Hi, this is the official community mini competition posting.
The theme for this competition is to make the best Bonfire or virtual fireworks display, maybe even both!
The rules are as follows:

Entries must obey the entry theme.

Entries must be less than 10Mb in size

User must submit entry with their real name, TGC Profiles E-Mail Address and Forum Profile name.

Entries must be included in ZIP or RAR archive format, no EXE’s, no MSI files, and no other formats. *

Each user may submit a maximum of three entries.

Entries must be in by midnight 6th Novemver 2009 Greenwich Meantime (GMT)

No copyrighted material from third-party sources may be used.

Any TGC plug-in, model pack, sound pack, store item, may be used.

Third Party plug-ins may be used.

Custom made plug-ins may be used.

Entries must be created with DarkBASIC Classic, DarkBASIC Professional, or DarkGDK C++ or DarkGDK.Net

No entries made with FPS Creator, 3D Game Maker or any other third party language/ game making system is permitted.
Source code must to be supplied with entries.

No offensive, pornographic, gore, or adult material is allowed.

All Easter eggs and hidden features must be declared.

No advertising is allowed.

Any contravention of IP, copyright or trademarks made by entries will be solely the responsibility of the entrant and liability will be limited to the entrant, not to the judging company.

All entries will be rated entirely at the discretion of the judges, made up solely of representatives of TGC and all decisions of these judges are final

Entries remain the property of their authors, but full and free (non-exclusive) distribution rights of the source code and the standalone EXE version are granted in perpetuity to TGC.

Entrants may withdraw any of their entries from consideration up to the entry deadline of the appropriate demo

Prizes cannot be awarded to employees, agents, contractors or families of The Game Creators Ltd
* To zip up programs you can use either www.winzip.com winzip, or winrar from http://www.rarsoft.com/ both are legal properties of other companies. TGC is not responsible for any damage the usage of this software might cause. Both programs come with free trial periods at the time of this posting.
Prizes and judging
The winner will receive a free TGC Plugin of their choice.
This is a simple one week competition. I will be handling the judging.
When judging I will be looking for:
Quaility of Media
Usage of Theme
Creativity
Originality
FUN!
My judgement is final. I do not need to give justification or reason for my decisions, I will not argue any decision made. I will not issue scores. The list I provide is merely a guide so users know what I'll be looking for.
How to Enter
Submission thread will be created.
User must e-mail their name, e-mail address, TGC Profile name and the name of their uploaded file to
[email protected] files must then be uploaded to the submission thread which I will post HERE soon.
e.g.
to:
[email protected]
from:
[email protected]
Subject: CC Mini #2 Entry
Daniel Foreman
Daniel TGC
Super_Fireworks.rar
Anyone uploading age inappropriate matrial's or copyrighted matrials to this forum. Will be banned from the forum.
Have fun guys! I look forward to your efforts!
Please DO NOT post personal details to the forums.