Minigame Competition #42, "Look Mario - it's snowing!"

Congratulations to thingy and Funky for their runner-up engine preview in the previous competition.

Since we're nearing christmas, the obvious theme would be winter wonderland, however, we're changing it a bit this time.

This competition's theme is Christmas Cutscenes!
One of the things I see lack in games nowadays are cutscenes, which are highly needed in order to connect a story with your game. In this competition, I want to see you make a game that contains atleast one cutscene featuring christmas/winter, while still being a decent game!

Cutscenes are, obviously, cinematics where the player can't do anything but watch and enjoy

Ofcourse, the focus is not only on the cutscenes, but not only on the games either. They should both be taken into consideration! So if you make an amazing game with a horrible cutscene, the cutscene will drag down the game!

An example would be Mario's Snowflake Capture, featuring a cutscene with Mario thinking of how much money he could earn catching every single snowflake, and after it passes, the game begins!

Submission ends the 4th of January at midnight! That should give you the final weekend to polish your games!

If you are unsure about the rules, you can also read them here!

Camera, lights, ACTION!

This post has been edited by MechaBowser on Dec 6 2008, 09:31 AM

I still don't really get it.
Is the subject free, just as long as it has a Christmas cut-scene and overall is winter-themed?
A Puzzle, RPG, platformer, any will do?

Yes, unless specified otherwise you're free to do anything. It has always been like that.

This post has been edited by MechaBowser on Dec 6 2008, 09:24 AM

I don't want to mess up again, but:

If I make a game featuring a 3-second cutscene at the beginning, it counts?

Yes, however, note that rating is being done 50-50 on both the cutscene and the game. If the game is horrible but the cutscene is awesome, the game will drag the cutscene down - keep that in mind. Same the other way around.

3 seconds is a bit short, IMO.
But it'd still be a cutscene, so it would be allowed.

Unless your 3 second cutscene is truly amazing, it won't stand a chance to a cutscene that's fancy two minutes long, though. (IMO, again)

Okay.

Making cutscenes in MMF2 isn't the easiest job on the planet, but I guess I'll get it done in almost a month.

what are you talking about, it can't get much easier in MMF2. That's what frames are for!

What do you mean with frames?

are you serious

...I... I... what whoa

read the tutorials here on how to use MMF2

I know what a frame is, I just don't know what is with it and cutscenes. I thought you meant frames as in "animation frames".

you make two frames. One of the cutscene and one for the game. How couldn't it be easier.

That's not what I meant by "it's hard". I meant that it's hard to do because I have to carefully place thre objects everywhere, use the damn Path Movements, make their animations change when they do something and so on.

There are several ways to do it. Some are harder than others.

Oh, man, this is perfect for me. I MUST come up with something for this...

Hmm I has an Idea for this

D: I still dont know how to make cutscenes im Game Maker 6.1 Regestered

Okay, folks, I've got my idea:

STARRING: Bowser as the Grinch, and Kammy Koopa as Max!

I've been wanting to design a less cumbersome cutscene engine for Bowser World anyway, and this provides the perfect excuse to do it, since you can't use old engines.

well, I cant think of anything


I can program if anyone only has an idea...

Hmm... Interesting idea! I'll be thinking of entering.