It is understandable that every contest has a minimum of required participants to award a prize. If we didn't specify one of this contest, we should for the next one. I'd say around 10+ or so. How many should we require for the next contest?

Definitely giving out the flash key :) Also, consider the video card officially offered for this contest :)

Quote: Original post by tgraupmann
It is understandable that every contest has a minimum of required participants to award a prize. If we didn't specify one of this contest, we should for the next one. I'd say around 10+ or so. How many should we require for the next contest?

That sounds like a great idea. I'd say that the minimum number of people should be proportion to the value/number of the prize(s). E.g. 10 people for a cdrom game, and 30 people for the brand new "geforce 15000 Super Ultra Turbo Edition(tm)(R)" [smile] video card etc. etc.

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Quote: Original post by tgraupmann
It is understandable that every contest has a minimum of required participants to award a prize. If we didn't specify one of this contest, we should for the next one. I'd say around 10+ or so. How many should we require for the next contest?

That sounds like a great idea. I'd say that the minimum number of people should be proportion to the value/number of the prize(s). E.g. 10 people for a cdrom game, and 30 people for the brand new "geforce 15000 Super Ultra Turbo Edition(tm)(R)" [smile] video card etc. etc.

If the cost of the prize is going to increase with the number of participants, then I suggest a small entry fee. Or we get a sponsor like Creative Labs that gives us their logo which has to be used in the demo.

Quote: Original post by tgraupmann
If the cost of the prize is going to increase with the number of participants, then I suggest a small entry fee. Or we get a sponsor like Creative Labs that gives us their logo which has to be used in the demo.

I think there are many people (such as myself) who don't enter these contests because they are interested in the prize, but simply for the fun of making a demo. I, for one, would enter even if there was no prize at all. Adding an entry fee would only cause us to lose participants, in my opinion.

On another note -- could somebody with an nVidia card do me a favor?

I've been at my Dad's over Christmas break, and did most of the work on my demo there, on his Radeon 9700 machine. Now I am home, and I can't get it to run on my nVidia card. It uses multitexturing, and for some reason Winamp doesn't seem to think that my card supports it. When I query within my code to find out what extensions are supported, it only lists three: GL_WIN_swap_hint, GL_EXT_bgra, and GL_EXT_paletted_texture. Very odd.

Could someone with an nVidia card (GeforceFX is what I have) please add the following to your visualization_init function:

const GLubyte *extensions = glGetString(GL_EXTENSIONS);
MessageBox(module->hwndParent,(const char*)extensions,"Error",MB_OK);


That should pop up a box with a list of supported extensions; Tell me what it says. I can't at all figure out what is wrong. :(

Aha! I got it to work. Disregard the above post.

The problem was that I have a dual monitor setup and I was trying to run the demo on my secondary monitor, which apparently is a no-no. Switched over to my primary and it works like a charm. :)

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Aha! I got it to work. Disregard the above post.

The problem was that I have a dual monitor setup and I was trying to run the demo on my secondary monitor, which apparently is a no-no. Switched over to my primary and it works like a charm. :)

What happens if you query the extensions on the primary monitor and try to use them on the secondary monitor?

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Quote: Original post by tgraupmann
If the cost of the prize is going to increase with the number of participants, then I suggest a small entry fee. Or we get a sponsor like Creative Labs that gives us their logo which has to be used in the demo.

I think there are many people (such as myself) who don't enter these contests because they are interested in the prize, but simply for the fun of making a demo. I, for one, would enter even if there was no prize at all. Adding an entry fee would only cause us to lose participants, in my opinion.

I agree with Flux. I was just joking about the entry fee because of the crack about the better prize.

I'd enter even if there wasn't a prize. Although I'd take being featured on the site over a physical prize.

I'm all for entering without there being the prize - the experience gained and the warm fuzzy feeling you get when you finish your demo and hear positive comments from others in the community is a prize in itself.

Of course, getting a prize in addition to the above, is also very, very nice indeed and thats all due to the generosity of people like NeHe and llvllatrix who usually pay for it out of their own pockets. That's why I like this site/forum over any other. [smile] If we want larger/more expensive prizes then that's when sponsorship comes in.

As for the contest, my entry is pretty much finished. I've just got to make a few tweaks to the config dialog and then I'll have a bash at getting the fullscreen to work. How is everyone else getting on?