Honor system = failure.
I have an idea. Have a contest where you can take as long as you want but your score is divided by the number of hours it took to submit. I will submit some piece of shit in the first 5 minutes and win.

This would work better if the competitors declare when they're starting, and assign themselves a deadline which they are then expected to keep. Their submission should be made and declared as submitted before this deadline, or they lose points according to how far they've exceeded this deadline. The entrants should also be given the chance to call for a single, reasonable extension (In which "reasonable" means less than, or, at most, equal to the time they originally allotted to compete).

It was just an idea I had, I guess the consensus is no. :D

I guess I was the one of the few people who actually deved the entire length of an HoV aside from sleeping and changing my bedpan.

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Maybe a regular, weekly, hour of Verge 'competition'? Basically you upload one hours worth of work once a week?

I don't think it should be a competition in the traditional sense though No judges or placing or anything. One hour isn't likely to result in all that much worth judging anyway. But after a few weeks, we might see some interesting stuff.Is that really that much different than say... just going ahead and working on a game? There's nothing saying that a group of people can't challenge each other to a game-off. You could have a thread on the boards here each week, and everyone involved could be expected to post something to play or some screenshots to look at or something each week. If someone has an off week, well then they can just sheepishly apologize and do better next week.

I think this might actually be a good idea. It invents a bit of pressure to actually get something done. And it would build comraderie or some such! Maybe even spark a bit of competitive spirit, outside of the rigid deadlines and "do as little as possible" ideals of a compo.

If people are interested in this but are more inclined to sit on their hands than to actually start it, then I might be convinced to participate/organize things.

A free-time HoV would be more like a full-game competition between those who wish to make a full game, with like a "you had a year, how'd you do with it" mindset.

It might work, but only with like... required monthly updates to stay in the running. Seeing others work on their games always was a big motivator, and one of the problems with everyone these days is we quite often don't hang out together anymore online and show off the neat things we've been doing.

...hrm.

How about everyone gets a week but there is some restriction, say, a room number limit or something that requires everyone to think small instead of expanding the game indefinitely so you have an achievable goal, and loads of free time doesn't help that much.

I'm thinking of how the OROW's in AGS (http://www.bigbluecup.com/yabb/index.php?topic=24380.0) work where every game can only be one room, though it's harder to see how it would translate from an Adventure game to an RPG (or all the other things than can be done with VERGE).