Almost 2 months ago we reported on what we thought might be the scariest/best Flash Game Contest ever created.


The Stonking Great Game Contest From The Escapist Magazine:

Well today we received an update about the contest.  It seems that they have upped-the-ante a bit by adding a bunch of industry pros as judges to the contest.  You still don’t win very much, but at least now your work can be seen (and most likely roundly dismissed) by a bunch of industry guys.  Here is the list:

Dan Teasdale	Harmonix	Design Lead
Richard Dansky	Red Storm	Central Clancy Writer
R. Michael Young	NCSU	Professor
Chad Dezern	Insomniac	Studio Director
Nate Fox	Sucker Punch	Game Director
Richard Lemarchand	Naughty Dog	Design Lead
Greg McClanahan	Kongregate	Director of Games
Kelly Zmack	Radical	President
Rusty Buchert	Sony	Senior  Producer
Nick Earl	EALA	SVP  Visceral Games
Brian Bright	Neversoft	Project Director
Joby Otero	Luxoflux	Chief Creative Officer
Guha Bala	Vicarious Visions	President

Again, this is a game contest in which you use Zero Punctuation assets to make game. We here at 8bitrocket.com do think it might be a worthwhile contest, mostly for exposure to your work.  Our advice to use an existing engine, and make sure that you use the Zero Punctuation assets in way that would make the game unique and usable only for the contest.  The contest ends on Oct. 19th. 

Does the addition of industry vets change your opinion of the contest?

Update!

We just got an email from Jeff Palumbo brand Manager for The Escapist Magazine   He wanted to clear-up a couple misconceptions:

Thank you for posting that news! I can
understand the developers’ concerns but there are a couple items people
have been fearful of that we have cleared up in our forums:

1. The
   game is ours once it’s submitted.
• This
  isn’t true. The only thing we want to keep is our IP, so every
  developer is welcome to use their game in any way they choose after wards,
  just as long as they take our IP out.
2. Someone
   will steal my code.
• We
  are only asking for code for people’s games we are looking further
  into for the event itself. We will be checking for viruses and the ability
  to put it up on our site for everyone to play. The Escapist will not do
  anything else with the code. It wouldn’t benefit our brand or
  reputation to do so.

 

If there are any further questions, please
feel free to email me or take a look at this post which has a lot of answered
questions in it: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/6.128927