The Future:2030 Competition Discussion

A new competition with some great prizes! Read the details here:

https://www.scirra.com/blog/143/the-future-2030

And on Newgrounds.com:

http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1365530

What will the future look like in 2030? Will flying cars actually be a reality? Will we be living in a utopia or dystopia? Are robots doing my washing yet? Are we all living underwater from global warming? Can we holiday on the moon? Will all gaming devices support hardware accelerated HTML5?

All types of games are allowed as long as they have some element of the future in 2030 in them!

1st Place Construct 2 Business License and $400 Cash

2nd Place Construct 2 Business License and $300 Cash

3rd Place Construct 2 Business License and $200 Cash

4th - 9th Places Construct 2 Personal Edition License

15 runner ups $25 USD Amazon Voucher

Discuss your ideas, show screenshots of what you're working on here!

Excited. Possible the first jam I plan on entering. I was just talking to my graphics guy yesterday about a game I was thinking about, and this theme just made my idea that much better .

I am very excited, I just participated on my first Ludum Dare, and I see that be on a game jam can be amazing. And also, the theme here is very interesting.

I'm definitely in for this one and I'll be busy thinking of the future!

I participated in the infamous Flappy Jam http://itch.io/jam/flappyjam and I'm also keeping up with the One Game A Month http://www.onegameamonth.com/ game jam.

I also wrote about game jams at http://firefoxosgaming.blogspot.com/2014/02/game-jams-game-programming.html and (near the end) at http://firefoxosgaming.blogspot.com/2013/12/adding-music-to-your-game-game.html.

In particular, if you want to know everything about game jams, there's a great eBook on Amazon by Christer Kaitila called Game Jam Survival Guide and you can get it at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007R0NTF4?ie=UTF8&camp=213733&creative=393177&creativeASIN=B007R0NTF4&linkCode=shr&tag=animonan-20. Christer knows of what he speaks!

May I ask why the theme was set but 16 years in the future?

It seems geared towards inclusivity of ideas. Which, given that you are trying to open it up to free-licensers, does make sense. It's just kind of bland for my tastes. ;)

It would have been cooler if it had been set in 20XX.

I'm just taking it as a "In the future" theme. I say in 16 years we will have robots that will revolt and need destroying .

I think a lot of the robots are revolting already! This is a job for Mega Man!

Very cool theme and it will also serve as an exercise to get to grips with Construct 2.

Awesome idea. I usually base games around medieval fantasy themes, so this should help push me out of my comfort zone.

Are there limitations to keep in mind for the Newgrounds network? I'd love to make a game that runs fullscreen 1920x1080, but all the games I see over there are in tiny windowed displays. Is there a specific resolution we need to work to (useful to know for UI scaling, etc)?

Awesome idea. I usually base games around medieval fantasy themes, so this should help push me out of my comfort zone.

Are there limitations to keep in mind for the Newgrounds network? I'd love to make a game that runs fullscreen 1920x1080, but all the games I see over there are in tiny windowed displays. Is there a specific resolution we need to work to (useful to know for UI scaling, etc)?

I'd like to know that too, and anything else Newgrounds wants. I assume we can put our games in other marketplaces and that we retain all copyright. I'm the opposite of Silver. I want my games to be best on little phones. And I'm starting to eye the Pebble 2.0 SDK for really small games!

I'm very excited especially this is my first competition I'm going to participate in. I'm too young but I hope make a success game. plus Ashley , should we export by "HTML5 Website" exporter, right? Good luck to all participants!

-Silver-, NG recommends keeping 16:9 aspect ratio and offers up some resolution options, although these are geared towards the hard-of-maths rather than being the only ones you can choose from. If it helps, my game will be 848x480 with an option to select full screen for those with powerful enough video cards. Here's the Game and Movie Standards link.

Thanks for the info, Colludium! 848x480 seems to be the largest resolution in their list of suggestions, so I'll work with that

Does the 2030 Newgrounds Gamejam have any size requirements for resolution?