Quantity over quality.

The two hour limit is really more of a guideline because we want to be able to reach our goal of some two thousand games. I mean, there's nothing stopping you from going over.

Still, why not explore your options? I assure you, you'll be able to make a game in two hours with the right tools. We have two Klik of the Month events coming up before Pirate Kart V so you could use those to practice.

That sounds like a wonderful idea.

We need to try and make sequels to other people's Kart games too. It's easy and fun and adds humor to the Kart.

As long as it can be run from Win32, whatever tool you use should be fine.

Actually, I just had a thought. Should we convert all the Klik & Play games into a 32-bit medium? Or will there not be enough time for that?

I might be up for doing "Man Marine" or "Quickly Go", or even "? to Keep Up With". I kind of want to do "Make Money" in the style of some surrealist interactive gangsta rap video.

I'm working on a short game, and it's unfinished, then I've noticed about Pirate Kart V. I can submit a finished version of this game, same that it don't have been planned to Pirate Kart?

Well, that makes me unhappy.

darshell's upload dated May 30th, 2011
samusetroid's upload dated Dec 14, 2011

Banned. Not cool.

That would be way cool. Is there a way to install/launch one from the command line? Is Knytt Stories open source? If someone could hack together a build that plays a level and exits, we'd be set!

I'd say go ahead and submit to the kart at least. If the launcher can't deal with it, folks can move on to the next game (or I can make the launcher skip Knytt stories completely)

Inside unity check your resources in the inspector, you can adjust compression (telling it to turn your wavs into oggs helps a lot) and scale down textures etc from there. Also if you build for the webplayer you can remove all that overhead and end up with a file that's only a meg or three.

a lot of the igf pirate kart was games people had already made without limits or "trainwreck mindsets" so some of them were actually serious games or at least mostly inoffensive generic indie poop

i've been mulling a lot over the "trainwreck spirit" (read more) and stuff lately.
on the other hand i don't really have a problem with the small games such as this,
but i've always found the true meat of the site to be in joke games and either their almost artistic hilarity or bizarre atmosphere (sometimes both).
lately i've felt though that the joke aspect has gotten more forced (i'm very guilty) and that the atmosphere has mostly been lost. if i ever actually can put this into words i'll talk more.

also i sense the problem getting possibly much worse with this kart yet there being no way to prevent it
as for what the cause actually is, im guessing it has to do with glorious trainwrecks getting "popular" and newer people not understanding the site,
let alone in the way i or someone else look at it.

(for some kind of example as to what i'm talking about, the Acupuncture bits up there strike me as being the complete opposite of the point of GT.
the author clearly intended them as "joke games", but they are modeled after the worst indie circlejerk genre and don't actually contain any other joke than them being bad and annoying. (fact: most of the time "ironically" making something stupid actually isn't funny) worse, it's split up into ten games which is really dumb since they will devalue the novelty of the high game count(imo it'd be the best to NOT do the 10 versions of games thing, unless you can make it really funny. even then though it'll probably be better than these games))
(if you're reading this ben, no offense. i just simply don't like them)

I'm stupid.

What ended up happening with the IGF Pirate Kart was that a fair number of people who made their living writing games put some of their less successful games in it, rather than entering them on their own into the IGF. (I rather enjoyed subverting that trend by including games that I made in QBASIC when I was twelve.) We're not exactly sticklers for "rules" here, but I think that Mike has tried to make it clearer this time around that the GDC Pirate Kart isn't about that kind of thing.

I should bug Mike about the possibility of streaming a GDC Pirate Kart ReactionCam live from the expo floor.

Absolutely!

Okay I've done 3 with 3 hours of work spread between them. I CAN KEEP UP THIS PACE.

Yep, it's me. Figured if we did the built-in Twitter client thing, it would make sense to have an account for it to tweet from.

54 isn't really that much

and it's been over the last month

there's only twice as much people signed up currently than PK2 and 2012 is nearly 4 times that

it will boost when the actual event starts though, but somehow i think it'll be not as easy as it seems. i believe that most non-regulars won't really do much games and it's up to us to ONCE AGAIN TAKE THE IMPOSSIBLE PLUNGE INTO GLORY!

How do I edit Google docs? I wanted to claim an idea, but I couldn't figure out how.

