Blender Game Making Challenge

The theme for this BGMC is "Tell a Story", this must be incorporated into your game entry. There is a total potential prize pool of $412 USD for the top 3 entries. Any of the following Blender integrated engines may be used: BGE UPBGE BDX Blend4Web Panda3D (via moguri's plugin) Armour The entries will be ranked by 4 different judges based on: Gameplay Experience (50%) Graphical Quality (25%) Sound Design (15%) Theme Adherence (10%) Countdown until BGMC 23 starts: Inspiration for those struggling to come up with ideas: For more details see the official blender thread:  https://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?414367-BGMC-23-Tell-a-story-Announcement! Best of luck!

"Welcome to the Blender Game Making Competition #20! This is a contest for anyone who wishes to create a game with the Blender Game Engine. The theme of this BGMC is Flight.

The Theme will be GRAVITY. You can do whatever you want, but you have to use gravity in a creative way. Try using Zero Gravity or something like that. Go crazy! I´m looking forward to what you can come up with. I decided on this theme, because I liked the idea of having space as a theme, but I thought gravity would be more interesting. Hope it won´t be too hard. You have time till the start of the competition now, to come up with a game concept, but please don´t start creating your game yet.

From http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?383214-BGMC-18-Announcement-%2817th-24th-October%29 Blender Game Making Contest 18 | Announcement! Wait, hold the phone! What IS the BGMC?! The Blender Game Making Contest (or BGMC for short) is a week-long competition where people of the community make games relevant to contest's theme. It's secondary purpose is to encourage people to improve, either by trying to make something you've never tried making before, working with time-restraints or trying to aim for a specific style. The Theme: The theme will be announced at the start of the competition Rules! 1- No limits! As many polys and textures as your computer can handle. But remember other people have to be able to play your game if they are going to vote. If it melts my graphics card you're going to get a down vote from me. 2- Only 7 days for actual game creation. Don't get too ambitious as you may never finish on time. 3- Any as...

Originally posted by Smoking_mirror at http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?379966-BMGC-Winners-otto001-and-Blenderrendersky So another Blender Game making contest draws to a close. Congratulations to everyone who took part, it was a close finish, and for a while it looked like everyone was going to win. The gold medal, and grand prizes go to Otto001 and Blenderrendersky. Nice job on the winning game, it was my personal favorite, even with a massive bug where I couldn't save any people at all, I still really enjoyed it. Blenderrendersky has uploaded an updated version of Fireman with some improvements suggested by players, so go and give it a try if you haven't already. Silver goes to Thatimster, for his Discrete fishing, which I thought had the very best Easter egg of the competition. the second time he's come second AFAIK. Congratulations! Third place is split between Adriansnetlis with his thrilling Golden Reel Fishing, and twisterGE, whose R...

Originally posted by Smoking_mirror http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?377902-Blender-Game-Making-Contest-17-Announcement! Wait, hold the phone! What IS the BGMC?! The Blender Game Making Challenge (or BGMC for short) is a week-long competition where people of the community make games relevant to contest's theme. It's secondary purpose is to encourage people to improve, either by trying to make something you've never tried making before, working with time-restraints or trying to aim for a specific style. The Theme/Rules: Your goal is to make a game about water. This is perhaps one of the most interesting themes I've seen so far, since there's such a broad spectrum of things you can do with it. It doesn't have to be set on or in water, it could be about being in a desert and trying to find water, or it could be about water vapor (clouds and rain). There are lots of water sports, fishing games, animal sims etc... that could be made...

From http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?374316-BGMC16-Winners!!!! Wow!! It's been a close one! The calibre and quality of the entries is really impressive for this contest. It's no wonder the voting was so close. 1st place: Crazybombninja by Smoking Congratulations! An expertly made game, with a great level generation system and game play to match. 2nd place: BOX, The Sneakering by Lushmoss Great concept of sneaking past cats, loved the Alan Partridge face on the box and the stylised cats. 3rd place: Tesseract by Shogun Lloyd Brilliant and beautiful use of light and sound, loved the colours, with some suspenseful game play. Well done to everyone who took part. I had a great time playing through the games. Sooo many good entries!

Quick reminder to all who voted:  A new poll was created to account for a missing entry. Please re-submit your vote.  Thanks! http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?372820-BGMC-16-new-vote-and-updated-game-pack

From http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?371396-Blender-Game-Making-Contest-16-Anouncement! Wait, hold the phone! What IS the BGMC?! The Blender Game Making Challenge (or BGMC for short) is a week-long competition where people of the community make games relevant to contest's theme. It's secondary purpose is to encourage people to improve, either by trying to make something you've never tried making before, working with time-restraints or trying to aim for a specific style. For more information on the BGMC and previous contests check out http://www.bgmc.info/ Theme The goal is to make a stealth game. This could be sneaking past guards, hiding in the shadows, avoiding making noise, trying to get a top secret file, breaking out of prison, flying a stealth plane, or trying to steal a pie without being caught. Rules No limits - you can use as many polys, textures, GLSL filters and scripts as you like. But remember that others need to be able t...

This time around the BGMC is being hosted by Battery, starting either May 23 or June 6th (to be determined) See this thread for discussion and further updates on the start date: http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?369852-Blender-Game-Making-Contest-16-theme-prizes-rules-and-dates-discussion Hope to see you there!

