Daily Nuggets of Wisdom From an Indie Game Producer
The September SPAM Contest ended couple of days ago, and while some people tried to guess in October it’s my unfortunate duty to tell that these guesses came too late and won’t be taken in.
Correct spam count is: 10298
And here are the 5 lucky ones who guessed closest: (in September)
Preliminary results
10300 Chris Hepner
10280 Tuna
10333 Tom
10338 Desmont
10340 James Heaver
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About - the guy behind the cut-scenes.
The release of my grandest project so far happened. Nowadays my days pass by me watching how this cute lil creature sleeps.
stu: "many AAA studios are already embracing it as sony is pushing it heavily and now with nintendo too, the breakthrough may not be that far. Killzone 3 is a good..." 12 hours 25 minutes ago. 
Joe: "Games involving hunting and gathering are fun. Pac-man was a hit in its day and is a basic from of hunting and gathering with the emphasis on gathering. Same with..." 12 hours 54 minutes ago. 
Juuso: "Okaydokie. Really cool games. The contest is ended now… and I’ll go through all the games and pick at least 3 to purchase (so many to choose from)...." 13 hours 15 minutes ago. 
David Amador: "Well I’ve already submitted mine. May the best ones win. I just wanted to say this is a great idea, I’ve end up buying 2 of the games listed,..." 16 hours 9 minutes ago. 
TheQuux: "There’s a reason that there are pool tables, volleyball courts, and ball pits strewn around Google, and it’s not just because they’re fun...." 1 day 14 hours ago. 
dr_bonzo: "For me, anything away from computer. Toilet, shower, eating breakfast (today twice) :)" 1 day 15 hours ago. 
Fili: "@Lumooja: it’s a little more complicated than a simple webcam that tracks your head. Nintendo 3DS uses something called a Parallax barrier over the screen..." 1 day 18 hours ago. 
budda: "Shower is the top place, followed by just washing hands. Must be something in the water….." 2 days 5 hours ago. 
Ilya: "My bet is that 3D platformers will benefit most. Racing and flight games too. All the games where navigation plays a major part, where you need to judge..." 2 days 9 hours ago. 
Lumooja: "The Nintendo DS “two layer” 3D effect how you call it, is just a simple headtracking :) DS uses however eyetracking, but it’s the same..." 2 days 9 hours ago. 
merc-ai: "Sofa FTW. For me, it’s perfect for refining or coming up with new game design solutions. Also, shower. And the perfect time for general thought sorting..." 3 days 9 hours ago. 
Spunkmeyer: "coding in dreams is possible :-) And riding the bus/train works for me too." 3 days 12 hours ago. 
Ovogame: "This is already in place for downloaded casual games. And to be honest this is a really bad idea. As a dev, we see very little money coming in from these..." 3 days 14 hours ago. 
Yay, and to this I was doing to choose 10300 before I noticed someone else had already done so :)
Good grief, my hands are too numb to type properly.
“to think I was going to choose”
[...] Most will probably say that spam is worth nothing or even worst – it wastes time & resources. But sometimes someone comes with original idea and spam is worth a game. Of course, if you win the contest. The rule is simple – you had to guess total number of SPAM within month of September. The lucky number is: 10298. [...]
It wasn’t a guess – it was the result of hours of hard sums and complex computer modelling.
Of course I’m only sayign this since I won, If I’d lost it would have been the first 5 digits of the first number in the telephone directory.
don’t put your hopes too high – olor was supposed to have won ;)
There’s still slight chance I made a mistake in calculations ;)
w00t w00t! I love prizes! Where do I go to get it?
Alright – the winners are now found:
10300 Chris Hepner
10280 Tuna
10333 Tom
10338 Desmont
10340 James Heaver
I’m emailing them the registration links.
Congratulations!
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It’s a funny (and sad at the same time) that IvanSok the Sbambot (hey, that almost rhymes) decided to make a post in this blog entry…