Archive for March, 2010

• [gamecompo] PyWeek #10 has started: the theme is “Wibbly-wobbly”!

  Date: 2010.03.27 | Category: Syndicated Mailing List Posts | Response: 0

  The PyWeek challenge (http://pyweek.org/) has started! It:

  1. Invites entrants to write a game in one week from scratch either as
  an individual or in a team,
  2. Is intended to be challenging and fun,
  3. Will hopefully increase the public body of game tools, code and expertise,
  4. Will let a lot of people actually finish a game, and
  5. May inspire new projects (with ready made teams!)

  See you there,

  Richard

• [gamecompo] Photos (and video) from the Ludum Dare Meetup

  Date: 2010.03.15 | Category: Syndicated Mailing List Posts | Response: 0

  For those interested, I posted some photos and a brief video of the
  meetup to the Ludum Dare site.

  http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2010/03/15/photosvideo-from-the-ludum-dare-meetup-gdc-2010/

  Regards,

  Mike Kasprzak (PoV)

• [gamecompo] Re: Intel’s March Developer Challenge

  Date: 2010.03.03 | Category: Syndicated Mailing List Posts | Response: 0

  Okay, one little clarification I just heard back from Intel on
  regarding their contest.

  The 100 royalty matching prizes are only available to Windows apps, as
  the AppUp Center is only available for Windows right now. The rest of
  the prizes (the 250x $500 cash prizes and further prizes to be
  announced March 9th) are available for both Windows AND Linux entries.

  I had a couple people ask me directly about aspects of the Intel store
  and the contest, so I just wanted to be sure anyone that didn’t also
  got the memo.

  Now back to your regularly scheduled mailing list silence.

  - Mike Kasprzak (PoV)

• [gamecompo] Intel’s March Developer Challenge

  Date: 2010.03.02 | Category: Syndicated Mailing List Posts | Response: 0

  Hey everybody,

  For those of you Windows and Linux developers that work in C/C++,
  there’s a little contest run by Intel going on this month you may be
  interested in. I wrote up a post on the Ludum Dare blog about it,
  with some tips about the platform.

  http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2010/03/02/intels-march-developer-challenge/

  I figured I’d pass this on to you guys, ’cause well, I won a Car and a
  Trip to GDC in the last one… heh. . The next round of big fancy
  prizes haven’t been announced yet, but there’s 250x $500 cash prizes
  (Visa gift vouchers) and 100x royalty matching prizes available
  already (or $2 per free download capped at $5k). It’s pretty insane
  if you think about it.

  Due March 31st.

  So if you’ve got a sweet LD game you could polish up in a couple
  weekends (or two sweet LD games), here’s a place for it.

  Feel free to discuss it in the comments in that post above, but shhh!
  That I won the trip too isn’t public knowledge yet.

  - Mike Kasprzak (PoV)

• [gamecompo] PyWeek number 10 in March

  Date: 2010.03.01 | Category: Syndicated Mailing List Posts | Response: 0

  The 10th (10th!) Python Game Programming Challenge will run at the end
  of March. See http://pyweek.org/10/ for details.

  Write a game in a week. In a team or individual.

  Richard

• [gamecompo] Ludum Dare 17 – April 23rd-25th Weekend

  Date: 2010.03.01 | Category: Syndicated Mailing List Posts | Response: 0

  Hey everybody!

  I’ve received a few requests now, so here is the announcement nice and early.

  Ludum Dare 17 is scheduled for April 23rd-25th weekend. Themes can be
  suggested on the wiki.

  http://www.ludumdare.com/wiki/ld17:themes

  Specifics will be announced as the date gets closer.

  Also, stay tuned to ludumdare.com this month for the other 17, MiniLD
  #17 hosted by Tenoch.

  - Mike Kasprzak (PoV)