The submission deadline for GMD 2012 has been extended to Thursday January 19!  That’s more time to fix up your games so be sure to submit whatever you’ve got by the new submission deadline, even if you’re not terribly satisfied with it, for an excellent chance to win a prize (usually every videogame submitted will win something).

We were accepting GMD 2012 sign-up forms until the beginning of January, but you can still download these forms from our website if you need to for whatever reason.  As previously mentioned, the theme for GMD 2012 is “Murder Mildly Foul”

Feel free to email us at gmd@utgddc.com if you have any other questions about GMD 2012.

Good luck, game developers!

Click here to check out the games of GMD 2011!

As we mentioned during yesterday’s utGDDC meeting, there has been consideration to extend the GMD 2011 game submission due date, which is currently Thursday, January 27 at 9p.m. EST.

If you are participating in GMD 2011 and would like an extension for game submission due date, then please email Shane at gmd@utgddc.com with the phrase “GMD 2011 extension” in the Subject line and either a “Yes”, if you want the GMD 2011 game submission extension, or a “No” in the email body if you don’t.

For more information about GMD 2011 and how to participate, go to gmd.utgddc.com

Among a variety of very interesting games and concepts, the winners of the 2010 Game-Making Deathmatch were chosen by a panel of judges. This year’s theme was “Nightmare Fuel” and the contestants had a little bit over a month’s time to develop their games. Here are are the official results for the best games of the competition overall:

DOWNLOAD LINK COMING SOON

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD Nightmare Fuel

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD Darkest Before The Dawn

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD Lively Bitter Garden

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD Text Zombies

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD Desert Madness

NO VIDEO GAME DOWNLOAD AVAILABLE

Screenshots and gameplay videos for these games will be posted at a later date.

Visit http://gmd.utgddc.com to register and learn more.

http://gmd.utgddc.com/2008/game/

The winners and results will be announced shortly. In the mean time, if you have time, check out the games!

Also, for convenience, you can also register by sending me email at gmd@utgddc.com with the required info from the form and I’ll arrange a meeting time with you for the registration fee.

Typically around this time of the school year is when GMD competition starts and the competitors go at it for three full weeks before they have to submit a game. I am announcing today that there WILL be a GMD event happening this school year but just not this current term (fall 2007). Instead, the competition will take place in February 2008 for three weeks leading up to the end of reading week. Nothing is set in stone yet, but we are planning to have the competition to run from February 1st to the 22nd. The main reasons behind this change is because:

• There will be a week where most people can devote all their time towards making a working game demo for GMD (“no time” excuses become less of an issue, in theory at least).
• Most importantly, to give first years’ and new members of the club some time to learn the tools and theory behind making a game

Not only that, the competition rules will be significantly different than previous years, and hopefully for the better. Changes being planned include:

• Voting for a theme topic to be used
• Two rounds of judging for games: first round by other participants, second round by industry and faculty (a panel of at least three judges)
• Judging based on categories
• GMD “Office Hours” — executive members will hold Q&A help sessions throughout the competition to help beginners get their game working
• NO anonymous rule — you are now free to discuss your game amongst your other competitors
• Alumnis can participate in a special Alumni Deathmatch Challenge!

Details will follow and will be worked out. Stay tuned for the best GMD competition yet! If you have any comments or concerns, feel free to send me an email.