Retrofit Contest – Week 6 and Winners!
March 20th, 2010 - filed under Input Requested, Status UpdatesThe 2010 Jetpack Retrofit Contest is over!
The contest was a great success, it was a lot of fun getting the fans involved and I think we got some great graphics, music, and levels out of it. I wish we had more of a budget for this project – hopefully for Jetpack 2 we can have a new contest with more and bigger prizes to better recognize the contribution of fans.
I’d like to mention a few people that made excellent contributions to Jetpack:
Saga Musix submitted some fantastic music, in addition to a zillion sound effects and several levels.
Eric F. submitted a ton of graphics, and some great levels.
Tim K. submitted several excellent graphics
Coda submitted some excellent music
Brien B. submitted several great tiles
Adam D. had a huge number of great levels, a lot of good ideas, and is helping to develop a storyline
Joseph S. submitted a great full replacement tileset. Although not quite the style I was looking for, I was able to bring over several of the concepts.
Jonas R, Alex W, Dan Kalne, Brien B, and Juan G submitted a great variety of excellent levels.
And the Winners Are…
$50 1st Prize: Saga Musix and Eric F.
$25 2nd Prize: Tim K., Coda, Brien B., and Adam D.
Honorable Mention: The following users had great contributions, and will receive a free copy of Jetpack: Collector’s Edition: Joseph S., Jonas R., Alex W., Dan K., Joe S., David M., Tuomas T., Joe C., Joseph C., Ben T., Wolfgang S., Steven M. Jonathon P., Axem, Ben S., David C., Doug H., Matt S., Rondo B., Ben J., Felipe A., and Robert R.
I’ll put these names in the game credits (with full last names instead of initials). If you want a different name used in the credits, please contact me.
We had many great submissions, so choosing the best contributors has been no easy task. Congratulations to the winners and thanks to everyone who participated!
A few more things…
Although the contest is over, we can still use some graphics, sounds, and music. As always, a free copy of Jetpack Collector’s Edition goes to anyone whose work is used in the game. Send any submissions to the business email here. Here’s what we still need:
Music
Some more songs to add variety to the game.
Sound Effects
If you happen to have a recording studio, we need more sounds that fit Jetpack!
Theme Tiles
outdoors
factory
space station
alien planet
jungle
devilish – bones, brimstone
A computer control panel
Alternate exit doors
Enemies – graphics that will replace other enemies while retaining the same behavior. I’d like to have at least one alternate enemy graphic per theme.
Release Status
Since I’ve expanded the scope of the retrofit we’re now looking at a release in early May. I plan to release a beta with an editor mid-April, so we’ll have about 3 weeks to update all the levels for the new game system. I’m hoping to release a semi-playable alpha in the coming week.
This week’s entries
March 13th
Some devilish tiles from Eric F.
March 14th
A perfect intro song by Saga Musix:
Saga: Entrance to the Cave
A wooden column from Brien B.
A space ball from Steven M.
New levels:
March 15th
Another work in progress by Saga Musix:
Saga: Jetfunk
A new trackbot from Eric F.
March 16th
Invincibility Suit, spikes, cave tiles from Brien B.
March 17th
A walking demon (devilish trackbot replacement) from Eric F.
March 17th
Brien B. adds fuel to his tileset:
March 18th
A cool pencil drawing of a Jetman by Silas C.
New levels:
dank_1.zip
rondob_1.zip
March 19th
Brien B. adds a Homer and new bricks to his tileset:
A conveyor belt, gold brick, and gold pile from Steven M.
New levels:
adamd_3.zip
tuomast_2.zip
josephc_3.zip
jonathonp_1.zip
davidc_1.zip
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March 20th, 2010 at 1:11 pm
Woo, the results are in! I was expecting Saga and Adam D. to rank high, their submissions have been consistently really good. Hats off to everyone who submitted something.
Also, for anyone who wants to quickly play all the Retrofit levels, I made a big .zip file with every entry in a ready-to-play form (just unzip to the LEVELS folder): http://www.mediafire.com/?uoz2oqhk3lw
March 20th, 2010 at 2:06 pm
Congrats to all the winners!! And great job to everyone! There’s been some really nice stuff submitted. And of course,…thanks Adam for letting us all participate!
