DATE OF EVENT:
2 WEEKS OF SOLID DEVELOPMENT GOODNESS:
MIDNIGHT SEPTEMBER 2ND to MIDNIGHT SEPTEMBER 16TH

THEME:
THE BOOK OF REVELATION

CATAGORIES:
+) Best Presentation of Christian Teaching
+) Best Fun Game (Gameplay)
+) Best Orignal Concept (Design)
+) Best Graphics (Visual)
+) Best Build (Stablity)

PRIZES:
+) 1 x Dark Basic Pro
+) 1 x Dark Physics
+) 1 x Dark AI
+) 1 x FPS Creator
+) 1 x MilkShape 3D
+) 1 x Brain Editor Professional
+) 2 x GL BASIC
+) 5 copies of Eternal War: Shadows of Light (donated by XRUCIFIX)
+) Winners will be able to select a game from the Christian Games NOW! website (www.cgnow.com)

RULES:
+) PROJECTS MUST BE SUBMITTED BY OR BEFORE SEPTEMBER 16TH TO QUALIFY - No entries, patches, bug fixes will be allowed after this time. If you live within a different timezone it is your responsibility to make sure your entry is handed in on time. Please give yourself enough time to upload your entry.

+) PROJECTS MUST LIST THE RESOURCES THEY USED (PRE-EXISTING CODE, ART, SOUND, ETC)

+) Pre-exisiting codework can be used but more points will be awarded to those who work from scratch

+) JUDGES: Graceworks, D-SIPL, Mack, Klumsy and Krylar can't enter to win prizes.

+) The games must be made exclusively for this competition. You are not allowed to work on games that you have started previously.

+) The games created during this competition will be made open source at the end. This will serve 2 purposes.

1) The games will be freely available for everyone.
2) People can learn from others code and it gives something back to the community.

+) Entries must comply with the following criteria.

i) Some Christian content, this is after-all a Christian coders competition and the object is to create more Christian games

ii) Games must not be contain extreme violence, sexual content, occult practices or bad language. Be wise with your choice of content.

iii) Games must not breach any copyright laws. If you don't fully understand the in's and out's of copyright law, the safest option is to create everything yourself.

5. You are not limited in anyway to what language you program the game in or what tools you use (ie Game Maker, Torque, Click team products). We encourage you to harness all the tools you can use, within such a small time period you'll need it!

You will be able to reuse your own libraries (such as graphic, keyboard, sound routines).

6. The game must be able to run on one of the following environments.

i) Windows 98/2000/XP
ii) Linux
iii) DOS

If any additional libraries are required, please add these to your final installation file. We do not expect to have to go hunting around the net to get your game to work.

7. Games must include full instructions on controls and how the game actually works. A quick readme file outlining the controls and general background information on the game will be required.

HOW TO PARTIPATE:
USE YOUR FAVORITE FTP CLIENT AND LOG INTO:

FTP: 66.118.156.30
User: ChristianCoders
Pass: contest

MAKE A FOLDER WITH YOUR CCN USER NAME AND INCLUDE A ENTRY.TXT IN THE FOLDER WITH YOUR FULL NAME AND EMAIL. ALL ENTRIES MUST COME IN A ZIP OR RAR FILE.

SPONSORS:
We'd like to thank the people and companies who generously dontated prizes to this event!

Association of Christian Entertainment (www.gameace.org)

Chumbalum Soft (www.swissquake.ch/chumbalum-soft)

Christian Games NOW! (www.cgnow.com)

GameCreators (www.thegamecreators.com)

GLBASIC Team (www.glbasic.com)

Twinno (www.twinno.com)

XRUCIFIX (www.xrucifix.com)

[This message has been edited by Mack (edited September 03, 2006).]

My biggest concern is in the last chapter:

"18 I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book. 19 And if anyone takes words away from this book of prophecy, God will take away from him his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book."

My concern is that we all be careful of how we make our game, because we don't want to deal lightly with God's word.

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[This message has been edited by Lava (edited August 31, 2006).]

oh, and this is all one man work, I take it?
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"Patience, my good citizen, patience. It's bad enough to rob a man of his dream"
-Sydney Carton, Tale of Two Cities
Soterion Studios

[This message has been edited by ArchAngel (edited August 31, 2006).]

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oh, yeah, uh, good luck to you too.

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"Patience, my good citizen, patience. It's bad enough to rob a man of his dream"
-Sydney Carton, Tale of Two Cities
Soterion Studios

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Originally posted by steveth45:
Not a lot of solid game-oriented material in this book. Of the histories, epistles, books of the law, books of poetry, and books of prophecy in the Bible, this might be the most difficult text to squeeze a game out of. But, it's only the theme, so I think we have a pretty open field to play on. That said, we have two weeks starting on the 2nd--good luck to you all.

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You have a good point but at the same time, why does it seem like everyone and their dog is making a game based on Revelation? It seems like everyone new to Christian game dev wants to make one.

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too bad it looks like I'm low.
I am interested to see what people do.

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"Patience, my good citizen, patience. It's bad enough to rob a man of his dream"
-Sydney Carton, Tale of Two Cities
Soterion Studios

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Originally posted by Lava:
Revelation Quote

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Originally posted by ArchAngel:
and is there is no second or third places...

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Originally posted by Lava:You have a good point but at the same time, why does it seem like everyone and their dog is making a game based on Revelation? It seems like everyone new to Christian game dev wants to make one.

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[This message has been edited by Mack (edited August 31, 2006).]

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Originally posted by Mack:

I believe that as long as we don't quote the game as a pure representation of scripture then we should be fine. If you like you could even copy the entire book of Revelation and include it as a text file with your game.

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Yeah I was thinking of doing something similar.

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I know what I'm reading tonight...

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Originally posted by HanClinto:
I know what I'm reading tonight...

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All Your Base Are Belong To Us!!! chown -r us ./base
"After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless.'' -- Tao of Programming Book 2

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Originally posted by Lava:
By the way, is teaming up together with someone ok?

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I don't see why not, but it's up to you how to divide the prize(s) if you win.

Thanks, Kenman

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Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently He thought it worth the risk.
C.S. Lewis

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
C. S. Lewis

www.christiangaming.com

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quit posting on CCN? nope. I havn't been driven off yet.

EDIT: These would be 2D graphics (similar to what Bible Dave has, for example).

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All Your Base Are Belong To Us!!! chown -r us ./base
"After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless.'' -- Tao of Programming Book 2

[This message has been edited by CPUFreak91 (edited August 31, 2006).]

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Originally posted by Ereon:
Ok, so the program HAS to run in Linux?

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The rules say "any of the following" not "all of the following". So, No, it does't have to be able to run on Linux.

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All Your Base Are Belong To Us!!! chown -r us ./base
"After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless.'' -- Tao of Programming Book 2

Its all in how you read it.

Anyway, I look forward to this, especially seeing what everyone else will come up with.

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quit posting on CCN? nope. I havn't been driven off yet.

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2Co 7:10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

[VoHW] (Help needed) [Blog] - Truedisciple (mp3)

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Originally posted by Mack:

+) The games created during this competition will be made open source at the end. This will serve 2 purposes.

1) The games will be freely available for everyone.
2) People can learn from others code and it gives something back to the community.

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i) Some Christian content, this is after-all a Christian coders competition and the object is to create more Christian games

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ii) Games must not be contain extreme violence, sexual content, occult practices or bad language. Be wise with your choice of content.

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6. The game must be able to run on any of the following environments.

i) Windows 98/2000/XP
ii) Linux
iii) DOS

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#include <spazz.h>
int name()
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char name['B','u','d','d','B','o''y']
}
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MMMM... I love pi!!

[This message has been edited by buddboy (edited September 02, 2006).]

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#include <spazz.h>
int name()
{
char name['B','u','d','d','B','o''y']
}
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MMMM... I love pi!!

Also, that way theres no finger pointing if two games have similar ideas, and it will come down to which one is better, point for point.

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quit posting on CCN? nope. I havn't been driven off yet.

quote:

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Originally posted by buddboy:
oh, what you mean? i meant the idea that you have to get to your meeting point and help fellow believers on the way. vague?

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Yes. The upcoming FPS by Boanerges studio involves going to certain places and helping fellow believers during the end times (protecting them from the followers of the anti-christ). The name of the game is Armegeddon.

My main point is that if you give away game ideas before a competition starts, it's not fair to expect people to not come up with similar ideas.

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[This message has been edited by steveth45 (edited September 01, 2006).]

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proverbs 17:28
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.

proverbs 25:7
open rebuke is better than secret love.

www.gfa.org - Gospel for Asia

www.persecution.com - Voice of the Martyrs

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Originally posted by bennythebear:
my skills aren't up to par for this competition, but i would like to know if this is going to be an annual competition? i ask this because in around a year i should be able to do something competition worthy...one more question...can it be a web based game?

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Don't count yourself out of this competition. Most folks around here are novices anyways when it comes to game development. It doesn't require mad skills to make a fun game anymore. One of the categories is "Best Presentation of Christian Teaching" so all the prizes don't have to go the most hardcore coder.

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"Patience, my good citizen, patience. It's bad enough to rob a man of his dream"
-Sydney Carton, Tale of Two Cities
Soterion Studios

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Christian content will be hard to avoid if the theme is the Book of Revelations. But I don't agree that the point is to create more Christian games. The point is Christian coders supporting each other and helping each other out whether they are making Christian games, business software, school projects, or even games that aren't explicitly "Christian".

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The rule is focused on this competition, which is about making a Christian game in 2 weeks. It's not saying that CCN is purely focused on game development.

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An interesting limitation given that all these exist in the Book of Revelations. Violent plagues, the whore of Babylon, worship of the Beast and the Dragon, and blaspheming are all there, to be specific.

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I'm glad to hear that your excited about the challenge. The Bible is littered with extreme violence, occultism, sexuality, etc. but it doesn't mean that your game has to glorify them.

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Do I have to develop for 3 platforms!?

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steveth45: You might want to contact them and let them know they have stolen your idea.

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buddboy: nobody steal my idea

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bennythebear: my skills aren't up to par for this competition, but i would like to know if this is going to be an annual competition? i ask this because in around a year i should be able to do something competition worthy...one more question...can it be a web based game?

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The prize-list keeps getting better and better. Awesome.

Peace.

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One more option... since we do have to release our code under an open source license, you may want to check out opensource.org. They have a list (and a copy of the licenses on the list) of OSI approved open source licenses.

25:30 till I can code... maybe I can write a count down program to ease it's passing..

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All Your Base Are Belong To Us!!! chown -r us ./base
"After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless.'' -- Tao of Programming Book 2

[This message has been edited by CPUFreak91 (edited September 02, 2006).]

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Originally posted by CPUFreak91:
One more option... since we do have to release our code under an open source license, you may want to check out opensource.org. They have a list (and a copy of the licenses on the list) of OSI approved open source licenses.

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Just so you know, when you release code as open source, you still own the code, so you can use it and modify it yourself and make closed-source projects with it. However, if somebody takes your open source code and modifies and publishes those modifications (as they should), you don't own those changes and if you do anything with them, you'll be bound by the open source license.

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Originally posted by steveth45:
Just so you know, when you release code as open source, you still own the code, so you can use it and modify it yourself and make closed-source projects with it. However, if somebody takes your open source code and modifies and publishes those modifications (as they should), you don't own those changes and if you do anything with them, you'll be bound by the open source license.

