Taking away from the game and adding nothing to it was the point, if you’d read the competition description and understood the meaning behind the words involved (something I tried to stress before). Have you seen bootleg stuff? Here’s an example: The Vii. That took a hell of a lot away from the idea of the Wii, but what did it add? Err… nothing. Nothing at all.

And there’s another problem with your perceptions, you’re mixing up the concept of complexity with that of awkwardness, something can be amazingly awkward through poor design but not necessarily more complex, it may just simply feel that way. I don’t think that the demake adds any complexity to the original game, just a new barrier of accessibility that makes the game less easy to approach than before, but that’s actually a part of the point of the competition too.

Personally, I think it’s a funny gag and one that’s flying high over a head or four. And I still find it ironic because for me, at least, this is an easy thing to accept but it’s being over-examined and I think some are being far too annal (s/nn/n/) about it all. It’s a TIGs competition, that usually results in fun, free games for all! Why have pedantic and semantic fits over that?

nihohit; yes, if there is a gag, it’s not funny anyway. The epilogue is basically a copy of the song from the original in design, and the “humour” of a fire snake and bomb is…just no, no laughs, just frustration in figuring out how to do it. The additions take away from the game’s point/humour/enjoyability, not add to it.

Sorry, if this sounds rather “angry” I’m only trying to explain. I might have “missed the gag”, if so, then fine, explain it to me, I’ll reanalyse if I got it wrong.

I liked caesarbear’s comments, nice style ;)

If there are better entrants in these kind of competitions, I see no reason why RPS can’t cover them (or do an article on them) to get my interest piqued, but this example hasn’t made me want to investigate any others. Sorry Esha, in this case: not my cup of tea.

@Andrew

Add to it? That’s a bit of an ironic statement. Consider that both the terms Demake and Bootleg mean that something’s been taken away from the game (quality, stability, a recent gaming platform, effort), it actually achieves what it’s supposed to.

I admit, it’s just an excuse for some of the entrants to be incredibly lazy, but that doesn’t actually technically go against the spirit of the competition. Regardless though, Large Scale Vehicular Stealing and Soundless Mountain are my favourites.

I watched the walkthrough. No, didn’t change my opinion of this game at all. Not my cup of tea, not a good take on a brilliant parody, it in fact makes it a lot worse. Oh well.

Also, no music, -1000 points :(