Game jam/contest idea

[Fun With Despair]

As interesting as the idea is, I entered a ludum dare a year or so ago with an actual professional programmer and even he couldn't make an entire engine from scratch in the three days we had. Doing this kind of thing and making a good game out of it requires either a full team or a LOT of time, and I would rather have our users be able to put out qualitt content they are proud of.

I wasn't expecting people to write everything from scratch of course. I was thinking of making a game engine from a pre existing graphical engine like the SDL. As long as you can draw pictures onscreen, register user inputs and play sounds, making a simple minigame is just a matter of creating the right classes.

I mean, it's easy enough to make a simple minigame sure, but personally I much prefer the greater variety of gameplay and genres present in our current jams over a jam that would at best be nothing but a collection of simple minigames for the most part.