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Yeah yeah yeah, I know. It was supposed to be judged last year. So sue me. Sometimes I think you freaks don't appreciate how hard I wo... sorry, getting a bit agitated. Anyway, the point is, we've finally got around to polishing off this competition. And I'm happy to announce we have two main winners and two runners-up.
The main winners are...
TGMBloke for his interactive video quiz, and...
Jim-hat and Chad Niga for their SR Lost Gameadays Adventure.
It's obvious that both of these games had hours and hours of effort poured into them, so it'd be criminal not reward the creators. You both get to choose a game of your choice up to the value of £50 (jim-hat and Chad will have to argue it out themselves).
And the runners-up are...
HalloHowArtThou for his excellent monkey SR adventure, and...
Mojojojo for his Spam Hard game
Again, it's great to see people putting real effort into these games and they were a cut above the rest. However, I can't give everyone who made a good game a full prize, so you two will have to make do with a game up to the value of £25.
Thanks again to everyone who entered, part of the reason this competition took so long to judge was because we were having so much fun playing all the games. Give yourself a big pat on the back everyone who entered (and we enjoyed the non-playable entries too, so don't think they went unnoticed). Scroll through this thread and you'll find links to all the winning entries eventually.
Thanks all!
Ali
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Those of you who already have your Special Reserve club mags will be feeling a sense of smug satisfaction, but I thought I'd make it official and let all the monkeys on the chat forums know about the latest Extra Gameaday prize. If you want the game of your choice (up to the value of £50) then you'll have to design... Special Reserve: The Game!
We want you to use your extensive game knowledge and expertise to design a game based on Special Reserve! How far you want to take this simple premise is up to you, but the more imaginative efforts are more likely to be rewarded. You can simply jot down a few game ideas such as what kind of game it'll be, main characters, storylines etc. or you can even go further, draw pictures, design levels - it's totally up to you how far you want to take this thing!
What will it be? A Sims-style romp around Special Reserve Towers? A platformer starring our very own Tony? A resource-management set in our Sawbridgeworth store? The choice, as always, is down to you. You should write a short synopsis of your game, complete with characters, storyline and anything else of interest. You can supply illustrations, make flash animation or even (and it's a long shot) code a real game if you desire! Use your imagination and get your game on!
If the entries are good enough then we may think about multiple prizes for this one, and extra special efforts may win a bigger prize than normal, we'll see. You can enter in this thread if you want, post links to games/animations/images etc here, or put them on paper and send them to:
Special Reserve Marketing Department,
Make a Game competition,
2 South Block,
The Maltings,
Sawbridgeworth,
Herts,
CM21 9JX
All entries must be submitted by November 28th (posted entries must arrive on time) and hopefully we'll wade through the entries and pick a winner for Chrimble. Looking forward to seeing the entries to this one to be honest, you lot thrive on competitions where you have to flex your creative muscles!
Possible characters for your game:
Tony
Mr Snuggly
Loki
Darkus
Bob
Candyfloss
Any old staff members etc.
The main winners are...
TGMBloke for his interactive video quiz, and...
Jim-hat and Chad Niga for their SR Lost Gameadays Adventure.
It's obvious that both of these games had hours and hours of effort poured into them, so it'd be criminal not reward the creators. You both get to choose a game of your choice up to the value of £50 (jim-hat and Chad will have to argue it out themselves).
And the runners-up are...
HalloHowArtThou for his excellent monkey SR adventure, and...
Mojojojo for his Spam Hard game
Again, it's great to see people putting real effort into these games and they were a cut above the rest. However, I can't give everyone who made a good game a full prize, so you two will have to make do with a game up to the value of £25.
Thanks again to everyone who entered, part of the reason this competition took so long to judge was because we were having so much fun playing all the games. Give yourself a big pat on the back everyone who entered (and we enjoyed the non-playable entries too, so don't think they went unnoticed). Scroll through this thread and you'll find links to all the winning entries eventually.
Thanks all!
Ali
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Those of you who already have your Special Reserve club mags will be feeling a sense of smug satisfaction, but I thought I'd make it official and let all the monkeys on the chat forums know about the latest Extra Gameaday prize. If you want the game of your choice (up to the value of £50) then you'll have to design... Special Reserve: The Game!
