The 2006 PGD Annual Game Development Competition [Archive]

WILL

18-12-2005, 01:26 AM

That time of year is coming up again. It is soon time for PGD's annual competition and with that, I am pleased to annouce that on Jan 15th, 2006 the 2006 PGD Annual Game Development Competition shall commence!

The competition rules shall be released on the morning(GMT) before the start of the competition.

We will be allowing teams or individuals much like we did last year. Releasing your source will be optional however you will be required to submit a packaged executable with all game files for the targeted platform(s) supported.

Prizes, judges, rules and all further needed information will be posted within a weeks time before the start date of competition. For now, I suggest gathering your teams, tools and ideas for Jan 15th. Contest will be running for a total of 16 weeks, ending on the May 7th where we will award the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners with their prizes. We will also be honouring those in the competition that show great ability in specific areas of development.

We have high hopes for a fun competition and it should be a very successful event for 2006. Stay posted for further information as it comes.

marmin

18-12-2005, 05:59 AM

May the best win! All you Pascal Loverz !! :D :D :D

b.t.w. would it be nice to post this at the Gamedev.net or would this be a waste of effort (because this is mainly a C++ site..?)

technomage

18-12-2005, 09:45 AM

Would be a good idea, there might be some pascal codes on GameDev.net who don't know about this site....

I know Dom usually posts on the borland news groups and forums as well. :)

Traveler

18-12-2005, 11:45 AM

I know there are a few Delphi coders at http://www.retroremakes.com. They might be inclined to have a go at it as well.

JSoftware

18-12-2005, 12:27 PM

yay for the pgd contest! :clap: :viking:

Specis

18-12-2005, 03:04 PM

Nice one, Looking forward to this and definatly planning on entering this year.

savage

19-12-2005, 11:30 AM

I've posted to the Borland forums, has anyone posted the news to GameDev or RetroGames?

WILL

19-12-2005, 03:03 PM

I've posted to GameDev.net, but as usual they are dragging their feet. On the other hand, they have posted about us before so...

I have posted on DevMaster.com though. They were quite quick about it too. I've also posted to ModPlug.com (http://www.modplug.com/) about the contest and the site. I hope that this will bring more musical tallent to the site aswell as the competition.

So whats the link to the forum topic?

19-12-2005, 04:23 PM

I'll post on afterwarp.net about this too (and make a permament schedule link). ;)

It seems we are getting more activity there than here on PGD :?

savage

19-12-2005, 05:10 PM

[quote="WILL"]So whats the ]

You can read it here - http://groups.google.co.uk/group/borland.public.delphi.graphics?hl=en .

Hmm I just noticed a typo. I also posted the same thing to the kylix.graphics group. Tonight I'll post on the GLScene list and also Nehe.

WILL

19-12-2005, 09:56 PM

It seems we are getting more activity there than here on PGD :?
Hmm... forum posts maybe, but certantly not traffic. PGD averages at about 10,000+ visits a month. All shy, I guess. :? It'll pick up a lot during the competition. :thumbup:

savage: Excellent Dom! :clap: Keep slamming away those news lists and other forums. Next week hopefully we'll have some of the banner graphics to put up everywhere.

Sascha Willems

19-12-2005, 10:21 PM

I just announced it over at the german Delphi OpenGL Community (http://www.delphigl.com/). It has a rather big audience and hopefully some people from over there (maybe including me ;) ) will take part.

WILL

19-12-2005, 10:31 PM

Thanks Sascha! ;) I'd be very happy to see you compete this year(well this 2006).

You know who else I'd like to see compete this year also? Tom Nugyens and/or Sulico(McClaw). This year should be a really good one. I'm hoping for even more competitors(and teams) than last year.

Hmm... I also wonder if the DGDev Team will be making an entry this year. :think: They had 2 last year. :)

FNX

19-12-2005, 11:15 PM

I think I'll get into the compo too, if you guys will not think to something
too difficult for me :P

Wait for news!

McCLaw

20-12-2005, 08:51 AM

McCLaw

20-12-2005, 09:28 AM

Just posted the news on sulaco :)

Let the fun begin!! :lol:

20-12-2005, 10:41 PM

Umm, I wanted to post this on my forums, even asked WILL (PM) to give me info to put in message, but got no answer yet :(

savage

20-12-2005, 11:06 PM

All the info so far is in the main news item. More information will be posted closer to the competition date.

WILL

21-12-2005, 12:08 AM

Umm, I wanted to post this on my forums, even asked WILL (PM) to give me info to put in message, but got no answer yet :(
Sorry I have been a tad busy of late and it slipped my mind. Just go ahead and use what I posted from the news item. No need to quote me to the letter. But many often do. ;)

{MSX}

21-12-2005, 12:20 AM

I think I'll get into the compo too, if you guys will not think to something
too difficult for me :P

Wait for news!

