Slamdance

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Thinking about entering Necrotic Drift into this:

http://www.slamdance.com/games/

There does not seem to be a restriction against the fact that I originally completed it in 2004. In fact, I think I make all the requirements:

Games published or distributed for profit before the final deadline of September 29, 2006 are ineligible. Free web distribution and self-publishing are acceptable. Such games may have made no more than $10,000 in gross sales.

If I am reading this right, this says that games published by a real publisher before the deadline aren't eligible. If you self-published, which is what Feelies.org is, it's OK.

Developer can have received no more than $25,000 in outside development investment and sponsorship.

Yeah, I meet this one with flying colors.

Games and instructions must be in English, although international entries are welcome.

Yes, I do believe that the instructions (the PDF I distributed with it) are completely in English.

Games must be feature complete.

Whoo-hoo!

Innovative and unusual formats, such as interactive fiction and drama, are encouraged to apply. Games must display interactivity, and be in an electronic format to be considered for the competition.

Aces.

On the other hand, it's $45 to enter. It's not the money, it's the principle. But if I look at it like $45 of advertising for the game then that's not so bad. I bought a banner ad on Something Awful for $20 that proved to be completely worthless. Plus, except for Future Boy!, I don't think there is a graphical text game that accurately updated the graphics window for every room in the game like ND did. So it has something different to offer.

I don't think it will win anything, but if there is a list of applicants and a link to this forum it would be worth $45, I think, even if it were immediately rejected.

[Lysander]

If you link people to this website, are you going to have my Wing Commander review put on Trotting Kryps first?

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

If you link people to this website, are you going to have my Wing Commander review put on Trotting Kryps first?

I'll post it to JC proper for you.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Though what is holding it up is the lack of screengrabs. I'd like to take some, but first I have to acquire those games.

[Lysander]

You can get the game off of a whole lot of places, just do a search for Wing Commander Secret Ops download. I think it's on cnet, actually, although dont' hold me to that. THe filename is secretopsfull.exe. Please note that the entire game is about a fourth of the amount of coding it takes for Valve to release a patch. Anyway, if the first episode doesn't give you enough screen grabbs (and hopefully it won't, as there are a considerable number of ships and things that you dont' get to see in teh first episode) I can email you the episode7.exe file that gives you the rest of the missions. episode7.exe is, by the way, something like 5 megabytes. I find this amusing, on a number of levels. Actually, fuck, I forgot about that stupid goddamn "registration" thing. It's no problem though, just go to teh downlaods section of wcnews.com and you'll find someone's made a nice easy java aplet that'll give you a number you can use.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

The finalists were released! How did it go?

But if I look at it like $45 of advertising for the game then that's not so bad.

(Actually it turned out to be $20 as there was an early submit discount and an IF discount.)

Er, well, I actually didn't receive a single e-mail from anyone there in the five months it's been going on and the list of applicants that did not become finalists do not seem to be noted anywhere. So it was essentially a complete waste of twenty bucks.

... All right! Let's hear it for text adventures! Whoooooo!!!! Get that sword!

[Lysander]

Make noise.

[hygraed]

Banner ads on the SA forums are only $8 now for a nonprofit ad. Since the game is free, I expect that it would fall under that, and I'm pretty sure if you had a catchy banner it would bring in some new players.

I'll also plug your games in the next free games thread that comes up.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Update!

I received a note from the comp organizer this evening about the game that addressed all my earlier concerns. (It was not a reaction to this thread or anything.) So essentially, everything I cried about in my previous post is rendered null and void. Whoops! Sorry about that. I'll just go ahead and apologize to everyone involved in advance.

(Although a list of entries would be really cool. The finalists are all neat and seeing who just missed the cut would be interesting as well as I love indie-made games.)