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Geek Culture / there a new competition. :)

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Dr OcCuLt
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Posted: 21st Aug 2003 21:55
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yes there is a all new competition from the guys at DBS (sorry TGC?) this one has limits on you games apart from sizes.
so are we going to see ppl like RPGamer pull out games thay been working of for age`s like E.D.

just what to ask to see how think of entering and what the standed we be this time.

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lcfcfan
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Posted: 22nd Aug 2003 00:44
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I amlooking forward to it occult i am still gonna beat everyone even though they may have been working for ages on their project hahahha!

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Shock
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lol, well, i just hope i get round to making a little time for making a project. i might have to wait for the next compo, as i really want to finish off the media base quite soon


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EgoAnt
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MMmmmmm.... Alienware, tasty. In the write up it says, "and you could win one of their seriously sexy Aurora systems just by entering this competition". Does that mean there is a random chance of winning a system even if you don't place?

Anyway, depending on how far off the contest deadline is I have an idea I want to do... The problem might be bringing it in under 10MB!
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Mattman
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Wish i could see the model...

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Dr OcCuLt
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Posted: 22nd Aug 2003 02:56 Edited at: 22nd Aug 2003 02:57
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EgoAnt:it just have to zip to under 10 Meg so your going to get 15-20Meg to play with and if you ues JPG for imgaes you save about 3/4 of all the space your imgaes where takeing up.

Mattman:yes i what to see it to, i think it going to be a GRAY becos that Alienware logo

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EgoAnt
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Posted: 22nd Aug 2003 17:08
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Yeah, I'm a bit of a media pig, though... I tend to go a little wild. I like using mp3's instead of midi for the music, as well as a lot of other little things that add up. Guess I'll have to start being more careful!
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Andy Igoe
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Posted: 22nd Aug 2003 17:16
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The 10mb limit was the hardest constraint for me in the retro competition because I too generally make my better projects at about 15mb-25mb after compression.

The soul destroying thing was seeing all the valid entries that exceeded the limit, and one of them was even placed in the results if I recollect correctly... /sigh

Oh well, can't win em all, not that winning was ever really likely when considering the standard of the last competition.

I think the standards this time will be higher.

When we released Jetpac as the first entry, it was at that time the best DBPro game released that I was aware of, we'd all had our play with it and only during the retro competition did we really start completing projects. I think up until then the only finished DBPro games where very small even by comparison to Jetpac. By the end of the competition the bar had been raised significantly.

I think now that DBPro releases are becoming more and more frequent and the standard of releases has been rising in general terms that this competition is going to have a few entries that literally blow our socks off.

I hope that one of them will be mine, failing that i'll be happy just to see what does win, because I have the feeling i'm going to be amazed.

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Dave J
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Posted: 22nd Aug 2003 17:21
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FFS, this has been posted before TWICE.

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David T
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Posted: 22nd Aug 2003 19:06
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Quote: "so are we going to see ppl like RPGamer pull out games thay been working of for age`s like E.D."


Yes

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Posted: 23rd Aug 2003 00:05
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FFS, this has been posted before TWICE.
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more than that mate, i must of seen about four of them in total. one of them started by me lol.

anyway, does anyone know when the newsletter will be being sent?

media wise i tend to be a bit carefull normally. most images just have the background, and then my program normally adds things onto the background as it goes along. like the menu system would be one image. i normally end up whipping up a longer loading time though.


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Richard Davey
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Newsletter 8 will be out middle of next week (wed or thur). We all have Monday off.

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Posted: 23rd Aug 2003 02:42
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"so are we going to see ppl like RPGamer pull out games thay been working of for age`s like E.D."

You think it's gonna be in the 10 mb limit though?

Anyways, I doubt some of the major projects going on will opt to put in that alien model.

We'll all have to wait and see I guess.



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Dr OcCuLt
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Posted: 23rd Aug 2003 03:29
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Quote: "I doubt some of the major projects going on will opt to put in that alien model."


itr do`s say it has to be a kep part of the game it just say it has to be in the game so it can be on a hiden level or some thing you have to un-lock ie a beat up game where if you win you can play the alien.

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Preston C
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Yay, another contest for me to enter. If it has to be based on the alienware logo, I think I can pull something together. Does it have to be programmed in DBPro? or can I still use classic? wait, my demo ran out, so I just hope my electronic version is ready soon, I'm supposed to get it for entering the retro remakes comp at www.remakes.org. But I saw a 90 day special DBPro thing. So if I gotta use pro, I might be able to use that demo, considering my other demo ran out of days about 3 weeks ago.



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koshi
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Posted: 23rd Aug 2003 10:53 Edited at: 23rd Aug 2003 10:54
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Is the alien we have to put into the game looks realistic or cartoonish?

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Posted: 23rd Aug 2003 15:08
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we'll soon find out, just have to be patient. and look forward to wed/thurs.

Quote: "or you can just say you put it in your game "


lol


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David T
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Posted: 23rd Aug 2003 20:44
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Maybe the alien has so many polys in it that our game grinds to a halt

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Posted: 23rd Aug 2003 21:28
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It'd better not, if it is a real high polycount, I'll just take a pic of it and say the alien model is in it.



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Dr OcCuLt
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Posted: 24th Aug 2003 03:07
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no i`l put it on ever level its an easy code



it can`t be that bad its made with a DB games in mind.yes but we do need more info on it.

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Posted: 24th Aug 2003 03:45 Edited at: 24th Aug 2003 03:46
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