The Process of the Contest [WIP]

Introduction

Every month we create either new games or continue in progress games in a contest cycle. 

Dates

The start date of each cycle should be found by visiting #news and looking for a deadline announcement.

Once you discover the deadline, you can work backwards to understand where we're at in the current competition. The process of the contest counts in business days. 

Just jumping in one of the Division channels and asking for help in understanding where we're at in the process is probably a much more efficient way to solve the problem of understanding what you need to do by what deadline.

Week 1 - Team Formation

[Day 1] Team & Goal Formation Meeting [Wednesday]

• Everyone - Host shares vision of [P1], pairs new people on teams. Host checklist link.
• Legions - Legions define their values, develop their org chart.
• All Teams - Go through the next steps guide to set up their meeting time. 
  • New Teams - Go through registration.
  • Established Teams - Go through re-registration. 

Note: Every day, the host goes over their own checklist with everybody and splits everyone up into Legions. The Legions go over their own checklist with their members and break up into teams which do the same. 

[Day 2] Idea Brainstorm Meeting [Thursday] 

• Everyone - Host announces theme for cycle. Host actively pairs people without teams with teams and teams without Legions to Legions. Host mentions announcements, and splits people to their Legions. Link.
• Legions - Legions define their rules.
• All Teams - Develop a fresh goal statement for their teams, brainstorm a good cause to focus their game on and come up with a pitch for Day 3.
  • New Teams - Learn [P1] values, apply to join a Division, come up with a game pitch for Friday.   

[Day 3] Teams Pitch Ideas [Friday]

• Everyone - Mentions announcements, and splits people to their Legions. Link. Accepts the practice pitches of those who don't have a Legion. Link.
• Legions - Have all the teams pitch ideas to them (practice run). Decide if teams must pitch again on the weekend or Monday. 
• Teams - Continue refining their pitch based on the previous day's feedback. Learn about the Assets Discord.

Week 2 - Development Start

[Day 4] 50% of Pitches are Approved [Monday]

• Everyone - Mentions announcements, and splits people to their Legions. Link. Accepts the final pitches of those who don't have a Legion. Link.
• Legions - Have all their teams pitch. Require those who don't obtain the top 50% of votes to come back with improved pitches tomorrow. 
• Teams - Prepare their second pitch if they lost. If not, teams start working on their games. Teams update their registration post with their new goal and game ideas based on the previous day's work. New teams understand our helpfulness system and why we use voice channels and how to rename them. And all teams elect sub-leaders for their teams and learn about onboarding and introduction giving.

[Day 5] Next 50% of Pitches Approved [Tuesday]

• Everyone - Mentions announcements (upcoming Legion War), and splits people to their Legions. Link. Accepts the final pitches of those who don't have a Legion. Link.
• Legions - Set up game tests for the course of the cycle. Have all their teams pitch. 
• New Teams - Learn about our vision, ranks, how to rank up, and how to invite friends. 
• Established Teams - Explain what they know about our vision and ranks. 
• All Teams - Elect a senator. 

• Everyone - Mentions announcements (upcoming Legion War), and splits people to their Legions. Link. 
• Legions - Legions begin to go through a daily process of assigning introduction givers, reviewing important dates, requesting anyone who is new contact them in order to join their team if they have availabilities and then splitting to their teams as quickly as possible. 
• Teams - Teams revert to using the everyday checklist once the registration guide expires (currently happens on day 6)

[Day 7] Chill Dev Day

[Day 8] 1st Legion War

• Everyone - All the Legions gather and submit one game to compete against every other Legion. And the best game wins a prize. Link.
• Legions - Legion War, then Daily Legion Tasks
• Teams - Legion War, then Daily Team Checklist

Week 3 - Development 2

[Day 9] Chill Dev Day

• Everyone - Mentions announcements (upcoming Legion War), and splits people to their Legions. Link. 
• Legions - Daily Legion Tasks
• Teams - Daily Legion Tasks

[Day 10] Chill Dev Day, Potential Internal Test

Most Legions will position their internal game test wars on this day.

