In reality GMT and UTC are essentially the same, but there is a technical difference (look it up, I think it has to do with leap seconds). However, many people in the UK erroneously think of GMT as local time. So when they hear noon GMT, they think noon local time despite it actually being 1PM due to summer time.

No, everyone should use 4.2.2.

The same one from last year should work. I'll post it on the site.

Wow, it's here already? Damn. Well, I'm planning on using the language I wrote that already has a built in allegro framework. I don't care if this disqualifies me or not. Heh, heh, heh......

The template is available. It's the same thing as last year. Make sure your unzipping program doesn't disregard empty directories. Read the readme.txt that comes with it for more information.

The Rule-O-Matic has been spun for the final time, and the official rules have been drafted. They will appear on the website as soon as the competition begins. So thanks to everybody who has submitted rules and/or voted on them.

Keeping with tradition, I'll provide some (not very helpful) hints regarding the rules:

• They are some combination of ones submitted by me, daemious, FalseMasterJ, Goodbytes, Jakub Wasilewski, Loren Jamison, and Richard Phipps. If your name is not on the list, none of your rules were selected. If your name is on the list, then zero, one, or more might have been.

• They are, as a whole, more "fun" than restrictive. There is nothing that requires any knowledge of some advanced math, physics, or a specific programming topic.

I expect there to be a lot of fun, crazy entries.

While I'll not be taking part in Speedhack this time, I will definitely take a look at the rules and what kind of ideas I can come up with. That is half the fun of Speedhack for me anyway

Thank all that is good and right in the universe!

The rules arn't against that -- you can use any language/pre-built engine etc, that you want -- even reuse existing code (so long as you mention it) -- As long as you use allegro.

But remember: if other people can't compile your program, other people won't test it or vote on it.

I've been working on a simple skeleton game engine/gui -- beefing up on coding the last couple of days, hopefully it will be done by friday as the compo starts around 5 am for me (which is wierd, it usually started around 4 am in previous years -- must have been a daylight savings time thing)...

Also, I'm not just taking friday & monday off -- I quit my job this year (well, one of them) -- My boss just took us all out to lunch as today is my last day. (my other job was a fridays and mondays only job -- so I'm moving it to thursday/tuesday so that I can start early on friday, and sleep all monday after the hack is over!)

What was he supposed to do, take you to lunch to the other side of the counter?

It would have been nice.

Wafflecopter!

Sorry, but that comment deserved some recognition.

Crazy entries eh? ... mmmmmmmm. >_> HUWAAAAA HWA HWA

Well, at least you've got a girlfriend. Remember the good things in your life eh?

q.f.t.

Quoted For Truth

I just want to finish something. I'm not as worried about the time constraints as I am about the fact that I've never finished anything since I moved out of QBASIC. I'm hoping that actually finishing a project in Speedhack will get my motivation up to work on longer projects.