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

Competition Entries:

Competition entries will be listed here, and eventually sorted into categories

Primary Competition: Themed

Closes: December 23rd, 8pm Atlantic Standard Time (GMT -4)

Entry #1:

Cake Hunter

By: kbdmaster

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/46771759/Cake%20Hunter/index.html

Entry #2:

Invasion

By: gnahz

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1738649/Invasionver3/index.html

Entry #3:

Charlie Ginger's Christmas Run

By: nemo

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/53898431/charlieginger/index.html

Entry #4:

Where's My Hat

By: johnmaxfieldjr

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/37107289/WheresMyHat/index.html

Entry #5:

Where's My Pants

By: gonzdevour

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/31590694/WhereIsMyPants/index.html

Entry #6:

Wall$treet Reclamation

By: HotGod

http://www.2laugh.com/wsr/

Entry #7:

Lock n Load: first strike part 1

By: 01lifeleft

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/48963688/Lock%20n%20Load%20first%20strike%20part%201/index.html

Entry #8:

Little Knight : Stomper's Invasion

By: Kiyoshi

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2472278/CompGame/index.html

Entry #9:

Sewice

By: Dobandon

http://dslakaitis.info/sewice

Entry #10:

Saved by the Balls

By: cesisco

Original:http://dl.dropbox.com/u/46383802/SAVED%20BY%20THE%20BALLS/index.html

Fixed:http://dl.dropbox.com/u/46383802/SAVED%20BY%20THE%20BALLSV2/index.html

Entry #11:

Around The World

By: aldhy

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/50788213/Around_The_World/Game_Content/index.html

Different version:http://dl.dropbox.com/u/50788213/Around_The_World/Data/index.html

Entry #12:

Head on Heroes

By: pikpiak

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/45240701/HoH/index.html

Secondary Competition: Free for all

Closes: December 2nd , 8pm Atlantic Standard Time (GMT -4)

Entry #1:

T-DROID Bounce

By: cademonteiro

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/48625982/index.html

Entry #2: unofficial

This is my house

By: 01lifeleft

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/48963688/This%20is%20My%20House/index.html

webgl version: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/48963688/This%20is%20My%20House%20WebGL/index.html

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

P.S. With lack of interest, mini-competitions have been removed to focus on primary and secondary competitions.

Current Prizes: Total prizes valued at over $800!!!, and more could be coming!

Prizes

Primary Competition:

1st place

1x Construct 2 Business license courtesy of Scirra

$100 Amazon voucher

Featured Fun Chowder Games advertising campaign. If your game is commercial, we take no cut.

(Details to be discussed with winner)

2nd place

1x Construct 2 Business license coutesy of Fun Chowder Games

$50 Amazon voucher

Fun Chowder Games advertising campaign. If your game is commercial, we take no cut.

(Details to be discussed with winner)

3rd place

1x Construct 2 Business license coutesy of Fun Chowder Games

$50 Amazon voucher

Fun Chowder Games advertising campaign. If your game is commercial, we take no cut.

(Details to be discussed with winner)

Secondary Competition:

1st place

The prestige of winning, no prizes to be awarded as of this writting

Additional accolades: No prizes to be awarded as of this writting, merely prestige

-Honarable mentions: If a game didn't quite make the top 3, but still impressed us enough to merit recognizion.

-Best overall game: As voted by the fans

-Category winners: Both a Fun Chowder pick, and a fan voted pick for each category

Fun Chowder Games would like to thank everyone for their participation!

How To Enter

Primary and Secondary Competitions

To submit a game, simply reply to this post with:

a) The name of the game

b) The competition it is entering (Primary or Secondary)

c) A URL to play the game (read how to upload your game to dropbox for free!)

d) Your country of residence

Everyone is allowed to enter the competitions. Do not post any links on this thread to works in progress! Only completed entries should be posted. There is a seperate thread for works in progress. Please post all works in progress here: Reclamation WIP

Note: Categories will be finalized at a later date, just say what category you feel your game belongs to. If the category you picked doesn't quite match up with the final list we ask you which category you would like your game to be moved to.

Note: There are no category prizes, but there will be a vote for "best of" in each category. For example: Best puzzle game

Judging

All entries will be judged by Fun Chowder Games

There will also be public voting for fan favorites

The criteria for judging may change slightly, but in general we are looking for how games feel overall. Examples include, but are not limited to:

Playability: Does the game control well, are there glitches that hinder play, that sort of thing.

Game Mechanics: Are they well implemented? Unique? Help drive a story?, this is a broad category.

Effective use of theme: For primary competition

Artsyle: More important then sheer graphical fidelity is the aesthetic: http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/graphics-vs.-aesthetics

Music/Sound: Are they used appropriately and effectively, does the sound and music enhance the experience?

Engaging: Sort of an x-factor. The game just draws you in and you want to keep playing, based more on the fact that it is fun and appropriately challenging.

Completeness: Does it feel like a complete game, or more like a tech demo?

