#128154 - Guyfawkes - Wed May 09, 2007 1:17 am
Hi, I hope it is OK to post this announcement here as its seems the most appropriate forum on the boards to do so. Feel free to move this post to another forum if necessary.
This is our 5th year of the GBAX coding competitions and we hope it will be the biggest ever. During the last 5 years we have given away thousands of dollars in prizes, have had over 200 entries submitted, some of which went on to become commercial games, others to be developed into excellent free software.
Whether you are planning to enter or are just browsing we are sure you will enjoy the competition and testing out the entries in July.
Expect the weird, the original and the best. GBAX2007: May 7th - July 7th.
Full details can be found at http://www.gbax.com/2007/. Good luck!
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#128174 - MrD - Wed May 09, 2007 10:06 am
Has it been two years already?
Holy hell!
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#128176 - kusma - Wed May 09, 2007 10:49 am
Isn't GBA-entries allowed in a compo called GBAX 2007?
Edit:
"- Any software which is fully working on the GP2X, GP32, PSP and DS hardware can be entered; a game, port, demo, emulator or application." -- I guess that means that GBA-entries are allowed after all. My bad, but I still think the rules could mention GBA explicitly.
#128179 - Guyfawkes - Wed May 09, 2007 11:45 am
GBA is not specifically stated as it wasn't part of the competition just DS, GP2X, PSP and GP32, I do not see any harm in GBA software being entered as it can run on DS. I will speak to Craig tonight and see what he says and reply back.
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#128183 - _JSR_ - Wed May 09, 2007 2:04 pm
Wow, perfect timing for my program :)
But some friends and many forum comments say that previous compo were pitful because winners were not those who deserve it...
I may not enter the compo after all.
#128187 - Lynx - Wed May 09, 2007 2:35 pm
The way I read it, if GBA counts then any platform that has an emulator available would count as well. Being that you could write an Atari 2600 game and wrap an emulator around it and it would be allowed because it runs on one of the platforms listed?
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#128210 - Guyfawkes - Wed May 09, 2007 7:54 pm
I guess in theory you could write a Atari 2600 emulator for the DS and then write a game for it. Emulators and games are both allowed so can kill two birds with one stone :) We like stuff that's different from the norm so are looking forward to your emulator and game ;)
Edit - Oh GBA entries are fine, just spoke to Craig and he agrees.
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#128615 - tondopie - Sun May 13, 2007 2:27 pm
im actually thinking of entering this... :D
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#130788 - Guyfawkes - Thu Jun 07, 2007 11:39 pm
Quick reminder post to say you have one month left until the deadline of July 7th 2007 at 23:59:59. Full details of the competition can be found on the new official site at http://gbax.gp2x.de/ which also contains all the entries and results for the previous years competitions.
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#130802 - Dood77 - Fri Jun 08, 2007 2:50 am
| _JSR_ wrote: |
Wow, perfect timing for my program :)
But some friends and many forum comments say that previous compo were pitful because winners were not those who deserve it...
I may not enter the compo after all. |
I believe you are thinking of Beup Live and the neoflash competition... but I could be wrong.
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#130814 - Guyfawkes - Fri Jun 08, 2007 12:11 pm
Yeah it is probably the neoflash competition, I was a judge in it but the way it is run was not down to me. I just received the entries and judged them. I have made it clear in the GBAX 2007 rules about this as I was very annoyed that people could do this:
- Using Open Source and Ports of existing software is allowed but you may want to get permission from the original author to make sure potentially winning a prize is OK.
I will be checking up on all winning entries to ensure all rules are followed.
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#132910 - Guyfawkes - Sun Jul 01, 2007 4:20 pm
A quick reminder that you have a week until the July 7th 2007 at 23:59 GMT deadline for the GBAX 2007 Coding Competition. One additional and [b]important note[/b] is that if your entry is over 20MB in file size please get in contact with us beforehand to arrange an upload to our FTP as our email only allows up to 20MB attachments. Alternatively if you have your own web space simply upload it there and let us know the URL. Full details on the competition can be found on the new site at http://gbax.gp2x.de/gbax2007.html, good luck!
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#133708 - Guyfawkes - Sun Jul 08, 2007 1:36 am
The deadline for the GBAX 2007 coding competition was reached a short while ago. I havent had a chance to fully check but it looks like we have around 60 entries to the competition which makes this our biggest in our five year history. I would like to say a big thanks to everyone that entered and good luck in the competition.
If you have not received a confirmation email from me (Guyfawkes) please check your spam mail in case its in there, if you cant find a reply please email the competition address gbax2007@NOSPAMgbaemu.com (remove NOSPAM) with the name of your entry so we can check if we received it or not. Please do this as soon as possible as you may miss the official entries release on Sunday night or Monday.
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#134034 - OSW - Tue Jul 10, 2007 6:32 am
Downloads of the comp entries are now available from the website.
There is some nice DS entries ! :)
#134117 - shadowofdarkness - Tue Jul 10, 2007 7:26 pm
I love the Skinz Sudoku it has the best writing recognition I have tried on the ds. It is good enough I can actually use it. With the exception of nines it almost never messes up for me. And the nines mess up less then any commercial Sudoku I have tried.
#135011 - OSW - Thu Jul 19, 2007 10:40 am
yeah i tried Skinz Sudoku and it was great. even better than the last commercial sudoku game i've played.
I really like the look of DSreader however i'm having serious problems with loading bookmarks. unfortunately i can't report it to the dev since he doesn't seem to have a blog or anything.
I found someone else who had the same problem.
edit: found someone else who said filenames shouldn't have any spaces in them otherwise there can be problems. hopefully that solves the problem. gonna test now.
edit2: removed spaces. still problems.
put files in root of card, finally worked.
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#136098 - tondopie - Sun Jul 29, 2007 2:39 am
hows the judging of the entries coming?
BTW, is the winner based on catagories, for instance, DS App, DS Game, PSP App, etc.?
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#136113 - Sektor - Sun Jul 29, 2007 9:37 am
There are only 3 prizes, so every entry has to compete against entries from all systems. At least I think that's how it's supposed to go. It's completely up to the judges though, so they may feel like giving 1st prize to a GP2X entry, 2nd to a DS/GBA entry and 3rd to a PSP entry.
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#136136 - tondopie - Sun Jul 29, 2007 4:32 pm
that does pack quite the pressure on...
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