Minigame Competition - Official Rule Discussion, Contains official MGC rules.

That's what it's about. People don't think minigames should only be allowed, especially since people were accepting full games in some of the previous compeitions.

I wasn't the one arguing that point though - my argument was stating that a short game, and a long game both remain incomparable to eachother, giving the short entry a handicap. Not to mention that the "games that are longer that were once in the past submitted" were the submissions that recieved the most votes, which only furthers the point that it's unfair to the multitude of members who don't have time to make a lengthy entry.

I'm not being any more "pedantic" then you. Go look at your posts. It's basicly what you're saying. I stated reasons too and yet you disregarded them.

Hardly. It's just as bad as another game looking really good.

Yet, they didn't finish. So why are you complaining about how they would win if they don't finish? You don't sound like you thought this over very well.

Just because I haven't entered lately does not mean I don't understand you. It sounds more like you're trying to insult me more then prove a point.

You don't read a single line of text do you? I'm not explaining my point to you again.


You're right there is no full game competition!

But there isn't a huge demand for full games in minigame competitions either! The rule is pointless!

The competition theme is what should be inspiring originality, not limitations on the type of game you should be allowed to make. Also, I hope we're not being unfair toward platformer-type games here. Some platformers can be short and fun... at the same time, some "minigames" might have incredibly complex coding but very few levels. Suppose, for example, Toni's "Mario & Yoshi" were entered into a minigame competition. Should it be allowed?

What's the harm in the rule, then? So long as people are lenient about it, such as allowing a game that's 2.5 MB, or bending the rules for something that's clearly a minigame but has MP3s, complex and concentrated coding, or something.

This post has been edited by Golem on Jul 13 2006, 10:28 PM

Well if you can't accept being competed against, then you shouldn't enter a competition. It's really just common sense.

According to Delmore's logic you shouldn't be even talking. I don't see any mini-games of yours.

Have you actually checked? People are making them as their entries a lot, and one is in the top four entries this time. And I just thought of something when Mario Gamer said like "DOES IT MATTER ABOUT THE SIZE OF DRAWINGS OR THE POSES IN SPRITES". Yes, it actually does. If the drawing is too small, like the size of a sprite, then that's obviously not allowed, and pose wise, no it wouldn't matter, if it was done in like Photoshop instead of hand pixeled or the sprite was just too big, yes it'd matter. These things matter, and I know you think it doesn't, since you don't even think it's happening, but it is.

i was planning on entering the Previous, but i had Stuff to do.

I have a Demo.

You obviously don't understand my logic, since I didn't even say that. I said to SP that it'd be hard to understand since he hasn't entered, not that he gets no voice. Don't start being a jerk like that.

These examples are not even close to comparing big games to small games.

There's no harm in the rule at all! I've already said that I didn't say that it shouldn't be a rule. It's just the way it was suggested in the beginning. Several little arguments started from there.

This post has been edited by King Bobo on Jul 13 2006, 10:32 PM

No, Delmore's thinking inductively. Your posts suddenly hold a drastically less amount of merrit because of this:

You specifically stated that you had no time to finish your entry because of 'work', or what I like to call 'life'--something the members arguing against me seem to be completely disregarding. So you still think it's fair that you might have time to release a compact, short minigame, while another member who may not have 'work', releases a game with an astronomical filesize?

But that didn't stop you from comparing them earlier, did it?

It just seems very odd to me to allow full games in a competition specifically labelled as a "minigame comp". Full games aren't mini-games. The competition is about mini-games.

It's not really an issue of whether or not someone can get a full game done in the limited amount of time, it's the fact that full games are very different from mini-games. That's why I don't think they should be allowed. Either that or change the name of the competition, because when I look at a mini-game comp I'm expecting to find stuff along the lines of Mario Party or Kritter's theme park fangame.

Really? Because I played all of them. And noticed nothing. If you're referring to the Wario Ware game, I do believe that you're being a bit unfair about that. Since the minigames are so simple, Littlink's game wouldn't be much without more than one.

First off, my entry this time was going to be what you call a mini-game anyway. But I wouldn't expect you to know that. We were only talking about adding more time because there weren't 5 entries. If there was I wouldn't have brought it up.

So just because they're simple excuses the fact that his entry is a minigame collection?

I was talking about your photoshop logic there.