2006 PGD Annual 'The Big Boss' Competition

[savage]

LEVEL EDITOR CLARIFICATION :
For those who needed clarification about level editors...
After discussing it with Dean AKA technomage, if you supply a home grown level editor it will be marked accordingly ( does the job, ease of use, some documentation etc ).

If you don't submit a level editor you should provide instructions on how you define levels using the tools you use in simple terms i.e don't try to write a 3D studio max handbook, but write enough to allow someone to create a level in the editor of your choice and how to get it into the game. That way people who choose to define levels in Milkshape/Notepad etc can just provide documents on what to name objects to get the game to process them as items etc. Built-In editors are also fine as long as you tell us exactly how to get them started.

I hope this clarifies things a bit better.

[FNX]

It is very very clear now Thanx a lot savage!

I think the clarification on these points was necessary because of the
large number of ways someone can do a level editor, as you could see in
5 posts we had:

Tilestudio/Notepad
3d programs (Blender, MS3D, other)
Built in editor
Random generator

But now I have no more dubts, and so I hope the other guys here

Let's code!

[michalis]

LEVEL EDITOR CLARIFICATION :
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Thanks, this makes the situation clear !

[aidave]

Thanks for the clarification Savage

I'll go with a built-in level editor!


cheers
dave

[Paulius]

After discussing it with Dean AKA technomage, if you supply a home grown level editor it will be marked accordingly ( does the job, ease of use, some documentation etc ).

I thought deadlines were evaluated for making it in time or not, creating a proper editor with ease of use in mind for the first deadline is not worth 5 points when something like stability is 100

SCORING FOR GOALS: The first stage (the planning stage) will not be scored. Each stage after will be scored as FULL points or NO points for completed and incompeted goals. If a goal is partially completed, it will be scored as incomplete and awarded NO points.

FULL points or NO points for completed and incompeted goals
edit: added the quote

[WILL]

After discussing it with Dean AKA technomage, if you supply a home grown level editor it will be marked accordingly ( does the job, ease of use, some documentation etc ).

I thought deadlines were evaluated for making it in time or not, creating a proper editor with ease of use in mind for the first deadline is not worth 5 points when something like stability is 100

SCORING FOR GOALS: The first stage (the planning stage) will not be scored. Each stage after will be scored as FULL points or NO points for completed and incompeted goals. If a goal is partially completed, it will be scored as incomplete and awarded NO points.

FULL points or NO points for completed and incompeted goals
edit: added the quote

The only score you get for the editor is the the 5 points. Thats it. ALL 5 or nothing. There is no middle ground for goal points. If you are able to make a level with the in-game editor or the seperate level editor you get the points.

[Nitrogen]

Sorry to break the current debate, but I still cant seem to log into the competition site..

It just shows a thin grey bar with no text...
This is what the HTML looks like for that page:

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As you can see it's just an empty table... I did manage to log in once or twice but nothing recently..

[Traveler]

Tried it too,.. but I'm having the same problem.

[AthenaOfDelphi]

Are you guys logging in with your normal username as opposed to the email address you used to sign up to the competition?

The reason I ask is because I've had that kind of thing happen and I think that its because I logged into the competition area with my normal username.

[michalis]

I looked at specification of judge LifePower's machine, and I noticed that there's no Linux...

While I want to provide both Win32 and Linux versions of my game (actually I'll provide FreeBSD too), I would be glad to treat Linux version as "the reference implementation".

But looking at judges machines, there are 4 machines with Windows and only 1 with Linux... I wonder what will happen if I will provide only Linux binaries, no Windows ? Will my entry be accepted at all ? And tested only on 1 machine ?