Looney Labs Icehouse Mailing list Archive

Re: [Icehouse] IGDC Winter 2009??

  • From"Jason Spears" <spielboy@xxxxxxxxx>
  • DateThu, 14 Aug 2008 21:08:53 -0400
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Jorge Arroyo <trozo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I don't think just looking at the last two contest, we can generalize and
> say a contest without a restriction will generate better games.
>
> And if there is no need of making a product restriction, why not another
> kind of restriction? A mechanic or theme...
>
> I vote for real time game

A real time game restriction would actually cause me to NOT submit a
game. I have yet to come across one that I truly want to play again,
so it's a genre that I'm not willing to waste my time trying to
design. (And worse have to play a bunch of.)

-Jason