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Labor Day Weekend GameDev Contest - Winners Announced!

Started by zer0wolf Aug 29, 2007 at 4:24 PM 110 replies 19.4k views

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Aug 29, 2007 at 4:24 PM

Okay, it looks like this contest is a go! The grand prize is a $50 gift card for Amazon from me and 2nd prize is a one year GDnet+ subscription donated by BeanDog! You have to create a game within a 48 hour window with a theme that will be announced 15 minutes before the contest officially begins, which will be this Friday at midnight, Central US Time. * The theme is STICKY! You read that right, the theme is "sticky". Let your imaginations wander and let's see what you guys can come up with! Currently approved platforms and libraries: Win32 .exe .net 3.0 (or lower) .net 3.0 Redistributable Java Java Download (~8MB for Windows) XNA - XNA Redistributable (1.9 MB) Python - Python Installer (10.5MB for Windows version) Lua - Lua Downloads (Download the .bin.zip for your platform to run Lua apps) Contestants: 1. kordova 2. Ravuya 3. desdemian 4. Driv3MeFar 5. ChurchSkiz 6. GreenToad 7. idloco 8. CrimsonSun 9. eedok 10. Zorbfish 11. shadowcomplex 12. Uthman 13. Penten 14. gumpy 15. thedirt 16. Hippo 17. cyansoft 18. GroZZleR Judges: (Will cap at 10 - first come, first serve) 1) zer0wolf 2) BeanDog 3) Sneftel 4. glassflakes 5. Wolfdog Tomorrow evening I will setup an ftp account for contestants to upload their submissions. I will PM access info to the contestants and judges. [Edited by - zer0wolf on September 7, 2007 3:09:44 PM]

kordova

Aug 29, 2007 at 4:45 PM

interested. however, i am moving to another state this weekend so at least friday night would be a total loss.

Ravuya

Aug 29, 2007 at 4:48 PM

Definitely interested.

zer0wolf

Aug 29, 2007 at 4:50 PM

I'm thinking about probably going for a Friday midnight to Sunday midnight Central time zone frame.

If I can get at least a dozen people who say they'd like to participate, then this contest will get a go. If anyone has any suggestions they'd like to make on the contest time frame, let them be known. Any other questions as well, don't hesitate to ask.

jouley

Aug 29, 2007 at 5:18 PM

Barring any sudden 48-hour assignments, I'm in.

Driv3MeFar

Aug 29, 2007 at 5:24 PM

I'd be interested, but as with most contests I probably won't get anything done.

Svenjamin

Aug 29, 2007 at 6:06 PM

ooohhh, I would definitely be interested. Unfortunately I have New Student Orientation this weekend. [sad]

Drigovas

Aug 29, 2007 at 6:31 PM

This sounds like a perfect opportunity to work on something that I should have been working on anyway.

ChurchSkiz

Aug 29, 2007 at 6:57 PM

I haven't done any development in a while and this would be a good excuse. I'm in.

GreenToad

Aug 29, 2007 at 7:32 PM

I love contests, and don't have much going on that weekend, so I'm interested.

idloco

Aug 29, 2007 at 7:34 PM

Can we use XNA?

zer0wolf

Aug 29, 2007 at 7:47 PM

You can use whatever libraries you wish. The key thing though is that you need to produce a release executable. Don't expect your game to run if it requires debug versions of files to be on the testers' machines. You need to link to any distributables needed by a tester to play your game before the competition starts. In the example of using XNA, you need to post a link to the appropriate XNA distributable for the version of XNA you are using.

CrimsonSun

Aug 30, 2007 at 12:10 AM

I'm certainly interested. Will a python submission be acceptable?

zer0wolf

Aug 30, 2007 at 7:57 AM

I have Python installed on my computer, so I would be fine with it. For the sake of any other judges, though, you will need to post a link to whatever Python Runtimes are necessary to run your game. Again, this needs to be done before the contest begins.

A Python Windows installation is about 10.5 MB. I'd prefer to keep away from anything larger than this. Judges shouldn't have to download massive SDKs to run your software. A 10MB or less Runtime is acceptable.

[Edited by - zer0wolf on August 30, 2007 8:57:22 AM]

eedok

Aug 30, 2007 at 11:14 AM

This could be interesting and a good way to test my new framework.

Zorbfish

Aug 30, 2007 at 1:45 PM

I'm in. I'm going to use Lua.

coding penguin

Aug 30, 2007 at 1:52 PM

Quote:
Original post by Driv3MeFar
I'd be interested, but as with most contests I probably won't get anything done.

Hey, my lost brother? [smile]

zer0wolf

Aug 30, 2007 at 1:54 PM

Quote:
Original post by Zorbfish
I'm in. I'm going to use Lua.

Which of those specifically would a tester have to download to run your game, if any?

Emmanuel Deloget

Aug 30, 2007 at 2:30 PM

I might consider being in this one. Depends on my free time this week-end :)

Zorbfish

Aug 30, 2007 at 2:51 PM

Quote:
Original post by zer0wolf
Which of those specifically would a tester have to download to run your game, if any?

lua5_1_2_Win32_bin.zip or lua5_1_2_Win64_bin.zip depending on your platform. I could include the interpreter with the game (its small enough) if testers would prefer that.

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