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Title: TIME CHALLENGE
Post by: Shockwave on February 14, 2009
TIME CHALLENGE!

Welcome to the TIME Challenge!
Time to code something new!

The earth orbits the sun once every 365.25 days, this span of time is a year, Stone age man walked the earth 13,000 years ago, The earth rotates on its own axis once every 24 hours, comets have orbits of the sun that take many many years.

Light travels at 186,000 miles per second.

The tide comes in and out twice a day, we all have clocks and watches so we can measure time, our lives depend on it.

A bird in the road eating something has to know how long it will take an approaching car to reach it or it will be killed.

Animals need to know what time of year it is so that they can breed at the right time and migrate to a milder climate to escape the winter or to find food.

Will you make something that measures time?
Will you make something that displays time?
Will you make something that shows progression over time?

The choice is yours.

Here are the rules!


Here are the prizes!


Good luck!

I want to thank Benny for the idea for this challenge.

Cheers mate!

Depending on funds there might be a little prize for the winner :)
Title: Re: TIME CHALLENGE
Post by: Clyde on February 14, 2009
Do you know what would make for a very cool example, and im afraid it's nostalgia days, is DBF's No-3D.
Title: Re: TIME CHALLENGE
Post by: Shockwave on February 15, 2009
The clock part of it you mean? :)

I think that Gravity's 1kb clock would have been a worthy entry too :)
Title: Re: TIME CHALLENGE
Post by: Clyde on February 15, 2009
yeah*2. Both are very timey :D
Title: Re: TIME CHALLENGE
Post by: benny! on February 15, 2009
Cool one - very good introductional text for this competition.
Thanks for doing that competition. Count me in!
Title: Re: TIME CHALLENGE
Post by: Pixel_Outlaw on February 16, 2009
FREAKING SWEET.

This will work perfectly for something I've wanted to do for some time now.  :updance:
Title: Re: TIME CHALLENGE
Post by: Shockwave on February 16, 2009
Seems like there will be a couple of entries already then :D

I don't know what I am going to make for this, there are so many possibilities
Title: Re: TIME CHALLENGE
Post by: combatking0 on February 16, 2009
Ah, wibbly wobbly, timey wimey stuff.

Expect some sort of AI in mine.
Title: Re: TIME CHALLENGE
Post by: Shockwave on February 17, 2009
ai? :)

Evolution over time?
Title: Re: TIME CHALLENGE
Post by: Jim on February 17, 2009
My Auntie has a farm.  When the AI man comes round, he's not spruiking the latest technology...But he does have a long turkey baster.
Title: Re: TIME CHALLENGE
Post by: combatking0 on February 17, 2009
It won't be much smarter than the bees in my last contest entry, but it will be there.
Title: Re: TIME CHALLENGE
Post by: Shockwave on February 17, 2009
Quote from: Jim on February 17, 2009
My Auntie has a farm.  When the AI man comes round, he's not spruiking the latest technology...But he does have a long turkey baster.

Insemination in demos? Been done before...

(http://www.pouet.net/screenshots/24383.jpg)

Southside exploration by Aardbei (http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=24383)

Title: Re: TIME CHALLENGE
Post by: combatking0 on February 17, 2009
Regarding screen widths - for clarity, my entry will be 1000 pixels wide. I understand many of you will have pixel resolutions exceeding this.

Does anybody think this is too wide though?

It will be programmed in Flash, so it should be scalable, but I'm not sure what effect the scaling will have on the Actionscript controlled parts.
Title: Re: TIME CHALLENGE
Post by: Shockwave on February 18, 2009
My display is 1024*768, 1000 pixel wide web pages do need a little bit of scrolling but don't really detract too much as long as the page has been properly thought out. I wouldn't think it would bother me too much, dunno about the rest of the peeps though.
Title: Re: TIME CHALLENGE
Post by: combatking0 on February 18, 2009
I have reduced it to just under 950 pixels. Scaling it seems to cause no problems.

The AI is about complete, I just need to start on the animation and scoring system.
Title: Re: TIME CHALLENGE
Post by: hellfire on February 19, 2009
Quote
Time is one dimension of our universe, namely the fundamental, measurable magnitude that spans the continuum together with space
I can't think of anything more abstract than "time".
And now you're asking for a visualisation?!
Hard one...
Title: Re: TIME CHALLENGE
Post by: Pixel_Outlaw on February 20, 2009
I think time is best shown as change. The best examples of things moving through time show the effects of wear on them. Progression and regression help understand time. Things getting more and more disorderly as a product of entropy. I think the key here is not showing time but rather showing time as a force that acts on a system or object.
Title: Re: TIME CHALLENGE
Post by: Clyde on February 21, 2009
Would you count days of the week / months, as a method of passing through time?
In essence a calendar.
Title: Re: TIME CHALLENGE
Post by: Jim on February 22, 2009
Yes, definitely.  Under the current rules you might also get away with Hammer Time.

Jim
Title: Re: TIME CHALLENGE
Post by: Clyde on February 22, 2009
Yeah! Get out them baggy pants.

Der der der de dum de dum de dum
Cant touch this.
Title: Re: TIME CHALLENGE
Post by: Shockwave on February 22, 2009
Quote from: Clyde on February 21, 2009
Would you count days of the week / months, as a method of passing through time?
In essence a calendar.

A calendar is one way of measuring time so that would be fine.

The entry must show either something that measures time, displays time or shows progression over time.
Title: Re: TIME CHALLENGE
Post by: Clyde on March 27, 2009
Welldone to all that have entered, all are very cleverly done based on that infamous fact of life - Time ! :)

Cheers and all the very best,
Clyde.
Title: Re: TIME CHALLENGE
Post by: Shockwave on March 27, 2009
Shit, I had hoped to make an egg timer for this comp, I usually enter every single one but I have been feeling a bit unwell this week so sorry guys.
Title: Re: TIME CHALLENGE
Post by: Clyde on March 28, 2009
I was in the process of doing something, but then my PC went tits up.
Title: Re: TIME CHALLENGE
Post by: benny! on March 28, 2009
Yeah ... great entries and thanks to all who entered.

@Shocky+Clyde:
Np mates ... guess the next comp is coming soon. I also had
some problems entering it and nearly got it somehow finished
on the last day before dealdline.
Title: Re: TIME CHALLENGE
Post by: Shockwave on March 28, 2009
10 Brilliant entries :)

I loved them all, they are great. What I am doing at the moment is taking screenshots and doing writeups, I'll have voting open today :D
Title: Re: TIME CHALLENGE
Post by: TinDragon on March 28, 2009
I was happy that for once I actually coded something, its been such a long time since i have really done any coding but the last couple weeks I have jumped back in :)
Title: Re: TIME CHALLENGE
Post by: Shockwave on March 28, 2009
Thanks for supporting the challenge mate.

Good luck, vorting is open!
Title: Re: TIME CHALLENGE
Post by: TinDragon on March 28, 2009
on the voting poll you have benny's PV3D clock down a pixel's on the actual vote par, might confuse people ;)
Title: Re: TIME CHALLENGE
Post by: Shockwave on March 28, 2009
Cheers I'll fix that
Title: Re: TIME CHALLENGE
Post by: benny! on March 28, 2009
@TinDragon&Shocky:
Thanks for correcting that!
Title: Re: TIME CHALLENGE
Post by: combatking0 on March 28, 2009
Doh, an egg timer! Why didn't I think of that.

Gives me a great idea for a post-comp present for the winner though.
Title: Re: TIME CHALLENGE
Post by: Shockwave on March 28, 2009
I thought of it but I was too thick to code it :)