This competition has come to an end - all of the entries are in, tested, screen grabbed and summarised. Now it is YOUR chance to download them, play them and vote for them :) We'll announce the winners in the August newsletter. Full details can be found here: Puzzle Game Competition Forum
»Introduction« | The Prize List | The Rules | Submit your Game
Welcome to The Game Creators "Puzzle Game" Programming Competition 2005! We wanted to run a small competition for our members, something that you could sink your teeth into for a month or so and submit a game at the end of it and possibly win some prizes in the process.
Competition Deadline: Monday 18th July 2005
The competition this time is to create a puzzle game. There are no set restrictions on what kind of puzzle game is allowed. It can be 2D or 3D. It could be a Tetris clone or a board game, whatever you end up creating it just has to be considered as a puzzle game by the masses - because this time around it is the community that will vote for the winner, not TGC (we will of course cast our votes too, but they will not be the deciding factor).
What exactly do I have to do in order to enter this competition?
Create a puzzle game with DarkBASIC, DarkBASIC Professional or the Dark Game SDK. If you do not own these languages you are allowed to use any of the trial versions.
We are not looking for pixel-perfect clones of originals, we're looking for variations on popular themes and unique original puzzle elements. When it comes to voting each forum member will be allowed to place their vote for 3 games in order. The first game on their list will receive 6 points, the second will receive 4 points and the third will receive 2 points. These votes will be public and will be seen by everyone. At the end we'll count all the points up. To avoid people signing up new forum accounts specifically for this competition (to sway the votes) we'll discount any votes from forum members who have accounts newer than the 1st of July 2005.
The Prize List
Here is the complete prize list that will be distributed amongst the winners, well over a $1000 worth of software:
- A full copy of gameSpace
- A DarkBASIC Professional Extensions Pack
- A full commercial version of the Dark Game SDK
- A complete Vegetation Pack (TreeMagik G2 + PlantLife)
- Sound Essentials DVDs Volumes 1, 2 and 3
- Trackmania Sunrise
- Ring Tone Maker
- Dark MATTER 1, 2 and 3 Pack
- FPS Creator EA + Free Version 1 Upgrade
- Firewall Game
»Introduction« | The Prize List | The Rules | Submit your Game