March 20th, 2010 at 6:03 pm
Favourite levels this week (both by Adam Dobay):
No More Candy Be4 Bedtime (D-H-CAND) – Nice puzzle level
Quick and Dirty (D-X-QUIC) – An extremely hard level, but at least it’s quick (and fun).
Looking forward to seeing the beta release.
March 20th, 2010 at 7:57 pm
Guys I’m so happy to see this initiative, I’m java developer, let me know if I can help with something.
March 21st, 2010 at 2:21 pm
I love Eric F.’s devilish tiles, and Brien B.’s spikes (enemy) and spikes look awesome.
Eric’s walking demon looks pretty good, but it also looks kinda funny, like he’s doing some crazy dance.
“Brien B. adds a Homer and new bricks to his tileset:”
I can’t see where Homer is supposed to be here.
Brien’s fuel looks cool, but it doesn’t really look like fuel. It makes me think of some kind of a missile than anything else. Also, the wooden column and fence tiles are nice.
And congratulations to all the winners! I had a feeling Tim K. and Eric F. would win, but I just now realized that Saga Musix was a person (sorry about that), and looking back, they did a great job!
I can’t wait for the alpha! And definitely, a huge thanks to Adam for the contest and working on the new jetpack games!
March 21st, 2010 at 3:35 pm
So did we ever get a working jetman?
And there should be an airport theme! With moving walkways, security guards, out of control airplanes, security checkpoints, bombs, baggage, money, gates, communications, and terrorist attacks!
I’ve realized that I can’t do anything with graphics and have no idea how to make something small, detailed, and flash-y…
March 21st, 2010 at 3:49 pm
My levels are dank. I’ve got some pretty “dank” levels.
March 22nd, 2010 at 12:37 am
also, no offense, but the jetman in the drawing looks like he has 2 right hands…actually…yea, that’s definitely a thumb.
And Brien B.’s invincibility suit looks pretty cool.
March 23rd, 2010 at 2:46 am
I knew there’s something wrong with picture =0
March 23rd, 2010 at 7:57 am
> I can’t see where Homer is supposed to be here.
Oops I left it out. It’s there now.
> So did we ever get a working jetman?
I had someone really good working on one, but I haven’t heard from him in a week
March 23rd, 2010 at 6:07 pm
Thanks everyone for the feedback. I enjoyed making the all the tiles I did.
What exactly did you have in mind for “A computer control panel”?
March 24th, 2010 at 10:19 am
You guys are right. lol
This happened because I’ve done in a hurry to deliver.
I thought Adam was going to end soon the contributions.
It was meant to be only a concept.
I made two separate drawings (one of Jetman and other of various hands – edited later).
That’s it.
This never happened to me before and made me sad. o.o” Not much.
March 24th, 2010 at 3:04 pm
> What exactly did you have in mind for “A computer control panel”?
This would be like a console the jetman would stand in front of.
March 26th, 2010 at 5:35 pm
Hello, I am of Argentine. I do not speak very well English. I like to draw … I want to send a drawing of jetman.
Congratulations for the project.
March 31st, 2010 at 4:37 pm
First off, thank you Adam for having this contest, it was really fun! I’d like to do it again sometime!
Second, is the Jetpack: Collector’s Edition going to be a physical copy or something we get sent to us through email (I usually prefer physical copies for this kind of thing)?
March 31st, 2010 at 4:50 pm
If I had boxes I would send them out, but unfortunately this is just going to be a digital release.
April 1st, 2010 at 4:50 pm
have their been any developments with anything? it’s been almost 2 weeks since there’s been a blog post!
April 1st, 2010 at 5:01 pm
Ha! I’ve been drowning in bugs, every time I add a new feature. I’m hoping to finally get the new demo up tonight. I would have published last night, but when I went to build in release mode at 11pm, a bug showed up that isn’t happening in debug mode
April 1st, 2010 at 6:33 pm
ah that sucks!
But that’s also great news! I can’t wait!
April 1st, 2010 at 6:34 pm
and i spelled “there” wrong in that last post…man i feel like an idiot.
wait…is this an april fools joke?
April 1st, 2010 at 7:30 pm
Ha I would come up with something better than that.. I had the idea last night to replace all the graphics with fairies and stuff and say it was the new look, but alas I had the idea too late