Blind Date Micro-LD
Posted by SpaceManiac of Platymuus (twitter: @SpaceManiacX)
September 6th, 2009 8:27 pm
A few of us in IRC did a Micro-LD to test out the blind date concept – each participant makes a set of graphics, and then gets assigned someone else’s set to use to make a game.
Myself, Edwardoka, fydo, Almost, and MrDude did graphics. Fydo didn’t start on a game, and Edwardoka and I gave up – that leaves two (very good) entries:
FLUTTER by Almost (MrDude’s graphics): http://filesmelt.com/downloader/FLUTTER.zip
Space Dodger by MrDude (fydo’s graphics): http://pycron-ld48.googlecode.com/files/Space-Dodger.zip
Just thought I’d give a shout-out 
Tags: blind date, irc, microLD
I like the gfx swap concept! I’ll have to check this out soon.
YES! I love this idea! It could be a fun variant to allow people who were stuck to throw their assigned graphics back to the pool, and others could swap out for those if they wanted.
Of course, steps would need to be taken to prevent sabotaging folks with your graphics. (For example, by making incoherent or deliberately bad ones)
I’m not sure I like being able to swap when you’re stuck. Perhaps everyone is scored on the graphics that are created, and the score of the game takes the graphics’ score into account?
Swapping out graphics when you’re stuck simply removes the challenge, I think.
Well, that’s my take on things, anyway.
—Mr Dude