We want you to use your extensive game knowledge and expertise to design a game based on Special Reserve! How far you want to take this simple premise is up to you, but the more imaginative efforts are more likely to be rewarded. You can simply jot down a few game ideas such as what kind of game it'll be, main characters, storylines etc. or you can even go further, draw pictures, design levels - it's totally up to you how far you want to take this thing!
What will it be? A Sims-style romp around Special Reserve Towers? A platformer starring our very own Tony? A resource-management set in our Sawbridgeworth store? The choice, as always, is down to you. You should write a short synopsis of your game, complete with characters, storyline and anything else of interest. You can supply illustrations, make flash animation or even (and it's a long shot) code a real game if you desire! Use your imagination and get your game on!
If the entries are good enough then we may think about multiple prizes for this one, and extra special efforts may win a bigger prize than normal, we'll see. You can enter in this thread if you want, post links to games/animations/images etc here, or put them on paper and send them to:
Special Reserve Marketing Department,
Make a Game competition,
2 South Block,
The Maltings,
Sawbridgeworth,
Herts,
CM21 9JX
All entries must be submitted by November 28th (posted entries must arrive on time) and hopefully we'll wade through the entries and pick a winner for Chrimble. Looking forward to seeing the entries to this one to be honest, you lot thrive on competitions where you have to flex your creative muscles!
Possible characters for your game:
Tony
Mr Snuggly
Loki
Darkus
Bob
Candyfloss
Any old staff members etc.
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Hi all, here’s my latest offering for the extra Gameaday (design game) competition.
Either goto the website below and click on the Metal Gear Snuggly link at the bottom:
http://www.geocities.com/sr_thegame/index.htm
Or if that doesn’t work go to:
http://www.geocities.com/sr_thegame/mgs.html
The page make take a little time to load but shouldn’t be more than a few seconds.
Cheers
TT
Either goto the website below and click on the Metal Gear Snuggly link at the bottom:
http://www.geocities.com/sr_thegame/index.htm
Or if that doesn’t work go to:
http://www.geocities.com/sr_thegame/mgs.html
The page make take a little time to load but shouldn’t be more than a few seconds.
Cheers
TT
"Sounds awful."
Rise of the dust bunnies
Facts:
Fun and addictive action game
LAN and internet multiplayer
Many missions and items
Cel-shaded graphics
The story of the game:
Mr Snuggly the ugly, a handicapped teddy bear in a wheelchair has taken control over an unbeatable army of dust bunnies which will not accept their situation as the weakest group at the office.
You start the game in the role of the shy but angry office worker Tony, who will not accept the reign of Snuggly.
Tony sometimes gets technical help from the man who many have declared as gay, Bob.
He has established a laboratory in the basement where you will get many weapons to keep in your arsenal.
You can get powerful equipment such as the pizza blade, the smacking video game, the powerful burger bomb and a palm pilot that speaks like a rapper and many more.
You do also get the help of the suspicious looking Candyfloss who is not showing Tony what his real intensions is.
He learns you moves like the bee-gee dance, the paper-cut and the bone breaker.
You must collect the many hamburgers that are hid throughout the building to fill up your health meter, before finally meeting up with the ultimate threat “Mr Snuggly the ugly” and his henchmen Loki and Darkus.
Work your way up to the top where the dangerous villain has created his camp.
His project is not clear yet but he is planning to do something really evil, something that you will unravel throughout the game.
Graphics:
The game will feature beautiful cel-shaded graphics to make an atmosphere that will make many gamers laugh.
The game will be set in a big building full of offices which is created in 3d.
It will be full of life and you can see people running or working and struggling to reach their deadlines.
Audio
The game will feature comedic songs to fit with the graphics.
You can also choose your own soundtrack when you find the Discman.
The sounds you hear when enemies or you get hit will sound like they came from a comic book.
Gameplay
Fun and addictive gameplay is the codename here.
The fighting sequences should have a fast pace.
You must often solve puzzles if you want to kill the boss you are fighting against.
When you progress further in the game you will get to save hostages, blow up the bunnies and visit the store which a mysterious Muslim is in charge of.
At the store you will find the arcade machine, which the name-less person will upgrade if you steal parts from the computers at your bosses office.
That means that you have to make the boss unaware of what that is happening.
There will be some extra games like deathmatch and capture the videogame in multiplayer to play over LAN or over the internet
You can unlock different driving machines to use in your quest to reach the lairs of Mr. Snuggly.
Machines like a scooter, a shopping cart and a skateboard can be used.
These machines will be important to complete the game.
