What happened to the contests/events?
Thursday, December 18, 2014 - 11:41
I remember that there used to be contests encouraging people to submit art (most of my submissions are from these kinds of events), and I wanted to know, what happened to them? It's been over a year and I've yet to see another one. I used to look forward to fun events like that.
Yeah, we need to bring those back.
Mostly, it's difficult to come up with new ideas for a challenge every week, so maybe we can use this thread to come up with some ideas. If you think of anything, post it here, and (pending approval by yours truly) I'll add it to the contest queue.
I'd like to take another crack at a miniboss challenge. That one was fun.
I suppose at this point it wouldn't hurt to re-use some of the better ideas.
Why not do a consistent monthly contest, that way there's more time to generate ideas, and they're used up less often. It'll give content creators more time, and if there's a universal date (say the third monday, or whenever) it'll be easy to remember and schedule time to work.
Is there any way to put a spot for it on the front page, rather than in the forums? That way visitors are aware of the theme and deadline. You could even put a countdown timer on there to give it a sense of urgency.
A holiday/New Year theme could work for now.
Can anyone host a contest on this site? I've been considering offering up a contest to artists/developers but not sure where/how to go about it.
I really like how the Ludum Dare works, if we could get contests that mirror how those themes are generated we could potentially get the same result and a lot of content.