PGDCon 2008

[De-Panther]

Maybe somewhere equidistant to PGD members could be nice :mrgreen:

PMSL :LOL: Does it have a secret underground volcano base?...

more importent:
is there internet or tv in this place? :lol:


Come to Israel!
It'll be fun

is there any fun with living suicide bombs?

let's go cuba

You have problems with Bomb Runner?:=P

at least you don't have problems with the camels :lol:

[arthurprs]

Maybe somewhere equidistant to PGD members could be nice :mrgreen:

PMSL :LOL: Does it have a secret underground volcano base?...

more importent:
is there internet or tv in this place? :lol:


Come to Israel!
It'll be fun

is there any fun with living suicide bombs?

let's go cuba

Haha, Cuba doesn't have living suicide bombs, just long-beared cigar smokers... but smoking is suicidal anyway

Due to immigration politics, it's hard to get to Europe for us... we need to demonstrate we have hotel reservations and bring $500 in cash. :?

same here to go to europe ,

the problem with cuba is that the country has NO INTERNET due to politics, that by the way, is going better with Raul in command.

maybe m?©xico?

[jasonf]

We need more people chaps, spread the word.

The timescales are around October/November time, which should give us time to arrange something.

Ideally, it'll be in the home town of one of our members so they can act as a local liaison.

I'm plotting people's rough locations on Google Earth.

Sorry it's only Europe and Northern Africa, I tried to include everyone, but I couldn't see anything for ocean

[size=18px]I want more pins people[/size] Chirp in if you're interested.

[Huehnerschaender]

Hey! Yes, I am alive! And if this event will start in germany, then count me in [size=7px](as long as I do not need to kill people to get the week sparetime)[/size]

GREAT IDEA BTW!

[JernejL]

Could just do it somewhere in the netherlands or germany?

[WILL]

Dirk! sorry buddy meant to tell you about this... been crazy here lately.

You have to be there man. It's going to be a huge deal to have you all there.

Just wish I was posted to Europe then so I could attend too. I'd fill out the leave pass and everything!

[WILL]

You should send some personal emails out and get some RSVPs Jason.

[Firlefanz]

West Germany or maybe Nederlands for me also

Or perhaps we could do as many locations as we wish, one in West Germany, one in the USA or whereever and the bring thos together with a video conference

[WILL]

What like PGDCon|West and PGDCon|East? You would then have East vs West compo. :lol:

[jasonf]

I'd be very wary of trying to bite off too much by trying to arrange multiple venues.. my time is scarce as it is and it's going to take a lot of effort to get a single event in place.. trying to co-ordinate multiple venues would probably be a disaster.

I realise that it's going to be difficult for people to get to the venue, which is why I want to place it in the most convenient place for the most people. Obviously that means inconveniencing others... but if we make a decent effort, it'll be a great weekend.

So far, it's looking like Oct/Nov time and in Germany, preferably near to an international airport.

I need more people to get behind this and push it, it will only work if there's enough people. So we need other pascal forums to get involved too.

We need enough people for about 4 teams, each team with 4-6 people in it. Evenly split. teams will be chosen on the day and will consist of coders, graphic artists, to a random theme, picked from a hat.

Initial thoughts are:

Topics, styles and genres will be placed into a hat. Each team's captain will take a genre, a topic and a style. This will be the game their team must create. (partly to limit scope to allow it to be finished in time and partly to speed up the creative process)

2D or 3D will be a choice for the team on the day.. there'll be no tech or engine restrictions. Use what ya bring.. as long as the core programming on the day is Pascal.

Any compiler can be used, it'd be a good idea to standardise for each team, but each team should be able to work with their chosen platform.. any impossible pairings will be ironed out.


Whilst the game development is going on, it'd be great if some people who've had successes in Game Dev using Pascal, did presentations. Perhaps about how they solved various issues or even talking about their game or engine.
People will be able to take a little time out from the coding to watch presentations by people.

After all coding is done, we'll get some people from outside to play-test the games and put a rating into a secret ballot box.

Prizes will be awarded to the winning team (perhaps a trophy or something) hopefully Dom can get hold of some companies to sponsor us for prizes, so all participating teams get something.


We're in June at the moment, time is short, so I need to know numbers very quickly.