GMC Jam Discussion The Humble GMC Jam #2 Discussion Thread

What theme would you like for the GMC Jam #2?

  • DECONSTRUCTION

    Votes: 32 35.6%
  • YOU ARE NOT THE HERO

    Votes: 43 47.8%
  • POINT OF NO RETURN

    Votes: 15 16.7%

  • Total voters
    90
  • Poll closed .
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sylvain_l

Member
Just decided to do it and PM'ed Alice my prize offer: One short poem to the 42nd place winner.
love the idea.
I need to think about something :p

@Alice What's the deadline to annouce any community prize ?



Code:
-E--N------I--
Me and Tseliot
He knew antiar
He unfiles ISN
Be on anything
Reign of click


---_-R-_N--_--E-----
You are not Alekhine
You are not wretched
The 3rd nut upended!
The ara nee prelates



---N--O-_-O_-E----
Bronchos go rewind
Soundbox to select
Epanodos do repeat
 

Alice

Darts addict
Forum Staff
Moderator
@Alice What's the deadline to annouce any community prize ?
Pretty much anytime before the results are announced, though I'd really prefer if you people mentioned the community prizes sooner than that.
(especially since the prizes may count as an incentive to participate for some)
 
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GVmG

Guest
The current themes have 8 words, meaning that there are 2 hidden spaces.

If the second one has an aextra space right after the last E, it could be YOU ARE NOT THE EVIL or YOU ARE NOW THE EVIL. I don't know how grammatically correct it is, but there's something that sounds a bit off with those sentences. But unfortunately I can't tell if they are correct.

A friend is telling me that tehcnically, "evil" can be used as a noun, but it's very rare, at least in a "<x> is the evil" way, and it's usually just used as an adjective.

And somehow I just noticed how using ancient english makes it sound more normal: THY ART NOT/NOW THE EVIL :p
 
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Nacky Slocker

Guest
Okay, question, are ALL the letters of the same type revealed? Es, Ns, Is, Rs, Os?
If not:
You are not dreaming < I think this is a great theme idea.
You are not sleeping
You are not guessing
You are not cheating

If so, no E, N, I, R, O
- - - _ - R - _ N - - _ - - E - - - - -
cat try nab stealthy
gut fry nub fleshhat (wow that sounds gross, but fitting for Halloween)
fly cry nut checksum
 
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zircher

Guest
You make it a story about a player playing a game and then the game starts pushing back. :)
 
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GVmG

Guest
I was actually reading related Philosophy and sci-fi stuff last night, so I have some fair ideas if that's the theme.
 

Alice

Darts addict
Forum Staff
Moderator
Alright, here goes a hint so big that it might be basically cheating:

All ten theme words are unique.
At this point, only one 10 theme words is yet to appear in your theme guesses!
Each of the remaining 9 words has appeared in at least one theme guess from this topic!


If anyone posts a correct guess (the list of all 3 themes and no other guesses) before the theme voting begins, then the first person to do so will get a Halloween cookie. Double-posting not allowed! However, posting multiple full-themes guesses separated with other people's posts is fine. ^^
You can expect the theme voting to begin in 16-ish hours, though I might begin the voting earlier if I see a correct guess.

Now unleash the data science!

--- EDIT ---

Oh, and to be eligible for Halloween cookie, the post must not have been edited.
 
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Nacky Slocker

Guest
- E - - N - - - - - - I - -
Can't make a reasonable guess in a reasonable amount of time on the first theme.
get new artist (?)
- - - _ - R - _ N - - _ - - E - - - - -
you are not stealthy
- - - N - - O - _ - O _ - E - - - -
Pawnshop to nether

Suggestion for future: Letter blacklist. e.g. "There are no Cs in themes 1 & 3"
 
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Miner7365

Guest
- E - - N - - - - - - I - -
Deconstructing

- - - _ - R - _ N - - _ - - E - - - - -
You are not alerting

- - - N - - O - _ - O _ - E - - - -
Think of no be all

Welp, there are my actual guesses, i doubt the third one is right but whatever.
 
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fxokz

Guest
The current themes have 8 words, meaning that there are 2 hidden spaces.

If the second one has an aextra space right after the last E, it could be YOU ARE NOT THE EVIL or YOU ARE NOW THE EVIL. I don't know how grammatically correct it is, but there's something that sounds a bit off with those sentences. But unfortunately I can't tell if they are correct.

A friend is telling me that tehcnically, "evil" can be used as a noun, but it's very rare, at least in a "<x> is the evil" way, and it's usually just used as an adjective.

And somehow I just noticed how using ancient english makes it sound more normal: THY ART NOT/NOW THE EVIL :p
that actually sounds like it could be it!
 

