Good luck to you and the rest who are finishing things up!

I'm pretty sure it's going to be an all-nighter for me. I'm going to write as much code as I can during my breaks at work. Should be interesting to see what compiles...hehe. BTW, this whole week has been like one long all-nighter and I'm starting to feel slightly delirious.

I wouldn't like to put too much reliance on it being an idiom, but by steering a course between the two it means you avoid becoming either despite the possibility. Like if a sea captain - or more interestingly, a pirate! - successfully steers between two islands. He lands at neither. So, in other words, you are not an alcoholic because you leave the pub still able to operate a computer and you are not a nerd because you don't avoid the pub to do programming.

Wow, some bugs really slowed me down... now I'm probably not gonna make it big till the end. But I hope I can get it finished (even if with little maps/characters).

I will have no sounds and no music. And no lots of other stuff either...

To everyone worrying about his/hers entry:

Hey, don't get down . Up till now I was thinking that I'm not going to make it, with the exam and uni problems and all. But right now I entered SpeedHack(TM) crunch mode, which probably means that I'll spend the following 20 hours working hard.

You can finish it if you only believe it . And I believe in you .

To general public:
I don't know if I'll be able to supervise the closing ceremony (:P) tomorrow, so if anything goes wrong please be patient, I'll get to you ASAP. I assure you that your entries won't be lost, I quadruple-checked that, so any bugs will be non-lethal for your games .

Well, I have one level of mine working, and I think I am going to work more on features (ie: settings, highscores, etc.) before I make another. Still, I am planning on coding right up until the deadline to see if I can get 2 or 3 good looking levels in. I must say, that the graphics are quite good on the one level I do have, and the music, while annoying, fits it quite well, and is also quite original. (YAy for knowing artistic people.)

I'm an hour behind being right here on the prime meridian, but I've just come down to switch the computer off. I'm feeling I should still be working because my game isn't exactly brimming with content, but I remain, as I have been for days, unable to think of a way of extending it that wouldn't take weeks. I'm certainly not ruling out a blitz tomorrow should something come to me, but it seems rather unlikely...

It seems like a lot of people need extentions, including myself (Christmas shopping and stuff took a lot of time, plus I had finals and came up North.) It also seems silly to end on Friday morning, the first day a lot of us will have time to seriously finish up.

I suppose I can just finish it up after the hack though, and just turn in an incomplete game.

I declare officialy I quit now.
Some memory bugs (just like all the times) killed me and I don't have enough time to make the game complete. I hope I ever make it to figure out that memory bug though, so I can send the game even if late.

It's a bit good to know that at least I'm not going that bad as I thought I was. My main problem is still art, no matter what.

Edit: To the people that won't be able to finish this, don't worry about it, I'm only going to finish it because I plan not to sleep today

Sorry to hear that, I today struggled a lot with myself to keep in front of the screen and not going to see my girlfriend, tomorrow I'm her's though .

EDIT: I can't keep up without sleeping, now the things are going to get harder, my game is playable but it can't be called a game yet, needs a lot more tweaking, going to bed now, and waking some hours later. Wish me luck.

I wouldn't (and won't) be able to do that. If I went to sleep, I wouldn't wake up. With an 8 to 6ish, 7ish job, I've hardly got any sleep this week. I'm planning to work all night and polish this game into at least a presentable demo, even though I feel dead tired.

Good news though, I managed to write two new AI types in 5 minutes approximately. That's not saying much since I had the framework designed for just that, but it's still nice to see it work on the first try.

PS: No one should quit or drop out. Just send what you got. Spend a moment on the front screen of your game and explain what you intended to do. It'd be better than not getting anything at all.