Well, due to the fact that I took part in yesterdays Impromptu mini-contest and failed miserably. I thought I'd try and get people to do another one today. This one is a bit less impromptu so hopefully we'll get more people.

Prizes:
None! You get recognition and anyway, programming games is fun!

Theme:
Flying must be a main gameplay element.

Start:
05 September 05. 11 PM GMT, Midnight BST, (7 PM EST(Not completely sure of that, you might wanna check))

Duration:
3 Hours

It is highly recommended that you come to IRC a bit before the start.

7:00 is correct.

I may or may not enter, depending on how my homework is.

So, 7 Eastern, 6 Central, I'll see what I can do to enter, I do have homework unfortunately. I love this theme though .

Alex

When is there going to be an European friendly 3 hour contest?

Andrew Sage Wrote:When is there going to be an European friendly 3 hour contest?

Whenever you want. You want a Europe Time Friendly Contest? Set one up yourself, it's not hard :-). The hard bit is thinking of a good theme.

Hah! I've said flying loads of times before. It's probably because the amount of times I've said it that people ignore it. Like waffles.
Just because you're up at midnight on a weeknight doesn't mean we all are. I don't want to work until three in the morning

socksy Wrote:Hah! I've said flying loads of times before. It's probably because the amount of times I've said it that people ignore it. Like waffles.
Just because you're up at midnight on a weeknight doesn't mean we all are. I don't want to work until three in the morning

I don't want to be up till 3am either. But it's the only way to actually get a good number of people.

Unless we do something like we discussed last night.

A 24 hour contest.

Popular demand in the incredibly busy #idevgames irc channel means that the length of the contest is being extended to 4 hours.

It now starts at 7 EST and ends at 11 EST.

Also, a few questions were asked about the theme:

Question: "Flying"... Through what Medium?
Answer: Any medium (including space).

Question: "What about "Flying through the pages of a book"? (As in reading a book), is that OK?
Answer: You cannot use Flying as a metaphor. It must be actual flying.

I don't usually get on until 9 or 10:30 Central Time, so I just found out about this. It looks like I have negative 30 minutes to complete my entry..

These are the contest entries:

corun - "Rings"
binaries: http://corun.kurand.net/Rings.zip (requires SDL and SDL_image)
binaries: http://corun.kurand.net/RingsSDL.zip (stand-alone)

lightbringer - "Queen Firefly"
binaries: http://www.batteryacid.org/downloads/QueenFirefly.zip (requires 10.4)

ThemsAllTook - "Jetpack Escape"
binaries: http://www.sacredsoftware.net/software/j...501.tar.gz
source: http://www.sacredsoftware.net/software/j...501.tar.gz

megabassjosh - "Stuntcopter MX"
binaries: http://www.joshuacender.com/download/JJC%20SCMX.zip (requires SDL and SDL_image)

EvolPenguin - "Flying"
binaries: http://www.isbninfo.com/gravitygames/Games/Flying.zip

OneSadCookie - "Ascent"
binaries: http://onesadcookie.com/~keith/Ascent.app.tar.bz2 (known not to work on 10.3)
source: http://onesadcookie.com/svn/repos/Ascent (may contain post-contest fixes)

freaksw - "20XX"
binaries: http://www.freaksw.com/temp/20XX.zip [edit]no longer massive, seth has compressed his audio [/edit]

I know mine's a huge download (because of huge WAV files) -- I'm going to fix that ASAP and reupload it. Just an FYI.

On behalf of myself and everyone, good job to all the participants!

Seconded!

Alex

EDIT: If you insist on getting a build with no muic, use the link below. It's about 5.3 MB. If you want a build WITH music (now using ogg) the link is up at the top and is 9.9 MB.

Ok, well for now, here's a build with no music: http://www.freaksw.com/temp/20XXNoAudio.zip Without the really awesome music you won't get the same effect, but you know mine's the best anyway, so who cares? Just VOTE FOR ME!!