• Everyone - Mentions announcements (upcoming Legion War), and splits people to their Legions. Link. 
• Legions - Daily Legion Tasks
• Teams - Daily Legion Tasks

• Everyone - All the Legions gather and submit one game to compete against every other Legion. And the best game wins a prize. Link.
• Legions - Legion War, then Daily Legion Tasks
• Teams - Legion War, then Daily Team Checklist

[Day 12] Chill Dev Day 

• Everyone - Mentions announcements (upcoming Legion War), and splits people to their Legions. Link. 
• Legions - Daily Legion Tasks
• Teams - Daily Legion Tasks

[Day 13] Chill Dev Day

• You know what these days are like at this point. 

Week 4 - Development 3

[Day 14 - 15] Chill Dev Day

• Each Legion submits a game to the Legion Wars to be tested by peers in the same time zone. 

[Day 17 - 18] Chill Dev Day

Week 5 - Development Finished

[Day 19] Final Submission Midnight [Monday]  

• Trailer submission 2 days later explained.

[Day 20] Team Recognition Day [Tuesday]

• Teams highlight each other's achievements. 

• Contestants choose which games win the community-choice awards. 
• Contestants are asked to join tomorrow to see honor role

[Day 22] Team Evaluations [Thursday]

• Teams evaluate their members' progress through a feedback session.
• ??? Teams do a retrospective. 
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[Day 23] Rest [Friday]

• .

Week 5

[Day 24] Winner Announced [Monday]

• Contestants asked to either keep teams together or break up to new ideas for next round. 

[Day 25]   [Tuesday]

• Teams reveal who will move on with them.

Week 5/1 - A New Ignite Jam

[Day 26] Next Ignite Jam Starts [Wednesday]

Tip: These "days" only cover business days -- we don't operate on weekends although some teams will choose to. 

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Week 1 - Team Formation

[Day 1] Team & Goal Formation Meeting [Wednesday]

• On this day, we share a little bit about our community. We then help everyone talk about their goals and organize into teams based on those goals. Finally, teams register for the competition. 

[Day 2] Idea Brainstorm Meeting [Thursday] 

• Teams formed on Wednesday now create a game idea based on their goals.

[Day 3] Teams Pitch Ideas [Friday]

• Teams get feedback from their Legion on the viability of their ideas. 
  • They are asked NOT to work on them until approval Monday. 
  • Currency system is explained to them. 
  • Recruiting and onboarding explained to teams. 

Week 2 - Development Start

[Day 4] 50% of Pitches are Approved [Monday]

• Host gives the green light to 50% of pitches, disqualifies pitches out of scope and asks the others to re-pitch tomorrow. 
  • Winner is given 4,000 Helpfulness and + 5 points toward victory. 
  • Deadline of 2 weeks is explained. + 2 days for trailer, 1 day for feedback/honors. 

[Day 5] Next 50% of Pitches Approved [Tuesday]

• Host totally disqualifies teams and distributes their members to other teams if they are out-of-scope. 
• Rest are approved.
• Playtest prize announced.

• Each Legion submits a game to the Legion Wars to be tested by peers in the same time zone. 

[Day 7] 

[Day 8]

Week 3 - Development 2

[Day 9]

[Day 10] Playtest 2 [Tuesday]

• Feedback given each game.
• Winner gets 6000 Helpfulness + 5 points toward victory. 

• Each Legion submits a game to the Legion Wars to be tested by peers in the same time zone. 

[Day 12]

[Day 13] [Friday]

• Payout for all the team members who come to chat who were recruited by teams bonus paid out

Week 4 - Development 3

• Each Legion submits a game to the Legion Wars to be tested by peers in the same time zone. 

Week 5 - Development Finished

[Day 19] Final Submission Midnight [Monday]  

• Trailer submission 2 days later explained.