Originally posted by Smoking_mirror from http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?364785-BGMC15-winners! Hi everyone! The votes are in for the Blender game making contest 15 and I'd like to announce the winners: 1st place was Planet Smasher by Battery. We've got some prizes around here somewhere for you, congratulations! I thought the game was very well realized for a 7 day game jam with lots of options and smooth gameplay. 2nd place goes to Mechatronic by Thatimster. The game was great, with really nice graphics and fitting special effects. 3rd place goes to Robo Lad In the Lab by Wallmaster. A really good result since Wallmaster came to the competition late and only had 2 nights to work on the game. Congratulations also to RockyMadio's Kaily - the Canceller which only missed 3rd place by 1 vote. It was a gorgeous game and I'll certainly be following RockyMadio's other projects from here on. If anyone else would like to see yo...

From http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?362364-Blender-Game-Making-Contest-15-Anouncement! Blender Game Making Challenge 15 - Theme Announced! Wait, hold the phone! What IS the BGMC?! The Blender Game Making Challenge (or BGMC for short) is a week-long competition where people of the community make games relevant to contest's theme. It's secondary purpose is to encourage people to improve, either by trying to make something you've never tried making before, working with time-restraints or trying to aim for a specific style. The Theme/Rules: Your goal is to make a game about robots. They don't have to be big, they don't have to be tough looking, cute robots are OK. They can be futuristic, or modern or retro. There's nothing to stop you making steam punk robots. Robotic games like this are also allowed: Cyborgs, mecha, androids, mechanoids whatever you want... The rules are: 1- No limits! As many polys and textures as y...

Gathered from: http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?360838-Blender-Game-Making-Contest-15-Theme/page2 Looks like it's starting February 15th Sunday - Sunday, with the following week for voting and bugfixes. The polls are leaning toward "Big Stompy Robots".  Should be interesting. Take vacation days.  Dump your girlfriend.  THE BGMC APPROACHES

1st- Jetpack Platformer - Smoking_Mirror ------- 82 points 1st- Kart Racer - Thatimster ----------------------- 82 points 2nd - Space Dumpster - MrPutuLips ------------ 80 points 3rd - Whale Race - pqftgs ------------------------ 78 points 4th - Metroid 64 - BluePrintRandom ----------- 74 points 5th - Inuit Man - fredstash ----------------------- 70 points The prizes have been split accordingly, with Smoking_Mirror choosing the next theme.  Thanks to all who participated! You can download the all-games pack here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/dnt92g6uq9q05xn/BGMC%2014%20Entries.zip?dl=0

Reposted from  http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?358317-Blender-Game-Making-Challenge-14-Theme-Announced! Wait, hold the phone! What IS the BGMC?! The Blender Game Making Challenge (or BGMC for short) is a week-long competition where people of the community make games relevant to contest's theme. It's secondary purpose is to encourage people to improve, either by trying to make something you've never tried making before, working with time-restraints or trying to aim for a specific style. The Theme/Rules: Your goal is to create (or re-create) something from the N64-era. The rules are: 1- Max 150,000 polys. I don't think anyone will actually exceed the limit, so try your best to stick to the low-poly style of the N64 2- Textures should be 32x64 pixels 3- Any assets created before the competition should be available for the community to use. Judging: Gonna go ahead and copy Shogun Lloyd's scoring system from last BGMC, after you...

Gathered from here: http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?356698-Blender-Game-Making-Challange-14! The contest is to be held December 28 - January 4. Though the "official" theme announcement is yet to come, one can get some ideas by digging through the thread. Hope to see you there and good luck to all combatants!

THE CHALLENGE: The blender game making challenge is pretty simple. Make a complete game, using the blender game engine, start and finish, in a week. The official start is Sunday the 17th, 12:01 AM and it ends Saturday the 23rd at midnight. The challenge is a competition amongst your peers, but also a challenge to yourself, to push your planning, game making, and polishing skills out of your normal comfort zone. This is how we improve. THE THEME: It’s easy to make a game using the full force of your modern computer, but it’s harder when you must develop for a specific platform/console. This game making challenge will revolve around hardware requirements and resource allocation for one of the first consoles capable of 3d: the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. This way you may not be fully able to rely on amazing graphics and HD modeling to make your game good (prove me wrong) so your game might have to rely on solid gameplay mechanics instead. Here are the slightly modifie...

You might notice some weird looking stuff on the blog in the next few days, don't worry its just me messing with the design. Josip Kladaric

Hey, all, Joystik Studios with an update to the challenge. The theme has been announced! Here it is: Olympic Sports! With the winter Olympics recently over in Socii, Russia, I decided to have you guys make game themed off of those sports. This would also include summer Olympic sports. Here are the rules: You have to choose one sport from this list  to make a game of. It can be from the Summer or Winter category. You may only use resources that you have created during the week you have to make your game, except for pre-written python scripts. Any resources from the Game Engine Resources section are alright, too. You must announce where you got your pre-made resources if you used any, so that others can use them too. The only exception to this is this basemesh , because I know what a pain character modeling is. There is another link on the page to a female version if you like. They are low-poly and game ready. The reason I chose this theme is because of how hard physics are in ...

Hey, all! This is Joystik Studios, the winner of the last BGMC, and I will be organizing this one. The challenge will be held on the 10th of March, 2014. The theme will be announced the day before the challenge. For those of you who are new to this challenge, the BGMC is the Blender Game Making Challenge, a week long challenge where Blender users make a game based off the theme. The winners are chosen by a judging panel and prizes are distributed to the winners. The judges consist of, do far, 3 people. Myself, Thatimster, and a SixGunBen, who is not on Blenderartists or anything as of yet. Now, I've got my own reasons why I chose these judges. First, we have Thatimster, who is pretty self-explanatory. I mean, come on, it's Thatimster! I'm pretty self-explanatory, too. SixGunBen is a Blender user but is not an avid game developer, however, he is an extreme gamer. This will give him some extra insight into how good gameplay and graphics are and such. Sinan, another game d...