[TheMaster]

That sounds awesome! I'm have ALWAYS wanted to make a game, but haven't had the time/money/knowledge-in-every-single-area-of-game-dev-stuff-there-is to do so. I think this'll be alot of fun!

By "submit anything you want", I think there should be just a few boundaries, or we'll have people submitting random stuff that has nothing to do with game-dev. Perhaps saying "submit sprite sheets, sample levels, a simple engine, whatever" and that will be judged.

Obviously, judging will need to be in several categories, as comparing a sprite sheet, and a small game engine is...well....hard.

Perhaps even a theme to the contest would be good? I've been in a few game design contests, and normally theres a theme or "key-word" or something to guide the whole contest. This word or theme can be as ambiguous as the chooser likes, and usually produces some interesting results.

Anyway, I'm definetely in! Hopefully you can get this thing started soon!

EDIT: Just checked out your Game Engine JavaDocs. Could prove quite useful! Is it on GitHub/are you planning on making it OpenSource/free/available-to-all?

EDIT 2: hey look it's your YouTube channel! Nice beard ya got going there

[TheEmpty]

TheMaster, on 06 May 2012 - 03:01 AM, said:

By "submit anything you want", I think there should be just a few boundaries, or we'll have people submitting random stuff that has nothing to do with game-dev. Perhaps saying "submit sprite sheets, sample levels, a simple engine, whatever" and that will be judged.

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Current thoughts on guidelines:

• Sprite sheets should contain left, right, up, and down images.
  
• You may design as many sprite sheets as you want
  
• You must create an example level with these sprite sheets (this is what you will primarily be judged on)

I'll update my post to make the example level more clear, just another image, not an application.

TheMaster, on 06 May 2012 - 03:01 AM, said:

Perhaps even a theme to the contest would be good? I've been in a few game design contests, and normally theres a theme or "key-word" or something to guide the whole contest. This word or theme can be as ambiguous as the chooser likes, and usually produces some interesting results.

Glad to get some feedback on that, wasn't too sure. I dont want to limit people, but I also think they would like some direction.

TheMaster, on 06 May 2012 - 03:01 AM, said:

EDIT: Just checked out your Game Engine JavaDocs. Could prove quite useful! Is it on GitHub/are you planning on making it OpenSource/free/available-to-all?

EDIT 2: hey look it's your YouTube channel! Nice beard ya got going there

I still want to add some features and document private methods. I think I'll OS the Sound class, but not 100% sure about the others. If I can release a game soon or determine that Java isn't worth it, I'll open source it. Otherwise I want to keep to myself until I release something (not only would releasing give a "competitor" a head start, but waiting until I have done an application with it will mean more features and clearer naming). I still have a few things I want to add and a few methods I would like to rename if I can find a better name.

My nickname at school seems to be "epic beard."