[Day 20] Team Recognition Day [Tuesday]

• Teams highlight each other's achievements. 

• Contestants choose which games win the community-choice awards. 
• Contestants are asked to join tomorrow to see honor role

[Day 22] Team Evaluations [Thursday]

• Teams evaluate their members' progress through a feedback session.
• ??? Teams do a retrospective. 
•  

[Day 23] Rest [Friday]

• .

Week 5

[Day 24] Winner Announced [Monday]

• Contestants asked to either keep teams together or break up to new ideas for next round. 

[Day 25]   [Tuesday]

• Teams reveal who will move on with them.

Week 5/1 - A New Ignite Jam

[Day 26] Next Ignite Jam Starts [Wednesday]

Tip: These "days" only cover business days -- we don't operate on weekends although some teams will choose to. 

Event Cycle Overview

Our organization operates on a 10-day work cycle where we meet every weekday to help each other succeed. Although [P1] runs these cycles essentially as a contest, the goal is to get as many people working on projects that will help them succeed as possible, and we're all trying to do that together.

• [Day 1] Monday -- [P1] Team & Goal Formation Meeting
  • On this day, we share a little bit about our community. We then help everyone talk about their goals and organize into teams based on those goals. Finally, teams register for the competition. 
• [Day 2] Tuesday --
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• [Day 3] Wednesday -- Voting on a Pitch
  • We vote to move forward with 50% of the pitches and send the other 50% back for re-pitching the next day.
• [Day 4] Thursday -- Re-pitches & Recruiting
  • We work together to accept or deny the re-pitches. If we deny the pitches, members will have to go back and join other teams or break up.

• [Day 5] Friday -- Co-Mentorship
  • Here, we'll pair people based on their dedication to help each other build their portfolios and enter the industry.
• [Day 6] Monday -- 1st Game Test Competition
  • We will test each others' games and one of the teams will win an award with extra points towards complete victory for being the best-tested game within the timeframe.
• [Day 7] Tuesday -- Community Discussion
  • Here we will assist each other as different teams, asking and answering questions to create a space where people can help each other.
• [Day 8] Wednesday -- Feedback 
  • We'll test each other's games one last time before the final submission.
• [Day 9] Friday -- Submission Link Reveal -- Deadline at Midnight
• [Day 10] Saturday
• [Day 11] Monday -- Playtest, Voting
• [Day 12] WIP 
• [Day 13]  Winner Announced

WIP

Working on a second iteration here: 

Start: Monday the 4th. 

Day 1 Team & Goal Formation Meeting

[Host] Dream Pitching

1. 1. Basic intro
      1. Revealing the voice chat text chat
      2. Tell teams that already have games to skip this day (make a checklist for them to set up goals later)
   2. What we are
      1. Incubator -> Education 
   3. Funding/The Covenant
   4. No-gossip rules
   5. Role select
   6. Invites
   7. 4 disclaimers
      1. Open source
      2. Chat in Discord
      3. Original work only
      4. You own your work!
   8. Split into teams of 10
      1. Split based on similar experience

[Team] Dream Chat

1. Big/small dream chat 
2. Leader appointed
3. Dream list created
   
   1. Deciding who is under which list

[Host] Team Creation

1. Decide who goes on what team
   1. Team size = 4
2. Explain what they will be doing

[Team] Restriction Template 

1. Appoint a facilitator
2. Define the team's goal
3. Develop restrictions 
4. Review contest guidelines silently together
5. Asynchronously brainstorm game ideas [this part needs to be removed]
6. Register team
7. Split into smaller teams [this part is missing for now until we have more people]

Day 2 Idea Brainstorm Meeting

1. Pitching Prep & Q/A
2. Voting on a Pitch
3. Re-pitches & Recruiting
4. Co-Mentorship
5. 1st Game Test Competition
6. Community Discussion
7. Feedback