You can also unlock some secret ones that is for pure fun.
The building will also be fully destructible so if you use a bomb you can change the way the place looks.
Gameday can host a online competition sometimes where people can find the golden videogame which has a code that you can send in and win a game or a deathmatch.
Game length
The game will support 75 missions divided into 4 chapters and a group of 15 extra missions to delight many players.
It will also have many mini games like throwing the “throw an empty cola box into the garbage game”, the racing with shopping carts down the stairs game and the arcade machine game.
With the multiplayer the game will keep many players busy for a long time.
Originality
The game will not be so original though, but it will be a mix of many good games which makes a delightful cocktail of a game.
You will be surprised of the changes the characters go through in the story, you will find out many original mysteries and unlock what Mr Snuggly is up for.
I will come up with more facts on this game later.
Facts:
Fun and addictive action game
LAN and internet multiplayer
Many missions and items
Cel-shaded graphics
The story of the game:
Mr Snuggly the ugly, a handicapped teddy bear in a wheelchair has taken control over an unbeatable army of dust bunnies which will not accept their situation as the weakest group at the office.
You start the game in the role of the shy but angry office worker Tony, who will not accept the reign of Snuggly.
Tony sometimes gets technical help from the man who many have declared as gay, Bob.
He has established a laboratory in the basement where you will get many weapons to keep in your arsenal.
You can get powerful equipment such as the pizza blade, the smacking video game, the powerful burger bomb and a palm pilot that speaks like a rapper and many more.
You do also get the help of the suspicious looking Candyfloss who is not showing Tony what his real intensions is.
He learns you moves like the bee-gee dance, the paper-cut and the bone breaker.
You must collect the many hamburgers that are hid throughout the building to fill up your health meter, before finally meeting up with the ultimate threat “Mr Snuggly the ugly” and his henchmen Loki and Darkus.
Work your way up to the top where the dangerous villain has created his camp.
His project is not clear yet but he is planning to do something really evil, something that you will unravel throughout the game.
Graphics:
The game will feature beautiful cel-shaded graphics to make an atmosphere that will make many gamers laugh.
The game will be set in a big building full of offices which is created in 3d.
It will be full of life and you can see people running or working and struggling to reach their deadlines.
Audio
The game will feature comedic songs to fit with the graphics.
You can also choose your own soundtrack when you find the Discman.
The sounds you hear when enemies or you get hit will sound like they came from a comic book.
Gameplay
Fun and addictive gameplay is the codename here.
The fighting sequences should have a fast pace.
You must often solve puzzles if you want to kill the boss you are fighting against.
When you progress further in the game you will get to save hostages, blow up the bunnies and visit the store which a mysterious Muslim is in charge of.
At the store you will find the arcade machine, which the name-less person will upgrade if you steal parts from the computers at your bosses office.
That means that you have to make the boss unaware of what that is happening.
There will be some extra games like deathmatch and capture the videogame in multiplayer to play over LAN or over the internet
You can unlock different driving machines to use in your quest to reach the lairs of Mr. Snuggly.
Machines like a scooter, a shopping cart and a skateboard can be used.
These machines will be important to complete the game.
You can also unlock some secret ones that is for pure fun.
The building will also be fully destructible so if you use a bomb you can change the way the place looks.
Gameday can host a online competition sometimes where people can find the golden videogame which has a code that you can send in and win a game or a deathmatch.
Game length
The game will support 75 missions divided into 4 chapters and a group of 15 extra missions to delight many players.
It will also have many mini games like throwing the “throw an empty cola box into the garbage game”, the racing with shopping carts down the stairs game and the arcade machine game.
With the multiplayer the game will keep many players busy for a long time.
Originality
The game will not be so original though, but it will be a mix of many good games which makes a delightful cocktail of a game.
You will be surprised of the changes the characters go through in the story, you will find out many original mysteries and unlock what Mr Snuggly is up for.
I will come up with more facts on this game later.
SHOCKINGLY GAY SR SURVIVAL
You am BEARDS.
You am mucho macho man.
So incredibly heterosexually homophobic that flowers pull themselves from the ground and run before you all-powerful manliness.
You am also a devil-hunter.
One with very big guns and ‘hilarious’ lines like,
“Hey vampy - suck on this! ... I meant that in a very non-gay way, you understand. ‘This’ was referring to my many, many explosive bullets, not my gigantic manhood. A-hem”
BUT, there’s a new kind of evil in town.