I'm personally going to aim to make 4 times as many games as last year (24). I don't think I'll succeed. I'm also encouraging everybody I know to contribute something to boost numbers. Board and card games are A-OK, right?

A good point is to remix a game you made, so you can say you made 2 games.

Right now, all spam filtering is done manually; all of the automated solutions I tried had an unacceptable level of false positives, and enough false negatives to mean that I had to do manual spam filtering anyway.

Someday I'll rewrite the site using a more modern framework and use a real antispam solution. For now, it is what it is.

The Pirate Kode has only one firm rule: If the rules are getting in the way of you making games, disregard them.

To put it another way: Cheating is encouraged.

The only thing you lose by cheating is the absurd fun of real-time feedback on making a game. Making a game for an event at a non-appointed time is just "cheating at hanging out with friends". Making games with everybody else on IRC is more fun, but we realize that asynchronous hangouts is the norm for most global internet communities. Make games constantly forever!

Of course you can!

As long as they're not full of jerks.

I assume that's Mike's role.

The Glorious Trainwrecks game upload form has a maximum file size of 200 MB, so that's currently the limit.

Larger games probably will get played less in the launcher, just because if they have to wait very long folks will just hit cancel and go play a different game. I would like to make it do some kind of automatic background downloading, but I don't know if I'll get that in before GDC.

Just getting prepped for my start later tonight. This is gonna be fun :)

Good luck all, hope you have a blast!

I think I might have a way to make this work. Have you submitted a dos build and/or could you give me one of these DOS exes to test with so I can make sure?

ive got the same thing planned for a month now. if its still funny and creative all is good id say. just note: we already have +100 games and there will be even more tomorrow and in the following days. im not even sure if anyone who downloads the pirate kart will EVER play all those games.
you know what it's like with long text on the internet = tl;dr
i get the feeling we will have: too many games - didn't play
basically TOO many crappy games so if someone really puts a bunch of effort and work into their games and no one is gonna see that / play that. aw man i really feel sorry for those. thats why the loader needs the screenshots.

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the loader needs a screenshot of the game in it - people judge books by their cover
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that's the spirit!

ON THE INTERNETS?!

nah

I will upload my games too (I originally made them for Ludum Dare), but as improved version.
There are 1530 + 15^1023 possible game combinations.

My submission offers nearly infinite variations (1530 + 15^1023), so yeah, it's already done.

OH MAN YES COME BACK MAKE GAMES PRESS C TO SMOKE

Ahoy there, fancy pants.

There's no need to leave nasty comments on their submissions, it reflects poorly of us as a community. At most, we could ask if the text on their game's page that says the game was "created for event X" is actually true, or if they're even aware the submission page is set up to make that claim. We could repost one of the event's guidelines: "Unlike the recent IGF Pirate Kart, with this one we're looking for games made for this event specifically!" But getting angry is pointless and removing their games is petty. The ideal response goes like this:

HI! It sure looks like you put a lot of effort into this game, which is great! It's always a pleasure to see a game developer making a real labor of love. But you might not be aware that the emphasis of this website is on new and original games developed exclusively for Glorious Trainwrecks, that have not been previously published elsewhere. If you're looking to get more people to play a game you've already made, there are a lot of better places to advertise it! Glorious Trainwrecks is more of a workshop than a showcase. I'd recommend submitting your game to places like TIGsource, TIGdb, pixelprospector.com, indiegamemag.com, playthisthing.com, or indiegames.com . These websites are better suited to getting your game the publicity it needs, but if you'd like to try making some new games with us, feel free to stop by anytime!

This is a workshop. Terry Cavanagh once made a silly quick little game for this site in 2 hours. He thought the mechanic he was playing around with was interesting enough to make a larger game from. So he made VVVVVV. This is a test bed, a proving ground, a rapid prototype extravaganza. Complete uninhibited experimentation, which can lead to "higher quality nonsense" down the road if you like what you came up with.

"sense too definite cancels your indistinct literature" ~ anakin skywalker

It's not looking good; the problem is that new equipment doesn't generally ship with 32-bit Windows XP drivers anymore. We're going to run to Radio Shack and see what we can find.

Perfect! Thanks for this!

I know I'm not planning to submit any more games, but you never know what people will do. Yours may not actually be the last, no matter how fitting it is!

Also, I imagine the Kart will see a slightly more polished official Internet release.