Ninety

Member
Haven't been able to get GMS working on Wine yet despite multiple attempts... Anyone been successful? I might have to sit this one out... Again...
 

dadio

Potato Overlord
GMC Elder
Ooooh! I really like You Are Not The Hero!
Hope that`s right!
*cue The Final Countdown music*...

24 HOURS* TO GO PEOPLE!!! :eek::eek::eek:
*enthusiastic approximation
 

Alice

Darts addict
Forum Staff
Moderator
So, anyone up to gathering the words together and guessing all 3 themes? All the correct words have appeared in your guesses, now all that's left is digging through the topic and choose the right ones!
 
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fxokz

Guest
So, anyone up to gathering the words together and guessing all 3 themes? All the correct words have appeared in your guesses, now all that's left is digging through the topic and choose the right ones!
im putting $500 on "YOU ARE NOT THE HERO". still dont know about the other two.
 

Alice

Darts addict
Forum Staff
Moderator
im putting $500 on "YOU ARE NOT THE HERO". still dont know about the other two.
Regardless of whether YOU ARE NOT THE HERO is indeed the correct theme or not, the number of options is really limited now. How hard can gathering the theme guesses so far and choosing the right words from them can be? ^^'

(especially since some theme guesses are outdated, and there's no way they would fit anywhere in the blanks as they are now)
 
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GVmG

Guest
That reminds me that you specifically said there are 10 unique words. That doesn't mean one or more of them hasn't been repeated. I'll be trying to guess something for the next few hours.
 

Alice

Darts addict
Forum Staff
Moderator
Actually, in the next few hours the voting begins. There are less than 2 hours left, now.

Cue, CHARACTERS OVERLOAD!

DE--N--RU--I-N
--U -R- N-- --E--E--
---N- O- -O RE----


And the list of valid words:
Code:
9 words of theme are somewhere in there:

A
I
AM
AN
AS
BE
DO
GO
HE
IF
IT
ME
NO
OF
OH
ON
OR
SO
TO
WE
ALL
AND
ARE
DIE
EAT
ELK
END
JAM
LAY
NEE
NEW
NOT
NUT
ONE
ORC
OUT
ROT
SAW
SEE
THE
TWO
WAS
YOU
BACK
BAIT
BEER
BURN
COGS
DAMN
ENDS
EVIL
FIRE
GAME
GIFT
HELL
INTO
KNEW
LAND
LEFT
LIFE
LION
MEET
MINE
MORE
NICE
NOON
PLAY
POOR
RISE
RISK
ROLE
RUIN
SOON
STUN
TELL
THEN
THIS
TIME
TONS
TOTO
WHAT
WITH
YOUR
ALONE
APPLE
CANDY
CHAIN
CHIPS
CLICK
CLONE
DEMON
DYING
EAGLE
EARTH
EATEN
EIGHT
EMBER
FAINT
GHOST
GOING
MAKER
NEVER
NIGHT
NOONE
POINT
REIGN
RIDER
SMEAR
SWORD
THEME
TOONS
VOICE
WHEEL
ACTION
AMOUNT
ANTIAR
BABIES
BASICS
BULLET
BUTTON
CINDER
DEFEAT
DEFEND
DEMONS
DESIRE
DOUBLE
ELDERS
ENDING
ENTITY
ESCAPE
FINISH
FORCED
HEAVEN
HORROR
HUNTER
INSANE
INSIDE
MENTAL
PEOPLE
PLANES
RANDOM
REPEAT
RETURN
REWIND
SELECT
SMILER
SMOOTH
STRESS
TERROR
TOMATO
TRAINS
ARRIVES
CHOICES
COPTERS
CREATED
DOGFISH
ENEMIES
FARMING
LANDING
MASHING
MASSIVE
MILLION
MONSTER
NOTHING
PANTIES
PLAYING
TESTING
TROUBLE
TSELIOT
UNFILES
UPENDED
WITCHES
ADEQUATE
AMERICAN
ANYTHING
BRANDISH
BRONCHOS
CAMPAIGN
CHEATING
CHIPMUNK
COGSMILE
DREAMING
DUMPLING
FAMILIES
FIGHTING
FLIPPING
GUESSING
INVERTED
OFFICIAL
PAWNSHOP
PERSONAL
PLANKTON
PLEASANT
PREPARED
QUESTION
RAGNAROK
RAINDROP
REACTION
REINVENT
SLEEPING
SOUNDBOX
TORTILLA
WRETCHED
BARBARIAN
CHRISTMAS
COMMUNITY
CRAPPIEST
PLATFORMS
POLITICAL
RECONNECT
REMEMBERS
SOMETHING
ADOLESCENT
DIMENSIONAL
CHEESEBURGER
MULTIPLAYING
DEMONSTRATION
ACCOMPLISHMENT
CAPITALIZATION
DECODIFICATING
DECODIFICATION
DECONSTRUCTION
EXISTENTIALISM
IMMOBILIZATION
MULTIPLICATION
OVERCAPITALIZE

