It's become a habit for us in the #coding room to have small competitions, where we end up making some very nice things. We're currently compiling a list of ideas for the compo. So far we have:
A game where you destroy planets!
Make your own messenger and server, with your own protocol.
The creation of a game that is less than 100KB in size(minus the exe). Genre will be decided if this is picked as the compo theme.
The creation of a DBP IDE in under 24 hours.
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beer.darkbasicnet.info, the room being
#coding. If you don't have an irc client, then get one!
http://www.hydrairc.com/ - Perfectly good free irc client.
Toodles!
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