Eheh why should we think so ? :P The more partecipants, the better :P
I'm probably going to partecipate too, depending on the theme and on the chance to find a good idea for the entry :P And of course on how much free time i have :P

bye :P

21-12-2005, 01:34 AM

Ok, I've added a news announcement (http://www.afterwarp.net/forum/thread248.html) and a scheduled event (http://www.afterwarp.net/forum/calendar.php?do=getinfo&e=3&day=2006-1-18&c=1).

Robert Kosek

21-12-2005, 01:40 AM

It seems we are getting more activity there than here on PGD :?
Hmm... forum posts maybe, but certantly not traffic. PGD averages at about 10,000+ visits a month. All shy, I guess. :? It'll pick up a lot during the competition. :thumbup:I hit daily, I just don't have much to say. Haven't done any programming in MONTHS... :x

Eh, if I can brush up quick enough I might try for it and look for an honorable mention or something.

21-12-2005, 02:16 AM

Hmm... forum posts maybe, but certantly not traffic. PGD averages at about 10,000+ visits a month. All shy, I guess. :? It'll pick up a lot during the competition. :thumbup:
I've similar traffic on afterwarp, but I guess it's rather misleading... some search strings seem to be *very* off-topic :shock: (i.e. "cabinet problem", "potter harry", "cooperative workload", "party girls"??!?)

[ok, I admit, this post is an off-topic too :) ]

WILL

21-12-2005, 07:30 PM

:lol: haha you have a 'problem with party girls in your cabinet after a cooperative workload with Harry Potter.' :P

Well I'm hoping everyone that can compete, will compete. It's going to be a good competition. And of course you all know what the prizes are like, from last year, right? Dom leaking the Borland sponsor news so early. :roll: :lol:

Only this year I am going to have everyone register their full 'real' names of all the individual or team members and their desired receiving address so that we may send them the prizes without delay. Plus it helps to give 'proper' recognition for their work.

21-12-2005, 08:04 PM

:lol: haha you have a 'problem with party girls in your cabinet after a cooperative workload with Harry Potter.' :P
I guess people got disappointed when they saw a bunch of libraries and some weird code, when looking for their party girls... :twisted:

Well I'm hoping everyone that can compete, will compete. It's going to be a good competition. And of course you all know what the prizes are like, from last year, right? Dom leaking the Borland sponsor news so early. :roll: :lol:

So how are the chances of getting BDS 2006 Arquitect this time? :)

WILL

21-12-2005, 11:07 PM

I guess people got disappointed when they saw a bunch of libraries and some weird code, when looking for their party girls... :twisted:

Hey at least they don't go posting gay porn on your site. :P *sigh* I guess fame has it's tribulations huh?

So how are the chances of getting BDS 2006 Arquitect this time? :)
Only one way to find out. ;) Just remember though last year we gave away a copy of Delphi 2005 Architect which had a retail price of about $1,000(USD)

21-12-2005, 11:18 PM

Only one way to find out. ;) Just remember though last year we gave away a copy of Delphi 2005 Architect which had a retail price of about $1,000(USD)
No it had not. We acquired Delphi 2005 Professional for a price of $1,000 (USD), but Delphi 2005 Arquitect had a price of over $3,000 (USD), when I checked Borland site back then. If you look at Borland site for Delphi 2006 now, you'll find very similar prices (Arquitect edition costs $3,490.00).

An upgrade to Delphi 2006 Professional costs $460!! :(

WILL

22-12-2005, 12:14 AM

Only one way to find out. ;) Just remember though last year we gave away a copy of Delphi 2005 Architect which had a retail price of about $1,000(USD)
No it had not. We acquired Delphi 2005 Professional for a price of $1,000 (USD), but Delphi 2005 Arquitect had a price of over $3,000 (USD), when I checked Borland site back then. If you look at Borland site for Delphi 2006 now, you'll find very similar prices (Arquitect edition costs $3,490.00).

I stand corrected. It was $3,000 USD. The rest of the prizes totaled to almost $1,000 USD.

Robert Kosek

22-12-2005, 02:47 AM

Wow, pricey...

I might try and chime in, get an honorable mention or something. Never made a complete game though, so I'm not really sure how well I'll do or how far I'll get.

Some of the finalists last year were quite good, I look forward to this years compo.

savage

22-12-2005, 01:49 PM

Nehe has posted some news I sent him - http://nehe.gamedev.net/

Balaras

22-12-2005, 04:40 PM

We recently hired a new graphical artist where I work and when I pitched the competition to him he seemed to think it cool. So I will most likely enter.

Oh, and if you feel the need to leak some info about the theme or scope or direction of the competition, by all means feel free to do so :D
Just so that we can start dreaming games during the holidays.

Cheers,
Balaras

Chris Burkhardt

24-12-2005, 05:19 PM

I posted the news to iDevGames.com (http://idevgames.com/). I do hope for some Mac-compatible entries this year.

WILL

31-12-2005, 08:57 AM

Hey all!

Thank you all very much for spreading the word thus far! I'm sure this competition will be much bigger than last year and by the looks of it, will be more popular too. :D

Please continue to spread the word where you can to help increase the interest.

