3H-GDC (open voting)

Sean T. McBeth · 2005-07-30T15:32:56

SUBMISSIONS ARE IN! for the theme of Black and White games, we had three competitors, Robomaniac, MarkR, and me (hence the open voting). Adventures in Pixel Land: BlockBlast High Roller Hillie This Saturday in the #gamedev Afternet channel, I'm going to encourage everyone to compete in a "3 hour gamedev contest". You'll have 3 hours to complete a game of your choosing to fit a specified theme. Everyone can email me the submissions, I'll host the files on my GDNet+ space, make a page for them really quick, etc., ad nauseum. Judging will be open, all participants and channel members will judge all entries. It's more of a "see what you can do" then a competition, per se. Now, to come up with a theme. Some ideas: RPG Element (i.e. a battle engine, or a world map, or an inventory system) Black and White, (not even grey-scale, just B+W) Vector based games (ala Asteroids, Tempest, Battlezone, or my fav "Major Havoc") board games My system specs: P4 2.4Ghz, 768MB RAM, Radeon 9800, WinXP Pro, .Net 1.1, DX9c, Java 5, broadband internet. As long as I can execute it, I don't care what you use. I could install Pythong and PyGame or whatever you want, but you'll have to link me directly to the downloads for my specs, I'm too lazy to find it on my own. I may whine if I see anything about "GPL" on the page you link me to. Source code isn't required, but I'm thinking that if you do give it, I'll make a page with your source and your explanation of the source. It'll be good for beginners on the site. In 3 hours, you won't write so much code that you won't be able to comment on every single line in complete detail later. Prize? A nice, steaming plate of Rocky Mountain Oysters! Three hours is plenty of time, if the scope of the project is clearly defined. Hell, I made Pong in under half an hour yesterday, without the use of game libraries or game makers, just straight Java. [Edited by - capn_midnight on July 18, 2005 8:52:35 AM]

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Started by capn_midnight July 15, 2005 08:49 AM

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capn_midnight

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July 16, 2005 01:58 PM

start

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choffstein

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July 16, 2005 02:06 PM

Dude, its 3pm. I don't want to code at 3pm. Hell, I am going outside. Can I start at like 8, and turn it in at 11? =D

Erunama

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July 16, 2005 03:33 PM

Quote:Original post by capn_midnight
filthydelphia

Hey now....

(As for the contest, I am going to frolic outside and run. It's a beautiful Saturday.)

Meagermanx

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July 16, 2005 04:28 PM

Yeah, I'm not entering, of course, but I think you should either reschedule or do it on the honor system. No need to waste a sunny saturday afternoon.

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capn_midnight

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July 16, 2005 05:02 PM

well, it wasn't sunny here.

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capn_midnight

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July 16, 2005 05:19 PM

okay, here's my effort BlockBlast
menu: up/down arrows to select, enter to continue
game: ASD to control, mouse click to fire, escape to pause
game over: escape to quit

[Edited by - capn_midnight on July 16, 2005 7:19:04 PM]

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markr

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July 16, 2005 05:24 PM

My entry is not finished, but here it is anyway:

High Roller Hillie

(Unless I've updated it since this was posted)

This is a browser-based game, but unfortunately it probably only works in Mozilla. IE support would be nice but I didn't have time to diagnose why it didn't work.

I had a report that it also works in Safari. Cool :)

Mark

Robomaniac

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July 16, 2005 05:28 PM

Here it is

Name: Stephen Eckenrode
UserName: Robomaniac
Game Title: Adventures in Pixel Land

URL: Here

Controls:
Arrow Keys move, you are the guy with the sword
Spacebar attacks, you can only attack when you are in a tile adjacent to an enemy in a + shape (no diaganol attacking)

Known Bugs:
1. You can still attack enemies after they died
2. There is no game over effect
3. You can attack when you're dead
4. Random bugs with leveling up

_____________________________Stephen EckenrodeProject Head / Lead Programmer<a href="http://www.centaurforce.com> Centaur Force

capn_midnight

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July 16, 2005 05:48 PM

Okay, here are my choices
Best Level Design: High Roller Hillie
Best Graphics: Adventures in Pixelland
Best Gameplay: Block Blaster

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markr

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July 16, 2005 05:55 PM

UPDATE: High Roller Hillie will now work with MS Internet Explorer in Windows.

Mark

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