the rules are simple, people expect to know the rules once they sit down to play. And since we dont have time to teach the game to them.. others, many had much more time than us to do that .. I think this idea is worth trying.

Ironically enough Tech Warfare to this pt. had 1 event and zero hosts or gimmicks to get ppl to show up. They just did on their own and word of mouth did the rest. The number of 10L plays is staggering. The number players who teach their friends and do the leg work is great as well. One arena broke and 10 ppl had the sense to move to a smaller skybox to play. Im not sure what you mean about rpg's not fitting since the rpg in the expo Darklife seems to have a lot of fun gaming elements. See the thing is ppl wont goto something they don't like forever. The whole let them eat cake concept I guess is applicable.

No need for big donors when plays are in the thousands. Heh also I think Darklife not being up at first helped all the players bc their base was mingling all over (so those of you who want to boot Darklife might want to rethink that stance...and they do have the coolest builds Ive seen).

Most of the ideas have been given by the players and hey as long as they have fun then the gaming experience lives on. I think all of the games are doing fine without having to lure ppl. The thing about gaming is it takes time,esp. when making games within a game (though some might argue SL isnt a game ... yada yada). Rome wasnt built in a day and nor are user base or anything like that, I know for a fact that there were no big Tech Warfare arenas in months. What I find most interesting is how ppl if given a chance will grow to like something and create and innovate themselves.

Heh there's my 2 cents...keep the change and everyone have a good time playing.

Cheers.

- Calix

Hey Calix,

Cool down man. I actually said Dark Life is perfect for SL, it fits perfectly. So I dont know what you are talking about. I did not mention anything bad about anybody else. Jeez... We are just trying to make people read the rules that's all man. And not being able to in SL just for this 2 months for the time needed is a tricky problem for us too so we are exploring other means.. Techwarfare is a superb game it really is. I dont understand your problem man. Jesus Christ!!!
BTW...i was just trying to explain why casual games are typically free, low cost, webased... etc... catering to folks who are not hardcore players etc... stuff like miniclip.com, orisinal.com etc...it's difficult to pitch such games against any of the EA sports or whater (35-45 USD range game). Hence the 1L$ for every time somebody try our game. Even if we get the game played thousands of times, it will never meet what the other games are earning. It's just a simple fact. Look at our score..divide that 1, this is how many times it was played (regardless of the fact that there might a few people playing a lot of times because a session does not last long, rarely more than 1.5 mins)

Man...this is getty a bit nutty over here. calm down.

Moriz

LOL...I think you misread the intent of my comments as they weren't all directed to you, though I don't get how my feeble attempt at wit lead you to respond with a nod to me then an advert? Oh well I'm a pretty daft person so a lot goes way over my head...like Hale Bopp never really got that whole deal.

As for calm lol, if I get anymore calm I think I'll be in a coma...this is as I stated (many times) just a game within a game and Im enjoying it... When you said "I think somebody was right on this forum to mention something about RPGs for e.g. which does fit. " I was just confused...the comments on darklife were to those who keep attacking them and I just felt that ppl should know that they are ok in my book.

As for your mentioning the easy use of your game rolling over every thread or whomever is doing that well maybe that is where calm needs to take a chill. Who is that Mirnal person who has rolled over my last 3 posts even those in other parts of all the sl forums? I just hope they dont pm me a comment about fava beans and chianti. Lol hey whatever works for you all ya know. If you want to try pitch your game as being whatever that spam message is cool. Not sure if anyone reads this stuff anyhow.

Best of luck to you and all the games (as aforementioned) the expo is a lot of fun. Cheers to all (heh is my B-day...do I get gifts lol...collective cards and some darklife stuff would be cool haha...j/k)

Cheers,

Calix


ps...not that I dont love all the games but to compare them Madden '06 well sorry Im a sucker for a good xy fly flanker slash screen route. Heh when does football start again...

Hello,
I am part of the BLOX team since a couple of months ago connecting from Mauritius (check it out.. a very cool island in rl). Moriz requested me to help him out. Good luck

Well I got off to a slow start. I had to drastically reduce the prim usage of my game and create limitations on factory units. I lost a day to that base64strings bug.
I made about 20 edits to 20 scripts to enhance performance.

I am really happy to see the numbers this time around. People are starting to buy my game which has helped my score a great deal. My game boards have a play counter which counts each time a player completes a game.
The play counters are now well over 3000!

I am finally starting to think that all the time I have put into coding this thing is paying off.
There are many really good games this year and it is an honor to be a part of the game expo.

I owe alot to my team for all the time and energy they give almost every day.

Thank you Tech Warfare players and owners!

Create a team and get into the $30,000L$ Tech War Tournament.
Finals will start May 1st so get your teams playing now!

No offense to anyone, but just to make something clear:
Somebody told me that some owner from another game in arcadia 1 was pointing a finger at DarkLife, saying our scripts were lagging the SIM.
However, a linden employee looked at the top running scripts (those who take up the most of the time) and they were all NOT from DarkLife. To avoid further 'finger-pointing' I will not post here what scripts WERE in that list, but as long as you know it's not us
I didn't spend all those days optimizing the scripts for nothing

We've gotten numbers the last two Sundays, so I would guess that it may be today sometime. I'm anxious to see these, as well.

Maybe later this afternoon? Just a guess I don't have a clue.

I relalized this morning that the numbers have actually been posted on Monday in the past. Due to the way it works, I always track the total in The Collective's bookkeeping on Sunday's numbers, since they essentially go through Sunday at midnight. My bad, let's hope we see some more numbers today ^_^