HALLOWEEN COMP 2009!

[Shockwave]

HALLOWEEN COMPETITION 2009

!TIME TO MAKE SOMETHING SPOOKY!

Soon it will be Halloween again and it has become a little bit of a tradition on this forum to run a halloween challenge.. You can take your inspiration from all kinds of things like horror movies, ghost stories, haunted houses and even pagan traditions.

There's tons of this stuff out there to be inspired by.

So this time the challenge is to make a demo or intro with a Halloween theme and the good news is that thanks to the generous sponsorship of the forums by some of our members that there is a cash prize on offer this time too!



So time to get inspired, watch some old dracular films, listen to thriller, read some HP Lovecraft, run around the house with a white sheet over your head, Halloween is almost here again so make something spooky!

  Here are the rules!     

• Your Demo must be associated with some element of Halloween.
• You can use any platform that is compatible with windows XP+Vista.
• You may write something for web browsers as long as it works in IE7 or Chrome or FF3 (or all!)
• Wild (Video / Animated) entries are allowed.
• Procedural graphics entries are allowed as long as it is one single file <16kb no animations allowed, file must not permanently write on hard drive.
• The following emulators are welcome: Vice, Winuae, Saint, PS2 Yabasic
• Please give credit if you use ripped sound/gfx, or even better credit the original artist.
• Please write something new for the challenge, no previously released stuff.
• Do not use ripped routines. (dlls, libs, fmod, sdl, frameworks etc are fine but say what you used please!).
• One entry per person maximum.
• Entries to be posted in this forum please with the title [SPOOKY] entry name
• Entries may be posted between NOW and Midnight of [30th October 2009]
• The winner [S?] will be decided by a poll of forum users
• If 1st place is tied there will be a vote-off to decide the winner.
• Late entries will not be counted for voting.
• Please PM any correspondance regarding rules to me, don't discuss them here such posts will be removed and not answered.
• Please include a screenshot of your entry in your post.
• Please only post finished work, if you update your entry the final one will be voted on.
• After the submission deadline You may NOT post ANY further attachments to final or other versions of your entry ANYWHERE on this forum until voting has closed.
• You may post a video of the entry along with the binaries (useful if you use shaders etc).
• Prize money is by Paypal only. No other forms will be discussed.

Here are the prizes! 

• 1st Place  £20 - Sig - 15 Karma
• 2nd Place - £10 - Sig - 10 Karma
• 3rd Place -  Sig - 5 Karma
• All entries get 1 Karma

Good Luck! 

[LittleWhite]

I don't know yet if I will do something ( no ideas for the moment :s )

[combatking0]

I've just had a brill idea for an entry. I'll have to shoe-horn in some AI. Or maybe some user interaction.

[hellfire]

This movie might be a good inspiration:

[rdc]

Zombieland looks awesome. If I hadn't already written a zombie game I would do that.

[combatking0]

I have mastered a new Flash effect (new to me anyway) just for this contest - though many here would probably know how to make it work in other development systems.

I'm still working on the AI - that will be the hard part, but it will be like a 2D version of an effect Jim used in his Cubes demo many Halloweens ago.

[Dr.Death]

You need to watch zombieland shaun of the dead for the yanks 

[slinks]

Can we enter games in this comp? I may have something thrown together in time if that's the case...

[Shockwave]

Can we enter games in this comp? I may have something thrown together in time if that's the case...

I don't see why not.

[Rbz]

[combatking0]

Mine now does what it will eventually say in the title, but it still needs the scroller and the final effects adding in.

[Shockwave]

Can't wait to see it mate.

[slinks]

Hopefully shall get some more work done on mine tomorrow morning. If everything goes fine I should be able to make the deadline

[LittleWhite]

I will try to make it for the deadline ... most motivation is missing :s

[slinks]

Alpha shot of my game (hope to get to Beta stage tomorrow, and finished product by the deadline, tough stuff!)

[padman]

Ok, from the screenshot, I haven't got a clue what that might become when it's finished. A wild guess would be: something with spiderwebs!? Anyways, hang in there dude. I would love to see the final product!

[LittleWhite]

I hope that you will reach your objectives (not like me) :s

[slinks]

A wild guess would be: something with spiderwebs!?

Not so wild a guess afterall; bang on the money!

Mine now does what it will eventually say in the title, but it still needs the scroller and the final effects adding in.

Where is it? I wanna see!

[Shockwave]

Looks like we will have some really cool entries!

I was worried that we weren't going to get any for a while!

[combatking0]

Mine now does what it will eventually say in the title, but it still needs the scroller and the final effects adding in.

Where is it? I wanna see!

I just need to add the scroller and the "interpretter".