Announcement: 2010 Activision Independent Game Competition

[Aiursrage2k]

Its semi related as it has a Blizzard CEO... anyway could be interesting

Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick had announced a new Independent Game Competition at DICE yesterday, where participants stand a chance to win the grand prize of $100,000 and make their game development ideas a reality.

Only a PDF file with preliminary guidelines had been posted so far, with Activision stating that additional registration details for the competition will be revealed sometime in March. Entrants are required to submit a two-page proposal, including defining features, and a short video (up to five minutes in length) depicting development materials like concept art, animatics, previsualization, or the game itself.

More information about the announcement can be gathered from this breaking Gamasutra article, and we will keep you posted as details about the competition start trickling in.

http://www.indiegames.com/blog/2010/02/announcement_2010_activision_i.html

[Xelxiuz]

Creativity apparently is only worth $100,000.

[Aiursrage2k]

Well no creativity is worth 0, its all about implementation.

[IskatuMesk]

fuck you guys, you ain't stealin MAH game design bs for your shitty one-liner cartoony RTS garbage

suck a lemon

[thebrowncloud]

Creativity apparently is only worth $100,000.

Well, if you think about what all you have to give them, that could potentially be a pretty easy $100,000 if you have the resources and skills you need available to you. That could pay for a good chunk of the college education you needed to win the money. IMO, that's not bad at all. And for people who are self-taught, that's a pretty easy $100,000 gross. If you win, that is. Some entrants could very well already have all of the stuff they need to submit done. I mean, what did you expect? $1,000,000? That could pay for multiple college educations.

[Xelxiuz]

Well no creativity is worth 0, its all about implementation.

Implementation is part of the creativity factor, as is designing, etc etc. Obviously it doesn't limit itself towards only the idea, or else any retard could run for it, even me.

Creativity apparently is only worth $100,000.

Well, if you think about what all you have to give them, that could potentially be a pretty easy $100,000 if you have the resources and skills you need available to you. That could pay for a good chunk of the college education you needed to win the money. IMO, that's not bad at all. And for people who are self-taught, that's a pretty easy $100,000 gross. If you win, that is. Some entrants could very well already have all of the stuff they need to submit done. I mean, what did you expect? $1,000,000? That could pay for multiple college educations.

Of course it looks good from the point of view of the entrants. But I'm pretty much always looking at it from an objective stand point and therefore will always look at the business perspective. It's smart for the company to do it, but it also means they are not in a good state. I would elaborate more, but the short version is it's a symptom. The fact that they were hiring people to overhaul and work on bnet in 2008/2009 when the game comes out this year is a sure-fire sign that they were not prepared. In comparison, WoW had it's pricing model and other misc details ironed out long before the alpha stages were done but that's because they were ripping off someone else's proven to work method ie EQ/SOE.