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Ah yes. Forgot to mention that. Thanks for clearing it up a bit, steveth45.

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All Your Base Are Belong To Us!!! chown -r us ./base
"After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless.'' -- Tao of Programming Book 2

[This message has been edited by CPUFreak91 (edited September 02, 2006).]

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#include <spazz.h>
int name()
{
char name['B','u','d','d','B','o''y']
}
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MMMM... I love pi!!

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Originally posted by ArchAngel:
your going down, man! your going down!

oh, yeah, uh, good luck to you too.

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You're just full of encouragement and good sportsmanship, Arch!

First part of entering this competion for me was downloading an ftpclient.

Lazarus

oh..and good luck everyone!

now I found what my game will be about...

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"Patience, my good citizen, patience. It's bad enough to rob a man of his dream"
-Sydney Carton, Tale of Two Cities
Soterion Studios

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#include <spazz.h>
int name()
{
char name['B','u','d','d','B','o''y']
}
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MMMM... I love pi!!

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All Your Base Are Belong To Us!!! chown -r us ./base
"After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless.'' -- Tao of Programming Book 2

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Originally posted by buddboy:
lol, a game about that? how?

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about a cat with jelly on it's back.

it was a joke.

however, my game will (surprisingly) be about an angel. *cough*

just, don't steal my idea. jp.

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"Patience, my good citizen, patience. It's bad enough to rob a man of his dream"
-Sydney Carton, Tale of Two Cities
Soterion Studios

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Originally posted by ArchAngel:

however, my game will (surprisingly) be about an angel. *cough*

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You'll be hearing from our lawyers shortly.

I'm really looking forward to seeing what you all come up with. I've had a hard time coming up with ideas -- but I'll be giving it a hefty effort regardless.

Cheers!

--clint

Well it's day 2 and I wanna see screenies and progress updates!!

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"One World. One Web. One Program." -Microsoft promotional advertisement
"Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer!" -Adolf Hitler
"I believe in freedom... not freedom like America, freedom like a shopping cart"

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Originally posted by D-SIPL:
Well it's day 2 and I wanna see screenies and progress updates!!

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Haha. :-P

I have some teaser art that I don't mind people taking a peek at (though if you're worried about it spoiling your own ideas, don't look at it). I'm not worried about anyone "stealing my ideas" -- I'm pretty sure it's implementation that counts, not just concept. I wouldn't be surprised if there were 2 or 3 other games that followed a similar line to what I'm trying to do -- I'm just trying to do it better.

I haven't gotten very far yet -- still playing with concepts and fleshing out my design docs. I haven't even settled on a tool yet or even a game look/feel.

BTW, if people want placeholder animation art for platformer-style graphics, I just found Mannequinman and Manny Redux today. I'm not making that style of game, so it's not very useful to me, though I thought it looked really useful as placeholder art to just get started coding.

Cheers!

--clint

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2Co 7:10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

[VoHW] (Help needed) [Blog] - Truedisciple (mp3)

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#include <spazz.h>
int name()
{
char name['B','u','d','d','B','o''y']
}
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MMMM... I love pi!!

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2Co 7:10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

[VoHW] (Help needed) [Blog] - Truedisciple (mp3)

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BTW, if people want placeholder animation art for platformer-style graphics, I just found Mannequinman and Manny Redux today. I'm not making that style of game, so it's not very useful to me, though I thought it looked really useful as placeholder art to just get started coding.

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"Patience, my good citizen, patience. It's bad enough to rob a man of his dream"
-Sydney Carton, Tale of Two Cities
Soterion Studios

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Originally posted by jari:
But most importantly I pray for the "ideas" so that all credit goes to God. And if I may continue all credit should always go to God because he made us and gave us the skills, which we just use.

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AMEN!

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Called by God. The passioned plea of a father. The journey awaits at Jarod's Journey.
Participate in the Parables, The Interactive Parables

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Originally posted by ArchAngel:
[QUOTE]BTW, if people want placeholder animation art for platformer-style graphics, I just found Mannequinman and Manny Redux today. I'm not making that style of game, so it's not very useful to me, though I thought it looked really useful as placeholder art to just get started coding.

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Probably not... That does look like nice art though.

Lazarus

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Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of life and death. Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance. Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air. Methinks my body is but the less of my better being. In fact take my body who will, take it I say, it is not me.

Ishmael, on the subject of death. Moby Dick

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Originally posted by Ereon:
What's the end time by the way, timezone, all that jazz?

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Midnight, Sept 16, MST.

Thanks for the timezone clarification. MST -- so that's GMT -07:00.

I've finally started doing a little bit of coding and prototyping... I'm really excited to see what everyone else has got in store! It looks like maybe half a dozen people entered so far -- are there other people entering who haven't made their FTP directories yet?

--clint

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Originally posted by HanClinto:
Wow, sw33t avatar update, Mack.

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Thanks, it's the ingame Harvester. Probably post an update on it later.

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Originally posted by HanClinto:
Wow, sw33t avatar update, Mack.

Thanks for the timezone clarification. MST -- so that's GMT -07:00.

I've finally started doing a little bit of coding and prototyping... I'm really excited to see what everyone else has got in store! It looks like maybe half a dozen people entered so far -- are there other people entering who haven't made their FTP directories yet?

--clint

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Maybe.

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[This message has been edited by steveth45 (edited September 05, 2006).]

not saying I'm out to win them all...

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"Patience, my good citizen, patience. It's bad enough to rob a man of his dream"
-Sydney Carton, Tale of Two Cities
Soterion Studios

And don't call me a hypocrite. That wouldn't be very nice.
But wait! You don't have to. Here is a model render w/o texture from our game:

For information, read info.txt in the Lava&Crazyishone ftp directory.

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quit posting on CCN? nope. I havn't been driven off yet.

[This message has been edited by crazyishone (edited September 05, 2006).]

that model is impressive.

...I don't believe you. *cough*
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"Patience, my good citizen, patience. It's bad enough to rob a man of his dream"
-Sydney Carton, Tale of Two Cities
Soterion Studios

[This message has been edited by ArchAngel (edited September 05, 2006).]

Did you guys do that model in just the past few days? I'm seriously impressed. Did you do it from scratch or did you start from a base? Is it rigged, textured or animated yet? I'm just wondering how fast you guys are moving.

I just got lighting to work in my game, though it's still very cheesy. If I give screenshots, I'm worried it might influence people who haven't chosen their topic yet (or make them feel too wierd about doing a game similar to mine), so I don't want to give too much away this early on.

On a related note, I'm thinking if we had some games that were very similar, that would be fine. The better aspects of each of them could then, in theory, be combined to make an even better game later.

--clint

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If you can see Chuck Norris, He can see You.
If you Can't see Chuck Norris, you may be seconds away from death.

The cool thing is that I made the text rendering engine useable in any game, so if you want to steal some code, go right ahead... just tell me so that I can send it to you as I'm too lazy to upload it right now unless someone's interested.

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All Your Base Are Belong To Us!!! chown -r us ./base
"After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless.'' -- Tao of Programming Book 2

[This message has been edited by CPUFreak91 (edited September 06, 2006).]

Are you creating a 2D or 3D game for the competion?

If I enter one it will be 2D.

Lazarus

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"Patience, my good citizen, patience. It's bad enough to rob a man of his dream"
-Sydney Carton, Tale of Two Cities
Soterion Studios

I'm going for a 3D First Person Adventure game. If I finish enough of the first level tommorrow I might post some in game screens for you guys to check out.

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How far that little candle throws its beams; So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Portia The Merchant of Venice

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Originally posted by Lazarus:
Even if you don't want to post your idea:

Are you creating a 2D or 3D game for the competion?
Lazarus

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2D arcade-style perhaps with a hint of something else. That's my entry.

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All Your Base Are Belong To Us!!! chown -r us ./base
"After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless.'' -- Tao of Programming Book 2

Enjoy.

P.S. You probably shouldn't use the rips from commercial games.

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[This message has been edited by steveth45 (edited September 07, 2006).]

[This message has been edited by steveth45 (edited September 07, 2006).]

[img]http://pilgrimsjourney.bluegillweb.com/Revelation Screen 9-8-06.JPG[/img]

You can see some of the reflective glass effect in the far panes, but it's not really in action until you get up close, and I intend to replace the standins with a much better, high-res version before submission. I still have to texture the benches and there's alot of level left to do but progress is crawling along fairly steadily. Let me know what you think.

~Ereon

P.S. For some reason the IMG tag won't work, so I'm posting a url instead

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How far that little candle throws its beams; So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Portia The Merchant of Venice

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[This message has been edited by Ereon (edited September 08, 2006).]

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[This message has been edited by Ereon (edited September 15, 2006).]

I recently updated my blog in the FTP and uploaded new image.

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2Co 7:10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

[VoHW] (Help needed) [Blog] - Truedisciple (mp3)

yeah, you take your fancy 3d models and reflective surfaces!
*picks up pencil and starts drawing more sprites*

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"Patience, my good citizen, patience. It's bad enough to rob a man of his dream"
-Sydney Carton, Tale of Two Cities
Soterion Studios

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Originally posted by ArchAngel:
man, all this talk is making me worried.

yeah, you take your fancy 3d models and reflective surfaces!
*picks up pencil and starts drawing more sprites*

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Go retro, man... retro... (oops just leaked more game info! ).

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All Your Base Are Belong To Us!!! chown -r us ./base
"After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless.'' -- Tao of Programming Book 2

[This message has been edited by CPUFreak91 (edited September 09, 2006).]

so.. i pretty much can only win in gameplay... which... psh, who knows how that turns out.

*looks around to see if competition is letting down their guard*

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"Patience, my good citizen, patience. It's bad enough to rob a man of his dream"
-Sydney Carton, Tale of Two Cities
Soterion Studios

~Ereon

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How far that little candle throws its beams; So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Portia The Merchant of Venice

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#include <spazz.h>
int name()
{
char name['B','u','d','d','B','o''y']
}
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MMMM... I love pi!!

oh well.

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"Patience, my good citizen, patience. It's bad enough to rob a man of his dream"
-Sydney Carton, Tale of Two Cities
Soterion Studios

Alas, this idea be too late for many, but... well, yeah its too late.

Can't wait to see these games, I was thinking about making a flash movie about revalations but you know me... eternal n00b to everything I try.

Really can't wait to see the games guys!

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yeah, im a little crazy

Blessed are those who suffer for doing what is right.
The kingdom of heaven belongs to them.-Matthew 5:10

PM ME YOUR DESCRIPTION OF ME! ILL PUT IT HERE!

Here's all the comments!

P.S. I HATE 640x480!!!!!!

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quit posting on CCN? nope. I havn't been driven off yet.

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#include <spazz.h>
int name()
{
char name['B','u','d','d','B','o''y']
}
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MMMM... I love pi!!

I've been enjoying seeing other people's progress, so I figgered I'd give you all a taste of what I've been up to as well.

I don't know 3d very well at all, and I certainly don't feel comfortable making a 3d game in two short weeks.

Sooo, I'm going the route of 2d as well. Not quite retro -- I guess it would be considered "outdated" more than retro. I'm going for a cheesy '98 Windows 95-era isometric style of look. I'm using Torque Game Builder for the project -- I hadn't used it more than a tutorial or two before this, so it's been a really fast learning experience. Mebbe' not fast enough -- you still can't actually *play* the game (though you can happily move around and navigate mazes and stuff).

