On January 1st 2005, PGD launched it's inaugural Competition. The theme was "Dog Fight" but rather than force entrants to adhere to the traditional idea of 2 plane combatants, we extended this to allow any 2 fighting entities from bacteria to solar systems, as long as the fighting was intense. The other main stipulations were that the main code for the game had to be written in Pascal and that it had to be Open Source, so that others could learn from the code.

On March 15th the competition was deemed closed and what you see below are the impressive works of those amazing teams and individuals who decided to take part.

The entries were judged on the following criteria and were awarded a points score between 1-10 in the following 5 categories with a maximum of 50 possible points.

a ) GamePlay - How fun is the game?

b ) Usability - How easy is it to pick up and is it challenging enough?

c ) Quality - How polished is the game?

d ) Originality - How original an idea is it?

e ) Wow Factor - What makes it stand out, ( jaw dropping visuals, attention to detail )?

The Winners:

Prizes:

1st Place

- Delphi 2005 Architect from Borland - $3,000 USD value
- 'Game Programming Gems Volume 5' Book donated by Steve Williams - $30 USD value

2nd Place

- gameSpace from Caligari Corporation - $300 USD value
- A 1 Year Licence for the 3Impact Game Engine from 3Impact.com - $99 USD value

3rd Place

- gameSpace from Caligari Corporation - $300 USD value
- Nexus Memory Manager from Nexus Database Systems Pty Ltd. - $120 USD value

Judges:

Dean Ellis AKA technomage

Dominique Louis AKA savage

Tom Nuydens

Jon Walton AKA tux

Steve Williams AKA Sly

Final Entries:

Air Blast Eric Grange 198 Points Download: airblast.zip (5.88 MB) Source: Included in the installer! Project Website: glscene.sourceforge.net	Jagdgeschwader Sascha Willems 188 Points Download: jagdgeschwader.zip (10.1 MB) Source: jagdgeschwader_source.zip (369 KB) Project Website: N/A
Sodoma Lite Mindnever 180 Points Download: sodomalite.zip (9.12 MB) Source: sodomalite_source.zip (685 KB) Project Website: sodoma.mindnever.org	Run A War William Cairns 176 Points Download: runawar.zip (5.38 MB) Source: runawar_source.zip (39.7 KB) Project Website: N/A
Dragon Duel DGDev Team & Momor Productions 161 Points Download: dragonduel.zip (3.99 MB) Source: dragonduel_source.zip (38.3 KB) Project Website: N/A	Space Cadett Nicola Lugato 161 Points Download: spacecadett.zip (4 MB) Source: spacecadett_source.zip (62.7 KB) Project Website: N/A
Area 52 Marcus Oblak 158 Points Download: area52.zip (4.28 MB) Source: area52_source.zip (4.57 MB) Project Website: N/A	MadAeon Fight Arena MadAeon 151 Points Download: madaeonfightarena.zip (9.97 MB) Source: madaeonfightarena_source.zip (169 KB) Project Website: N/A
Tank Busters DGDev Team & Momor Productions 143 Points Download: tankbusters.zip (? MB) Source: tankbusters_source.zip (? KB) Project Website: N/A	Comic Air Fighter Looh 118 Points Download: comicairfighter.zip (7.91 MB) Source: comicairfighter_source.zip (590 KB) Project Website: N/A
Dogfight JSoftware 5 Points Download: dogfight.zip (1.34 MB) Source: Included in the archive. Project Website: N/A