Spring Thing 2024 - Wade Clarke Roblox game prize information

(Perma outcome update: This prize was chosen by Vance Chance, and I developed the Roblox platforming adventure game River Rescue Obby as a spinoff from their Spring Thing 2024 game Dragon of Steelthorne. River Rescue Obby was released in August 2024.)

I'm listing here the details and conditions of a prize I'll be offering for Spring Thing 2024: a custom Roblox game based on your Spring Thing entry.

If you choose this prize, here's what happens:

I'll try your Spring Thing game. If I decide it's possible for your game, I (maybe with help from my nephew) will build a simple Roblox game based on your entry, or at least the first room or a prominent thing from it. We have a lot of Roblox building experience between us.

Qualifiers for this prize: I say "game" loosely! It will probably be an environmental toy you can walk around in. But you never know, it might have an objective to reach, or health, or a time limit, or a baddie chasing you, or a physics joke. It might be a reproduction of a location. We'll try to make something of charm based on your game, spending a week max to do so.

If you don't know Roblox, it's free to join, and the game will be pretty G-rated and explorable by anyone on Roblox at any time (which, there being millions of Roblox games, will mostly be you and people you let know about it. Plus the odd random visitor.) You'l be able to share a link to the game wherever/however you like. People only need to have a Roblox account to visit it.

* If you pick the prize, and I try your game and decide I can't produce something satisfying based on it within a week, don't be offended. Roblox suits some things and some subject matter a lot more than others. I'd let you know my decision quickly so you can pick another prize instead.

IFComp 2020 Music Prize info

This post offers a few more details about the IFComp 2020 prize I'll be offering than will be able to fit on their screen.

The prize is a music commission. I'll compose and produce something for you, or derive something from unreleased recordings I have if they're the ideal match, for your chosen purpose.

I specialise in instrumental and electronic music, but can do or wrangle many styles and things, so long as you don't want me to supply vocals.

For last year's picker of this prize, I composed a theme song for the new version of his show opening:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWppNq8N0kg

Here are my Restrictive Clauses!

• For non-commercial use, the purpose can be almost anything. For commercial use, the piece can contribute to some creative project you've made or are making. I can decline if the purpose is hazardous, inscrutable or commercially murky, etc.
• Length is a limitation, but up for reasonable negotiation in context. For instance, some electronic or ambient music can be made quite long in the same time it would take to produce a shorter piece in some other kinds or genres. Composing to vision also takes more time.
• If you pick this prize, you have to call it in within a year.

Links to my music

• My long-term electronic music project is Aeriae:

https://aeriae.bandcamp.com/

( Peril Triage is my most recent EP. DE is a live set recording. Victris is my most recent album.)

https://aeriae.com/

• Some other pieces I've made in different genres can be found on the following Bandcamp page:

https://wadeclarke.bandcamp.com/

of which, the ones listed below were actually for IF games:

Black Giant (sci-fi theme)

Andromeda 1983 (C64 style in-game)

Kerkerkruip (Diablo-esque)

Leadlight Gamma (horror, eclectic)

Ghosterington Night (cheesy spooky)

IFComp 2019 music prize info

This post will be linked to from the IFComp 2019 site to offer a few more details than can fit on their screen.

I'm offering a music commission as a prize. So if you pick this prize, I'll compose and produce something for you, or derive something from unreleased recordings I have, for your chosen purpose. The piece can be for commercial use or other.

I specialise in instrumental and electronic music, but can do or wrangle almost anything, so long as you don't want vocals.

Length is a limitation, but up for reasonable negotiable in context. For instance, some electronic or ambient music can be made quite long in the same time it would take to produce a shorter piece in some other kinds or genres.

If you pick this prize, you have to call it in within a year.

* My long-term music project is Aeriae: https://aeriae.com/

* Here are some other pieces I've made. A few were mentioned in my preceding post about parser games and music: https://wadeclarke.bandcamp.com/