In case anyone's interested, here's a shot of the main character hopping along.

I was going to post a bigger spoiler screenshot, but I think I'll hold off on that for a couple more days.

It's going to be work to get this project finished up in the next week -- but I *think* it should be do-able.

RM -- I'm sad to see that you aren't going to be entering! Many speed-coding competitions like this are done in just a week, I would really like to see you whip somthing up with your new l33t j4v4 skills.

Also, I've been learning 3d animation lately with Blender (like animating that oil lamp to hop along) -- that's something that I'd really like to see you try your hand at sometime. I've got some decent links that I've learned Blender animation with -- I'd be happy to pass them on and spend an afternoon chatting with you and getting you up and running for your first animations.

Cheers!

--clint

[This message has been edited by HanClinto (edited July 27, 2007).]

But as for school I love it here. It has an AWSOME CS program, 1 thru 4! FOUR YEARS OF CS!!!!!!! Im currently in CS2AP, and technically in CS4 as well (Its really supposed to be a 'study' hall, but Im doing all the work that the real CS4 students are doing right now). There is even a GameDevelopement club! I don't know how involved it is, but their next meeting is this wednesday, so well see. My only beef is that it is in JAVA, I mean comm'on what happened to C++, can't we challenge these kids with things like pointers and references? Operator overloading? Multiple inheritance? oh well. Javas good enough for me, since I already know all that(Not to bragg or anything ).

Sorry for going so offtopic, now please resume your contest related exchange of information =D.
PS
and HanClinto, that is one uh interesting teapot(?)

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hey CPU, can i have your source? i don't want the source for the comp, i'd just like to have it, see how you did it.

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Sure no problem. Right now? Or later?

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"After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless.'' -- Tao of Programming Book 2

The last time I coded a game was on the Commodore 64, 20+ years ago. This is a HUUUUUGE learning experience for me. I mean, I didn't even know what a tileset was, let alone how to access the various parts of it. I am having an absolute blast working on this and am excited about some of my future ideas.

As time closes in, I continue to refine...errr, simplify the requirements and the game itself. I still need some computer AI which I have not yet started coding. If I get to that point, the computer will probably be pretty bad. But I hope to have something, or the game will not be a game at all.

Does everyone expect to have finished games? Should I even enter if the game is not finished or simply has no computer AI? I don't want to waste the judges time, but I am excited about what I have been able to accomplish so far.

Also, I have decided to use the new XNA stuff. Looking back, I think I will use something else next time. Having never used any other graphic API (other than GDI and GDI+), I really have nothing to compare it with, but it really seems geared more to be a cross-platform development API for the 360 and PC. It does not allow you to use Windows.Forms, so you are limited to using bitmaps for EVERYTHING. Buttons. Menus. Even fonts. Uggggh. It has forced me to scrap ideas for the game on several occasions. I will most likely look at some other API in the future.

Regarding Section 6 of the rules, I am unable to add the extra libraries to my installation. My game will require .NET 2.0 and XNA to BOTH be installed. Basically, you will need to install VS C# Express and the new XNA to run the game. Unfortunately, it is not recommended to pass along any of the XNA DLLs to anyone's machine. Everything is in BETA. It sounds like they will be fixing this issue for the final release.

Phew! That was a long post.

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Well at any rate, If I get anything submitted, it will surely pale in comparison to that great work you guys are doing! (Which is meant in a positive manner, not negative positive.)

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I feel very similarly -- I didn't get to work on it much last week, but really tried to crank on it for the morning on Saturday. I'm just hoping I can get something playable -- so much of my time has been spent learning new tools or fighting with graphics. If I get anything playable, I doubt it will be a complete game -- maybe just one or two playable levels -- I was originally planning on having around 8.

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PS
and HanClinto, that is one uh interesting teapot(?)

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Well, not quite a teapot, but I certainly took inspiration for the movement from Chip and Mrs. Potts. Future screenshots will make it more evident as to what it is, though if you check an older image I posted last week, that might give you another clue.

SSquared -- I'm really glad that you decided to enter! Glad to hear Steveth talked you into it.

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Does everyone expect to have finished games? Should I even enter if the game is not finished or simply has no computer AI?

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I don't expect to have a finished game with all of the different gameplay options I was wanting either -- but I still plan on submitting whatever I can wrap up in time.

I have Visual Studio 2005 -- if you wanted to test packaging up the XNA dll's with your game and seeing if it'll run on my machine, I'd be willing to give it a shot. There's no way I can download and install the whole XNA framework on my machine -- maybe if I had a faster/more reliable 'net connection, but definitely not on this African "high-speed".

Cheers!

--clint

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Sure no problem. Right now? Or later?

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right now =D

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right now =D

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Ok. This one's from last week, I shan't release this weeks yet. Note that I'm a little behind on documeting my code (with comments). Basically, you'll need a file called lettertext.py that contains a variable which has a list. My list has a length of 29, the game usually crashes if there's anything else (yes, that's bad... I'll fix it later). You'll also need to find a TrueType font (.ttf) and put it in the current directory of church-letters.py and change all instances of it to the name of the font file.

You will also need a background image, and may have to set soundsEnabled = False if you don't have a music file.

http://cpufreak91.jqsoftware.com/churchletters.txt

EDIT:My server tries to execute the python file so you'll need to rename churchletters.txt to churchletters.py

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"After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless.'' -- Tao of Programming Book 2

[This message has been edited by CPUFreak91 (edited September 11, 2006).]

Programming:
1. Visual C++ Express 2005
2. Irrlicht 1.0 (patched with some bug fixes) (Irrlicht 1.1 is currently too buggy)
3. IrrXML, a fast, C++ based XML reader from the creator of Irrlicht.
4. Either audiere or FMOD for music and sound (haven't decided yet)

Art:
1. TILED, a generic tile map editor written in Java (free from http://mapeditor.org/ )
2. Tiles from Hermann Hillmann. (numerous sources)
3. Original 2D sprites from my co-conspirator who shall, for the moment, remain anonymous.

That's all for now.

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Glad to hear the comments HanClinto. Glad others feel the same way about getting a completed game. I had hoped for 7 or 8 chapters, but will most likely just get done with 2. That will at least offer a choice of 2 maps, making the game feel a little more developed.

I am just now beginning to work with the computer player. If I can get at least something very simple working, then I will at least have a framework for the game, and a single map. From there I need to create a second map, story pages, refine the computer AI, add sound/music if I can figure out how to integrate it in, create some new artwork, and probably many other things I can't think of right now.

As for running my game, the words right from one of the Program Manager's says you need to install XNA in order to run games. Check out this forum post: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=704671&SiteID=1

Also, either C# Express or XNA (or perhaps both) require XP SP2 to be installed. I'm a little worried the requirements to run my game may be a bit too staggering. I can understand if a judge does not want to update their machine simply for this one little game.

Hope everyone is having fun!!!

Expect screenshots in a day or two.

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[img]http://pilgrimsjourney.bluegillweb.com/Revelation Screen 9-10-06.JPG[/img]

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How far that little candle throws its beams; So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Portia The Merchant of Venice

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[This message has been edited by Lava (edited September 11, 2006).]

Just switched to SDL so learning curve but good experiences - life is not cooperating that well though.

Last week ended up working full time + 13 hours, friday 2 1/2 year old son was in ER twice - but he is find now.

On the plus side I have a grahics/sound person (my brother) so I have stuff to make the code look good.

Won't way much on what it is - expect it's two parts and part one works now but I could spend a little more time with it.

Part two is at concept level. and the clock is ticking.

Graphics:
2D

Language:
BlitzBasic (we switched from GameMaker)

Progress:
75% (it's basically all programming from here on out)

And yes, lol Crazyishone was joking about that 3D model, haha.

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[This message has been edited by Lava (edited September 12, 2006).]

terrible. ain't winning the graphics category, I'll say that.
it's a lot harder to animate something by hand then it looks.

so, you guys don't need to worry about competition in the stability, originality, christian teaching or graphics from me.

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"Patience, my good citizen, patience. It's bad enough to rob a man of his dream"
-Sydney Carton, Tale of Two Cities
Soterion Studios

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"Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer!" -Adolf Hitler
"I believe in freedom... not freedom like America, freedom like a shopping cart"

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Portia The Merchant of Venice

Genre: First Person Survival/Adventure title

Language: DarkBASIC Pro with EZRotate and System Enhancements plug-ins

Tools: Level Design/Animation- Truespace 3.2
Textures- Texture Maker 1.2

Progress: 33% of submittable/10% of what I wanted to do, but so spins the
fickle wheel of fate.

P.S. I'm grasping at straws here and desperately hoping to get this thing done, I'm trying to get the GUI and such ready so that I can quickly compile and submit whatever I manage to finish.

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How far that little candle throws its beams; So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Portia The Merchant of Venice

Language: GameMaker

Tools: Soundtrack
Photoshop

Progress: around 1/3

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"Patience, my good citizen, patience. It's bad enough to rob a man of his dream"
-Sydney Carton, Tale of Two Cities
Soterion Studios

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How far that little candle throws its beams; So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Portia The Merchant of Venice

Genre:
2d isometric-ish action/adventure

Engine:
Torque Game Builder

Tools:
Blender
Gimp for Windows

Resources:
Ereon's Texture Pack
A few small particle images (smoke and such) that come with TGB
So far everything else is original work. I might use some props from Reiner's tilesets, but I haven't needed to yet.

Progress:
Hrm... progress? What progress? Wow. Until I stopped to think about it now I didn't realize just how not-very-far-along I am. Uhm... I'm going to say 1/4th or maybe 1/3rd of the functionality and content is there. Things have picked up on the missions trip here in Africa and I haven't gotten much time to work on it this past week. I hope to get a first round of gameplay implemented tonight if I get some spare time.

Cheers!

--clint

I read some of the posts this morning and it seemed like everyone was well on their way.

I just don't want to turn in something completely embarassing. I think I am beyond that point, so I am happy. This is essentially a proof of concept for me. I had MUCH bigger plans (as we probably all did), so this has been a chance to test out some of what I want to accomplish later.

Tools: Visual Studio Express C#
Game Studio Express (XNA)
TheGimp (for graphics I may create)
Several Synthesizers (for any chance I get to write some music)

Hermann Hillmann's Tileset
garykac's BMFontGen/BitmapFont from his XNAExtras package for any fonts I may decide to use.

Not sure how far along I am. I really just need to implement some type of computer AI to make the game at least SOMEHWAT playable. There are currently a few different types of pieces but they can move ANYWHERE they please at the moment. :-) So I still need to implement a limitation factor to player movement based on piece type.

The game is a 2D board-based strategy game. Kind of like a mixture of chess, checkers and stratego. Not exactly what I had originally hoped for, but I soon realized the limitations of creating a more advanced system with RPG aspects was not going to happen with less than 2 weeks of time.

[This message has been edited by SSquared (edited September 12, 2006).]

Genre: Arcade
Language: Python
Tools/Libraries: Pygame, Phils Pygame Utilites, modified code from Watermelons game.

Progress: 100% of my code has been written, but now that I have decided to use modified melons code I need to modify my own code to fit with the modified melons code. Confusing? Yes!

Overal Progress: 60% complete.
License: All code is released under GNU GPL v2

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Njoy!

ftpdir/ 2bros/

[This message has been edited by kenman (edited September 12, 2006).]

