[Ronnies 2011] April round begins

[Elizabeth]

Weird, I totally sent you my entry. I'll resend.

[Ron Edwards]

amazon queen
Her Son, by Jackson Tegu

queen chains
Homage to Ninshubar, by Ben Lehman
In Exile, by Jacob Bouvier
Queen of Thorns, by Eric Boyd

amazon chains
Brick and Mortar, by Dan Maruschak

queen lust
Queens of Time and Space, by Ross Cowman

amazon lust
Camwhores, by Elizabeth Sampat

lust chains
The Strongest Link, by Paul Vogt

Eight games so far - the next one will initiate the 24-hour final entry period.

Best, Ron

[Ron Edwards]

Annnnd,

Shackled Self, by Raffaele Manzo, using lust and chains, makes the ninth entry.

So this is the twenty-four hour "go" signal, using the time signature of this post.

Best, Ron

[Ross Cowman]

Just read Camwhores. Amazing Elizabeth, just amazing.

[misterecho]

Round 3 (amazon, lust, chains, queen)

• Queens of Time and Space
  
  
• Homage to Ninshubar
  
  
• Bricks and Mortar: Last of the Independents
  
  
• The Strongest Link
  
  
• In Exile
  
  
• Her Son
  
  
• The Queen of Thorns
  
  
• Camwhores
  
  
• The Shackled Self
  
  
• Tales of Lust

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[jburneko]

Just read Camwhores. Amazing Elizabeth, just amazing.

I want to play Nicotine Girls and Camwhores back to back.

Jesse

[Doug Law]

I hadn't heard of this contest before and I was inspired by this month's word choices.

Using "lust" and "chains" I had intended to write an RPG about how our petty addictions get in the way of accomplishing our goals.

I set aside time to write it on Saturday, but then I decided to play board games with friends all day. I might have written it on Sunday, but Jonah Hex had been sitting on my shelf from Netflix for like a week. Monday I planned to get crackin', but spent most of my day surfing the internet. On Tuesday I just had to play some new Rock Band downloads...

Maybe I'll write that game about addictions for the next one, if the terms sync up.

But then again, my WoW druid still needs some gear...

-Doug

[Elizabeth]

Thanks for the love for Camwhores! I kept stopping while I was working on it and thinking, "I can't believe I am writing this." It was an interesting change of pace.

[Ron Edwards]

Twelve games:

amazon queen
Her Son, by Jackson Tegu

queen chains
Homage to Ninshubar, by Ben Lehman
In Exile, by Jacob Bouvier
Queen of Thorns, by Eric Boyd
Beholden, by Baxil

amazon chains
Brick and Mortar, by Dan Maruschak

queen lust
Queens of Time and Space, by Ross Cowman

amazon lust
Camwhores, by Elizabeth Sampat

lust chains
The Strongest Link, by Paul Vogt
Shackled Self, by Raffu Manzo
Tales of Lust, by Andreas Eriksson
Within My Clutches, by David Berg

According to my time signature, there's about an hour and a half left for entries.

Best, Ron

[Thunder_God]

Done, 9 mins left. Posting in case my connection dies while I try to send it!

[Ron Edwards]

Which makes 13!

amazon queen
Her Son, by Jackson Tegu

queen chains
Homage to Ninshubar, by Ben Lehman
In Exile, by Jacob Bouvier
Queen of Thorns, by Eric Boyd
Beholden, by Baxil

amazon chains
Brick and Mortar, by Dan Maruschak

queen lust
Queens of Time and Space, by Ross Cowman

amazon lust
Camwhores, by Elizabeth Sampat

lust chains
The Strongest Link, by Paul Vogt
Shackled Self, by Raffu Manzo
Tales of Lust, by Andreas Eriksson
Within My Clutches, by David Berg
You Are My Destiny, by Guy Shalev

Annnnd, that closes the entries, pending any last-fraction-of-a-second arrivals.

Best, Ron

[Baxil]

"Chains" clearly was an attention-getter this time.

You know what would be cool, sometime, is a "Ronnies retrospective" comp (or just game jam).  Take the top submission-getting term from each round so far.  Mash them together.  Pick three out of the six.

(( girlfriend fight dragon skull wings chains ))

Seriously, doesn't that just drip with potential?

Also, Doug, I know exactly what you mean.  The only reason I was able to enter this month is that I had bigger things to slack off from. "I need to do my taxes!" I said.  "And update Deathbird Black!  So instead I'm going to let myself get distracted by inspiration."  If it weren't for productive procrastination, I'd never get anything done.

[Thunder_God]

I had a thought of "The Lust Amazon: More Pulp! More Porn! More Purple!" the only question was whether it was about a B-movie company making pulp porn films, or an actual pulp porn fantasy game...
;-)

[Ron Edwards]

Hi everyone,

I am looking at a particularly difficult round of Ronnies to judge, and I think that I won't be posting my conclusions until Monday. Until then, though, please feel free to start threads to discuss the games as you will.

Best, Ron

[whduryea]

It's interesting how much of the conversation on this thread is "I was going to make this game, but ..." Did this particular set of terms lend itself to a lot of ideas that were hard to execute in 24 hours, or were a lot of people simply busy this weekend?

My personal unfinished idea was Welfare Queens (using chains and queen), a cyberpunk game about white collar corporate executives who escape the burdens of their jobs by spending their weekends in a virtual reality world were they are poor women living on public assistance. (I wanted it to be a satire of the Randian tea party crowd and pull-yourself-up feel-bad-to-feel-good movies like Precious.)