No More Sweden

Thanks for an excellent couple of days. Now all that’s left is to get these games on the internet so people can play them.
We plan to publish the games on the site within a week, but as most of you have your own blogs/sites we figured you may want to put them there instead. So we won’t just put all the submissions up and be done with it.

What to do:

• Please send us a screenshot, we *might* grab some ourselves, but your will probably be better. That’s a surefire way get you a lot of more players.
• If you want to you can have a small text to accompany your game. Maybe your words or what you tried to communicate. Send us that too.
• Choose a publishing option:
  • If you want to keep the game on your site, send us a link to your page about the game.
  • If you want to update your game, send us a new one.
  • If you *don’t* want us to publish, tell us!

Minor tweaks to your game a bit are also fine, but don’t overdo it, it’s supposed to be done within the time limit.

We’ll publish Sunday (2/8) so we need your stuff before then!

Send your updates to this to competition@nomoresweden.se (note that it’s .se not .com)

This is the 58 hours of jamming compressed into about two minutes. You have to be pretty fast to make a game in that time, but this is 1750x faster.

Here are the winners of the No More Sweden 09 main game making competition:

Best experience

1st place — R-Type 3.141592653589793238469!

2nd place — Really Shooter + Cleaning Lady vs. Masters of the Universe

3d place – The Mad Man and the Door

Most satisfying feedback

1st place — Really Shooter + Cleaning Lady vs. Masters of the Universe

2nd place – Masters of the Universe

3d place — R-Type 3.141592653589793238469!

Most beautiful moiré effect

1st place — Jack Guzi

2nd place — Jesus vs. Feminist

3d place — R-Type 3.141592653589793238469!

Most procedural

1st place — Flatulance Dungeon

2nd place — R-Type 3.141592653589793238469!

Least controversial

1st place — Goodbye Wave

2nd place — Second Shooter

3d place — Jack Guzi

Most efficient subliminal message

1st place — R-Type 3.141592653589793238469!

2nd place (tie) — Guy in the Desert AND Really Shooter + Cleaning Lady vs. Masters of the Universe

Most emo

1st place (epic tie) — The Tall Man AND Guy in the Desert AND Schizofrenic Man and Woman

Congratulations to all winners!!!

The deadline is less than 12hrs away and it’s time to clarify how the submissions will work. I wrote this without input from my co-organizers (they’re sound asleep) so there might be some minor tweaks once we get started.

You will need to have done all of the below before 14.00

• Send your entry zipped up and ready to play to competition@nomoresweden.se
  Note that’s it’s .se not .com, you will get an email back to confirm we got your entry.
  If it’s over 5mb please put it online somewhere and post a link instead. USB-memory is also okay if necessary.
• Hook your teams designated demo computer up to the projector and speakers to make sure everything’s working okay.
  The projector has a native resolution of 1024×768 but seem to take most inputs gladly.
• Prepare a two minute playthrough of your game, there’s a whopping 22 teams, so you need to keep it short.
  If you go over 3 minutes we will stop you (we have shurikens)

The teams will show their games in the order they signed up. Assuming they have  a confirmed submission sent in.

Once the clock hits 14 we’ll start with the demos, that should take about an hour. After all the demos, set up your game running on a computer and we’ll have  a walkaround playtest. It’s a good idea to take turns with your team members to watch the computer so you can make sure your players get a proper experience.

Once the clock hits 16.00 we set up for a lecture by our friends from Denmark.

Once that’s done we vote and cheer. After that a quick cleaning session. Then we eat and party. More about that later.

I’ve made some minor adjustments to the schedule:

• There’s a thirty minute cleanup on saturday to get the worst mess out of the way before we’re hung over.
• There’s a set time for the cleanup, the doors won’t be open since it’s a sunday so make sure you’re here during that time. If you can’t make it, tell us and we’ll arrange something.

Check it out.

It’s all in a (8mb) zip right here: http://nomoresweden.se/splashscreens.zip

Get them and use them however you please.

• One Trullz of Power (Ian Lundbom)
• Team Awesome (Michael Todd, Daniel Kaplan)
• Notch (Markus Persson)
• Magnus Jönsson
• Sausage Fest (Jeb, Kinten)
• Starck
• Hästkista (Jonas Pettersson, Henrik Flink, Daniel Starck)
• Team Frosty Data (Data, Nicklas Frostgård)
• Team Hideous (Hideous)
• The Tall Man (Anders Falk och Olle Lundhall)
• 5=£?/PWÌ (Nifflas och Yann)
• Jonatan Söderström
• Ex-ex-ex-perimental (Martin Jonasson, Petri Purho)
• Decimal (Anders Ekermo)
• Copenhagen Game Collective (Lau, Dajana, Doug ?)
• Champagne (Richard Olsson & Erik Svedäng)
• K.N.A. (Kian, Nils, Andreas)
• Four Dimensons (Joel Nyström, Daniel Remar, Tommy Preger)
• Epic Awesomeness (Gustav Jansson)
• Jon
• Ido
• Gummilaget (Tommy Preger)

The six prize categories

• most satisfying feedback
• most beautiful moiré effect
• most procedural
• least controversial
• most efficient subliminal message
• most emo

Starts at 16.10 and ends at 17.10

Task: Create a splash screen and/or jingle to be used for the games created in the main NMS competition!

Rules:

• Teams can be of any size.
• Use any software you like.
• Music should be in MP3 format.
• Images should be in PNG or JPEG format.

E-mail your submissions to competition@nomoresweden.se

Good Luck!