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Mack, we can submit on Saturday but before 9:00 am? I know it would be better if we finished a day or so before, but you never know if we might have to make it on the last mintue.

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The contest runs until Midnight of the 16th, so you'll have all day Saturday to work on the project.

Here's what I use:

Genre: 3D Survival

Engine: Torque
Tools: Blender, Quark, Gimp, VC Express 2005, jEdit
Textures: Many (almost all) from around the net.
Models: From ACE FTP

Progress:

Still lot of praying to do but I'm hopeful that it's in 1/3 of the way, only Lord knows.

Read about the game story and gameplay from my updated blog in the FTP.

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[VoHW] (Help needed) [Blog] - Truedisciple (mp3)

Genre: NSPORPG (not-so-massive single player offline role playing game )

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"After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless.'' -- Tao of Programming Book 2

Wow! haha. That screenshot gave me a laugh -- I guess I don't know what I was expecting, but I wasn't expecting that.

I like the look and feel -- it's cheesy yet fun.

I'm nowhere near as done as you are, though I was able to fix two major hangups last night and I'm moving forward again (time permitting).

Since you posted a screenshot, I might as well follow suit (keep in mind, while mine may look somewhat cooler, it's nowhere near as functional as CPU's game):

Keep up the great work, all! I really look forward to seeing what everyone comes up with.

In Christ,
clint

Edit: Changed the graphic from .png to .jpg. Thanks, Steveth!

[This message has been edited by HanClinto (edited July 27, 2007).]

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I like the look and feel -- it's cheesy yet fun.

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I'm nowhere near as done as you are, though I was able to fix two major hangups last night and I'm moving forward again (time permitting).

Since you posted a screenshot, I might as well follow suit (keep in mind, while mine may look somewhat cooler, it's nowhere near as functional as CPU's game)

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[This message has been edited by steveth45 (edited September 14, 2006).]

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Originally posted by CPUFreak91:
Is that a new Little Light Of Mine or the old one your were working on?

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It's a new version of Little Light of Mine, but it borrows a number of things (including the working title) from the old one. I'll post more about it with my final submission -- I really tried hard to make it very different and original. Stats aren't as extensive in this game, there isn't the whole encumberence system, the regions are set up differently, and of course -- it's graphical.

To be honest, I've wondered if I should feel bad for using part of an old idea. The design doc for Little Light of Mine has been posted publicly for quite a while now, I've always hoped other people would feel free to copy anything from that game to use as their own. So while I take some comfort in that, I still have that desire to make everything as original as possible for a competition like this. I've been careful to not use anything from the old game and to write a completely new design doc from scratch for this game.

I went back and forth over what I should do for this project, and I really felt that this would be a good one to do (not just as an entry for position's sake, but also for being a spiritually sound game).

Even if I were penalized in a category like the "best presentation of Christian principles" award, the other things like art and programming shouldn't be any less original than anyone else's.

The gameplay has yet to be written for the new game, so it may just wind up being a wierd hopping lamp that walks around running from evil glowing red things (that don't really do anything when they catch him) -- we'll see how much gets done.

--clint

[This message has been edited by HanClinto (edited September 14, 2006).]

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Originally posted by CPUFreak91:
How are everybody's games coming along?
Since we are nearing the end of the competition (yay, sleep!!!) I have decided to release a screen shot to pique your intrest.

I'd say I'm about 95% done.

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I like what you've done with it! It's awesome how you went retro

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"Patience, my good citizen, patience. It's bad enough to rob a man of his dream"
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Soterion Studios

Yikes! I am beginning to get really worn down with these late (12:30-1:00 AM) nights. I can't keep this up and may just need to take a break tonight. I have finally concluded there is no way I can get my AI ready in time, so you may just be able to place pieces and move them, but the computer won't play very well.

I'm currently spending my time checking for valid moves. Y'know, being sure the player is doing something legal. The same code will check to be sure the computer is ALSO doing a legal move. :-) Once I'm done with this part, then I can start writing code for the computer to actually THINK about a move.

I think I should have taken an easier route. But my original idea is like Steveth's, so it's probably best I went a different way. In fact, we are using the same tileset. At first I thought he somehow got a screenshot of my game. Hahaha.

Your stuff all looks great. Man! I really should have thought of something easier and I could have actually had a COMPLETED game. I'm bummed...

I didn't realize how much work I had until I tried animating my guy.
5 hours for just the running animation. and I was bummed.

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"Patience, my good citizen, patience. It's bad enough to rob a man of his dream"
-Sydney Carton, Tale of Two Cities
Soterion Studios

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Originally posted by steveth45:
Looks great guys. Here's a grainy jpeg advanced screenshot. This is just a screenshot of the map mode.

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That tileset reminds me of Battle for Wesnoth. Looks like you have a pretty nice game!

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Originally posted by Lava:
I like what you've done with it! It's awesome how you went retro

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Originally posted by ArchAngel:
interestingly enough... my game is about the seven churches too...
... you stole my idea. lol.

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Originally posted by ssquared:
My game is the 7 Churches, too.

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Yikes! I am beginning to get really worn down with these late (12:30-1:00 AM) nights.

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Your stuff all looks great. Man! I really should have thought of something easier and I could have actually had a COMPLETED game. I'm bummed...

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"After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless.'' -- Tao of Programming Book 2

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Originally posted by CPUFreak91:
That tileset reminds me of Battle for Wesnoth. Looks like you have a pretty nice game!

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Thanks! I actually looked at that game for art, since it's all open source, but the tiles are hexagonal instead of square, too bad. The tileset I found is decent, though. The little dude is a shrunk version of the main character drawn by my cohort, "Mr. X". My game is nothing like Battle for Wesnoth, though. It's an old-style turn-based RPG like Dragon Warrior or somewhat like Final Fantasy (the first). I'd say that I'm about 50-75% done. It will be quite a push to get it finished to the point where I want it. It will probably be playable by tonight. But things like battle animations, text, sound effects, music, and save games are going to take more hours out of my life. Friday night will be long.

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Would it be possible for me to post it Sunday morning? (And I would not be allowed to work on it past midnight Saturday, of course)

Otherwise, I'll have to post it either this morning or tonight(and sometimes he doesn't go online Friday night either), in a rather unfinished state. I've got most of it done, there's just few things I need to get working better and add sounds, and some other things.

Lazarus

[This message has been edited by Lazarus (edited September 15, 2006).]

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Originally posted by Lazarus:
In lieu of my circumstances I would like to ask a favor of the contest judges.
I can only get online when my brother does, and he won't go on the Internet on Saturday, so I won't be able to post my contest submission that day.

Would it be possible for me to post it Sunday morning? (And I would not be allowed to work on it past midnight Saturday, of course)

Otherwise, I'll have to post it either this morning or tonight(and sometimes he doesn't go online Friday night either), in a rather unfinished state. I've got most of it done, there's just few things I need to get working better and add sounds, and some other things.

Lazarus

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"Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer!" -Adolf Hitler
"I believe in freedom... not freedom like America, freedom like a shopping cart"

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Originally posted by HanClinto:

To be honest, I've wondered if I should feel bad for using part of an old idea.

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No not at all! This isn't a competition about new ideas but about new games. I am too using an old idea which I didn't plan to use but it's actually an unfinished idea that has finally come to me fully from God.

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2Co 7:10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

[VoHW] (Help needed) [Blog] - Truedisciple (mp3)

~Ereon

pilgrimsjourney.bluegillweb.com/PerasTrailer.wmv

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How far that little candle throws its beams; So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Portia The Merchant of Venice

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Signature, Yes, signature. Ahh signature. Yep.

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Portia The Merchant of Venice

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How far that little candle throws its beams; So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Portia The Merchant of Venice

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All Your Base Are Belong To Us!!! chown -r us ./base
"After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless.'' -- Tao of Programming Book 2

I still have quite a bit of work, though. There are some illegal moves I need to take care of. But at least both the computer AND player can make those moves. It's not like the computer alone can cheat. :-)

Not sure how much time I'll get to work on this. We'll probably watch a movie tonight and I have an early morning Men's Breakfast at church. From there, it's spending the day with my family.

Tomorrow night will be feverish trying to wrap everything up and get it finalized as best I can. I don't think I will get to music and I still have a few text/description screenies to finish.

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THE FINAL HOURS
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'pon once which flashed the lights of posts,
yon CCN rests silent, dark.
A fortnight given at the most,
to craft a rapid piece of art.

Oh, how the wheel of time turns fast,
as bugs, the once fine output, mame.
Oh, the rest that comes at last,
when wild code is fin'lly tame.

Yet 'pon this night no rest of eye;
no pillows sunk in each abode.
Caffine-enriched the keys will fly.
Tonight the coders code.

--
Penny --Is.64

[This message has been edited by penny (edited September 15, 2006).]

Linux build for those who are using Christian Ubuntu with SDL installed.

We are in the directory /2bros. Everything from scratch, no game engine.

God bless all that have partaken in this undertaking.

kenman

As it's open source and it's a text file that holds the questions - I think this has some potetial as a teaching aid

If you look at the source code close enough you will see some graphics that get set up that are not used - our orginal plan was to use the questions right per round to give you bonus time in a puzzla/arcade game.

It's my first game with c++/SDL been using python or some basic derivative mostly in the past - so I'm pretty pumped about how much I learned.

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Exactly. Same here. This was a total learning experience for me and I have definitely learned quite a lot. For that I am very grateful. It has really been fun and exciting.

Congratulations on getting your game done and up in the staging area. Hope everyone is doing well.

Thanks, Penny, for the poem. I don't plan on pulling an all-nighter, but I did joke to my wife. When I came home, I said, "I'm going to be a coding fiend for the next 29.5 hours." Actually, we are discussing what movie to watch tonight, but I am already totally wiped out tired...and it's just 7:30 PM right now.

stupid handdrawn animations.

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-Sydney Carton, Tale of Two Cities
Soterion Studios

I also liked the presenation too, good interface (outside of the game) and music.

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Just played your game CPU, I have to say it was really fun!

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"After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless.'' -- Tao of Programming Book 2

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"Patience, my good citizen, patience. It's bad enough to rob a man of his dream"
-Sydney Carton, Tale of Two Cities
Soterion Studios

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Originally posted by ArchAngel:
stupid handdrawn animations.

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I've got some quickly hand drawn, shaky sprites. Funny thing is, I've been working on this long enough, I'm actually quite comfortable with them now. I certainly don't expect to win points with them.

I am not an artist, and I don't know an artist, so I decided to make my own sprites, buttons, etc. The tileset, though, is from someone else and one of the sprites is from a tutorial I read.

But overall, I am trying to make as much of it all by myself.

I'm just hoping I get a lucky break with gameplay. haha.

but, if I get outdone, so beit. just means they'res an even better game out there.

Mack, after we submit our stuff, do you know by what time the winners will be announced?
also, will the games be made public before or after the annoucement.

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"Patience, my good citizen, patience. It's bad enough to rob a man of his dream"
-Sydney Carton, Tale of Two Cities
Soterion Studios

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Originally posted by ArchAngel:
Mack, after we submit our stuff, do you know by what time the winners will be announced? Also, will the games be made public before or after the annoucement.

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I'd said give the Judges two weeks to play the games, decide on winners and arrange the delivery of the prizes.

When your completed your game, post the link to it on here. When everyone is done I'll edit my first post to include all the links. You can also place it in the Showcase if you like on the front page.

