Wheeee! I must be cuckoo starting this on a Friday, with practically no internet access until Monday. But so long as you all know that, that's OK by me.

Well, let's do a quick review of the rules.

1. Design - Write a role-playing game in the space of 24 hours, using two of the four terms I provide as central concepts. I am fully aware that these will be first draft alpha documents and will be judging them at that level. Please keep in mind that including all the working parts is more important than airbrushing in all the little details.

2. Entry - Email your game draft to me, ron@adept-press.com, as a PDF attachment. Also, submit the same file to the 24-Hour RPG site. I will provide running announcements of the entries, so please don't announce your entry here.

This round will remain open for either two weeks, or 24 hours later than the appearance of the ninth entry. If the latter happens, then I'll announce that appearance here in this thread to start the 24-hours-left clock.

3. Criteria - You get a Ronny if your game is (i) really a role-playing game according to my vague but not unusual standards for the term; (ii) uses the two terms as central and productive concepts, i.e., "what the game is about" including any associated concepts they might provoke; and (iii) is both fun-looking enough and clearly-presented enough for immediate playtesting.

Visual layout and general file-prettiness are not criteria for the award, although I and everyone else enjoy a little attention toward those ends, if you want.

4. Award - If you win a Ronny, you get $50 from me and whatever mentoring or ongoing feedback you might like from me. I provide at least one round of feedback for all entries and I try to playtest all the winners and some of the others which strike my fancy. Although I'm still not caught up with that, I am doing it pretty regularly.

See also New Ronnies, Ronnies 2011, Round One begins, and [RONNIES 2011] February round begins for any other useful details. 

And now! The words for this, the third round of this year, are!

amazon lust chains queen

I urge everyone to remember that a given Ronnies term is open to interpretation in practically any understandable fashion. I think that point applies especially significantly for this round.

Oh, and also, a key reminder: by choosing two of the terms, you are automatically excluding the other two from your concepts for the game.

Keep watching this thread to see when the nine-entry deadline kicks in.

Best, Ron

I want to use all four terms.  Curses, Ron, curses.

Heh, you should have seen the first version of this set. It was a game screaming to be made. I actually dispersed the range considerably by arriving at the final set.

When this entry period is over, I'll disclose the sequence of possible sets of four terms that I went through to end up with this one.

Best, Ron

First in:

amazon queen
Her Son, by Jackson Tegu

queen chains
Homage to Ninshubar, by Ben Lehman

Best, Ron

I had a lot of fun writing my game. I hope it shows.

April fools joke?

Missed opportunity for an april fools joke?

April fools joke was here but I missed it?

amazon lust chains queen

amazon queen
Her Son, by Jackson Tegu, who I hope survived his less-than-24-hours-from-"go" design crunch

queen chains
Homage to Ninshubar, by Ben Lehman

amazon chains
Brick & Mortar, by Dan Maruschak

queen lust
Queens of Time and Space, by Ross Cowman

edited to fix misspelled name - RE

My first thought for all four terms was: "Slaves of the Amazon Sex Queen!"

I wonder what the usage ratio between amazon (dotcom) amazon (female warrior culture) and amazon (rainforest) is going to be? It's actually a pretty diverse term.

yrs--
--Ben

Any chance you can send me a copy of "Her Son". I haven't received it through 1km1kt. I will get it posted as quick as.

amazon queen
Her Son, by Jackson Tegu

queen chains
Homage to Ninshubar, by Ben Lehman
In Exile, by Jacob Bouvier

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

edited to fix misspelled name - RE

I made a failed attempt last Saturday. I missed the 24-hour deadline, and I could not elide over the rules I had yet to write - they were of the essence. The keywords I used were amazon and queen, and the game title is Amazon Realms.

Charles

any chance of getting all these up on 1km1t? :D

Oh, i'm fine, thank you for your concern though. Sometimes i get a little... overzealous.

Totally fine. Forgot about those monkeys, i just now have sent the packet of information entitled "Her Son" over to them for their consideration and so on. Feel free to ask them for a copy.

Also, incidentally, it's Ross Cowman, not Russ.

from http://www.1km1kt.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=3113

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

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

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

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

Just read Camwhores. Amazing Elizabeth, just amazing.

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

Ross wrote:
Just read Camwhores. Amazing Elizabeth, just amazing.

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

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.

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

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

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

"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.

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...
;-)

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

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.)

Hey guys,

I would like to keep the Ronnies free of "the game I didn't make" posts. No one's stopping anyone from going ahead and designing a game that deserves to be seen, even though it didn't make the deadline.

Best, Ron

Guy,

I still don't see "You Are My Destiny" up on 1km1kt, and I'm curious to give it a read.  Do you have an alternate download link available?

Until 1km1kt has it, here you go.

And now it's on 1km1kt, in case something happens to the copy on my site.