I fixed the cross-platform line problems and resubmitted my entry. Now it seems to compile & run just fine at my Linux VM(Had to redownload vmware, a new Windows Installer, AND install the tools over again). The wonders of Allegro.

Thanks for all the help, and good luck to the rest.

EDIT: I hope ML isn't secretly playing my game.

Was sick all week and had to work 9 hour days too, so if I got your name...sorry, but I didn't get anything accomplished. I had an awesome idea, and a lot of graphics ready...but never could get a minute where I could actually concentrate. I hate feeling like this, my head all cloudy and dizzy. Again, sorry I didn't finish your game...wishing all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

I'm not going to finish mine either for santahack, I might just finish it later though.
I did expect this would happen, I'm really slow at doing anything, no matter what it is that I'm doing. And programming is no exception.

I haven't gotten anything done for Santahack and I'm too tired to make an attempt in the 10 hours remaining (I didn't get much sleep last night, despite not making progress on Santahack). I will hopefully be sleeping for most of those hours. Sorry to whoever I ended up with. Merry Christmas or whatever your culture's season greeting is. I'm on holidays all next week and I rather like the idea of a console-based platformer, so I might try experimenting with a curses library and see if I can get something working.

In other news, this past week wasn't completely unproductive. I did manage to hack up an IRC bot, which is currently a regular in #allegro on freenode. The code, as usual, is GPL'd and tracked on GitHub:

https://github.com/bamccaig/bambot/
git://github.com/bamccaig/bambot.git/

Hacked up virtually from scratch with Perl.

Had to pull an allnighter for this one... but I submitted something! Will be away for the next few days, so hopefully Linux users who want to try out my game (once it becomes public) will manage the uber-complicated install process (at least it's not Python3 though).

Incidentally... I don't see my uploaded files at the santahack website... is that normal?

I hope it's normal as it doesn't show me the file either. It did say that it was saved though

One more thing, Do you only included the data files and source? If not I've got 2 hours from now to shrink it.

Mark Oates' avatar changes are sneak peeks at concept art?

mmaaayyyybeeee....

But I think it looks better as a teaser than in the actual gameplay

The previous avatar was from the concept that got scrapped. Too bad, cause it had a tohtally wicked sick storyline.

I see your avatar has changed as well. *mischievous chin stroke*

Yeah, I probably should have given some indication of a successful upload. If you selected the file and hit save, and got a 'saved' message, then your file is on the server.

Cool story bro. It's not .NET based though. Who the fuck uses ASP?

It's a little late now, but in the source pack, you include everything you need to compile and run the game (which means source, data, any libraries not publicly available, etc). The game pack zip is where you can include a binary if you want.

Ah crap, I slept through the deadline without submitting anything!

My upload contains everything needed to compile and all data

Append: , Just found out who I made a game for XD.

Thanks to BAF for organizing this!