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[VoHW] (Help needed) [Blog] - Truedisciple (mp3)

I hope the judges don't mind that the main character has a weapon, btw.

Lazarus

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Originally posted by Lazarus:
I hope the judges don't mind that the main character has a weapon, btw.

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What? No.

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Originally posted by Mack:

When your completed your game, post the link to it on here. When everyone is done I'll edit my first post to include all the links. You can also place it in the Showcase if you like on the front page.

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Here is our link, (to ensure full compliance will all rules)
ftp://66.118.156.30/2bros/judgements.installer.zip

Python Source (work on Windows and Linux. Includes pygame source code):
ftp://66.118.156.30/cpufreak91/scrolls-from-the-sky.zip

Windows "Binary": ftp://66.118.156.30/cpufreak91/scrolls-from-the-sky-windows.zip

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"After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless.'' -- Tao of Programming Book 2

It's coming down to the final hours. I ended up coding until 2:45 AM last night. I could have gone longer, but I was going in circles for about 2 hours and figured I couldn't think straight. Then, when I woke up this morning, I clearly thought of how to resolve the problem. Arrrrgggghh. I've wasted MORE time being tired and not thinking straight.

It's been a fun experience. Stevet45 and I work at the same company, so we have been able to talk to our co-workers about the contest. We have been rivals all week as everyone knows we are feverishly coding our games.

Neat to see people are beginning to get their stuff wrapped up. Does everyone agree 2 weeks was a good idea?

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if my game gets positive response, I might rerelease it with more graphics, enemies, longer levels and more complex bosses.

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"Patience, my good citizen, patience. It's bad enough to rob a man of his dream"
-Sydney Carton, Tale of Two Cities
Soterion Studios

Escape from Babylon can be downloaded right here ^^^^^^^^^

Whew, glad that's over with. I got practically 65% of the game done on Thursday and Friday since I had to scrap a lot of what I'd done the first week.

*Now comes the part that could possibly turn CCN members against eachother and ignite the forum into a gigantic flame war as against all odds, Arch wins all the prizes and then constantly brags about it for years afterward...*

Lazarus

This contest actually ends at 8:00 AM tomorrow morning (Sunday morning) for me -- so I'm really not sure if I'm going to finish it tonight or get up early and try to find an internet connection to upload it.

We'll see.

It's been an interesting experience. In the past, I've really enjoyed speed-coding on things -- just putting my life on hold and pulling a couple of all-nighters and just pounding something out. But being on a missions trip, I've had to approach this project very differently. I've been limited to coding in my spare time, and I've often gone several days without writing much/any code. I haven't yet stayed up late to work on it, and I've tried to make work here in Africa, time in the Word, and time with my wife more of a priority than this contest. As-such, I don't think the game is quite as far along as it might have been, but overall I think I'm better for the experience as far as learning how to behave as more of a balanced individual. So often, my life is a life of extremes, and I've really enjoyed this time to really work at having moderation in all that I do.

Not that I've enjoyed a whole lot of success or anything, but given my poor track record in the past, I'm pretty happy to have seen some improvement.

I totally echo the sentiments about needing about a month -- I'm sortof kicking myself for voting for such a short coding time, but it's still good to have a *speed* coding competition. Almost everyone here has had to make a smaller game than they originally wanted -- but don't we all want huge games? I would say that this has been a pretty valuable educational experience (for me at least -- I don't know about anyone else) in learning how to cull down a project in order to get it out the door.

That said, I'm bummed you didn't get to enter because of that, G4C. I hope it works out for you to get in on the next one!

Okay, less rambling, more coding -- see y'all in about 12 hours.

--clint

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MMMM... I love pi!!

and yeah, han, this game has been fun. under my current workload, I was overloaded with stuff, but it was fun.
frankly, I'm just afraid I won't be able to get it done in time.

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"Patience, my good citizen, patience. It's bad enough to rob a man of his dream"
-Sydney Carton, Tale of Two Cities
Soterion Studios

http://www.gameace.org/~CCNcontest06/

You'll find your folder in there.

Edit by HanClinto -- updated the link now that the next contest changed the directory structures.

[This message has been edited by HanClinto (edited July 27, 2007).]

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frankly, I'm just afraid I won't be able to get it done in time.

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Come on Arch, nose to the grindstone! 8 hours left!

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How far that little candle throws its beams; So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Portia The Merchant of Venice

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MMMM... I love pi!!

I wanted add sound, but I don't have any more time. I have to go somewhere today and won't be back till late, so I wasn't able to get it working. It's in the Lava\Crazyishone folder, it's called Archibald.zip. And in my folder there is a doc of the Book of Revelation, as Mack directed me to do if I feel uncomfortable with making a game based on it. But there is a moral to the story.

Here are some screens:

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MMMM... I love pi!!

Time is wending down, buy my parents have let me install all my tools to their computer so I can keep working without the battery running out on me. Things should keep winging on, I've got alot to do, but its all coming together nicely. Gameplay is 1/3 done and coming along very swiftly, and once I have all that in place it's nothing but polish from then on out (a place I'll be very glad to get to). So. T-minus 5 hours and counting, estimated post time around 2:00 AM EST. Cheers mates

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How far that little candle throws its beams; So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Portia The Merchant of Venice

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Let it burn.

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How far that little candle throws its beams; So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Portia The Merchant of Venice

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Let it burn.

These games look great I can't wait to try all of them out. Good luck in the final hours!

I'll finish the game later and post it up here when I'm done.

so, as for now, I'm just uploading the half finished game.
pretty much a little guy running around and swinging a sword.
pretty pointless, much like the UN.

good luck to the rest of ya.

(yeah, yeah, I editted it. I was too depressed to turn in nothing. I killed myself over this week. I, again, blame not my incompetence, but the animations)
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"Patience, my good citizen, patience. It's bad enough to rob a man of his dream"
-Sydney Carton, Tale of Two Cities
Soterion Studios

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Does everyone agree 2 weeks was a good idea?

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As a game programming n00b, two weeks was perfect.

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Originally posted by Lazarus:
I had to scrap a lot of what I'd done the first week.

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Originally posted by HanClinto:
I totally echo the sentiments about needing about a month -- I'm sortof kicking myself for voting for such a short coding time, but it's still good to have a *speed* coding competition. Almost everyone here has had to make a smaller game than they originally wanted -- but don't we all want huge games?

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No offense, Han and other people, but, what is it with the huge game ideas? You won't be selling this game to EA , and you have a 2 weeks to make it. But then, are you be trying to push your skills to the limits?

@Crazyishone and Lava:
I love your main character enough to make a plush toy out of him! He's got the coolest look on his face!

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All Your Base Are Belong To Us!!! chown -r us ./base
"After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless.'' -- Tao of Programming Book 2

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How far that little candle throws its beams; So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Portia The Merchant of Venice

well, time to grab the bon-bons and watch a soap-opera.
lol.

I'm really excited to see what you guys have.

ftp://66.118.156.30/archangel/Malak.zip

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"Patience, my good citizen, patience. It's bad enough to rob a man of his dream"
-Sydney Carton, Tale of Two Cities
Soterion Studios

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Instructions are in the SSquared directory. You MUST have BOTH C# Express and XNA installed.

C# Visual Studio Express 2005: Download here - http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualcsharp/download/

XNA: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=21E979E3-B8AE-4EA6-8E65-393EA7684D6C&displaylang=en

Enjoy

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ftp://66.118.156.30/jari/awakening.zip

Sorry that this was late! I spent the whole night coding this and I thought that you might forgive me 15 minutes.

I didn't have time to include instructions nor the story.
Not to mention testing the thing (except entering the game)! So like I said it's a miracle if this works and all glory goes to Jesus if so but blame me otherwise.

Help screen shot:

Instructions:
Using asdw and mouse to move around like in a typical FPS and 1-3 to enter a verse menu (when it's available) and backspace to return to main verse menu.

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[VoHW] (Help needed) [Blog] - Truedisciple (mp3)

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[This message has been edited by jari (edited September 17, 2006).]

To give you a context of the game you play as Jonathan Moore, a private plane pilot who, on flying back to the airport for the night, loses radio contact with the tower. He manages to land the plane, but once he enters the airport he finds it totally abandoned. After he enters the airport the terminal he's in is struck my an apparently unmanned plane and he's blown free of the wreckage. With the entire airport going into emergency lockdown and suffering bad wounds you, as Jonathan Moore, must find a way to escape and survive the locked down airport and find out what happened.

The backstory behind it all is that the rapture happened, and the entire airport was evacuated, but without radio or any way of outside communication there is no way to find out.

This game in itself is pretty much a portion of the whole without the special effects or storyline in it. This is essentially the graphics and gameplay engine without the flashier doodads, so the goal is to find some way to reach and open the restaurant door at the far end of the complex, for the purpose of what would be in the real game to replenish your strength after nearly bleeding to death.

Anyway, that's the backstory, let me know what you guys think.

ftp://66.118.156.30/Ereon/Peras.zip

~Ereon

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How far that little candle throws its beams; So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Portia The Merchant of Venice

Here's the plot:

"There was war in the sky. Michael and his angels made war on the dragon. The dragon and his angels made war. They didn't prevail, neither was a place found for him any more in heaven." Rev 12:7,8

You are Michael, in heaven, and you've got to kick the devil and his angels out, also, you need to light the seven lampstands.

Some notes on game play:
1. The fountains restore your HP and SP.
2. There is a cave where the dragon is.
3. During battle, use the mouse to select Attack or Pray.
4. If you select attack, you must click on one of the squares that represents an enemy.
5. Praying may have different results based on your immediate needs. God knows what we want before we even ask Him.
6. Don't forget to relight the lampstands.

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Originally posted by Cohort X:
Hi, I'm working with steveth45 and he's forcing me to post something on this board.

These games look great I can't wait to try all of them out. Good luck in the final hours!

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Just so y'all know, Cohort X is the guy who draw all the characters for RevX. He also drew the fountain, and the lampstands.

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"Patience, my good citizen, patience. It's bad enough to rob a man of his dream"
-Sydney Carton, Tale of Two Cities
Soterion Studios

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Originally posted by ArchAngel:
dude... where is hanclinto's entry?

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I'm uploading it right now.

It's been a real hassle to try and get Internet access while I'm down here in Ghana. Suffice it to say that between flakey wireless and power outtages, I'm thankful to even be able to post this right now. I "finished" my game around 1:30 in the morning (6 1/2 hours before the deadline), but I didn't feel safe walking the streets that late carrying a laptop, so I decided to wait until morning. I went out walking with my laptop at 6:30 in the morning (t-minus 1.5 hours to go) to try a couple of places I thought I might be able to get a connection, but both were down. So I had to wait until after church where I could find an open 'net cafe, and that's where I'm at right now. I didn't work on it after the time deadline -- I just had trouble finding a connection to upload it with.

That said, it's completely up to me to make sure I can submit my project on time, so I understand if I'm out of the running for the prizes. I'm just happy to have been able to make a game in this really fun contest. If you can still judge it -- that would be great. But if not, that's really okay too.

Entry is at http://www.gameace.org/~CCNcontest06/hanclinto/llom_package.zip . There's a separate zip file there with source code (including my .blend files for the original artwork I made in case anyone wants to see how to model and animate a quirky hopping lamp in Blender).

Thanks again for putting on the competition, D-Sipl, Mack, Tim, and all! It's been a lot of fun.

