The third competition has been announced. You can find information in the YYG Glog or on the YYG home page.

This topic is for discussion about the competition, for instance whether you plan to enter or not, what kind of game you might make, how happy you are about the deadline, and so on.

Hehehe, I've got my hands on some really good sound tools and graphics tools. I'm ready to own!

I don't understand what to do for this competition.

Take for example Frozzed and Ancient Ants Adventure...
It's like you have characters you can choose and play with them (They should be AIs)

I guess make a game where you play with one or more players at the same time or play with computer players?Anyways i would enter but i dont have any ideas

Have Jokerkingz entered?

I edited the first post a bit. I'll sticky this after the competition has been officially announced.

Its worth noting that you can access the co-operation competition page here:
http://www.yoyogames.com/gamemaker/competition03

It should answer a few of your questions. BTW despite what googigi said, co-operation is a THEME and is open to interpretation so it does not have to include AI or even involve playing with something or someone else.

I hadn't checked the main site before making my post. Fixed now.

I am working on a good co operative challenge game already as it so happens and well I kind of already knew about this competiton but just wanted to make a game for some fun or a interesting challenge, so I made challengetrix a fun challenging, work in progress which is going to be real good, and challenging and involving lots of cooperation, as u can clearly tell it's a future based puzzle game, set in a maze as the name clearly says challengetrix, hence the name ChallengeTrix(Not challengo) and unlike challengo(how ever it's spelled) there are more creatures u control, and it has plenty of challenges some even unexpected or never thought of b4, yes it has 3 control types, the keyboard, the mouse, the joypad, 16 mini challenges. 8 bonus levels.

Wait im confused here... there could be two ways to do this...

1) Two human players control a different character each trying to achieve something, together, not battle or anything.
2) A 1-player game with other chraracters with AI helping your character, and possably being able to control multiple characters at once.

Which one do they mean? Or would both ideas work?

I still don't get it either. I think its the first one but still. I have like no ideas right now, all the contests do. But I'll think of something.

I propose the next theme should be sports.

@steware: yes, you are correct, they are both good ideas.

One could make:
- a multiplayer game;
- a single-player game with AI controlled characters;
- a single-player game where the player controls more than one character at once or has the ability to cycle through several different characters to controls;

These are, of course just some basic ideas. With a bit of imagination, you could create a totally unique co-op game. Just think outside the box.

Because of confusion I'll try to explain the co-operation theme again. The game does not have to integrate any form of co-op in the gameplay as long as co-operation is included somewhere in the game. For example, you could do a classic shoot-em-up but with the story focussing on the repeated attempts of two countries to reconcile and work together.

If your still confused, I'll give explaining one more go.

Quote@steware: yes, you are correct, they are both good ideas.

One could make:
- a multiplayer game;
- a single-player game with AI controlled characters;
- a single-player game where the player controls more than one character at once or has the ability to cycle through several different characters to controls;

These are, of course just some basic ideas. With a bit of imagination, you could create a totally unique co-op game. Just think outside the box.
hmm tink outside the box...
i got an idea, you are mother nature and the game is set in a park, you must work together with nature(co-op) to dispose of people who terrorise your park, and of couse you would get to choose from famous parks around the world so you would never get bored of the same parks-it would be a platformer style game- but just thing strangling the the little twerp with ivy, or drowning them with the water, or even tossig them around with the wind.

You have to remember that the game must be single player available.

it is single player only

I'm gonna try entering. This will be my first competetion though :(.

dont get your hopes up

Quoteit is single player only

Nope, you can make the game multiplayer, but it has to be playable in single user mode, so that everyone can play it whenever they like, without having to find a partner first.

That's what I was saying... Thank you Trollsplater for making it clear.

I might possibly enter. It will be my first time entering in a competition, and I'm kinda new to GM. Probably won't win, but might as well try. I've had several ideas, but one that's sticking out is a game where you are a character, the other character follows you around and when you attack your partner attacks. It would be a platformer. Ah, yes, similar to Ice Climber. Is this okay?

QuoteQuoteit is single player only

Nope, you can make the game multiplayer, but it has to be playable in single user mode, so that everyone can play it whenever they like, without having to find a partner first.

thats what im saying aswell
hey i havnt seen you in a while trollsplatterer,
i remember i made a anime of my dude killing u lol

For now I'm not planning to enter, I really have a lot of games to make before that...

i have just started to use gm and am going alright, but if only it would stop closing on me for no reason, and coming up with errors, ITS SO FRUSTRATING!!!