Video Game Making Competition
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I was wondering how many people would actually be interested in a game making competition. I myself am interested but I don't know how many else would be willing/have enough time/know enough to do this. This isn't an actual competition starting, I would want to be way more organized than just a forum post. This competition would be timed (Weeks) and consist of you making a game from scratch using SDL and C++. You could use other libraries, but only open source. I could find someone reasonable to judge once the time is up. (It wouldn't be me and they wouldn't be biased)
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@gajbooks (View Post)
I would love to be included in this competition, but sadly i don't know C++ for shit. The only langage I know is VB, which sorta sucks :P I know a lot of people tha don't know C++ but do know a lot of other languages, so perhaps you could just make it a game making contest, with no language limitations. You should exclude Game Maker if you do this, because not only is it cheating, but it completely sucks.
And if this was a competition, and it was successful, would you ever host a second one to see if anybody has improved in creativity/skill levels? I think that this competition would be a good way for some newbies to learn a little bit faster if they are self-teaching the language, because they would have encouragement from other users' progress, making them want to learn faster, and therefore create faster. :)
And how are you going to organise it past a forum post? :P -
Confining this to C++ is a bit unfun. how about any language with SDL bindings? It would be nice to stick to sdl for rendering, since it cross platform, and not too cpu intensive This would give me a chance to finally learn it. Also, it would be interesting to require that all entries be cross platform between at least linux and windows (not sure about mac), though you wouldnt have to distribute binaries for both.
