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Winter is closing in... the nights are growing longer... and there's an undeniable chill in the air ... (at least for some of us). It's about time we warmed ourselves up with a bit of friendly competition. Welcome to the very first YoYo Games competition!
The Task
To design an incredible game with a "winter" theme. You're free to take this idea wherever you like - be creative!
The competition was judged first and foremost through community response, although the final decision lay with the YoYo Games Staff and the creator of Game Maker, Professor Mark Overmars.
Games were judged on creativity, originality, aesthetics, and game play.
The deadline for submissions was Midnight (GMT) 23th December, 2007.
The Winners!
A game to silence any detractors of 2-dimensional game play. The comparison to Mario is inevitable, with elements from Paper Mario and Mario Galaxy combined to make something altogether new. The result is much more than a remake, with game play that is at once challenging and satisfying. Moreover the characters have a charm all their own and we found ourselves sucked into the "Wubbly" world. An excellent concept, great graphics, good level design, a nice range of enemies, and fine polish - $1,000 well earned.
That this game has found such strong approval in the community is no surprise. The judges were left charmed.
Despite being one of the first games uploaded for the competition, despite having played over two hundred games with a winter theme over the last week, despite actually having work to do, I keep coming back to Garden Gnome Carnage. That's longevity for you.
A Grinch like garden gnome, attached by a bungee cord to a building mounted on remote control wheels is not what springs to my mind when I think of winter. That said, this must have been the most original game in the competition. GGC appears fairly simple at first glance, but appearances do deceive. The graphics, music and game play all contribute to a very pleasing and unusually consistent style. While the potential for enormous points/combos and the intuitive, yet challenging, controls produce excellent replay value.
It's impossible to explain what's funny about swinging a gnome around on a bungee cord, play this now.
Probably the most highly polished game in the competition. An isometric third person shooter which sees you, "Granny", fight off hordes of extra-terrestrially possessed snowmen, with only your arsenal of weapons and power-ups to aid you.
The engine may not be so different from what we've seen out of GM before but the artwork, polish and dark humour meant this game stood out from the crowd.
Competition Submissions
Top community rated games today:
See all the competition entries
Honourable Mentions
- Twodase
- The Winter Solstice
- Sun Sun Der
- Dominos 2: Winter Edition
- Snowy Joe
- Save the Christmas
- 'Twas the night
- Sinking Ice Block of Doom
- I.C.E.
- Snowball Frenzy
- Mage of Seasons
- Block Man Snow
