Game Jolt Contest Ideas

Games That Threaten The Player's Sexuality - self explanatory

Confusion - make a confusing game, though the confusion shouldn't be in complication

A.G.O. (Attention-Grabbing Opening) - make a game which begins with something that sucks you right in, even if the rest of the game is nowhere near as exciting

A.G.N. (Attention-Grabbing Name) - see KniteBlargh's profile

Poor Indie/Commercial/Film Remake - steal ideas from an indie/commercial game or a film and make a deliberately bad game out of them

Good Indie/Commercial/Film Remake - steal ideas from an indie/commercial game or a film, preferrably an awful one, and make a good game out of them

A Game Called "..." - create a game with a given title. All entries should have that same one title

Gimmicks - game should have a single gimmick which is basically the heart of the game

Where's the First? - the game should be the sequel to a game that doesn't exist. There could then be loads of back references that the player can't even begin to understand

Anti-Instinct - the game should go against what players would generally assume to be fact. For example, spikes and enemies could be harmless and walls could be one-hit kills, or bullets fired at a ship could be helpful, not harmful, with power-ups the opposite

Innuendo - had to be said. The game is a giant, cheesy sexual reference. Example: the player could be a damaged robot which, to repair itself, needs to suck nuts up and, at the end of every level, get screwed

Weird - Make a weird game. I'd love to see what kind of games people would make if this were a real contest.

Originality with a twist - I thought "original" would be a good contest idea, but then I thought how many boring games would come out. That's why I though of something else. Make a game that's original, and strange at the same time! Hard one.

Shmunique - Make a unique shoot em up game.

RACIST=FUN - Make a game with at least one racist line (IT HAVE TO BE FUNNY).

MORAL CHOICE - U want to kill someone to save your own life? it is your choice.

LOLWUT GORE - Make a game with a lot of gore and blood (you could kill someone in real life, then take a pic, and use it as title screen).

MUSIC - Make a music based game.

Minimal - Don't tell the player what to do directly while still making if fun

GameJolt - A game based around the website, people, and/or content here

lol, here's an idea me and my friends came up with.

Bad graphics, good gameplay - make a game with terrible graphics, but fun gameplay.

I'm ruining the whole 'bold and then put a - and explain how the comp theme works'

I have an idea that gives everyone a fairish er chance and challenges them. Have knite make 10 random sprites (:P) and have someone make 5 sounds and 5 music tracks and you can only use those in your game, nothing else, no edited form, anything.

Make a game that's as close to Above the Sky as possible.

Kanosis: bad idea, all people would use gm decompiler.

Above the Sky is impervious to decompilation.

[Games That Threaten The Player's Sexuality - self explanatory] Haha!****

[Where's the First? - the game should be the sequel to a game that doesn't exist. There could then be loads of back references that the player can't even begin to understand

Anti-Instinct - the game should go against what players would generally assume to be fact. For example, spikes and enemies could be harmless and walls could be one-hit kills, or bullets fired at a ship could be helpful, not harmful, with power-ups the opposite] Those are pretty good ideas!

[LOLWUT GORE - Make a game with a lot of gore and blood (you could kill someone in real life, then take a pic, and use it as title screen).] Oh man!!

[MUSIC - Make a music based game.] Good idea.****

I'll come up with some ideas later!

these are cool ideas, but nothing appropriate for an official contest. I'd make em more general like:

SPEED

POETIC

why not a contest about videogame-making art ?

2 other crazy ideas i made up!

Sprite Uno - Make a really good game that only uses one sprite! Hard one...

Never-ending simplicity - Make a game that is EXTREMELY simple and easy(with levels you could beat in 20 seconds)! But make it so that, no matter how many levels you beat, there's more. Simple game, tons of levels. But then again, judging could take forever. So maybe this is not such a good idea. =D

Game that everyone dislikes the most - Make an incredibly hard, punishing game

Dreamland Game - Make a game with strange physics and/or bizzare puzzles

Lies - Everything the player is told is false. Everything. The button it SAYS is for jumping might actually just kill you, etc.

Story Game - You make the story, we make the game

Annoying - The game annoys the player, you win by not quiting

Comedy - make a funny game

Holiday - game thats about a holiday

GameJolt game - A game about gamejolt...watevr

Those r just some ideas, I think the story game would be really cool...unfortunately I cant offer any prizes so I cant host it :(

NAL's come up with the best ideas so far. there pretty good. i also like the competition with given resources. if there is a good selection then something could come of that.

Backwards - You play the games story from the end to the start. This could mean its starts with the WIN screen and you have to make it back through all the levels, from most difficult to easiest, and so on.

One Button Game - Read the title

Sonar - Make a game that's main theme is the use of sonar in some fashion. Could be extremely interesting to see how it would be taken.

Idea sparked by a discussion with KniteBlargh about not having an official Game Jolt mascot.

Mascots - Make a game with at least one memorable mascot. (E.g. Mario, Sonic, the dude from Karoshi, etc.) Most memorable character could be GJ's official mascot.

Some more suggestions. :P

Buxmar Xif Qsiggy - Entries must be in a fictional language. There should be enough to go on from the game itself

Super Happy Ultra Competition Awesome - Games should be inspired by, based on or have some connection with Japanese culture, language or Japan in general

Sellout - Game should be littered with advertisements for fictional (or real!) products

Subliminality - Game should have subliminal messages

I like all the other suggestions though. Would personally be happy with any of them.

@ Nal: "Subliminality - Game should have subliminal messages". I like that.

Or perhaps:

FOOD - Whatever you want it to mean!

GameJolt game - ftw

I made up another weird contest idea

Guns! Guns! - Make a game that's all about guns, because i'm sure everybody loves games with guns in them

Garden Games - Games based around plants/gardens

SplitGame - You make the first half of your game, someone else makes the second half.

Split game might be fun.

Educational - Make a fun educational game.

Single Shape - Make a game where absolutely everything is one particular shape. Square, Triangle, Circle, God-forbid anything with more than 4 sides.

Seizureworthy - Make a game unsuitable for epileptic players.

World Issues - Make a game about solving a world issue that we have. Global warming, famine, war...

Fear\eerie: Well with Halloween upon us, a contest about fear would be interesting. I know what you are thinking, but the theme would be more on eerie-ness than shocking

Oceanic: Games based off something to do with the ocean.

..and I can't think of any more at the moment.

@xHeatx

your contest idea Fear\eerie is an excellent contest idea in my opinion, Halloween is coming and we wanna have fun this Halloween! So why not make a horror game? Fear\eerie is a great suggestion. Smart thinking xHeatx

@Heat : That seems like a good theme for an Octobr contest.

"Apocolypse" - Make a game about the end of the world

"Heights" - Make a game about being high up (flying, climbing, etc.) - I could foresee some interesting games coming out of this

I made up a fun game contest idea

Gangsta - Make a game where you play as a gangster. You can even make a Grand Theft Auto game! XDDD It has to have: Stealing cars, buying drugs, shooting people, being a gangser etc.

i love the oceanic and heights idea, you can do a lot with them

my idea:

must look pretty damm awsome contest:

the goal is to create the best looking game you have ever seen:D

JUMPING: Must involve plenty of jumping in anyway you can imagine

RUBBER BALLS: lollollollol