First Place:
Runners Up:
We had some good entries – and I think some people took chances on entering since the subject matter was so broad. Great job folks!
And now to come up with the next one . . .
- Steve
Archive for October, 2010
Contest Winners for Candy Mania!
Posted by Steven Savage on October 31, 2010
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New Generator – Classic Cooler!
Posted by Steven Savage on October 23, 2010
Yes, it's done! My first generator in quite some time – a generator to transform classics with over-the-top cool elements!
The generator is here.
And some sample results:
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carrol) with high-speed chases!
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens) with assasins and a post-apocalyptic setting!
Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) with plenty of explosions!
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte) with astronauts versus ghost hunters!
Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe) with magical artifacts!
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) with giant robots!
Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Samuel Coleridge) with a post-apocalyptic setting and faster-than-light travel!
Sherlock Holmes (Sir Artuhur Conan Doyle) with zombies and aliens!
The Faerie Queene (Edmund Spencer) with lost continents!
The House of Seven Gables (Nathaniel Hawthorne) with samurai!
The Oz Stories (L. Frak Baum) with supermodels and lost continents!
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) with a steampunk world and biotechnology!
Tom Jones (Henry Fielding) with ghost hunters and biotechnology!
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy) with holograms!
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte) with genetic engineering and nanotechnology!
Enjoy!
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Last Candy Mania Contest Entries
Posted by Steven Savage on October 16, 2010
We got our last contest entries – and quite a combo of entries over the last few months! Great job everyone, we'll get the judges going soon!
German Nougat Bears: [link]
MochaMapleMallows: [link]
Sour Blueberries: [link]
Tropical Tasty Turtles: [link]
- Steve
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The Latest Generator . . .
Posted by Steven Savage on October 16, 2010
While I get ready for the contest to be judged, a look at the "Classic Cooler" to add cool stuff to classics, in the trend that is way overdone, yet somehow enchanting . . .
- A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens) with artificial intelligences versus giant monsters!
- A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens) with cowboys versus artificial intelligences!
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carrol) with dinosaurs versus superheroes!
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carrol) with zombies and plenty of explosions!
- Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) with martial artists versus superheroes!
- Emma (Jane Austen) with astronauts versus cowboys!
- Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift) with artificial intelligences!
- Hamlet (Shakespeare) with biotechnology!
- Macbeth(Shakespeare) with dinosaurs!
- Moby Dick (Herman Melville) with artificial intelligences!
- Peter Pan (J.M. Barrie) with sentai heroes!
- Pilgrim's Progress (John Bunyan) with a steampunk world!
- Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Samuel Coleridge) with a post-apocalyptic setting and plenty of explosions!
- Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe) with kung-fu fighting!
- The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chauser) with giant robots and alien artifacts!
- The Masque of the Red Death (Edgar Allen Poe with ray gun fights and a post-apocalyptic setting!
- The Tempest(Shakespeare) with every science-fiction trope imaginable!
- The Tempest(Shakespeare) with robots versus space marines!
- War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy) with cyberspace and a steampunk world!
- Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte) with epic natural disasters and faster-than-light travel!
- Steve
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Go Farther: Procedural Media
Posted by Steven Savage on October 7, 2010
Originally published here.
As I've suggested before, spontaneity and unpredictability is an element of a media product (a story, a game, etc.) that can get, maintain, and expand people's interest in the product. Spontaneity, combined with relatively fast access to the spontaneous content, is a unique way to add value to a media product as its un duplicateable and plays on our love of the unknown and novel. Getting that spontaneity is thus important – but varies from media to media.
Every kind of media has its different advantages and disadvantages in adding spontaneity to it. Changing technology has also altered how this can be done, and changing expectations have altered what people expect. I'm going to take a look at the different kinds of media and how spontaneity can be added to them.
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Latest Contest Entries – Candy Mania!
Posted by Steven Savage on October 7, 2010
Our latest entries – and it’s counting down! One more week!
Wacky Wacomints: [link]
Megamallows: [link]
Cosmoblackberry Toffee: [link]
Swedish Jawbreakers: [link]
Toffee Sensation: [link]
- Steve
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