Cheers!

In Christ,
clint

Edit: Okay, the upload finished for the main game zip, but I couldn't get the zip uploaded in time (my time is almost up and I'm out of money to pay for more time). I'll finish uploading the source later.

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The entry's look a lot better than I first expected. I kinda wish I had taken part now! I've downloaded all thwe entries and will be playing them over the next week.

Only 2 weeks of anticipation left...

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"Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer!" -Adolf Hitler
"I believe in freedom... not freedom like America, freedom like a shopping cart"

whoa, that's cool Han!! Like the idea, the graphics are great... good job!

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Let it burn.

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"After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless.'' -- Tao of Programming Book 2

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Wohoooo! 'Tis over.
Thanks, sponsors, Mack, D-SIPL, others who contributed, and contestants. This was fun!

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Glad you enjoyed it. I'm sure we will have many more in the future.

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"One World. One Web. One Program." -Microsoft promotional advertisement
"Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer!" -Adolf Hitler
"I believe in freedom... not freedom like America, freedom like a shopping cart"

Lazarus

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Let it burn.

Lazarus

I really felt 2 weeks was just perfect. Although I actually started on the Tuesday after it started. Because of the short timeframe, I felt every moment was precious and I needed to spend some time on it every day, with the last week having some late nights. Three weeks would have been super nice to polish things up, but with a three week contest, I probably would have taken things easy the first 2 weeks and then realized I needed to do something the 3rd week and it would have been too late. I would have felt less pressure, and may have slacked off.

Congratulations to everyone who put something in. I'm really glad Steveth convinced me to enter something. I am sorry for those who wanted to do something but didn't have the time. I am actually quite impressed with the number of entries we actually got. It looks better to the sponsors and makes the contest even more interesting and challenging.

Through this project, it has given me a desire to look into SDL.NET. I had never used any graphic API before (other than GDI/GDI+), so I had no clue what to choose. I ended up using the new XNA Microsoft thing, but had too many limitations which became frustrating. But the XNA community has been really pumping out some nice tutorials and helpful C# classes, so I was able to get over some of the hoops. I may write a little thread giving an overview of my XNA experience.

...I'll probably start playing around with SDL.NET now. But for now, I gotta study up on .NET 2.0 for work.

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How far that little candle throws its beams; So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Portia The Merchant of Venice

Besides our own game, I think:

+) 2 Brothers - Teaching (what better teaching than a Bible triva game lol)
+) Ereon - Funnest game (tied between this and CPU's)
+) HanClinto - Original Concept (I've never seen a hoping lamp)
+) Jari - Graphics (tied between this one and Ereon's and Han's)
+) CPUFreak - Stability

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"Patience, my good citizen, patience. It's bad enough to rob a man of his dream"
-Sydney Carton, Tale of Two Cities
Soterion Studios

I'm really glad that I was at least able to upload the zip of the binary yesterday -- it was very down to the wire, and it finished within 5 minutes of my net connection time running out.

Arch, Jari and everyone else who uploaded not-nearly finished games, I'm glad that you all submitted them anyways. My game isn't complete either -- there's only one level, and there isn't technically a "win" condition.

If I had to guess, I would say that it's 70-80% done. Most of the core structure is in there -- I really just didn't have time time add more content. It randomly selects a Bible verse from a list, chooses a word out of there and has you fill in the blank. As the oil level of the player's lamp and the churches lampstands goes up and down, the lighting adjusts (so that if you get a lot of questions wrong, you're wandering around in the dark with a pretty small light to guide you). You can encourage the churches with verses, and help increase their zeal and truth. The next step is to have it change levels once you get a lampstand high enough, but I ran out of time for that one.

SSquared: I'm glad you're leaning towards using SDL.Net -- I think that's a fantastic tool. Jendave (the creator of SDL.Net) has even posted here on CCN before. I was just looking at the new features in the changelog, and it looks like just a really fun framework to work with for making oldschool 2d games in C#. I should get back into it -- I don't think I've used it since version 2.

Steveth/Cohort X: Excellent! I really like the sound of the combat system -- I look forward to trying it out. The graphics look good, and I'm really impressed that you were able to write a (fairly) complete RPG in such a short amount of time!

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Originally posted by ArchAngel:
awww, come on. we all know my one will win them all.

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I echo what D-Sipl said -- congrats to everyone who finished! I'm really impressed that so many teams were able to get submittable projects in time.

Thanks again for putting on this contest! I'm looking forward to the next one! (after a bit of a break though... phew)

In Christ,
clint

I think 2 weeks was great. I'll probably post a new topic shortly for comments on the competition. Improvements, Criticism etc

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"One World. One Web. One Program." -Microsoft promotional advertisement
"Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer!" -Adolf Hitler
"I believe in freedom... not freedom like America, freedom like a shopping cart"

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2Co 7:10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

[VoHW] (Help needed) [Blog] - Truedisciple (mp3)

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it would have been better if the theme would have been revealed much earlier.

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"After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless.'' -- Tao of Programming Book 2

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[QUOTE]Originally posted by jari:
[b]it would have been better if the theme would have been revealed much earlier.

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Sure, having to do more in less time makes everything more challenging; but you can see the results. Noone made more than a single level of gameplay if they even made a complete level. For myself and Steveth we didn't even get started until thursday, partially because we had previous obligations through monday, but then it still took us a few days to get the concept for the game. It seems to me that since this is a coding network the challenge should be coding the game in 2 weeks, which is still quite a challenge especially if you wanted to do anything in 3D. It would allow the scope to be bigger and the games to be more complete if you could plan out and start creating dialogue and art for the game maybe even a month in advance so that the two weeks could be purely for the coding.

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How far that little candle throws its beams; So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Portia The Merchant of Venice

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2Co 7:10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

[VoHW] (Help needed) [Blog] - Truedisciple (mp3)

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I think 2 weeks was great. I'll probably post a new topic shortly for comments on the competition. Improvements, Criticism etc

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This is the second comp I have competed in; the first was 72 hours, no teams, over a weekend, and this one. There are + / - for each type of competition. I was surprised to see the low number of entrants, as the last comp was almost 100 entrants and 60 some completions. I am looking forward to the next comp and being a regular visitor and commentor here.

maybe for a 1 day or weekend competitin, provide a pack of source files (sprites, sounds, etc) and see what people can come up with.

then you can always get your 1month or even longer competition. no longer speedgame, but.. yeah.

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"Patience, my good citizen, patience. It's bad enough to rob a man of his dream"
-Sydney Carton, Tale of Two Cities
Soterion Studios

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Originally posted by ArchAngel:
2 weeks is pretty good for a speedgame competition.

maybe for a 1 day or weekend competitin, provide a pack of source files (sprites, sounds, etc) and see what people can come up with.

then you can always get your 1month or even longer competition. no longer speedgame, but.. yeah.

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yea you're probably right about actually creating anything before hand. but it would still be nice to be able to come up with the idea beforehand.

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Originally posted by ArchAngel:

maybe for a 1 day or weekend competitin, provide a pack of source files (sprites, sounds, etc) and see what people can come up with.

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One day. That's awesome.

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Sure, having to do more in less time makes everything more challenging; but you can see the results. Noone made more than a single level of gameplay if they even made a complete level.

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I wish I had not gone the route I did by having to create computer AI. That's not exactly a simple task. While I was working on the game, others in the XNA community were putting out some pretty nifty little games. Some clones, and some unique and interesting things. I realized these guys did something really simple and went with it and it taught me a lesson. Make a solid, simpler game given the small timeframe.

I think most of us were also learning technologies at the same time, so that probably slowed us down a bit too. I may start playing around with SDL.NET (downloaded it today), so the next time I will be more familiar with an API set and how to actually create a game.

Been there done that - tried the same thing when I went for Lundrum last year - bad call- I knew it 24 hours in but then it was too late. The only problem I was with two weeks is it allows real life distractions.

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5373/571/1600/7_Churches.jpg

To the judges: I hope my requirements do not hinder things. I am going to try and see if there is ANY way I can get some XNA redistributables, so you won't need to install XNA Studio Express. But, like I said earlier, it doesn't look promising.

SSquared -- thanks for posting a screenshot! I was very interested in knowing what your game looked like, so I'm glad that you showed us.

Along those same lines, I thought I would post some screenshots of my game as well, just to show people what it's like who may not download it and run it.

You can find the directory of all of the screenshots here.

Screenshot 1: This is the main screen
Screenshot 2: The intro/story text, narrated by my wife Jennifer -- some of you have have met her at the CGDC.
Screenshot 3: When you enter the game, this is what it looks like. You can see your current location in the lower-left, and the status of your oil in the lower-right. The height of the oil indicates your fill level or zeal, and the color of it indicates the purity of the truth of your message. A bright and zealous person without much truth is like a fanatic cult member, and a truthful person without much light is like someone who loves going to seminary but is too afraid/shy/preoccupied to preach or write or share any of what he's learned. You need a combination of truth and zeal to be an effective light, and this game tries to integrate that into the game mechanics.
Screenshot 4: There are roaming darknesses, and when they attack you, you must defend yourself with appropriate scripture. It's a simple fill-in-the-blank sort of Bible quizzing -- I didn't have as much time as I would have liked to refine this, but it's passable I suppose.
Screenshot 5: When you get a quiz wrong, it gives a hit to your zeal and purity (note the small change in the lower-right).
Screenshot 6: If you continue getting things wrong, your oil status continues to decline. Note how the light from your lamp shows dimmer as you lose energy and zeal. This has the very real effect of making it even harder to navigate the already dark maze. As you encourage churches, their light gets brighter and shines further as well.
Screenshot 7: Speaking of churches, here is the first (and only) church I managed to put into the game. Encouraging the church is similar to defending yourself against the Darknesses, and works off of similar principles of accurracy and timing.
Screenshot 8: Even if you got the question right, if you don't have enough zeal or truth, you can't encourage the church very well. You need to fight your way through the Darkness to reach the church, and have enough zeal and truth left to still be an encouragement.
I didn't program in the Cloister of Truth before the competition, but it was planned that that's where you would go to review the Bible verses ahead of time, recharge your zeal and purity, and be able to take roads to journey to the different Lampstands.

Sorry if my post was too long -- I hope people find it interesting. I can move it somewhere else if it's inappropriate here.

I'm thinking we could start a thread of postmortems for the various projects. I would be interested in reading about other people's experiences -- what went right, what went wrong, and what they learned. Anyone else interested in that sort of thing?

Cheers!

In Christ,
clint

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If you have all your reserve scrolls your score will not go up. Let a scroll or two fall on the ground and your score will begin to climb again.

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"After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless.'' -- Tao of Programming Book 2

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[This message has been edited by CPUFreak91 (edited September 19, 2006).]

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Originally posted by ssquared:
To the judges: I hope my requirements do not hinder things. I am going to try and see if there is ANY way I can get some XNA redistributables, so you won't need to install XNA Studio Express. But, like I said earlier, it doesn't look promising.

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Quote the rules: "If any additional libraries are required, please add these to your final installation file. We do not expect to have to go hunting around the net to get your game to work."

Please provide a direct link to whatever we need to run your project.

Hmmmm, I wasn't able to get to my screenshot from work this morning. If that is a problem for anyone, try my blog at: http://ssquared2000.blogspot.com/ Sorry for the inconvenience.

