Minigame Competition #47, Hall of...

Rules version 1.1

Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen!
The last competition had no less than 11 participants! Is that a new record? I think so.
Congratulations also to the top five and the rest of you, the ?block competition brought some very creative minigames with it.
Of course, I won (lol) and MechaBowser got in a well deserved 2nd place. He was so close to winning that he helped me with setting up the topic of this MGC, and I'm sure that you'll like it.

It is a minigame competition that many of you have always been dreaming of, and a minigame competition that will hopefully engage many many members this time.

The topic?
Creativeness would describe it well.
You will have to work with a limited set of graphics.

This set of graphics will follow a few lines below, so stay tuned


So what are the rules of this Minigame Competition:
1) Only use graphics from the list below. Do not make your own graphics, do not use any other graphics. Only the ones on this list.
These are graphics that were declined from being submitted to the main site, so use them with care and give them the love they deserve
2) No editing of the graphics (that includes resizing/recoloring etc.).
Every single sprite you use has to be used exactly the way it is on the sprite sheet.
The crop-tool is the only one that is allowed, but only use it in a reasonable margin. (e.g. do not go and copypaste different pixels from various spritesheets to compose a new one, that would defeat the purpose)
Update: Mirroring and Flipping is also allowed.
Modifying the sprites in-game (rotation, scaling, etc.) is allowed, as long as you're not abusing these functions.
3) You can use EVERYTHING that is on a spritesheet.
That means you can not only use the actual sprites, but you can also use the font that has been used by the creators to fill empty space or whatever you like.
Heck, you could even use a portrait of Bill Cosby, should you find one on these sheets.
The whole sheets are your playfields, so be creative.
4) You are not allowed to team up with anybody.
If you can not program, get yourself a free copy of GM7 and learn it. For what we're intending here, it should work. We're not looking for masterpieces of programming, but for creative use of sprites, and if you get yourself one tutorial, you should be able to slap at least something together, don't be afraid it's gonna be fun!
5) Don't be afraid!
Your resources may be limited, but they are very varying. You might find the best stuff outside of the actual spritesheet. Go and find the stuff you need.
6) Everything that is not a matter of graphics (sound, for example) is free to use.
7) The competition ends on Sunday, 14th of June
... which is almost a month and should be enough to work with. (After all you don't have to make graphics yourself, lol!)
8) Do not like the rules? Detected a loophole? Not restrictive enough?
Complain within the next 24 hours, to make sure the competition is fair.
The general topic though will not be changed.
9) The most important rule of them all:
Have fun!
Be creative. If you see loopholes, don't try to squeeze through.
You might find some sheets that were only declined because they were recolors or edits (and are therefore actually official sprites of good quality). Do not think you're "outsmarting the system" because lol, you only used these and make a normal game out of them.
In this case, I rely on the voting crowd. Vote for creativeness, not quality, ok?

Credits go to everyone who submitted their sheet and to the staff who kept them at a safe place.
Credit goes also to MechaBowser who helped me to arrange this little list here.

All sheets should have the authors' names removed (because we do not intend to make fun of said authors). If you see your name on one of the sheets, contact me and I'll get rid of that name.
The intention is not to make fun of you, as said, but to have the graphics used at last. Which was what they were made for, am i rite?


With these words, I open Minigame Competition #47, and I hope many of you have the time and the guts to come up with something cool.

YES

I'm entering this
i love the theme

at long last

this should turn out interesting!

does this include runtime manipulation

no it does not

Yes, you can manipulate during runtime (aka by programming, to who ever has no idea what that means), but don't abuse your skills

I guess I can't use the excuse of not being able to find graphics in a matching style this time.

I'm curious about whether or not I can make my own animations of the parts on this sheet since they are disassembled.

This post has been edited by Elyk on May 19 2009, 01:43 PM

yes

entering

gonna have so much fun

Í'm going to do something crazy. I have a perfect idea already.

Woooo my first Minigame competition here, im in.


Thats a lot of Resources


This post has been edited by Homeroe on May 19 2009, 01:51 PM

hmmmmmmmm...
this sheets... are really horrible... maybe I can make sumthin out of it.
is my declined mr. I sheet also in there...?

oh my god

OH MY GOD

that's alright

HOLY **** MAYBE I WILL ACTUALLY ENTER THIS TIME AROUND

I can't find any Tilesets among these...

They should be ordered by Mario/Enemies/Tilesets etc...

So everyone can aim for the same sheets?

Keep in mind that the sprite sheets are the only limitation, and you're free to do whatever with them.
For reasons of creativity, the sheets have neither been labeled nor ordered.
Take what you find.

Okay... But is my Mr. I sheet in there? Then I would take it as an enemy xD

they're not labelled with names, so that's hard to tell.

I looked through all the sheets now, couldn't find mine.

Also only useable thing I found was a SMW Luigi. Other than that nothing, also there are far too less bgs and tilesets.

This post has been edited by dj coco on May 19 2009, 02:17 PM