We are a team of 4 people who are setting out on a mission to create a successful iPhone game from scratch within 72 hours. We have officially started the project and have created a Website where you and your readers can follow the progress. www.dogtownstudios.com The site is featuring: Countdown Timer Live video feed Blog Tweet feeds from the producers Background story: So we just got back to work after the holiday weekends and as usual at some point of the day, we're discussing the video game industry, iPhone apps, games and upcoming projects. The discussion always end up with the iPhone market. New games and apps, the quality and price, and what makes some of them more successful than others. Randomly we started to talk about the possibility of making a game in 7 days. We have new ideas all the time so instead of focusing on the idea first and the marketing aspect second we decided to try a new approach and get people excited before we even begin working on a game. A long time ago there was this guy that wanted to make an iPhone game without any experience in 30 days. I don't remember if he succeeded or not, but nevertheless it was a brave attempt, and I think the game came out quite nice. Since we have some experience we wanted to try and make one even faster, and thought that it would be fun to write about what we were doing. So we decided to make a game in 3 days, which is 72 hours and try to turn it into a successful one. Project 72 is born!
If we succeed with the challenge, we would like to invite other developers in a competition make the best iphone game with a theme in a certain amount of time. Let me know if you're interested.
I made my upcoming game "Dang! Not Another Paper Game" last thursday to now, and I had a rough draft build of the game running. Shmups are my specialty I admit so I mass it quick, but its a totally original and unorthodox concept, and it feels good to make a game in a short amount of time. Hope you guys make it!
Here are some pics, not to try to hijack your thread or anything. Just a survival shmup with weird enemies and unexplained powerups, and the idea came out of nowhere ( more like 2AM with lots of tea and sugar!)
i want to know, will you guys be getting any sleep, or are two of you guys taking turns while the rest take a nap?
We will be posting a new video shortly on the site www.dogtownstudios.com. Send you device ID to info [at] dogtownstudios.com and we'll send you an ad-hoc as soon as we have something playable. Cheers!
good luck. 2 guys did a game in 24 hours and is waiting for approval from apple now.. it can be done. if you want too. this was just done a few days ago. the theme was raman.. and they ask the forum for ideas.. then they got to coding heh. chris.
Need some sleep now, but we've made great progress today. www.dogtownstudios.com Good night, see you tomorrow!