New Construct 2 Competition!!!

mrsponkie - what you are saying would make sense for a, let's say, end of the year "Best of Construct 2 2011" sort of thing. But if it's a compo with a set time limit then a preset theme works out a lot better by making the entries mostly equal (apart from someone just appropriating whatever they had going to a theme).

better being judged on a specific theme to follow (who-will-do-it-better will give more excitement to competition)

I am pro theme =)

Still about 5ish hours away from the official rules posting. However here is a little information until then.

The theme of the competition is "Reclamation" (as in to reclaim something). This is a pretty broad topic, for example this includes, but is not limited to: something lost or stolen... an object, memories, or person.

Visual style and location is up to the developers.

This will be a 6 week competition with a deadline of December 23rd 8pm Atlantic Standard Time.

There will be also be secondary, Fre-for-all, competition. At the moment this competition will have no prizes except the prestige of winning. Only one entry per person.

This will be a 3 week competition with a deadline of: December 2nd , 8pm Atlantic Standard Time

Note: Games completed before November 11th, 2011 are not eligible.

Ideas/thoughts/feelings so far?

Being British I have no idea what 'Atlantic Standard Time' is. What is it in GMT?

Being British I have no idea what 'Atlantic Standard Time' is. What is it in GMT?

GMT -4 hours

For example: 4pm GMT would be noon AST

Ah! Nice to know. Cheers :)

The theme of the competition is "Reclamation" (as in to reclaim something). This is a pretty broad topic, for example this includes, but is not limited to: something lost or stolen... an object, memories, or person.

Sorry, this include a reclamation of, for example, a mood? a reclamation of the freedom, the equality, the love, could be possible to fix with your competition theme?

The theme of the competition is "Reclamation" (as in to reclaim something). This is a pretty broad topic, for example this includes, but is not limited to: something lost or stolen... an object, memories, or person.

Sorry, this include a reclamation of, for example, a mood? a reclamation of the freedom, the equality, the love, could be possible to fix with your competition theme?

All those examples could fit within the theme of reclamation.

edit:

Using freedom for example: If a person was once free, then imprisoned, he could relaim his freedom by escaping.

However, if a person was, for instance, born into slavery they could "win" their freedom, but they could not "reclaim" it as it is something they never had before.

edit:

It also doesn't have to be personal reclamation, you could be reclaiming something for someone else. e.g. A village has an artifact stolen and you retrieve/reclaim it for them.

The official competition rules have been posted, there are still some editing tweaks to be done