No Future Contest (English)

 

Game development contest organised by

VISAGES DU MONDE / CERGY & l’OUJEVIPO

[Click here for the french version]

[Find the games here]

 

As an exercise in style, OUJEVIPO and VISAGES DU MONDE (a french culturel center in Cergy, close to Paris) invite you to participate to the NO FUTURE game dev CONTEST. Your game will have to obey to strict technical and thematic constraints… Because your freedom and creativity match to a system of laws and rules.

The main theme of the contest will be announced on june 15th. (edit: it’s « Work it »)Please, register right now. To submit your games, the deadline is on july 15th.

We will exhibit the 15 best projects due to arcade cabinets during the GAMES FESTIVAL of Cergy where we will announce the contest winners (audience price / jury price / homebrew price / 800 € for each).

 


Conditions

 

You have to create a video game compatible with Windows, browser or homebrew within a month (from the 15th June to 15th July) on a given theme (« Work it »). You have to respect at least one of the rules written below. (See the paragraph “Rules”)

 


Awards


The 15 best games created for the contest will be displayed / showed to the public with adapted arcade cabinets in « Visages du Monde » from September to October the 20th. Those cabinets will be considered for every game (look, control / buttons / joystick …). The developers will take part of their production.



3 different awards will be attributed to the the best games :

The « Visages du Monde » award, by the public (800 €)

The « Oujevipo » award, by the jury (800 €)

The Homebrew award, by the publisher « Pix’n Love » (800 €)


The non-selected games will be available online on the festival website. [WIP]

 


Registration


The contest is open to every individual or collective, professional or non-professional of video games. You should register here before the 1st July.

 


Sending the game


The game file (.exe, rom, .swf…) must be sent to nofuturecontest@gmail.com, with a picture from the game (jpg or png) and the name of the dev/team. More infos will be avalaible on oujevipo.fr et vdmlab.fr.

 


Rules

 

The games should be made for Windows, browser or for a console which is not marketed by the constructor anymore (homebrew). Homebrew games have their own category and award.

The games have to respect the contest’s theme announced on the 15th June on www.oujevipo.fr and www.vdmlab.fr. They also have to respect one or several (as you like) following rules :


1 – Joysticks were just a fling. Nobody use them anymore…

The game mustn’t use mouse, keyboard nor traditional game controllers (the ones with sticks and buttons)


2 – Floppy disks are still the big thing

The game has to take place in just one screen. No scrolling allowed)


3 –They were right : people actually can’t read nowadays.

Not a single word or letter is allowed in the game


4 – After the WW3, atomic weapons destroyed all the colours.

The game has 4 colours, no more !


5 – My programmer is dead.

The game has to operate / use / exploit the concept and/or aesthetics of the bug and glitch


6 – My graphic designer is dead.

No computer-made graphics allowed (you can use scans, photographies…but also ASCII art)


7 – Color-blinds has took over the world

The game has to be in black and white


8 – Typewriting is the new hardcore gaming

The game has to use all or at least the majority of the keyboard buttons


9 – Back in 92, Wolfeinstein 1D really made a big splash!

The game has only one dimension


10 – You look better with 3D glasses.

The game needs stereoscopic or anaglyph 3D glasses


11 – World Wide What ?

The game has to be massively multiplayer (well…at least 4) but on one machine)


12 – Games are evil, and thus have been strictly forbidden.

The game has to be developed with a software which usually can’t create games

 

The use of copyright free material is authorised (pictures, sounds, code’s extracts …) but it need to be written in the credits. The entire game still have to be entirely done made between June 15th and July 15th.

 


Calendar


31th May : Opening of registration

15th June (7:00pm) : Announcement of the theme on oujevipo.fr et vdmlab.fr

1st July : Closing of registration

15th July (11:59pm) : Dead-line for sending projects

25th July : Announcement of the selected games

18th September : Opening of the exhibition and start-up of the public vote

6th October :  Awards

20th October : Closing of the exhibition


A special tip for you !


The jury will be fluent in english, so making a game in english (or in your native language) won’t be an handicap for the games selection, the jury prize or the homebrew prize. Nevertheless, as the games exhibition holds in France, some of the public might not understand english or your native language (thus affecting your chances for the public price). It is something you might want to keep in mind.

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13 Comments

  1. Hobbit

    If we choose homebrew as our category, will we be able to win the other awards?

  2. admin

    It won’t be possible to win both Oujevipo award and Homebrew award, but it’s very possible to win one of them + the public award. 🙂

  3. aprotasenya

    Hi!
    Was the theme announced? It seems like it’s time for it, but I can’t find it.
    Also – can I check my registration somehow? Just to be sure that Google Forms worked correctly, I’m registered and will be able to upload a game when time comes?

  4. admin

    The theme will be announced at 17h30 (GT+1) and you registered correctly 🙂
    We’ll also send you a mail with further instructions for the upload

  5. sorceress

    Hi. If the games have a chance of being exhibited in a cabinet, should they be designed for a cabinet from the start?

    eg, is the screen 16:9 or 4:3 or other? What resolution? Portrait or Landscape? Mirrored display or Direct? What type of controllers would be used, since they may use a different API? And what will be the approximate specification of the PC inside?

  6. admin

    The whole idea is that we want to design the cabinets FOR the games. So there isn’t any special requirements.

    I don’t know what will be the screen sizes etc, but we’ll always find a very DIY way to exhibit the game.
    It won’t be clean, it won’t be perfect, but at least it will be fun 🙂

  7. Hobbit

    So, it´s 17h30 GT+1 where is the theme?

  8. I’m a bit confused by the « No words » rule. It’s the one I wanted to go for (among others) but I don’t understand, does it mean we cannot use symbols (dollar sign, plus, arrows) and numbers as well? Or just no alphabet letters?

  9. admin

    Numbers and symbole are ok 🙂

  10. peacegiverman

    One more about rule #3. Are spoken words allowed (no text, audio only)?

  11. admin

    If you subscribed, you’ll soon get a mail with every clarification you need!

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