Download Windows Installer
Download Source

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"After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless.'' -- Tao of Programming Book 2


Edit by HanClinto: Fixed the links with the new '06 contest directory structure

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I'm thinking we could start a thread of postmortems for the various projects. I would be interested in reading about other people's experiences -- what went right, what went wrong, and what they learned. Anyone else interested in that sort of thing?

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YES!! I'd love to hear other's experiences. But not in this thread. It's already getting too long for me. This experience really helped me to feel a part of the site and community. Although we were sort of competing, I also felt like we all had the same goal and no one was trash talking or anything. Everyone was real supportive of each other.

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"Patience, my good citizen, patience. It's bad enough to rob a man of his dream"
-Sydney Carton, Tale of Two Cities
Soterion Studios

Lazarus

I made NO/ZERO/ZILCH bug fixes or updates (except changes I was forced to implement as described below) in hopes this can be used for the contest, but I TOTALLY understand if it can't. I just thought this would be easier for all the judges.

Besides the normal SDL.NET conversion, I had to make the following change:

1) The Commander icon is different. The original was from a site which used a DDS file. SDL.NET can not read the DDS file, so I got a new avatar and made a PNG.

2) Selecting your piece used to turn it black. SDL.NET could not do the same thing. Selecting a piece now gives you a selection circle. This is what I wanted to do in the first place, but XNA does not allow for primitive graphics, while SDL.NET could not turn the avatar black. Go figure...

3) The original version had a nice little TextBox with special text. This version no longer has the nice TextBox. Instead, you get some small, 10 pt. text slapped in place.

The new version is in: ftp://66.118.156.30/SSquared/SDL.NET%20Version/

There are 2 zip files. One contains source (src) and the other is the Release. The Release zip contains everything you need to run the game.

I should mention, clicking is a bit strange. You need to be sure the mouse point is in the correct square. Be sure the TOP of a piece is in the square you want, otherwise, you may end up moving your piece ONE square higher than you expect. I'm now used to it so it isn't a problem anymore. This is one of those things I would have liked to fix.

I'm impressed you were able to keep up the energy to continue working on your game after the competition -- I got a little burnt out and haven't done much since last Sunday.

But I really wanted to convert the game to SDL.NET and soon found myself all excited again. I enjoyed writing this so much, I look forward to actually coding on my free time. I'm still hoping to complete the game at some point and then move on to something else.

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pain breeds action and action breeds life.

so.. in short, what makes you feel good will kill you and what makes you feel bad will keep you alive.

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"Patience, my good citizen, patience. It's bad enough to rob a man of his dream"
-Sydney Carton, Tale of Two Cities
Soterion Studios

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Matthew Langley
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GarageGames

I'm very glad you found us here, and seem to have plugged right in! I've read a lot of your stuff over at GG -- you guys do great work over there.

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Originally posted by Matt Langley:
Caught this thread a bit too late, very awesome idea and love seeing a lot of the screenshots posted. Btw really liked so me of those TGB game screenshots, considering I'm a bit biased about game tech lol

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haha, we'll see if the judges share your same bias. If so, then I might be able to win something with my half-finished game. I've really enjoyed getting to know Torque Game Builder better for this project -- you all have done some great work with it. It's still a new product, so there are some little snags here and there, but by-and-large it's a wonderful tool for developing games and even just creating prototypes as a sort of game-development-sketchpad for testing out ideas. Lots of fun to work with.

Are you looking to get involved in a Christian-based project using Torque? If so, I actually just had a friend e-mail me this morning if I knew of any Torque devs who could help create a pre-alpha for his project by January. If you're interested, please feel free to contact him by e-mail at darian.hickman@villagethegame.com .

Either way, so very glad to have you here at CCN!

In Christ,
clint

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How far that little candle throws its beams; So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Portia The Merchant of Venice

Lazarus

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"Patience, my good citizen, patience. It's bad enough to rob a man of his dream"
-Sydney Carton, Tale of Two Cities
Soterion Studios

Will there be a new thread to announce the winners??

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Originally posted by ArchAngel:
now now, don't give it away

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We already knew.

Lazarus

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Originally posted by Lazarus:
We already knew.

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Can't type anything else though because I'm running for my life.
I never should have told Arch and Max that there was more to life than smart and beautiful women. Ow!(max got me with a pitchfork tine)

Oh well, me and my big mouth. OW!(max again)
Lazarus

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Originally posted by Ereon:
Do all your judges have DirectX 9.0C downloaded? The newest version of DirectX is a prerequisite for my game to run. You can get the newest version here. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2DA43D38- DB71-4C1B-BC6A-9B6652CD92A3&displaylang=en

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From what they tell me, yes. Thanks for providing the link, hopefully if they download it then it will work.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX

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"One World. One Web. One Program." -Microsoft promotional advertisement
"Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer!" -Adolf Hitler
"I believe in freedom... not freedom like America, freedom like a shopping cart"

*Drumroll. Mack steps forward, raising a piece of paper.
"And the winner is!", he shouts.
"Arch!!!"
"Boooooo! Booooooooooooooo!" the audience groans.*

Heh, nah. I'm sure the judges will do a good job.
Just got CPU's scroll game Dled yesterday and it was quite fun. :thumbsup:

Lazarus

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Originally posted by Lazarus:
Just got CPU's scroll game Dled yesterday and it was quite fun. :thumbsup:

Lazarus

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Thanks!

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"After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless.'' -- Tao of Programming Book 2

I appreciate you taking the time to do this -- and understand if the results come in a day or two late.

Thanks!

--clint

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How far that little candle throws its beams; So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Portia The Merchant of Venice

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1Jo 2:9-10 He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. 10 He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
Joh 17:26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.

[VoHW] (Help needed) [Blog] - Truedisciple (mp3)

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Oh and I'm not really inpatient either, judges just take your time and judge right.

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Joh 17:26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.

[VoHW] (Help needed) [Blog] - Truedisciple (mp3)

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-Sydney Carton, Tale of Two Cities
Soterion Studios

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Lol, a code off? Noooo!

Lazarus

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Originally posted by Lazarus:
Lol, a code off? Noooo!
Lazarus

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Originally posted by kenman:

Wasn't the competition a code off to start out with ?

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Not everyone coded to make their games, and it would more like a tie braker

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[This message has been edited by Lava (edited September 30, 2006).]

it's not all bad, you know...

so, some of you guys are squirming, and all I feel is curiosity. ha.
see, it pays to be an underachiever.

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"Patience, my good citizen, patience. It's bad enough to rob a man of his dream"
-Sydney Carton, Tale of Two Cities
Soterion Studios

Do the sponsors get anything out of this? Like maybe a copy of each game or something?

Lazarus

Lazarus

:P
Lazarus

Man I want the results . . .

(edit) - so I can stop worrying!

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How far that little candle throws its beams; So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Portia The Merchant of Venice

Yes, everyone is a winner (at least from me). Hey, it is a grace thing. You committed to the contest and tried ... therefore you should win. Kind of like that other good grace thanks to our Lord and savior Jesus Christ!

The prize should say "one from a selected group of CGNOW games" as I have more leverage on some games more than others (and don't even get me started about the "margin" on LarryBoy and Bible Game)!.

The prize list you can choose from is:
Interactive Parables (DVD packaged or download if you are impatient)
Catechumen
Ominous Horizons
Heaven Bound
Scripture Solitaire
Walls of Jericho
Secret Chamber
Unity - card game

If you have these already and want something different from our site (http://cgnow.com ), you can trade in your selection for $10 off.

Oh, Axys Adventures is coming soon - should have them later this week. And Left Behind Game is coming out soon too.

Congrats to all entrants for completing and turning something in!

God bless,
Tim

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Called by God. The passioned plea of a father. The journey awaits at Jarod's Journey.
Participate in the Parables, The Interactive Parables

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Originally posted by Ereon:
So, Mack, are there any more results in yet?

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Not yet.

I'm pretty stoked.

[This message has been edited by ssquared (edited October 02, 2006).]

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Originally posted by Ereon:
Do all your judges have DirectX 9.0C downloaded? The newest version of DirectX is a prerequisite for my game to run. You can get the newest version here. [/URL]

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Okay, I legally own MS Windows XP Home, it came on the Dell. Before I can download this version (even though I'm already running 9.0c but can't run the game), I have to "validate" that I'm a legit user ... it is easy to intepret this as "we think you stole your OS". I specifically turned down this friendly windows update because I think it is ridiculous. But they will win, otherwise I can't judge.

Sorry, just ranting.

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Originally posted by graceworks:
Okay, I legally own MS Windows XP Home, it came on the Dell. Before I can download this version (even though I'm already running 9.0c but can't run the game), I have to "validate" that I'm a legit user ... it is easy to intepret this as "we think you stole your OS". I specifically turned down this friendly windows update because I think it is ridiculous. But they will win, otherwise I can't judge.

Sorry, just ranting.

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Lazarus

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Originally posted by Lava:
So, can the winners wait to claim their prize on your site until a certain game comes in?

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Hi Lava,

Once the winners are announced, everyone can choose then what they want. Send that via Email along with your address to Tim at GraceWorksInteractive DOT com. Or send now and I'll get them ready as time permits.

If you are wanting to trade in the free game for $10 off something else, that is fine. If it is for a title that is "coming soon", go ahead and tell me - I'll ship as soon as soon as it arrives. If the $10 off won't cover the cost (like Dance Praise is $44, so you'd only pay $34), I'll do a paypal request for the difference - or you can mail a check if you prefer.

I hope that is clear. Feel free to Email me specific questions.

God bless,
Tim

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Participate in the Parables, The Interactive Parables

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Portia The Merchant of Venice

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Originally posted by Ereon:
Hey Grace, the problem is that my game requires one of the newest version of DirectX, did it work on your computer yet?

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Hey,

Finally got it to work. Crashes when I hit "E" near the door!

-Tim

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Participate in the Parables, The Interactive Parables

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"Patience, my good citizen, patience. It's bad enough to rob a man of his dream"
-Sydney Carton, Tale of Two Cities
Soterion Studios

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Originally posted by HanClinto:

I appreciate you taking the time to do this -- and understand if the results come in a day or two late.

--clint

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or three or four or five or six...

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Originally posted by ArchAngel:
score one point for the unfinished game that doesn't crash...

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Or the one that is cool EVEN when you fall off the map

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jk.

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"Patience, my good citizen, patience. It's bad enough to rob a man of his dream"
-Sydney Carton, Tale of Two Cities
Soterion Studios

Lazarus

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How far that little candle throws its beams; So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Portia The Merchant of Venice

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"Patience, my good citizen, patience. It's bad enough to rob a man of his dream"
-Sydney Carton, Tale of Two Cities
Soterion Studios

Lazarus

I'm still learning and making updates. And have many new items planned. When I'm done, I will probably upload it over on CCGR.

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How far that little candle throws its beams; So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Portia The Merchant of Venice

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How far that little candle throws its beams; So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Portia The Merchant of Venice

Btw, yeah it is interesting that people are continuing their games.

Makes me want to add more to my own.

Lazarus

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Portia The Merchant of Venice

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I liked the first on, and it sounds like the changes you made are covering up the weaknessess.

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"Patience, my good citizen, patience. It's bad enough to rob a man of his dream"
-Sydney Carton, Tale of Two Cities
Soterion Studios

Lazarus

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that was cool ^
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Originally posted by Ereon:
Yes, primarily of 3D artists and maybe a few skilled programmers who can make shaders and do some dlls in C++, though those aren't really as urgently needed as artists. Animators, level designers, stuff like that. But that's still a good ways off.

