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LET'S MAKE A BUNCH OF GAMES! AND TAKE THEM TO GDC!
We're raising money for space/kiosk in the 2012 Game Developer's Conference Expo!
Over the weekend of February 25-27th, everyone is invited to make as many games as you can and submit them over at Glorious Trainwrecks Dot Com (event page) and then in March we'll have a fancy launcher showing them off in a kiosk at the 2012 Game Developer's Conference!
Anyone and everyone is welcome to make games with us! So spread the word! Even if you haven't made a game before, you might be able to quickly learn one of the many great game-making tools that are out there! Check out the event page on Glorious Trainwrecks or the faq below for more info!
I can't wait to see all the crazy things everyone makes this February! And what expo-goers think of the games in March!
Thanks to Dan FitzGerald (@dorkus1218) for making the logo and video!
FAQ
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A Pirate Kart is a collection of all the games we can make! Some are awesome, some are terrible, many are both!
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$3150 is going to the GDC Play (http://www.gdconf.com/events/gdcplay.html) kiosk. That leaves $850 to help cover the costs of providing the rewards, Kickstarter's cut (~5%), the cut taken for payment processing (2-5%), any additional costs involved in getting the kiosk set up (which may mean purchasing or shipping a PC), and costs for hosting the final Pirate Kart download. Exactly how much that stuff will cost depends on how things work out, but I doubt $850 will fully cover it.
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It's a reference to the massive collections of pirated games that appeared on pirate multicarts. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicart#Pirate_multicarts)
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Anyone! Everyone we can get! Spread the word!
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Get yourself comfortable with some development environment, then when Pirate Kart Weekend arrives, MAKE GAMES LIKE CRAZY!!!
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SWEET! First, sign up for a Glorious Trainwrecks account if you haven't yet (you can do that here). Then click this, fill in the form, upload a game and a screenshot and submit and then YOUR GAME IS IN THE KART!
Have a question? If the info above doesn't help, you can ask the project creator directly.
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Name listed in "thank you" screen plus cool Pirate Kart charms made to look like actual video game cartridges! (made by Zoe Quinn! Here are some examples of other charms she's made: http://i53.tinypic.com/16a2wlf.jpg )
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All of the above! You get your name listed in the "thank you" screen, a Pirate Kart poster, a Pirate Kart T-shirt, a copy of Galcon Fusion, AND the Glorious Trainwrecks community will make a game matching a short description you provide!
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A SONG IN YOUR HONOR: A recording of a personalized sea chanty in your honor by Jeremy Penner (founder of Glorious Trainwrecks!) and his accordion! (sample: http://sporktania.com/lal/LaL-The_Spittunian_Polka.mp3) (and your name in thank you screen of course!)
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Glorious Trainwrecks is about bringing back the spirit of postcardware, circa 1993. It's about throwing a bunch of random crap into your game and keeping whatever sticks. About bringing back a time when you didn't care so much about "production values", as much as ripping sound samples from your favourite television shows to use in your game, or animating pictures of yourself making goofy faces on your webcam. Where every ridiculous idea you had, you would just sit down and code. When you would make up a "company name" to legitimize dorking around on the computer with your friends.
It is not about unfinished, unplayable games. If any part of a glorious trainwreck is terrible, it is terrible in a way that is AWESOME.
Together, you and I will bring the true spirit of indie gaming back. Yes, you! For Glorious Trainwrecks is about nothing, if it is not about getting off your ass and creating. Wikipedia claims that they used to stage trainwrecks (with empty trains, of course) for the amusement of the general population. Would the world not be a better place if we brought this tradition back?
