[Icehouse] Win2008 IGDC - Your Thoughts? (long; take your time)

[Jorge Arroyo]

On Feb 18, 2008 9:49 PM, Ryan Hackel <deeplogic at excite.com> wrote:

>
> 4)  It sounds like what we really need is focused attention on the design
> and playtesting of one specific game.  ***Here's an Idea... the annual
> Pyramid Project.***  Take one promising game, and have the community adopt
> it for 12 months.  Each year, the community nominates unpublished games, and
> we choose, by voting or discussion, one game to focus our collective
> attention on.  It's the game we playtest with friends, try out at cons, give
> feedback to the designer throughout the year, and try tireless for one year
> to improve while promoting.
>
> This has many advantages over the IGDC.  We don't splinter our time and
> attention among six or ten different games.  We focus on one game with the
> most consensus, one that the whole Icehouse community can get behind.  It
> doesn't hinge as much on large group participation.  And it doesn't demand
> as much attention from one individual as the IGDC does.  In the end, we have
> at least one more good game we can hold up to the greater gaming industry
> and say confidently, "this one's worth it".
>
> What do y'all think of that?


That sounds like a good idea, but maybe a whole year would be too long for
each game... Still, I think one of the advantages of creating games for a
specific game system is that  many people can potentially try your games. If
everyone concentrates on just one game for a long period of time, then what
about all the other new games that crop up during the year? Maybe what we
need is a site like gargageband.com applied to games. The more games you
review, the more games you're allowed to upload :)

-Jorge
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