Challenge Schedule and Question Post

[sunberry]

The schedule for the Big Bridge challenge is:

- Sign ups: End May 31st (23:59 ADT)
- Creating period: Starts June 1st
- First check in: June 15th
- Second check in: June 30th
- Third check in: July 15th
- Works due: July 31st (23:59 ADT)
- Works revealed: Aug 1st (22:59 ADT)


I'm thinking of keeping the works in the collection unrevealed until after July 31st and revealing everything at once on Aug 1st, but I'm open to thoughts on it. We have time :)

It's been brought to my attention that opening up opinions on status of the works in the collection may have upset some folks, which was not my intention, so I'm going to go ahead with my initial plan. The collection will be closed at 23:59 on July 31st, and the works in the collection will be unrevealed until Aug 1st, 22:59 ADT.


If you have any questions about the challenge, feel free to leave them on this post!

Comments

[sunberry]

FFXIV is still a FF rpg and still published by Square-Enix, it's fine :) Ditto for other mobile games/mmos/srpgs/etc by Japanese publishers, if they're still rpgs. But Undertale is a Western game production, so it's a no go, sorry though.

RPGMaker games I would have to rule on in a case by case basis, I think, but unless you have a specific one in mind I'm going to leave that question aside. The handmade (for lack of a better word) game that was asked about earlier is a Japanese one. Did you have one in mind?

[jack_of_none]

Well, I was thinking of Yume Nikki in particular, which is by a Japanese dev. I'm not sure if its usually considered an RPG, since the gameplay is just..."walking around", basically.

It's not a big deal, I just wanted to clarify for the future, since "JRPG" is sometimes used to mean the specific genre of RPG descended from Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy as opposed to just any RPG with a Japanese origin.

Good to know that FFXIV counts, though! I'll ask if I have anything else in mind that I think might be an edge case.

[sunberry]

Hmm. According to everything I have been able to find, Yume Nikki is classified as an adventure game. The RPG Maker software seems to be a tool capable of being utilized for game creation in multiple genres, but the tool isn't really the focus here, is it?

I have to admit that I have never come across a definition that narrow before. For this community, a JRPG is a Japanese Role-Playing Game. There are some examples in the interests section of the community profile that may help clarify for you.