We’re teaming up with our company siblings behind EGX, the annual video games present in Birmingham, to rejoice their 11th birthday with a contest. Like nice emperors demanding tribute, they need you to make a sport across the enigmatic theme “eleven” in honour of this 12 months’s EGX being their eleventh. The winner(s) will get to point out their sport at EGX in September free of charge, with the sales space and {hardware} supplied in addition to a UK practice ticket and resort room for one particular person. The sheet of paper I’ve been handed calls this a “game jam” nevertheless it feels like a contest to me. The contest runs for the following 4 weeks so hop to it.
“The theme of the jam is very simple,” the emperors of EGX say. “EGX 2018 will be our 11th show, so the theme is ‘Eleven’. You can interpret this in any way you like – maybe your character starts with 11 lives, maybe you have 11 seconds to complete a level, maybe the game is only played in 11×11 pixels. It’s completely up to you.”
You’ve received till August 24th to get a sport in. Submissions are through Itch.io, which ought to imply everybody will get to play every thing.
The final winner will get to point out their sport at EGX, with the eventfolks masking the prices of a sales space, branding, and crucial {hardware}. The prize consists of journey and lodging for one particular person, within the type of a return practice ticket to Birmingham NEC from a mainland UK station and a resort room for the Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Team entries might want to combat a bloody battle royale to settle who will get that, I suppose. And EGX will nonetheless present a profitable sport even when the creator can’t be there in particular person.
We right here at RPS could have a hand in selecting winners, so it is likely to be wise to pander totally to my preferences then depend on my intimidating echo and sheer power of will to push it throu- I’ve been handed one other sheet of paper which says to say I don’t condone this tactic. I, Alice O’Connor, don’t condone this tactic.
I’ve grumbled elsewhere that sport jam mentality can promote unhealthy crunch-style practices, so good grief please don’t burn jam sizzling for a complete month. I’ll be upset if you happen to do. Anyone provides you stick about how lengthy you’ve labored in your sport, you say Alice despatched you – and I’ll get ’em.
EGX 2018 runs September 20-23 on the NEC in Birmingham. Tickets are now on sale.
