I will be working with riuthamus this year on a game. I am excited to be working with him this year in Unity.

Are we allowed to modify the splashscreen in any way, or is it to be used strictly as is? E.g. highlighting the current game's team with a border or other graphic.

I will be working with riuthamus this year on a game. I am excited to be working with him this year in Unity.

Great to hear!

Are we allowed to modify the splashscreen in any way, or is it to be used strictly as is? E.g. highlighting the current game's team with a border or other graphic.

this is perfectly acceptable. so long as the splashscreen doesn't see any major modifications which would cover up the sponsors text, you can feel free to modify it to reflect anything you'd like to add(such as highlighting your team, or placing a "press any key to continue" text onto it.)

call me an idiot (i don't mind, "idio-" means "self-" and i certainly see no need to reference others outside of syntax)

but i do have to ask because i was thinking about this earlier in relation to passing this screen -

how do you accomplish that in win32?

in console it's easy, but with win32, key presses are processed by windows message, which is key specific.. or can the higher bit in the windows message be checked to see if the message is a key?

i love asking questions like this, because once you demonstrate that you don't know one simple thing, some people assume you don't know any simple things.... and then baby jesus has to cry a lot and probably get banned from the forum.

i'll probably just say, press spacebar to continue.... :p

call me an idiot (i don't mind, "idio-" means "self-" and i certainly see no need to reference others outside of syntax)

but i do have to ask because i was thinking about this earlier in relation to passing this screen -
how do you accomplish that in win32?

in console it's easy, but with win32, key presses are processed by windows message, which is key specific.. or can the higher bit in the windows message be checked to see if the message is a key?

i love asking questions like this, because once you demonstrate that you don't know one simple thing, some people assume you don't know any simple things.... and then baby jesus has to cry a lot and probably get banned from the forum.

i'll probably just say, press spacebar to continue....

looking for a single key, or simply waiting 2 seconds is perfectly fine. but for an any key bypass with win32 api, you'd just look for an WM_KEYDOWN or WM_INPUT event from windows.

I'd like to participate/try as a solo team :)

Team Name: Arglebargle
Members: Only myself
Website: https://twitter.com/mister_Kipper < I suppose this will do for general contact

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@Everyone else: Sorry for the off-topic post guys, looking forward to seeing all of your fantastic entries! :)

As a note - for Thaumaturge's earlier preparatory journal entry, Lactose!'s preparatory journal entry and any others who may also do so -- with the opening of the competition thread itself -- could you please link your pre-comp blog/journal entries in that thread - Judges will be looking for such links in the competition thread (i.e. not this thread) for marking with regards to the "Participation" criteria and may not necessarily see such links in here (Please note that having a pre-natal entry is not a requirement!) - by all means feel free to post pre-comp start blogs in here -- just make sure you link them in the actual Competition thread.

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As a note - for Thaumaturge's earlier preparatory journal entry, Lactose!'s preparatory journal entry and any others who may also do so -- with the opening of the competition thread itself -- could you please link your pre-comp blog/journal entries in that thread ...

Noted, and thank you!

I'd missed Lactose's entry, so I'm doubly glad that you posted the above.

HERE COMES A NEW CHALLENGER

Hi guys, I`m new here, this is actualy my first post, I'm glad to join this community

Welcome!

As a note - for Thaumaturge's earlier preparatory journal entry, Lactose!'s preparatory journal entry and any others who may also do so -- with the opening of the competition thread itself -- could you please link your pre-comp blog/journal entries in that thread

Will do :)