I will be posting some more information in the new year, before the official rules are released, about the competition, why we are trying this new format and how it will be run. Have a look out for that soon! ;)

savage

31-12-2005, 09:32 AM

I think it would be a good idea to announce prizes at that time as well. Well before the 15th.

WILL

04-01-2006, 06:20 AM

So just to get a rough guess-timate of how many we can expect at a minimum how here has a 100% intention of having a go at it?

McCLaw

04-01-2006, 06:34 AM

So just to get a rough guess-timate of how many we can expect at a minimum how here has a 100% intention of having a go at it?

I cant say 100% yet, it would all depend on the subject for the game, but so far there's a 90% chance of us entering.

cairnswm

04-01-2006, 10:10 AM

I will be particiating. Either as an individual or as part of a Team I am busy trying to build.

Balaras

04-01-2006, 10:17 AM

There's a 100% probability that I will most likely be in.

JSoftware

04-01-2006, 11:20 AM

i will participate
edit: what about making a poll?

AthenaOfDelphi

05-01-2006, 10:59 PM

I'm 50/50 at the moment. It largely depends on the game subject and my work commitments :?

05-01-2006, 11:15 PM

As much as I wanted to participate, after talking with LPChip today we decided that we will most likely skip the contest since we have two pending projects, a commercial application and a game project underway. However, it's not definitive so things may change in nearest future. ;)

Firlefanz

10-01-2006, 08:19 AM

Hi!

It is a nice competition with nice prices, sounds very good.

But I think we will not compete, because we have to finish our game first, this will keep us very busy until End of January or maybe February.

Then we will try to switch to 3D instead of 2D, and I think we won't have something to show in May, I think we would need much more time.

But I am looking forward to what you are creating :)

Firle

WILL

10-01-2006, 08:44 AM

Hmm... you know... if you don't mind having to catch up and missing the points for a few stages, you could still potentially compete. You still have a chance at something even if you don't win 1st prize... ?

Just a thought.

Firlefanz

10-01-2006, 09:02 AM

lol :lol:

I would really like to compete and maybe I will just register, but you know we have to start from the scratch (no Omega anymore maybe) and use 3D with animated Models etc. If this works out of course.

I just don't believe we will have enough time to show something that is enough to compete, we have time from February (or later if I have to do some bugfixes after Commando Xenidis is out) to May, and we really start totally from the scratch.

In May we will have an animated X or whatever Model running around on a plain surface with a tree on it. :D :P
Without Collision detection but with a shadow. If we get this far in May I would be glad, and I am not sure if it is enough for the competition, only if it is a large evil tree who heavily attacks our player, lol :twisted:

Firle

marmin

13-01-2006, 06:10 PM

has one already posted at gamedev.net that de competition is actually going to start. (not that they actually care so much.. ):D

oh well forget this post. I will register, I have some good ideas but the chance that I will finish will be not very great. It all depends when the final deadline is, and how much spare time I can reserve for it.

savage

23-01-2006, 02:40 PM

I posted a message about the competition starting onto GameDev about a week or more ago and they still have not "approved" my news post! Maybe they don't like the competition :).

McCLaw

23-01-2006, 02:42 PM

I posted a message about the competition starting onto GameDev about a week or more ago and they still have not "approved" my news post! Maybe they don't like the competition :).

They have been very slow of late to post any news :(

marmin

23-01-2006, 04:16 PM

No, it's a problem with their spam filter. You'll have to send it again. (see gamedev.net site).

Traveler

23-01-2006, 04:20 PM

it's that, or mayby they dont want to post a new newsitem about it, because they already did some time ago.

cairnswm

24-01-2006, 05:00 AM

Sunday, January 22, 2006
2006 PGD Annual 'The Big Boss' Game Programming Competition Begins
Posted by: Dominique Louis at 8:41:58 AM
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It's that time of year again, following on the success of the 2005 competition, the annual Pascal Game Development game programming competition is getting underway. For more information, visit this page.

savage

24-01-2006, 08:00 AM

That is the second one i posted. There is another which i posted a week earlier.

McCLaw

24-01-2006, 08:12 AM

That is the second one i posted. There is another which i posted a week earlier.

I posted a new article on the main site today using the ]http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/post.asp?forum_id=55&method=post[/url]

I also mailed a similar news article to the nehe emial address.

Lets see what happens :) :twisted: :shock:

savage

24-01-2006, 09:07 AM

yep that's the link I used as well.

McCLaw

25-01-2006, 05:52 AM

[quote="savage"]yep that's the ]

My news article was posed on the main game dev site, but nothing on the nehe site as yet. :)

cairnswm

25-01-2006, 08:08 AM

So would a MIDLetPascal application be ok for the contest? It would work on windows as long as the judges have the relevant emulators installed.

savage

25-01-2006, 09:34 AM

So would a MIDLetPascal application be ok for the contest? It would work on windows as long as the judges have the relevant emulators installed.

We could certainly take a look at it, but I think we will probably definately accept mobile entries for next year's competition.