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Eegra's First Annual Game Makin' Shindig: Winners

Derek Yu — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:42:00 +0000

You guys read Eegra, right? I hope so, because it’s the best gaming comic there is (see below right). And I’m not just saying that because their mascot is an octopus with a top hat and a monocle.

Well, Eegra has just finished their First Annual Game Makin’ Shindig, and the theme was “colour.” There were nine entries and four winners (two tied for third place).

I tried the top three entries and they’re all pretty solid, although I personally I felt Colourblind (#3, shown above) was the most interesting and polished game. It’s a physics-based game where gravity pulls different colors in different directions. Go Beryllium (#1) feels like a pretty standard bullet-hell shmup to me, and it doesn’t make nearly as good use of the theme, in my opinion. Spectrum Spelunker is a good #2. If the difficulty ramped up a bit faster this one would be ace.

Them’s just my opinions, however! Congratulations to Eegra for a successful compo and to the winners for winning!

"Eegra's First Annual Game Makin' Shindig: Winners" by Secret Admirer

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:40:40 +0000

I think eegra is awesome, this one always makes me laugh:

http://www.eegra.com/show/sub/do/browse/cat/comics/id/24

"Eegra's First Annual Game Makin' Shindig: Winners" by Bob

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:36:41 +0000

Well, I have to admit that the snippet that you stuck in the post made me laugh my face off.

"Eegra's First Annual Game Makin' Shindig: Winners" by Derek

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:17:06 +0000

Yeah, I love Perry Bible Fellowship! Still doesn’t make me actually laugh out loud that often. I think it’s clever as hell, though.

Humor’s a funny thing…

"Eegra's First Annual Game Makin' Shindig: Winners" by Bob

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:19:48 +0000

I think that you’d like Perry Bible Fellowship a lot more. Just sayin’.

"Eegra's First Annual Game Makin' Shindig: Winners" by Derek

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:31:01 +0000

I do like Penny Arcade, but I think Eegra has made me laugh out loud more and with less strips!

I dunno, I have a really lowbrow sense of humor and I really go for the absurd stuff, so there you have it…

"Eegra's First Annual Game Makin' Shindig: Winners" by Bob

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:17:12 +0000

Hey, at least it had unicorn genitalia!

Seriously, though, how could you call it “the best gaming comic there is” when we have Penny Arcade? Eegra is like a retarded version of Perry Bible Fellowship with Pac-Man cameos.

For the record, I love Perry Bible Fellowship.

"Eegra's First Annual Game Makin' Shindig: Winners" by Derek

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:47:51 +0000

Honestly, yeah. I laughed just reading your description of the comic.

"Eegra's First Annual Game Makin' Shindig: Winners" by Mike hawk

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:08:42 +0000

That comic…. I am assuming that by saying “best” you meant “fucking terrible”

Awesome, Pac-man just ate sonic the hedgehog and then shit him out. That is some seriously funny humor.

"Eegra's First Annual Game Makin' Shindig: Winners" by Conor

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:36:26 +0000

zzzdude - tell your friend I said thanks for helping me win, I didn’t realize it was an election! Next time I will try to make a less crappy game.

"Eegra's First Annual Game Makin' Shindig: Winners" by zzzdude

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:05:17 +0000

My friend rigged the election, so the crappiest game would win. all the rest are better.

"Eegra's First Annual Game Makin' Shindig: Winners" by Phasma Felis

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:38:43 +0000

That is possibly the worst gaming comic ever. And I’m including Little Gamers.

Games look like fun, though.

"Eegra's First Annual Game Makin' Shindig: Winners" by Melly

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:55:38 +0000

Also, sorry for the TIGSTWG participants. Man, first ingame day and the forums go in maintenance. But I’m ready to kick ass as soon as it’s back.

Also, my Eegra entry would have been about changing the three primary colors of objects in order to change their full color, and thus their properties. I just couldn’t for the life of me figure out a good way to implement that in a game, and just decided to focus on the PG Compo here at TIGS.

"Eegra's First Annual Game Makin' Shindig: Winners" by Melly

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:53:17 +0000

I tried making something for it, but my mind was blank for ideas, unfortunately.

Still, I too am slightly disappointed at the first place. Sure, it seems like a great game overall, but as I remember the author actually took a shmup he’d been working on for a while and stuck the color mechanic into it. It just doesn’t feel very right to me.

"Eegra's First Annual Game Makin' Shindig: Winners" by Rampancy

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:54:32 +0000

This one is amazing. The best version of Pac-Man ever. Check it out - http://www.eegra.com/show/sub/do/browse/cat/comics/id/21

"Eegra's First Annual Game Makin' Shindig: Winners" by Günter

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:55:31 +0000

Eegra is one of those comics that I feel really shouldn’t be funny, but I can’t stop laughing at.

This one is my favorite: http://www.eegra.com/show/sub/do/browse/cat/comics/id/9

"Eegra's First Annual Game Makin' Shindig: Winners" by Bezzy

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:56:57 +0000

Judging from the video, Go Beryllium has fantastic generative music, if nothing else… probably better than Rez’s.

"Eegra's First Annual Game Makin' Shindig: Winners" by Prio

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:40:29 +0000

Fuck

Videogames have made me retarded

"Eegra's First Annual Game Makin' Shindig: Winners" by bicilotti

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:28:54 +0000

Gahhhhhhhhh TIGs talks about eegra shindig and does not mention ColourWise :_(

Anyway, I think ColourBind was really really polished. I loved the mechanics!

"Eegra's First Annual Game Makin' Shindig: Winners" by Terry

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:19:13 +0000

Go Beryllium is excellent - a very deserving winner as far as I’m concerned!

"Eegra's First Annual Game Makin' Shindig: Winners" by Alan Gordon

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:27:01 +0000

It seems like most of the dificulty in Colourblind comes from struggling with the infuriatingly obtuse moving/jumping mechanics, rather than the complexity and engaging nature of the puzzles.

"Eegra's First Annual Game Makin' Shindig: Winners" by Imaginationac

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:49:49 +0000

That has the be one of the scariest depections of video game violence I have ever seen. Thanks, it was the first thing I saw when I woke up this morning.

Also, the forums are still in maintenance mode?