mZmm wrote:0Anesthetic4u wrote:mZmm wrote:game jams are an established form of contest, not sure what this guy is talking about. I don't think it would spark new games to be created, but it would be a fun exercise and competition for devs to home their skills and maybe get some ideas they had been stowing away.
problem is, fetish games tend to be really content heavy, and making a Content heavy game in a game Jam is way harder than just making some cool new mechanic and making a short game that shows that mechanic off, which is what usually happens at game jams. I would be interested in participating, but it would have to be a bit of a Time period For it to work properly
also any kind of judging system would be hard because I guarantee people would vote for the type of content that appeals to them, and not necessarily the actually better or more well-written game. Same thing with judges.
Aaaaaand? So what if they are Established?
No mater what someone has to be incharge of the money.
Even if you make a thrid party site the money holder, SOMEONE has to tell the thrid party site who to give the money to.
That is a VERY easily abused position.
All of my concerns are still valid.
fam if you're this paranoid about someone stealing your money I'm never going to convince you
nobody that's been in this community for more than 10 minutes would destroy their entire reputation to run away with a couple hundred bucks they could probably make back in a few weeks
yes, don't give your money to some complete rando, but I thought that was pretty well known knowledge????
1 Really? An internet monacer isn't worth a couple hundred bucks to you? Someone offered me a hundred bucks for my ID and I would serriously have to think about it.
2 Reputation? Really. Almost no one would even know outside of this particualr forrum. Fewer would care.
and 3 it would be easy for them to just abuse their position in other ways.
Off the top of My head. Make a game them selves using a different account that they award the money to, award the prize to a friend's game, pay out only a small quantity of the prize, and tell the victor that the prize was getting divied up between several "worthy" games.
They don't just have to cut and run with the money.