Competition Update
With September 1st only a week away, the competition boundries are slowly starting to be defined. The rules, of course, will wait a little longer, but the structure of the competition has been announced.
Because of the more than impressive prize pool on offer and the amount of interest the competition is generating, it has been decided that there will be the choice of 6 seperate categories to enter your game into, the first of which has been announced both on the competition forum and over on the official competition blog.
The remaining 5 categories will be made general knowledge before the competition starts.
The prize list is growing rapidly, and with the promise of more to come, here is the list of sponsors already announced.
Acekard
Addictive 247
Axialis
Barrie Ellis
Charlie’s Games
Chumbalum Soft
Clickteam
Cosmigo
Delgine
The Game Creators
Game Socks
GL Basic
Mumbo Jumbo
Pandora
Raptisoft
Spacejock.com.au
XGamestation
Zombie Cow Studios
80’s Tees
And, of course, the ever illusive ‘Anonymous Sponsor’
To find out what each of these beautiful people are offering, check out the blog. There are some fantastic goodies up for grabs.
So go get those coding muscles a flexing, keep an eye out for the category updates and join in.
Good luck….
Cymon’s Games : Blackbox
[Cymon's Games is a site run by Joe Larson and hosted by Retro Remakes with the aim of encouraging folks to dip their toes into coding by providing help, tutorials and type in games for people to learn from.]
Black box is an abstract hide and seek game. In its original form it was a board game with one person providing the setup, hints, and tallying score and the other player making guesses. Of course setting up, providing hints, and tallying score is one of those things computers are perfectly suited for. Read the rest of this entry
Competition Update
For those who haven’t been following the official Retro Remakes Competition 2008 blog, here’s a quick round up of the sponsors we’ve announced to date. Hit the jump for info.
Cymon’s Games: Hammurabi
[Cymon's Games is a site ran by Joe Larson and hosted by RetroRemakes with the aim of encouraging folks to dip their toes into coding by providing help, tutorials and type in games for people to learn from.]
Historically, Hammurabi was a Babylonian king who’s claim to fame was a stone tablet on which was can be found what may be the first example of written law in history.
Hammurabi the game is one of the original resource management games. Read the rest of this entry
Attack of Mutant Fruits from Outer Space
I remember, as a kid, watching “That’s Life” on telly. It would amuse me no end to see Doc Cox hold up a carrot shaped like a tadger and then start singing a self penned ditty about the particularly odd and often embarrassing situations you could find yourself in when handling mutant fruit.
Laugh no more. The mutant fruit are back, and this time they mean business….
3D Starstrike
It’s funny, isn’t it, how things can just come up and jump out at you? I was never really all that fussed with space. Sure, I love Star Wars, I doff my cap to the Kirk-meister when I think it correct to do so and, yes, if Trillian were to offer me her mind AND her body, I’d gladly take them both.
For me there was only 1 space game. Elite. The be all and end all. Elite.
Welcome, Spraydough, to the new world………..
