The False Premises Compo
Who do you trust... when you can't even trust your own eyes and ears, or even thoughts?
Theme
Create a story with misleading, lying or mistaken narration. Narration in this context includes the thoughts and narration of a PoV character (including graphics, sound and dialogue) as well as more meta aspects like evidence description or red truths.
Some examples of what you could do:
- The PoV character is hallucinating and we see their hallucinations.
- The PoV character is delusional, and the graphics and dialogue reflect their delusions.
- The witnesses' testimonies are told through flashbacks from their point of view.
- The evidence descriptions are deliberately misleading.
- The narration makes us think we're dealing with a locked room mystery when it's actually... number locks.
- The narrator isn't who we think they are, but actually somebody with a telepathic connection to the supposed PoV character.
Entries will be judged by DeeYo, kwando1313 and Evo and Evo's grandma on these categories:
Story Concept - Do you have an interesting, engaging, innovative and logical story? Are the characters interesting?
Story Execution - Is the story well-paced? Is the dialogue and narration well-written and natural-sounding?
Graphics & Music - Are the graphics and music well-done? Do they fit the characters, situations and atmosphere?
Technical Perfection - Has your trial been tested carefully, with few bugs, typos or grammar mistakes?
Gameplay - Is the gameplay fair, interesting and enjoyable? Are the puzzles designed and executed well?
Theme Relevance - Is the theme relevant to your story? Is it interpreted in an interesting and innovative way?
Evo will grade each category on a ten-point scale. The final score will be the average of all applicable scores (so don't worry about being deducted points for lack of gameplay if you're going for a kinetic novel.) The final score will influence, but not determine who Evo pushes for as the winner.
Kwando will give an opinion on each category, but no scores.
Dio will give snarky reviews in l33tspeak. The numbers in the reviews will signify the scores given for each category.
After all reviews have been published, we will discuss and announce the first, second and third place. There will not be an awards ceremony trial.
Rules
- The entry must have been created between June 6th, 2016 and September 16th, 2016.
- The entry must have an element of misleading, lying or mistaken narration.
- The entry may be a trial, investigation, comedy or neither.
- The entry may be unrelated to AA. Mysteries, gameplay and puzzles are not required.
- The entry must not spoil DGS or AA6, but may spoil any other AA game.
- The entry must be submitted to DeeYo, kwando1313 and Evo by the deadline.
- The entry must be sent along with a walkthrough that includes every potentially difficult puzzle, provided such puzzles exist.
- The entry must not be showcased and/or set to public until the winner has been announced.
- The entry may be incomplete, although complete entries might be preferred in certain categories.
All entries must be declared and submitted to DeeYo, kwando1313 and Evo by September 16th, 2016 at 11:59 PM CEST.
Entrants
If you enter, you'll get a goffik version of your avatar.
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Honorary goff: HesselBAAL (offering sprites)
Dropouts
If you drop out, your goffik avatar will be changed to a preppy version.
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