Flash Game Design Challenge: Nerdball
Wow! Has it been well over a month since I posted something here? That's crazy. Sorry about that, folks. Ironically, I've been doing plenty -- I just haven't been talking about it. Have to change that. So last Friday, Ryan Macklin announced a "flash" game design challenge, in the style of Chuck Wendig 's regular flash fiction challenges on Terrible Minds . Write a playable game in 500 words or less! I like it. The deadline's tomorrow (Friday the 23rd). I immediately had the impulse to do something for it, but I had no idea what and didn't really end up giving it much thought until yesterday. See, earlier this week, UC Irvine reclaimed the Guinness world record title of Largest Dodgeball Game , with 4,488 players. (I'm a UCI alum, so you can suck it, previous record-holder Rochester Institute of Technology . You don't even get a link!) I was out at dinner last night and saw a UCI student wearing a T-shirt from the event, and something c...