TIGSource: TIGCompo: Commonplace Book

TIGCompo: Commonplace Book

Derek Yu — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:32:00 +0000

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!

"TIGCompo: Commonplace Book" by Valkyrie

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:49:09 +0000

^ Seconded.

"TIGCompo: Commonplace Book" by Quetz

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:17:39 +0000

Max: Yessssss!

"TIGCompo: Commonplace Book" by Max

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 20:28:47 +0000

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

"TIGCompo: Commonplace Book" by renkin

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 18:05:43 +0000

Great idea, nevertheless. :)

"TIGCompo: Commonplace Book" by renkin

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 18:05:05 +0000

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

"TIGCompo: Commonplace Book" by Lollige

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:09:59 +0000

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

"TIGCompo: Commonplace Book" by Fishy Boy

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:26:42 +0000

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

Awesome idea.

"TIGCompo: Commonplace Book" by moi

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:10:28 +0000

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

"TIGCompo: Commonplace Book" by Derek

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:05:32 +0000

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

"TIGCompo: Commonplace Book" by PHeMoX

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 11:16:26 +0000

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

"TIGCompo: Commonplace Book" by Hideous

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 10:52:40 +0000

Short compo is short :(

"TIGCompo: Commonplace Book" by BeamSplashX

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 07:02:37 +0000

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

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

"TIGCompo: Commonplace Book" by mjau

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 05:27:51 +0000

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.

"TIGCompo: Commonplace Book" by Sigvatr

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 04:03:56 +0000

This is too “in joke” even for Tig.

"TIGCompo: Commonplace Book" by SOUTH PARK JOKES

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:50:39 +0000

TOO EARLY

"TIGCompo: Commonplace Book" by deadeye

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:43:55 +0000

Oh crap, I’m not ready :(

"TIGCompo: Commonplace Book" by Nameko.

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:58:48 +0000

Very cool. ^_^