I like this idea a lot. I''ll admit, I haven''t actually read all of the Threads... But I would like to see the contest take the form that follows:

One goal is given... Say the Combat clone... We have 3 levels, Novice, Intermediate, and Advanced... Each level will be asked to do their interpretation of the contest goal.

We will need to have an initial contest with no classes to determine who fits in which class. This way we can guage the range of experience of the users in this group so that we know what to call novice, what to call intermediate... etc.

We need to find someone to Captain this ship... It MUST be organized if it ever is to work.

Daniel Piron

what about advanced programmers ?
*snif snif*
well i can help judge or set up the whole contest!

Arkon
http://qsoft.cjb.net

Dont put the contest at geocities, that''s is really bad and cheap. I can''t stand those banners.

Ask gamedev or flipcode, if you could have some space. I''m sure they''re more than willing to help you out.

And it must be someone really dedicated to organize it all. Otherwise none will bother to send stuff to a sloppy contest.

I suggest making a tic-tac-toe game.

A good start for newbie and a great challenge for expert to make it attractive!

What u can do with it:
- It can be graphical, or text-based
- play with AI, human, or thru LAN/Internet
- save game, load game, save replays.
- time based, scores, top 10 scores
- power-ups, new modes (4x4, 5x5 instead of 3x3)
- or add some story on it (e.g. A king propose a challenge to
the public... who ever win, they got reward (cash)... then
u can buy powerup....blah blah)

It''s all up to u! I can''t wait to see some super-duper tic-tac-toe game.

I think the contest is a great idea. Maybe the Combat clone is a bit too much difficult for a first try... I prefer the tic-tac-toe...

But I don''t have much time to code it... too bad :-(

NONO

Even if I did consider myself a newbie still (I think of myself as intermediate/advanced now, does that make me conceited ?), I wouldn''t have the time. Maybe you could some code already written for them, then have them build off of that? I could still help with judging or something like that, I always like to see how much people can do .

"Finger to spiritual emptiness underlying everything." -- How a C manual referred to a "pointer to void." --Things People Said

http://druidgames.cjb.net/

I''m a complete newbie by any measure, but I''ll help out with grunt work if you need me. Also, sign me up for the contest when it gets going

email jrwallac@uwaterloo.ca plz

nice, ive been looking for some regular competiton page, but they dont seem to be appearing

i think, instead, just so things arent overwhelmed for the organisers, is have a simple challenge every month, say the first saturday or soemthing. and rather than have 3 levels, just have the challenge aimed at newbies/intermidite/expert, and force the source to be avaible.

you could provide some base code or something maybe if that would make it more simple,

that way everyone can still enter, no matter what level theyre on :]

and maybe like hotornot/ratemyrack etc, have a user ratings as well as a selected number of judges etc

id be happy to help, with both entrants, judging, (a perl/php site if you need it, cant provide hosting tho) design etc, maybe some base code too (only opengl for me tho im afraid, i can do c/++ delphi tho)

but yeah, im interested (email below, or icq me: 13548542 )

__________________
graham "red" reeves.

red@deadpenguin.org
www.deadpenguin.org

Wow, I''m kinda suprised about all the replies.
O.k....I like the idea of base code that newbies can use.
But I don''t have the time to write it.

Also, every contest has to have a name, I am drawing a blank.
What would be a cool name?

I am trying to get a place to host the site, and I am going to start making it today. If I can''t find someone to host it I will just try to find a free host that doesn''t have banners (anyone know of one?).

I guess the current concensus is that the first project will be Tic-Tac-Toe, I have no objection to that, so I guess that will be the first project. Since I don''t want to worry about odd dates I guess I will try to have the first contest start on 5-1-01 and end on 5-28-01, that give a few days to judge and get ready for the next contest. No fair starting now.

But seriously, unless someone want to donate something there wont be any prizes, except the knowledge that you may gain.

I just thought, I would like a free site that supports ASP, that would make mailing lists/contest entering/other stuff easier.




Jason Mickela
ICQ : 873518
E-Mail: jmickela@pacbell.net
------------------------------
"Evil attacks from all sides
but the greatest evil attacks
from within." Me
------------------------------

Du u know da OpenGLchallenge

i think it''s kinda weekly contest but opengl only

www.oglchallenge.com