[MinorHack] The saga continues

[MinorHack] The saga continues

CGamesPlay

Member #2,559

July 2002

This is the thread for the March 17th MinorHack.

I've done a lot of work around the site lately, so I will outline the new features here.

Email notification. Never miss another MinorHack because of not knowing! If you set your email address at the User Information page, and then set your email preferences at the Email Settings page, you can stay in touch!
The Bonus Rules page and everywhere else rules are shown now includes a link to that rule's page. This page will show a list of competitions that used this rule, so if you don't understand how to implement a rule, you can brainstorm from those.
Scores are in the database. There isn't a way to submit votes through the site yet, but you can look at the past competitions and see who won each one (and who has been disqualified because of not voting).
A hidden page, the User List, shows all the people who have played in MinorHack and how many times. This will eventually show the user's total score and some "participation rating" to sort them by ("participation" will probably be defined as something like number of competitions won * total number of points * total number of games played).
Icons have been added around the site. They add a splash of color
You can now download the entire competition as a single zip file containing all the entries, revised entries, and a Makefile. Also, entry filenames now reflect the user name of the submitter, and not the number.

Hope you enjoy!

Just to keep things easy to find in the future, the following is a list of all the previous MinorHack threads, sorted chronologically.

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Zaphos

Member #1,468

August 2001

I like the site improvements!

Looking forward to the 17th ...

Kikaru

Member #7,616

August 2006

I'll see if I can participate.

Onewing

Member #6,152

August 2005

I better go to sleep now so I can wake up for this in time.

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Dennis

Member #1,090

July 2003

I think I'll be able to participate but that depends on how tired I'll be in nine hours from now.

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Kibiz0r

Member #6,203

September 2005

I'm hoping I'll wake up in time. ::)

Side-note: How early is too early to propose a competition? I have a friend who might've done this one, but he had a focus group dealie to go to. Anyway, I'd like to get him in on one. Weekends seem to work well, but I was wondering if next weekend would be too short notice.

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CGamesPlay

Member #2,559

July 2002

Just go to the "Proposed Competitions" page, and put in the time

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Kikaru

Member #7,616

August 2006

Well, I should be in this one!

CGamesPlay

Member #2,559

July 2002

2 yes's and 4 maybe's... Looking good so far

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Kikaru

Member #7,616

August 2006

Heck, I was in a 1-man compo! (it wasn't fun :'( )

CGamesPlay

Member #2,559

July 2002

Yeah, and you got disqualified!

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LennyLen

Member #5,313

December 2004

Kikaru said:

Heck, I was in a 1-man compo!

CGamesPlay said:

Yeah, and you got disqualified!

That is so delicious!

Krzysztof Kluczek

Member #4,191

January 2004

I'm in for this one.

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CGamesPlay

Member #2,559

July 2002

I've said it before and I'll say it again: this could be the biggest MinorHack yet!

Oh and for your entertainment, I am presently coding a "download competition" feature, where you can download all the original and revised entries for a competition, including Makefiles!

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Kikaru

Member #7,616

August 2006

And how was I disqualified?

Jakub Wasilewski

Member #3,653

June 2003

I hope I will be able to participate in this one, but I can't really promise anything - I'm having a bunch of, let's say, unwanted guests this evening :-/ .

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CGamesPlay

Member #2,559

July 2002

Quote:

And how was I disqualified?

Well, technically the whole competition is nil because there was no way to vote. You got DQed because you didn't vote

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Ron Ofir

Member #2,357

May 2002

I think I might be in too.

CGamesPlay

Member #2,559

July 2002

Zip file downloading is done. You can check it out at any competition page. Also at the bottom of the pages is a link to the Makefile I wrote. Also, entry file names now reflect the user name of the submitter, not the number.

I would appreciate it if MinGW users would test the Makefile. I'm confident that it works, but a little assurance would be nice.

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Dennis

Member #1,090

July 2003

yawn I'm tired already. I'll slack this evening. Good luck everyone!

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CGamesPlay

Member #2,559

July 2002

Why did you change your name?

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Jakub Wasilewski

Member #3,653

June 2003

Nope, doesn't work - it thinks it's under UNIX and subsequently fails to compile anything for obvious reasons.

I've attached a somewhat fixed Makefile that recognizes MinGW and defines CXX so that it works. But still, it doesn't take into account that some entries need other libs linked besides Allegro. For example, my entry in the competition linked requires -lwinmm for timing.

Quote:

Why did you change your name?

Obviously, he officially changed his legal surname to "" .

CGamesPlay

Member #2,559

July 2002

Why did you change the ifdef line to ifneq?

Why did you set CC to $(MINGDIR)/bin/gcc?

Why didn't the default CXX work?

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Dennis

Member #1,090

July 2003

NameChange: Various reasons. One of the minor reasons was that I felt it was too long. I won't talk about the main reason publicly, if you absolutely have to know, you can pm me.

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Jakub Wasilewski

Member #3,653

June 2003

Sorry, I attached the wrong file .

Anyway, "ifdef MINGDIR" executes the else part even if MINGDIR is defined in the environment. Definitely strange. I tried to fix it with ifneq($(MINGDIR),) but it appears that this doesn't work either...

The CC was just something I was checking. CXX defaults to cc1plus on some MinGW installations, even though MinGW doesn't have cc1plus.exe (only g++.exe).

Sorry for the confusion.

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And somehow I can't delete the attachment I made to this post. Please disregard it, it doesn't work either...

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Ok, now it works with ifdef MINGDIR even though it didn't when I first tried ::) . I think I'm going to duct-tape my mouth before I convince even more people that I'm an idiot.