And it’s shockingly gay.
Camper than Dale Winton in a pop-up tent.
It’s called Tony.
Everything’s turning a wince-induding shade of pink.
**THE GAME**
Now you’re on the run from the evil-pinkness.
In you’re quiet home town of Scarymonsteranddeadlyvirusesville nowhere is safe
Basically it’s survival horror with puppies and ponies and flowers and hairdressers. You’ve a Machometer™ to keep full up - to do this you shoot stuff and burn stuff and kiv everywhere and watch pr0n and drink beer and go ‘ARRR!” a lot.
But it’s being sapped by the all-encompassing queerness about town; as it is drained your appearance will change. First you’ll wear tight-fitting jeans and tops, then ‘experiment’ with high-heeled shoes until finally you’ve got a pink feather boa on whilst flouncing around a garden drawing pink hearts on your fairy-winged pony.
You have various weapons to use against the creatures of the pink-side. For instance, you could be really mean; but Cher on and tell them not to dance or sing; steal their hair gel or burn their cuddly toys.
But, you’re ultimate weapon and one only to be used in the gravest of situations is ... (dum-dum-DUMMM) asking them to throw a ball.
As you run through the town it will be consumed by gayness. Everything will turn from dark, dull, rotting and damp to well-lit, expertly feng-shuied, designer-decorated and still a little damp. Then you’ll be cornered and confronted by Tony himself, in all his flouncy glory. The final fight is a medusa-esque - don’t look in his eyes or you’ll be saying ‘awww’ and crying at weddings quicker than you can kiv.
So you have to shuffle around the area knocking over various manly things like weights, cannons, car engines, lesbians until he finally submits. Then you have to make him skin a poor ickle bunny-rabbit with his teeth.
At last you can go home and scratch your balls in peace.
**OR**
Make it like Alien. But with more cats.
“In space, no-one can hear you preen” etc.
You am BEARDS.
You am mucho macho man.
So incredibly heterosexually homophobic that flowers pull themselves from the ground and run before you all-powerful manliness.
You am also a devil-hunter.
One with very big guns and ‘hilarious’ lines like,
“Hey vampy - suck on this! ... I meant that in a very non-gay way, you understand. ‘This’ was referring to my many, many explosive bullets, not my gigantic manhood. A-hem”
BUT, there’s a new kind of evil in town.
And it’s shockingly gay.
Camper than Dale Winton in a pop-up tent.
It’s called Tony.
Everything’s turning a wince-induding shade of pink.
**THE GAME**
Now you’re on the run from the evil-pinkness.
In you’re quiet home town of Scarymonsteranddeadlyvirusesville nowhere is safe
Basically it’s survival horror with puppies and ponies and flowers and hairdressers. You’ve a Machometer™ to keep full up - to do this you shoot stuff and burn stuff and kiv everywhere and watch pr0n and drink beer and go ‘ARRR!” a lot.
But it’s being sapped by the all-encompassing queerness about town; as it is drained your appearance will change. First you’ll wear tight-fitting jeans and tops, then ‘experiment’ with high-heeled shoes until finally you’ve got a pink feather boa on whilst flouncing around a garden drawing pink hearts on your fairy-winged pony.
You have various weapons to use against the creatures of the pink-side. For instance, you could be really mean; but Cher on and tell them not to dance or sing; steal their hair gel or burn their cuddly toys.
But, you’re ultimate weapon and one only to be used in the gravest of situations is ... (dum-dum-DUMMM) asking them to throw a ball.
As you run through the town it will be consumed by gayness. Everything will turn from dark, dull, rotting and damp to well-lit, expertly feng-shuied, designer-decorated and still a little damp. Then you’ll be cornered and confronted by Tony himself, in all his flouncy glory. The final fight is a medusa-esque - don’t look in his eyes or you’ll be saying ‘awww’ and crying at weddings quicker than you can kiv.
So you have to shuffle around the area knocking over various manly things like weights, cannons, car engines, lesbians until he finally submits. Then you have to make him skin a poor ickle bunny-rabbit with his teeth.
At last you can go home and scratch your balls in peace.
**OR**
Make it like Alien. But with more cats.
“In space, no-one can hear you preen” etc.
What you making your game on HHAT?
I suppose so....
Mine only had two crappy pictures. It was all about the writing, baby. The writing was also rubbish, but it doesn't matter.
Cool, what you making it on?
Proper game
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