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[Onikhaosifix]

Hello,

I have what I think is a good idea. Considering that most or all of the members of this community are aspiring game developers I think it would be a great idea to have a showcase of games made by members of the community. Sure you have the code spotlight and snapshot, but those are weak compared to gamedev.net's game showcase.

I believe that it is imperative to establish a game showcase here at devmaster.net that could possibly increase traffic. You guys are probably not in competition with gamedev.net but I believe that it's about time that another site besides gamedev.net becomes just as large.

Well anyways, not to sway away from the main point. I'd imagine that games created with 3D engines(made by other people/companies) wouldn't get as much praise as games made from ground-up by others. So maybe a set of guidelines should be established.

If this idea gets rejected(for whatever weird reason) then maybe we could hold some contest?

[Tufty]

Why wouldn't games made with 3D engines get as much praise? Sure, if they're just using stock graphics, or being based directly off tutorial samples, I can see that being the case, but it takes almost as much effort to make a 3D engine work with your game as it does to develop one from scratch, because of having to learn all it's idiosyncrasies.

[Methulah]

thats true, a game made using a 3D engine can get tons of respect. I mean, if you made quake 4 as compared to making a 3D version of pacman without an engine. I know quake 4 is different because they made the engine anyway for a different game, but you see where I am coming across.

[bladder]

I don't know about a game showcase. I never even chekd it out on gamedev. I mean sure I knew it was there, but I never really looked at it. I'd prefer the snapshot to a showcase, because you can show your game through the snapshot, and people would download it from there.

As for the a contest, it'd have to be a pretty big contest, because we'd need to attract a lot more people. Since this site is sponsored by Garage Games, maybe a few of the top level prizes can be Torque Shader Engine licenses, and a few of the lower level prizes could be Torque game engine licenses.

[Tufty]

Sounds an interesting idea. Would definitely take a lot more interest before you could go ahead with something like that though. What would be the core concept? Develop a game or something?

[Tufty]

*damn double posting*

[Methulah]

I dont think that game development on an indie level should be so competative. If people want to showcase their games, then that is good, because that is sharing. But if we have a competition where one game is deemed better than another, it can be really hard for someone who has put years into a game they think is *really* cool, to be beaten by a quick yet imaginative mini game.

I think that we shouldn't have game competitions, just maybe a place for people to upload the games they have made and get comments on them. However, I doubt the server would want tonnes of game binaries up there as it would be a bandwidth/disk space hog.

[Mihail121]

Tell me only one reason why the f**k would we want to compare with GameDev???

But the showcase is definetely a good idea. However it IS not a good idea to upload the whole content on this server. Instead we should only make a catalog of links and short descriptions with small screenies of the games.

[Onikhaosifix]

Mihail121 said:

Tell me only one reason why the f**k would we want to compare with GameDev???

But the showcase is definetely a good idea. However it IS not a good idea to upload the whole content on this server. Instead we should only make a catalog of links and short descriptions with small screenies of the games.

Alright, alright, forget about the potentially fun game programming contest and the even more fun website competition with gamedev.net.

But this site really needs a game showcase. If you guys can't afford the website then I'm sorry. But otherwise, it would really be nice to have that in here. No offense but the dev snapshot isn't really all that. It's just a picture from your current project. People want to be able to play full games or demos.

[Mihail121]

If they want to play full games or demos, after seeing the screenshot and the description here at DevMaster, they can simply go to the homepage and download it! I don't see any reason why DevMaster should waste server space to upload things, already available on the net...

[Onikhaosifix]

Mihail121 said:

If they want to play full games or demos, after seeing the screenshot and the description here at DevMaster, they can simply go to the homepage and download it! I don't see any reason why DevMaster should waste server space to upload things, already available on the net...

In the dev snapshot all I see is a pic. There isn't a link to the poster's project's binaries. Just a pic and a link to some engine.

I'm not here to argue because arguing over the internet is like winning the special olympics. If the idea gets rejected then oh well.

[Mihail121]

Well in that case we can do something like a "modificated dev snapshot", which also includes a direct link to the game files :)

[baldurk]

There's no reason that there can't be a link to binaries or a project linked to in the dev screenshot description. The whole point of the dev screenshot is to provide an easy way to quickly show the project (the screenshot), a description of what the project is, and if desired then the actual project, or a demo of it.

[Ed Mack]

I don't feel that Dev screenshot is being over-loaded with game showcases, so this isn't worthwhile implimenting. In the end it just fragments content and creates confusion for no good reason

[Methulah]

all the dev snapshots are engines, so of course they arn't going to link to non-existing games. But as Ed Mack says, unless we have an overload of games posting in the dev snapshot, it doesn't seem necessary.

[Noor]

a demo contest would be a good idea. I especially like the idea of having the torque shader engine as (one of the) prizes.

[Ed Mack]

For a demo contest, it would be good if there was a basepack of data we have to use, so that art is not a hinderence.

[Onikhaosifix]

Speaking of which I'm hosting my own 3D demo coding contest Here

[Onikhaosifix]

My pre-apoligies for bumping this but I still don't understand why we can't simply have a game showcase. This website feels so empty without one. For christ's sakes we're about game development it makes perfect sense to have a game showcase.

Image of the day and code spotlight could still stay but they aren't as good as a game showcase. You guys probably don't understand but when beginners see a completed game made by someone within their age group then that's the ultimate inspiration.

Please consider my idea.

[Methulah]

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Image of the day and code spotlight could still stay but they aren't as good as a game showcase.

I don't know about anyone else, but I work mainly fopr myself, on a basis that I am doing what I enjoy doing, not to inspire my peers. It is nice to get comments on your code, and how you are going, so in that case a quick dev snapshot will do that. If I finish a game and want to show it off, it is as simple as typing http://www.gamedev.net into my address bar and showing it off there. I don't think Devmaster needs a game showcase. It would be nice to have a demo compitition with premade assets though.