Hi all,
There is a NEW DEADLINE (see below)
To celebrate the release of Dark A.I. we are holding a mini competition surrounding it. The competition starts on June 1st 2006 and you have until the
31st of August 2006 to submit your entry (the date was originally the 31st of July, but we have allowed this to increase by 4 weeks due to popular demand)
The rules of the competition are very straight forward - create a program using Dark A.I. that shows off what it is really capable of. Your program can be a demo (like the one we produced), or a game. The choice is yours, but it must demonstrate good use of A.I! We have three prizes on offer:
1st Prize An ATI Radeon X800XL graphics card + Dark Physics
2nd Prize An ATI Radeon X700 Pro graphics card + Dark Physics
3rd Prize Dark Physics
The forum community will rate your entry (much in the same way the Puzzle Compo worked) using this forum. The winners will be announced in the September newsletter.
Rules
1. You must enter a compiled EXE that runs stand-alone. Do not wrap it in an installer of any kind.
2. Your program and media can be archived into a zip file no large than 15 MB in size. The zip file MUST be capable of being unzipped with Winzip. No other archive format is permitted (so no rars, 7zip, etc).
3. Your program should work with a standard keyboard and mouse set-up.
4. Any media used in your program should either be created by you, or used with full permission, or be 100% royalty free. Stolen media will disqualify your entry.
5. You must include the full source code for others to learn from. No code, no entry.
6. By entering you give TGC the right to use your program on their web sites, or other related media. You retain full copyright over your program and source code at all times.
How to submit your game
You have two options.
1) You can email it to me - rich@thegamecreators.com
2) You can FTP it to our server (ftp.thegamecreators.com), upload it to the 'incoming' directory (login: anonymous, password: blank), then email me to tell me it is up there.
Eitherway, you must email me so I have your game name + email address associated together. The winners will be announced in the OCTOBER newsletter (because the deadline is too close to the September issue to make it in that one). That will give us 4 weeks to judge the entries.
That's it - any other questions, post them here please. Please note that this competition is open to those who have purchased Dark A.I. only. We will
not be creating a 'trial' version in time for the end of this competition, sorry.
Cheers,
Rich
Bite my shiny metal ass