Possible remaining 10th word:

GET
HERO
THINK
ARTIST
NETHER
ALERTING
STEALTHY
DECONSTRUCTING

Someone's got to figure it out now. ^^'
 
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GVmG

Guest
DECONSTRUCTION and YOU ARE NOT THE HERO are still my frist two guesses.

Also thank you for posting that right after I finished gathering the words lol

What's kinda weird about the first one, though, is that your comment towards the first guesses was that "it's related to an exclamation". I can kinda see that with "deconstruction" but it doesn't feel too good.
 
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Alice

Darts addict
Forum Staff
Moderator
No, no, you misunderstood that comment about exclamation completely. What I meant, rather, was that the first theme could be, at that point (when only I was known), "A N _ E X C L A M A T I O N".

(as for posting the words, I couldn't tell if people actually would bother gathering them or not; sometimes it's hard to tell if they are as much into data sciencey theme finding as I am)

So, you have two guesses. How about the third theme...?

EDIT: Now post all three without an EDIT.
 

The M

Member
Ok, here goes:

DECONSTRUCTION
YOU ARE NOT THE HERO
ALONE OR NO RETURN

if the last one is four words we're down to
ALONE, DYING, FAINT, NOONE
OF, OH, ON, OR
DO, GO, NO, SO, TO
REPEAT, RETURN, REWIND

Edit: darn, missed POINT. point of no return makes perfect sense. ^^
Edit 2: looks like I missed a lot of them. Well, it doesn't matter any more.
 
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Micah_DS

Member
I almost want to try one last guess, but I'm beat after a very long day. It's roughly 3:30 AM where I live and I'm going to sleep. Really curious and excited about the themes though.
 

Nux

GameMaker Staff
GameMaker Dev.
i wonder if the last one is "POINT OF NO RETURN"

edit: dang it, i was typing my post and when i updated @GVmG got the same answer as me
i wasn't faast enoug
 

Alice

Darts addict
Forum Staff
Moderator
DECONSTRUCTION yes, YOU ARE NOT THE HERO yes and POINT OF NO RETURN yes!

All themes are known now!

I will set up the poll in about half an hour, as the polls support only hours precision. You are free to discuss these now, though!
 
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fxokz

Guest
DECONSTRUCTION yes, YOU ARE NOT THE HERO yes and POINT OF NO RETURN yes!

All themes are known now!

I will set up the poll in about half an hour, as the polls support only hours precision. You are free to discuss these now, though!
uhh i dont mean to be the party pooper but how is POINT OF NO RETURN a theme?
 
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GVmG

Guest
I KNEW it was going to be DECONSTRUCTION!

@fxokz Point Of No Return: The point of no return (PNR or PONR) is the point beyond which one must continue on one's current course of action because turning back is physically impossible, prohibitively expensive, or dangerous. (Wikipedia)

So, something about the actions a user does affecting the way they have to complete a level, or maybe you can take it more plot-wise ;)
 
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ParodyKnaveBob

Guest
Yeah, boooo at "YOU ARE NOT THE HERO" consistently getting a space skipped.
I very much considered trying to solve this once it came down to win/lose conditions, but that was an hour or two ago, and I somehow missed the remaining time was so short. Hm. (EDIT: And now I know there's no way I would've won anyway due to the belief that that one was four words instead of five. ~shrug~)

Oh well, the themes all look fun. $:^ ]
 
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Misu

Guest
Im sorry but I dont like any of those themes. Going to pick the third one since I might have one idea for it.
 
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McWolke

Guest
i like every theme but i have no idea what kind of game i could do with the 2 last themes.. but i have an idea for deconstruction
 

Yal

🐧 *penguin noises*
GMC Elder
Things are basically completely even between all three themes at the moment... good thing I don't paint my fingernails, because you bet I'll chew them like popcorn! xD

I'd say theme 2 has the most potential... you could play as a villain, a generic mook, someone supporting a hero without controlling them directly, or someone thinking they're a hero but realize they aren't. Deconstruction is a lot more wide, but a lot harder to pull off without either being too in-your-face or too subtle (like the facade theme). Point of no return feels more like a gameplay thing, not sure what interesting stuff you could pull of with that.
 
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