>sigh< i have nothing worthwile -- i just didnt have time -- i realized my one partner couldnt program for crap, and the other could only do graphics ! bah! i havent even had time to make sure my windows ver was portable to dos or linux yet oh well...i gues si upload partially completed games...

I agree, I've been ill so one more day would be good, but the rules are the rules, right?

im proud of what i have, but its not complete...its just a simple game engine....i think im gonna make it more advanced and pop out a good game (and make the graphics not cartoony)...but as of now, you dont do anything cept ruin around and shoot walls oh, and how the hell do we upload it?

I am

Ook you are a kind and gentle god.

I barely got my game engine running this morning. I was in the middle of slapping together some elements from the contest when I came over here to check the chatter.

Another week and I'll have a REAL entry for IdeaHack!!!

Anybody who turned in a finished game by the original deadline deserves bonus points and a hearty pat on the back. PAT

Hehe, the people who know me dont say that i'm very kind .

But for the submission you can mail your games to ideahack@hot.ee .

(i wrote the mail addy as my ftp login name...)

[ September 22, 2001: Message edited by: Ook ]

Unfortunately I don't have the enthusiasm of everyone else. My computer crashed and it took the first week of the competition to get the computer up and running. So it is with great pain that I have to withdrawal from the competition because there is no way for me to get the game done and I'm not going to request another extension on the competition deadline. But I have made up my own competition that I will be running soon and I'll have the guidelines up soon (which some are based or come directly from IdeaHack). Again I hate to drop out, but there is just no way for me to complete a game within a week. The two week deadline works, but because of my computer's power supply going out a few days after the start of the competition I have no chance so I drop out of the competition and will be hosting my own competition that will be sponsored by my video game company.

As we near the end of the IdeaHack competition, and the participants are adding the finishing touches and polishing off their games, it is time to start thinking about voting.
Firstly, every participant will give every game, except his own or his team's own, two scores out of ten. The first score represents how well the game meets the programmer's own requirement. The second represents how well the game meets the voter's requirement. So, for example,
- I give Ook a score out of ten for the spoof (my requirement), and
- I give Ook a score out of ten depending on how much more I hate Microsoft by the time I've played his game (his requirement).
Remember, when you rate the requirements, be open to interpretations other than your own! While we will not overrule any votes, I'm sure you don't want the entire Allegro community to know how anticompetitive you are
Secondly, every participant will vote for his favourite, second favourite and third favourite games, not including his own or his team's own. Each first-place vote a person receives will score six points, each second-place vote will score three points, and each third-place vote will score one point.
The upshot of the above is that team games will get fewer scores and fewer votes than the rest of the games. In order to make sure the scoring is fair,
- Requirement scores will be averaged, not summed, and
- Each game's overall score will be multiplied by the total number of participants and divided by the number of people who had a chance to vote for that game.
We've tried to arrange it so that people don't have much to do to vote. Therefore, please make the effort to vote for this competition.
Good luck to everyone for the last 29.5 hours!

Should I bother uploading my game menu (that's basically as far as I got, I haven't touched it since like.. the 20th)? I know there's no chance I have, this competition should've been over the summer.... as I've said many times already .

-Steve

I got my entry in just under the wire! WHEW!

I set up the Results page now too.
Now there are 6 games, hurry up with sending your games in.
I can tell you that the games already on the page are very good