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My 2 cents, would be to learn C++ first then get C++ savy people for your team.

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Originally posted by buddboy:
i don't mean connect them. i mean like, different projects. sometimes we can do them in BB. sometimes we can do them in BYOND. and sometimes in Python. plus we could set it up so the BB part runs the BYOND part and that runs the python part, and stuff like that. and they work together.

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I think getting a team to work on any of those one languages would be hard enough, lol.

And one of the best ways to get a team is (as Ereon has said), to have something to show. You can show that off by joining and helping with other people's games. AND yes, I know, I know, you don't have much of that oppritunity. SO that's why we need to have another community project, because there is alot of newcomers here since Bible Dave that could show off their talent but cant because people cant see it.

I get so tired of *talking* about "oh lets do this for the next project" "lets do that for the next project". Why did we even have a community project??? Becuase CPUFreak went in there and just started it. I have been thinking of doing that. Just starting a thread, saying "lets have another community project, this is the idea, this is what we need, here is the design doc."

In fact, that's what I will do.....

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Portia The Merchant of Venice

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Originally posted by crazyishone:
Oh benevolent dictators, the townspeople grow irritated.
Seriously, whoever is holding up the judging, I no longer care to hear your opinion. Can we please have some results?

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Apparently the delay is ticking off some people

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Originally posted by Lazarus:
Apparently the delay is ticking off some people

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Not irritated, just interested . . Time for pizza!

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I did not work on it this weekend and I plan to start studying for a Microsoft Certified Professional exam when my book arrives on Tuesday. So I'm not sure how much I'll get done in the coming weeks.

lol. it's over a week late. judging can't possibly be harder than making the games.lol

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"Patience, my good citizen, patience. It's bad enough to rob a man of his dream"
-Sydney Carton, Tale of Two Cities
Soterion Studios

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This brilliant statement brought to you by the lovely folks at Thinning Patience Inc.!

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"Patience, my good citizen, patience. It's bad enough to rob a man of his dream"
-Sydney Carton, Tale of Two Cities
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[This message has been edited by ArchAngel (edited October 09, 2006).]

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Originally posted by Mack:
but they are taking the judging seriously and playing through the games several times.

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1Jo 2:9-10 He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. 10 He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
Joh 17:26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.

[VoHW] (Help needed) [Blog] - Truedisciple (mp3)

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Originally posted by Mack:
I applogize for the delay everyone, I won't mention who is holding up the judging (that wouldn't be professional) but they are taking the judging seriously and playing through the games several times. I myself have already finished voting and had alot of fun playing the games.

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Hey People.

I'm so sorry for taking so long. I have a tough few weeks lately, with my wife being quite ill (suspected blood clot on her lung which came back negative, praise God) and being back in University. I've now submitted my nominations and am sure we will have a result very shortly.

Thank you all for your patience it's much appreciated.

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"One World. One Web. One Program." -Microsoft promotional advertisement
"Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer!" -Adolf Hitler
"I believe in freedom... not freedom like America, freedom like a shopping cart"

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1Jo 2:9-10 He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. 10 He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
Joh 17:26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.

[VoHW] (Help needed) [Blog] - Truedisciple (mp3)

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How far that little candle throws its beams; So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Portia The Merchant of Venice

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Originally posted by Ereon:
So whens the new estimated time the results will be posted by?

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As soon as the last judge sends me his results.

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Originally posted by Ereon:
Any news on the votes yet?

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lol. Easy there, Ereon. He wants to do a good job with the judging, and he's already put a lot of work into this competition (organizing judges, writing rules, finding sponsors, and now taking time to play through all of the games in detail). He'll keep us posted when they arrive.

FINAL VOTES:

+) Best Presentation of Christian Teaching
JARI "AWAKENING"

+) Best Fun Game (Gameplay)
CPU FREAK "SCROLLS FROM THE SKY"

+) Best Orignal Concept (Design)
HANCLINTO "LITTLE LIGHT OF MINE"

+) Best Graphics (Visual)
None

+) Best Build (Stablity)
LAZARUS "ESCAPE FROM BABYLON"
STEVETH45 "REVX"

JUDGES VOTES:

MACK:
+) Best Presentation of Christian Teaching
JARI "AWAKENING"

+) Best Fun Game (Gameplay)
CPU FREAK "SCROLLS FROM THE SKY"

+) Best Orignal Concept (Design)
HANCLINTO "LITTLE LIGHT OF MINE"

+) Best Graphics (Visual)
STEVETH45 "REVX"

+) Best Build (Stablity)
LAZARUS "ESCAPE FROM BABYLON"

KRYLAR
+) Best Presentation of Christian Teaching
JARI "AWAKENING"

+) Best Fun Game (Gameplay)
CPU FREAK "SCROLLS FROM THE SKY"

+) Best Orignal Concept (Design)
STEVETH45 "REVX"

+) Best Graphics (Visual)
LAVA/CRAZYISHONE "ARCHIBALD"

+) Best Build (Stablity)
LAZARUS "ESCAPE FROM BABYLON"

RICHARD
+) Best Presentation of Christian Teaching - HanClinto

+) Best Fun Game (Gameplay) - LAVA/CRAZYISHONE

+) Best Orignal Concept (Design) - HanClinto

+) Best Graphics (Visual) - Ereon

+) Best Build (Stablity) - Steveth45

TIM
+) Best Presentation of Christian Teaching
Two Brothers Software

+) Best Fun Game (Gameplay)
SSsquared

+) Best Orignal Concept (Design)
Jari

+) Best Graphics (Visual)
HanClinto

+) Best Build (Stablity)
Steveth45

CONGRADS TO ALL THE WINNERS AND THANKS TO EVERYONE FOR JOINING IN!

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yeah, im a little crazy

Awaiting Avatar Image Size rechange...

A huge thanks to our judges and sponsors for making such an enjoyable competition! It's been a ton of fun. I must say I'm really looking forward to next year.

--clint

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How far that little candle throws its beams; So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Portia The Merchant of Venice

It was a fun competition, hopefully next year I can enter something better.

Mack, thanks for the very generous prize, and is the new EW zip uploaded yet?

Lazarus

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*yells out from distance*
congrads, guys. you did well.

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"Patience, my good citizen, patience. It's bad enough to rob a man of his dream"
-Sydney Carton, Tale of Two Cities
Soterion Studios

Cohort X did all the original artwork for RevX and deserves recognition.

*gives Cohort a high five*

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...and as an extra bonus, somewhere you can download the EW source code, unless that's been taken down. I've got it on one computer with a few minor updates in it, but I no longer have VS.NET 2003 installed. :-( But I would think VS C++ Express can compile it.

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Originally posted by SSquared:
...and as an extra bonus, somewhere you can download the EW source code, unless that's been taken down. I've got it on one computer with a few minor updates in it, but I no longer have VS.NET 2003 installed. :-( But I would think VS C++ Express can compile it.

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Here's a link to the source:
http://www.xrucifix.com/ewsol/ew-v2.02-src.zip

Have to say its so nice that every one won after taking time and effort to submit an entry.

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Joh 17:26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.

[VoHW] (Help needed) [Blog] - Truedisciple (mp3)

[This message has been edited by jari (edited October 13, 2006).]

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Originally posted by ArchAngel:
*runs up and snatches Best Graphics prize and scurrys off*

*yells out from distance*
congrads, guys. you did well.

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*Runs up and snatches Best Graphics prize away from Arch*

You oughta be ashamed, stealing one of the prizes in a CHRISTIAN competition?

Btw, I added in some of the enemies to your angel game and had a fun time killing them(but then it crashed...)

Lazarus

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Originally posted by steveth45:
Thanks for the votes!

Cohort X did all the original artwork for RevX and deserves recognition.

*gives Cohort a high five*

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WOO! WE WON/tied best build!!

I'm so glad it's over, I was about two seconds away from suggesting we have another speedgame while we wait with the theme of waiting on the lord. (I even started making the code for it.)

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[This message has been edited by Cohort X (edited October 13, 2006).]

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*Runs up and snatches Best Graphics prize away from Arch*

You oughta be ashamed, stealing one of the prizes in a CHRISTIAN competition?

Btw, I added in some of the enemies to your angel game and had a fun time killing them(but then it crashed...)

Lazarus

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yeah, that's why it wasn't included. some strange bug kept crashing the program. I mean, half of the code is there... and even more of the graphics. yeah... those graphics were hard to make.

I deserve the prize!
*snatches it back*

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"Patience, my good citizen, patience. It's bad enough to rob a man of his dream"
-Sydney Carton, Tale of Two Cities
Soterion Studios

how come there isnt an entry for the best graphics or whatever?

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quote:

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Originally posted by ArchAngel:
yeah, that's why it wasn't included. some strange bug kept crashing the program. I mean, half of the code is there... and even more of the graphics. yeah... those graphics were hard to make.

I deserve the prize!
*snatches it back*

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You should have tracked down that bug and squashed it! No work, no prize.
*snatches it back*

(And then is punched by Arch because I denigrated all his hard work creating sprites..)
Ohhh, my head...

Lazarus

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Originally posted by buddboy:
how come there isnt an entry for the best graphics or whatever?

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Originally posted by buddboy:
ah i see.

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Perhaps next time a 1-10 scale could prevent that problem.

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Originally posted by TwoBrothersSoftware:

Perhaps next time a 1-10 scale could prevent that problem.

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Agreed, I also think there should be an uneven number of judges (like 3 or 5). So there are no more ties.

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Originally posted by LAVA:
I also think there should be an uneven number of judges (like 3 or 5). So there are no more ties.

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That wouldn't totally solve it either. If you've got 3 judges, and they all vote for a different person, you have another tie, and if you've got 5 judges, 2 of them vote for A, 2 others vote for B, and the last one votes for C, you still have a two-way tie between A and B.

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Originally posted by HanClinto:
That wouldn't totally solve it either. If you've got 3 judges, and they all vote for a different person, you have another tie, and if you've got 5 judges, 2 of them vote for A, 2 others vote for B, and the last one votes for C, you still have a two-way tie between A and B.

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Well, I should've been more clear, I don't think the uneven judges would solve the art category problem, but it would help so that way there aren't 2 people winning in the same category.

One idea I had, was to have the uneven judges, but one of the judges calls who wins the category, one main judge will make the final decision, I know it's not as democratic as the last competition, but I would rather lose to somebody then not even have a category I was aiming at.

Another idea, is to have as many judges as there are categories, so each judge only votes on 1 category.

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Originally posted by jari:
Let the Lord do the judgin next time.

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And how would we accomplish that?

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Yeah, that sounds like a good idea actually.

Lazarus

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If Mack didn't forward my comments to you, send me (graceworks) a private message and I'll try to get those to you in less than a week (or two). Warning - some of the comments/suggestions were sparse.

Good job on everyone putting forth the effort. At your leisure, Email me at Tim at GraceWorksInteractive DOT com with what prize you want from the list mentioned, or if you want to trade up for something at http://ChristianGamesNOW.com

God bless,
Tim

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How far that little candle throws its beams; So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Portia The Merchant of Venice

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Originally posted by ereon:
Um Mack, I'm getting a 404 error on that link, and I haven't gotten and e-mail (though that is probably just a send/recieve time difference so no worries on that). Just wanted to let you know about the 404 in case you didn't already.

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