Fun Chowder Game Competition: Reclamation

http://funchowder.com/

With increasing browser support for HTML5, and the recent news about Flash and Silverlight, it is a perfect time to encourage the development of games using Scirra's Construct 2. And of course shamelessly promote and improve the services of Fun Chowder Games. :)

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, mojo, person, etc...

Primary Competition: Themed

Closes: December 23rd, 11:59pm GMT

Design a game in Construct 2 with the 'Reclamation' theme. All game assets (art assets, sound effects, music, etc...) must either be created by the etrant, or used with permission (e.g. Scirra Spite Packs).

Both early-adopters and free license users are welcome to enter the competition, there are however certain advantages in scope by having an early-adopters license.

Everyone can submit up to 2 entries for the themed competition. The number is limited because we want to encourage the development of polished and complete games, or at least what could pass as complete. Please do not entre demos into the competition, but feel free to post your works in progress on the forums. (perhaps start a forum thread for everyone to share their works in progress).

Secondary Competition: Free for all

Closes: December 2nd, 11:59pm GMT

Only a single entry with the same rules as above, however you are not bound by a theme. At the moment there will be no prize giveaways for this competition except for the prestige of winning.

Only two winners, one chosen by us, and the other chosen by the fans.

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

Small Print:

All entrants give the unlimted right to Fun Chowder Games Ltd. to use any and all material submitted in the Fun Chowder Game Competition: "Reclamation" for promotional purposes. All material remains the property of their respective owners.

Amazon vouchers will be emailed to their respective recipients. The voucher will be provided in your equivalent native currency. Fun Chowder Games Ltd. reserves the right to exchange prizes to other items of roughly equal value if there is difficulty in providing said prizes.

Edit: Changed deadlines to GMT

Scirra Ltd

<font size="2">Note from Tom: Although Scirra Ltd has donated a prize to this competition, Scirra takes no responsibilities and makes no guarantees for anything resulting from this competition. All queries and support regarding this competition should be directed towards funchowder.com</font>

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.

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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.

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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.

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

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?

Are games going to be judged on Play only, or is it going to be multiple things like Graphics and Technical stuff as well.

are Teams entering or solo game makers.

Competitons are great, but limit some people who have great ideas but are rubbish at graphics, Then Teams may have an advantage as they have a graphics person, sound person etc.

What about best TEAM game and best SOLO game..? mind you it depends on how many teams there are.

Games will definately be judged on a variety of different qualities. But playability and fun factor would definately have more weight then just graphics. Artstyle is often more important than sheer graphical fidelity. Though a polished look can be nice, if a balance is not struck it could effect gameplay (e.g. game slowdown). Note that not all games need an HD feel either, e.g. retro style games.

As far as entries by solo game makers or teams, we will make no distinction. However, it couldn't hurt to add additional information about the game's development. Sometimes knowing the developers motivations can help players become more deeply connected to the experience. I am reminded of the recent game "The Convergence" by forum member Gammabeam who developed the game in secret to surprise his wife on their 10th anniversary. That backstory certainly aided in the popularity of the game...also there will be a fan favorite poll similar to the last competition, so you never know what can get you those extra votes from players.

Appreciate the thoughts :). There will be lots of prizes to go around. <img src="smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

We are definately leaning towards having a free-for-all, however there are people that enjoy the challenge of having their hands tied, so figured we would ask.

There will also be a longer timeframe to complete games in this competition, but havn't decided on the exact date yet.

With the support of the great folks at Scirra, we (Fun Chowder Games) have been permitted to promote a new Construct 2 games competition on the forums!

Details including contest guidelines, and prizes will be announced shortly (including a Construct 2 business license for the 1st place winner courtesy of Scirra!).

In the meantime I will ask the forum this, would you prefer a "free-for-all" competition where you are free to make whatever sort of game you like with whatever theme you like? Or would you prefer a specific theme to follow, akin to the last competition's "space" theme?

Also, would you rather have entries subdivided into generlized categories: e.g. Puzzle game, shooter, platformer, adventure, etc..., with the winners in each category competing for the top positions? Or just have the entries all lumped together for judging and merely sorted into categories for convenience?

Until things get hammered down, we are very fluid :) Fun Chowder Games is still just a work in progress, and this competition is being rolled out as we prepare for an official launch later this year. http://funchowder.com/

Any thoughts/feelings/ideas would be welcome :)

Edit: Finalized competition details will be posted 4pm tomorrow (Nov.11), Atlantic Standard Time. Feel free to provide input until then <img src="smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0" align="middle">

Disclaimer: Posted with the permission of Scirra

Update:

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?

Hey everyone,my name is Craig Corporon from Nova Scotia, Canada. Been playing video games since the mid-eighties and have always wanted to be a part of the industry. Found myself with some free time so putting together a video game development/production/marketing company. We are in pre-launch, only putting things together a few days ago. The name may be silly, there was a facebook vote amongst friends and this was the clear winner. If anyone gets bored and wants to design a logo feel free :P

edit: The slogan is also highly changeable :P

Shameless plug: http://funchowder.com/

We will be concentrating on casual and HTML5 games, while also shamelessly pluging Scirra's Construct 2 every chance we get.

Whew!!!!!