Hi, this is the official community competition posting.
The theme for this competition is Mini-Game. The goal is make, by the 10th of April 2009, the best mini-game you can. Any theme, any design. The only stipulation is that it has to be less then 30Mb in size.
Official discussion thread is:
http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=146140&b=36
The rules are as follows:
Entries must obey the entry theme. *
Entries must be less than 30Mb in size
Only one 250 Game Creator Store Points entry prize per person. Stage one winners will receive an additional 500 Game Creator Store Points, and Stage two winners will receive a further 1000 Game Creator Store Points. First prize will then receive 4000 additional Game Creator Store Points store points, second prize will receive 2000 Game Creator Store points, and third prize will receive 1000 Game Creator Store points. Total number of points winnable, 6750.
Stage three winners, in order of first to third place, will receive a $100, $50, and $30 TGC Voucher code usable on our website.
User must have signed up for a TGC Store account prior to entry (no purchase necessary). **
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. ***
All entries must include a modified version of the readme.txt template attached to this posting. All fields need to be completed
Each user may submit a maximum of three entries but will only receive one 250 point entry prize.
Entries must be in by midnight 10th April 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
Store Points may not be exchanged for cash
Prizes cannot be awarded to employees, agents, contractors or families of The Game Creators Ltd
* A mini-game is defined as a short game based on any theme. A classic example of a mini-game would be, rock-paper-scissors, card games such as Snap!, pigeon shooting, memory games, cart racing, kangaroo boxing, etc. The definition isn’t strict, but it must be under 30Mb in size, and above all it must be fun!
** Instructions for signing up, please view this video http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-GB&playlist=videoByUuids:uuids:6fee64be-1a2d-447a-b5bd-db18f2f40af4&showPlaylist=true&from=msnvideo you can download the standalone version from http://files.thegamecreators.com/store/GameCreatorStore_021208.zip FPS Creator is not required to use TGC’s store. It is compatible with DarkBASIC Professional, and DarkGDK.
*** 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
250 points for every user who enters a game into the competition.
500 points for stage 1 placements.
1000 Points for stage 2 placements
Then
First prize 4,000 + $100 TGC voucher
Second prize 2,000 + $50 TGC voucher
Thrid prize 1,000 + $30 TGC voucher
The Judging will be carried out in two stages:
Stage 1, will be a sort through of the top 10 best entries. Any entries who make it into this category, will receive an additional 500 Game Creator Store Points. We will then announce those that made it to the top 10.
Stage 2, will select the Top 5 best entries, these entries will receive 1000 Game Creator Store Points.
Stage 3, The final judging will then take place, picking the top three entries, and placing them in first, second and third place.
