How about a molten day side and a solidifying night side?
I like it! At the moment our list of planets is fairly basic. This is probably an area where those of you who pledge the Developer testing tier will be able to heavily influence the development of Battlescape.
Will you release a preliminary list of tiers so we know what to save for?
I’m assuming the Dev tier will be in the 300-500 range?
I’d be down for a short story competition.
I might could possibly even finish.
A short story challenge seems to be gaining support. I like the idea of a limit of 2000 words.
I’m assuming it will be a story based on the Infinity universe. Should the challenge concentrate on a specific event / aspect of the Infinity universe or should it be more loosely defined so that we get more variation in the stories?
Opinions?
No we’ve been focusing on getting the videos finished, we’ll get back to it soon.
I think leave it open - Just something set in the Infinity universe.
2000 words feels short, but that could be a good exercise. Having a short, complete text is actually often an extra challenge. Maybe make it more of a target? It’s not like we should reject a 2006 words text, eh?
And without a target, some of us may go a bit overboard
Whether free or specific, I would go either way. In fact, my mind is already starting to ponder at some ideas…
Edit: scrap that, let’s go for free - I know exactly what I want to write!
Challenge 4 - An Infinity Short Story
A short story it is then! I hope we get a large attendance for this particular competition since I know from all those awesome RP posts in the Wolf Games that we have a large pool of talented writers here!
Challenge category: Fan stories
Time: 2 months (until Sunday 20th of September)
Requirements:
A short story based in the Infinity universe with preferably 2000 words. It is not a hard limit but contestants should keep their stories at least below 2500 to qualify.
Check the original lore and timeline for inspiration:
Contestants:
Submissions:
Use this separate thread for the submissions:
How about “contestants should keep their stories at least below 2500 if they want the deadline extended, anything arriving in the next 2 months can be War and Peace”? Would be an interesting exercise.
Of course you’ll still want to stick to a sub-2000 word story if you want to win. I mean, I’ll read through anything up to 200k words as long as it’s half decent (just please mention that it’s that long before I start reading, prefer my Kindle over the current forum theme), but even if it’s the best thing I’ve ever read, and the only submission to the competition, I absolutely will post TL;DR as the reason I voted for someone else.
I have no problems with longer stories. I will probably read them anyway. But I would keep a limit for qualified stories to make them more digestible for the audience and voters.
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By the way. Everyone who wants to join the challenge please make a post with a bolded
I’m in
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Even if you already hinted about participating before the challenge was announced.
I’m in
I’d like a specific theme for the story, especially given that we don’t have a defined lore for the game. Do we just use whatever we can remember from the old forums as the basis of the story? I dropped two stories when the developers were trying to assemble a writing team. I can easily just post one of those.
I think the latest published version of the lore and everything we used to know about the Infinity universe has to work as a basis for the story since that’s all we got.
I got the sense that people would prefer an open and undefined theme as long as it’s based in the Infinity universe. But for those who prefer a specific theme I would suggest that defining battle in the great Delta - Star Fold war (I’ve forgot the name of the battle but I recall it was a cool one).
No graphics? Ok I’ll try, no promises though.
It was a dark and stormy night…
I take that as an “I’m in”
Sounds fun.
I’m in
I kinda like this idea…
I’m in
So for those of us who don’t remember the lore too well, is there a wiki of information we can read up on? I just remember that deltan are ultra militaristic and the starfold is the industrial faction and not much more than that…
I have a lot of lore filed away from when I was leading the story team. However I understand a lot of that lore is changing for various reasons and it could be damaging to a submitted story’s integrity to use it. Unless a dev team member can provide some current lore (don’t hold your breath as they have more pressing priorities) it’s probably best to write a fairly generic story that can fit with the media that has already been publicly released.