Category: Community Event

Gaming technology is changing.  Every day, the quality bar for games changes and developers must meet the needs of their customers.

Consumers are demanding lower and lower fidelity graphics that requires short development time and attainable budgets.  Developers everywhere are bewildered by this unusually reasonable trend.

That’s why we’re excited to announce a new title capitalizing on this bold new direction.  Introducing… 1BitMMO!

You told us “8BitMMO has too many bits,” or at least someone said that, possibly the smelly guy who throws muffins on 3rd avenue.  Anyway, we listened and now we have 87.5% less bits!

1BitMMO is a non-graphical M.U.D., essentially a multiplayer text adventure.  It cost an exhaustive development time of at least forty-five minutes, and is totally not just a stock mud downloaded from an FTP site because it also includes a snazzy 1BitMMO logo when you connect to it.

Said the lead developer, “We spent most of the development budget on a ham and cheese sandwich.  Our investors have confirmed this was a good decision as the sandwich also came with soup, and was only a few days old.  With our remaining $2.74, we hired a toddler to create the detailed artwork — who later had to back out of the project due to artistic differences and a scheduling conflict with naptime.”

1BitMMO launches today, April 1st, and is playable today only on the 8BitMMO website.  (Or you can play normal 8BitMMO by clicking here.)

Thanks to everyone who made entries for the contest!

I have not one, but TWO winners to share with you, along with many other cool entries.

Winner – Obliquely

Obliquely made a two layer maze surrounding a secret fossil inside.  Can you navigate the maze and discover the fossil?  I have linked a telepad to it from Origin (top row of telepads, #5 from left) so you can try navigating it yourself.

Winner – ElDromedario

Check out this archaeological dig site (a popular theme this contest?):

Explore it yourself by taking a telepad from Origin, located south of the Origin start point.

Other Awesome Entries

Corngamer built a self-statue:

Ender made a couple in-game constructions:

 

Grim made a statue of me:

Nibrudly made some fanfic (which I think Nib is going to upload to the fanfic wiki?)

Obliquely made a number of other entries too, including some mob designs and a tileset for building in-world text:

 

P_taro made a restaurant:

Pikachu789 made… this?

Zloc6 made a self-sculpture:

Alright, time for a new contest!  I am combining several of the contest ideas together for a ‘Make Something Awesome‘ contest.  The rules are simple:

• Make something awesome related to 8BitMMO (either in-game or out of game)
• It must be NEW (created on 9/10 or later)
• E-mail me a picture and description of it to sim9+MakeSomethingAwesome@editingarchive.com.  Please include your username if you want credit
• For the picture, please use JPEG, PNG, or GIF image formats.  Here is a guide on how to take a screenshot in windows.

Everyone who enters (with a sufficiently awesome entry) will receive 250 gold!  I will also be highlighting my favorite entries in a wrap-up blog post once the contest finishes.

Here are some ideas to get you started:

• Make some really cool voxel art in-game
• Make an interesting house in-game
• Create an exciting dungeon in-game
• Write some fan-fiction for the wiki (I am hoping to do this too ;))
• Create some nice fan-art based on characters/locations in the game
• Create artwork for some new tiles that you’d like to see
• Or make something else!

PLUS: The entry I like the most will receive a 1,250g+10p pack!

Contest closes in two weeks – at noon US Pacific time on Sept 24th.

Legal notes:  By entering this contest, you consent to your creation image, description & your screen name being posted on 8BitMMO publications.  No purchase required.  Retail value of this prize is ~$4.99.  Winner will be posted to http://blog.8bitmmo.net

I started work back up on the new engine and am making progress!  But, there’s still a notable amount of work there until that’s ready for public beta.  In the meantime, we should do another public contest because those are always fun 🙂

In the past, we’ve done a social media sharing sweepstakes and a fanart contest.  We could do one of those again, or something new (fanfic contest?  coolest building contest?  forum post sweepstakes?).  There will be a reward for the winner.

So… what kind of contest should we do?  Post in comments!

Winners have been randomly selected for the sweepstakes!  They are:

• Grim
• Rodrigo
• Carlos
• Games Only

Congratulations to the winners!  If you are a winner, you should have a token to redeem in your e-mail inbox.

And thanks to everyone who entered and shared the game with their friends.  We had 17 entries, and with four winners, chances of winning were about 23.5%.

I’m now taking suggestions for our next contest/sweepstakes.  🙂