How faithfully do these have to be made, by the way? Are we free to, for example, recreate the game from a different perspective, and with an updated engine? (For example, recreating Pool of Radiance in a top-down view, rather than using a first-person style, and using 3.5 edition Dungeons & Dragons rules behind things?)
New School | - you Must stick with to the theme and style of the game you have chosen
- your focus is to take an old game and give it a face lift. Update the graphics/sprites.
Give it some pretty eye-candy effects. Better music, etc.
- A plus is to also build upon the orginal game's gameplay. EXAMPLE: Add stomping to the
original Super Mario Bros. if that had been your choice.
I think that is what is meant by 'new school', however TFS should confirm this before it's considered 'fact'.
I only mentioned the dating because a lot of the games he suggested were released before 1985 (I didn't think re-releases would count) which I thought would have meant something would have needed changing somewhere...
Yeah, that's a valid point. I was more or less focusing on the awards/prizes comment, though I don't feel 'bitching' about specifications within the contest is needed, putting things in a more nice way and a direct question is more logical. -- Not that any of what either of you said could directly be defined as 'bitching'. Just a heads up, for any contest goers in the future, for any other contests.
We take offense (or I do at least) to saying our contests are not planned, none of you are aware of how active staff boards are (posts are not counted in staff boards after all). If they were, I'm sure most staff members would have significantly larger post counts. With that said, we don't pull idea's out of our butt and then slap them up in a topic a few hours later, we discuss matters first in the staff board's, get input from everyone.. check of ideas and modification, then agree on some sort of 'product', which then is posted.
None the less, Jay, I do agree with you there, I was just dumbfounded by some phrasing in past posts in the topic.