Author Topic: Freestyle Christmas Comp 2007! (Read 13828 times)

Shockwave · « **on:** November 06, 2007 »

CHRISTMAS COMPETITION 2007

WELCOME TO THE CHRISTMAS COMP!

On the back of a fantastic Halloween competition, the doors to the Christmas Competition 2007 are now open!
Again we have a nice varied amount of allowed styles and platforms so hopefully we will have some more really great entries just like the last competition!

Christmas is a fantastic time of year, celebrated in different ways in different countries, you could choose to use any theme to do with Christmas or the season of Winter (unless you're lucky enough to live somewhere that you can sit out in the sun on Christmas day!).

Choose anything that you like to do with the festive season

Again, this time, you can use any language that you want, as long as it runs in any of these environments;

Win32 , Dosbox , Vice , Winuae , Saint , PS2 Yabasic , Firefox / Internet Explorer

You may create a multi part demo, a single screen intro or a game! Maybe you might even remake a classic christmas demo from the past!

Again, the possibilities this time are very varied we're sure that you'll enjoy this comp!

HERE ARE THE RULES!

Entry MUST run on any of these; Win32 , Dosbox , Vice , Winuae , Saint , PS2 Yabasic , Firefox / Internet Explorer
Up to 2 Entries per person are allowed.
You may enter a game, multi part demo or single screen intro.
Non Members of this forum are excluded from entry.
Post your entry in its own topic In THIS forum with the prefix [CHRISTMAS].
You may modify your entry up until voting date, the last version will be the one voted on.
In the event of a tied vote for 1st place, there will be a vote-off between the tied entries until a winner is found.
Entries to be submitted by MIDNIGHT GMT 20/12/07.
Voting will be carried out by members of this forum and will run from 21/12/07 until 24/12/07.
Entries may be posted any time from now until the close date.
Previously released productions are not allowed and will be disqualified.
Your code must be as original as possible, give credits for any libs, routines etc that you use.

HERE ARE THE PRIZES!

1st Place - Amazon voucher for Â£25 - Sig - 15 Karma
2nd Place - Sig - 10 Karma
3rd Place - Sig - 5 Karma
All entries get 2 Karma

So, there you have it! We really hope that you enjoy the competition, last years Christmas competition had some really cool entries and we'll look forward to seeing what you come up with this time!

Good luck

taj · « **Reply #1 on:** November 06, 2007 »

Shockwave · « **Reply #2 on:** November 06, 2007 »

Paul · « **Reply #3 on:** November 06, 2007 »

YAY, thx for the early announcement!!

ninogenio · « **Reply #4 on:** November 07, 2007 »

cool i might have a bash,

i thought you would have changed the rules to stop folks voting for there own stuff though as that milarky seemed a bit daft to me

combatking0 · « **Reply #5 on:** November 07, 2007 »

Interrupting Barry will have his work cut out for him.

Meanwhile, I'll be working on something extra special!

Shockwave · « **Reply #6 on:** November 07, 2007 »

Quote from: ninogenio on November 07, 2007

cool i might have a bash,

i thought you would have changed the rules to stop folks voting for there own stuff though as that milarky seemed a bit daft to me

Good luck.

By the way, the self voting thing will be disallowed and made quite clear when the comp deadline is over and the polls open

Ized · « **Reply #7 on:** November 07, 2007 »

Oh, thanks for early announcement!!! I'll participate!

Shockwave · « **Reply #8 on:** November 07, 2007 »

Good luck with the competition

And welcome to the forum!

premium^prd · « **Reply #9 on:** November 09, 2007 »

nice, lets see what people will produce this time......

Inc0gnit0 · « **Reply #10 on:** November 09, 2007 »

Woo hoo........no disrespect to anyone else but I'm hoping that Slinks and Loppy put something together again this year

Shockwave · « **Reply #11 on:** November 09, 2007 »

Quote from: Inc0gnit0 on November 09, 2007

Woo hoo........no disrespect to anyone else but I'm hoping that Slinks and Loppy put something together again this year

So am I

Clanky · « **Reply #12 on:** November 14, 2007 »

Hmmm!
Cool. Yabasic hey!? Nice.
I might see if I can make a Christmas Special game... (simple one...) and maybe another game (2 entries allowed?) if I get the time

Nice comp Shockwave

Shockwave · « **Reply #13 on:** November 14, 2007 »

Yes, each participant can submit two productions if they like

Sledge · « **Reply #14 on:** November 17, 2007 »

No VBA as an allowed environment?

Jim · « **Reply #15 on:** November 17, 2007 »

Do you mean VBA - Visual Basic for Applications, or VBA - Visual Boy Advanced Game Boy Advance emulator? What did you have in mind?

Jim

Shockwave · « **Reply #16 on:** November 17, 2007 »

Quote from: Sledge on November 17, 2007

No VBA as an allowed environment?

Allowed platforms;

Win32 , Dosbox , Vice , Winuae , Saint , PS2 Yabasic , Firefox / Internet Explorer

So if it can be run on Win32 it is allowed.

Sledge · « **Reply #17 on:** November 17, 2007 »

I meant Visual Boy Advance and as other Win32 emulators are specifically listed I guess it's not allowed.

Shockwave · « **Reply #18 on:** November 17, 2007 »

A man of your talent can find another platform that's more accessible this time? I will look into that emulator and maybe add it to the allowed platforms in the next one though depending on how accessible it is

Sledge · « **Reply #19 on:** November 17, 2007 »

Sure! I meant to mention it for the Halloween comp but it totally slipped my mind. I'm not necessarily looking to do a GBA demo (although I might if it were allowed) but there are a fair few people who tinker with it so it might be nice to consider in future. I really want to use BlitzMax for the XMas compo as I've invested a bit of time in picking up its OOP-ishness. Still racking my brain as to what to do...