TIGCompo: Commonplace Book

Posted by Derek Yu Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:32:00 GMT

TIGCompo: Commonplace Book

A TIGSource Halloween Competition approaches!

Renowned horror novelist H.P. Lovecraft kept a notebook, called “The Commonplace Book,” in which he jotted “ideas, images, & quotations hastily jotted down for possible future use in weird fiction. ...Their sources are various—dreams, things read, casual incidents, idle conceptions, & so on.” As you might expect, these notes are fragmented, cryptic, and extremely creepy.

The goal of the TIGSource Commonplace Book Competition is to design a game based on one of the ideas from this book.

Update: Deadline extended, by popular request!

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  1. Nameko. said 27 minutes later:

    Very cool. ^_^

  2. deadeye said about 1 hour later:

    Oh crap, I’m not ready :(

  3. SOUTH PARK JOKES said about 1 hour later:

    TOO EARLY

  4. Sigvatr said about 7 hours later:

    This is too “in joke” even for Tig.

  5. mjau said about 8 hours later:

    What? What’s in-jokey about it? It’s a great compo idea.

    The timing couldn’t have been worse though (for me at least), right in the middle of the last rush for IGF, whose deadline is the day after this ends. Too bad, I really wanted to do something for this.

  6. BeamSplashX said about 10 hours later:

    What is Hit Points Lovecraft? Is it like World of Warcraft?

    (Also, World of Lovecraft actually IS the opposite of World of Warcraft).

  7. Hideous said about 13 hours later:

    Short compo is short :(

  8. PHeMoX said about 14 hours later:

    Make it two months instead of only one please! ^^

  9. Derek said about 20 hours later:

    The deadline has been extended to November 27th, by popular request!

  10. moi said about 21 hours later:

    “Popular request” means we threatened to pay Derek a little visit, “scott tenorman”-style .

  11. Fishy Boy said about 21 hours later:

    Sigvatr: In joke? I never noticed any mention of the book here until now.

    Awesome idea.

  12. Lollige said 1 day later:

    urgh, I really wish to get unbanned from the forums now (ip: 83.81.180.254 )

  13. renkin said 1 day later:

    Wasn’t there that IF compo with the same theme?

  14. renkin said 1 day later:

    Great idea, nevertheless. :)

  15. Max said 1 day later:

    I would much rather see a compo based on Tupac Shakur’s Commonplace Book: http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/tupac-lovecraft-commonplace.php

  16. Quetz said 3 days later:

    Max: Yessssss!

  17. Valkyrie said 4 days later:

    ^ Seconded.

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