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Title: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: shmibs on July 08, 2012, 12:12:56 pm
(http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=13665.0;attach=12814;image)

The contest results are determined 60% by the chosen judges and 40% by community vote. This is the place for you to vote for your favourite of the 6 Nspire/Prizm (although we didn't actually receive any Prizm entries) category entries, which are:

choose your two favourites from the list above, and remember, the criteria emphasised in this contest are:

entries are included in the attachment below

EDIT: i have updated the attachment to include minor bugfixes from lkj and linuxgeek that drastically improve playability. if you have previously downloaded, please do so again.
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: critor on July 08, 2012, 12:52:57 pm
Why am I unable to vote at this time ? . . .
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: Adriweb on July 08, 2012, 12:53:39 pm
Same for me. Although there are votes already ?
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: shmibs on July 08, 2012, 12:55:09 pm
that's weird?/me checks to see what's wrong
EDIT: if you can see the results before having seen the options, you should also have a "voting options" link. if that's not working, let me know
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: Adriweb on July 08, 2012, 01:12:40 pm
Quote from: shmibs on July 08, 2012, 12:55:09 pm
that's weird?/me checks to see what's wrong
EDIT: if you can see the results before having seen the options, you should also have a "voting options" link. if that's not working, let me know

nope :(
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: critor on July 08, 2012, 01:13:47 pm
neither :(

And of course, I haven't voted yet...
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: Jim Bauwens on July 08, 2012, 01:29:16 pm
Me neither. Maybe it has to do with the fact that we are newsers ? (and maybe staff can't vote by default ..)
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: Adriweb on July 08, 2012, 01:33:19 pm
Quote from: jimbauwens on July 08, 2012, 01:29:16 pm
Me neither. Maybe it has to do with the fact that we are newsers ? (and maybe staff can't vote by default ..)
I was thinking about that too
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: lkj on July 08, 2012, 01:55:12 pm
I can vote...
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: critor on July 08, 2012, 01:58:11 pm
You're not a newser. ;)

So question is: is the fact that newsers are unable to vote intended ?
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: Darl181 on July 08, 2012, 02:22:34 pm
I'm guessing it's come problem with permissions?  It should be possible to vote :P
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: AngelFish on July 08, 2012, 02:46:07 pm
The permissions were a bit wonky. Should be working now :)
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: Adriweb on July 08, 2012, 02:48:35 pm
Quote from: Qwerty.55 on July 08, 2012, 02:46:07 pm
The permissions were a bit wonky. Should be working now :)

Yep, thanks :)
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: flyingfisch on July 08, 2012, 04:19:27 pm
Hmmm... why does it say "nspire/prizm" when there are no prizm projects?
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: Loulou 54 on July 08, 2012, 04:25:44 pm
Quote from: flyingfisch on July 08, 2012, 04:19:27 pm
Hmmm... why does it say "nspire/prizm" when there are no prizm projects?

Quote
This is the place for you to vote for your favourite of the 6 Nspire/Prizm (although we didn't actually receive any Prizm entries) category entries, which are:

It's said in the first post ! ;) No Prizm entry.. :/
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: Yeong on July 08, 2012, 05:22:31 pm
Is it just me or does Osmos throws error when playing tutorial level?
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: cyanophycean314 on July 08, 2012, 05:27:47 pm
If you press the enter key or the arrows, it throws an error for me. You have to use the mouse.
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: apcalc on July 08, 2012, 06:02:45 pm
Good luck to the competitors!  I will vote now... :)
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: flyingfisch on July 08, 2012, 06:46:31 pm
Quote from: Loulou 54 on July 08, 2012, 04:25:44 pm
Quote from: flyingfisch on July 08, 2012, 04:19:27 pm
Hmmm... why does it say "nspire/prizm" when there are no prizm projects?

Quote
This is the place for you to vote for your favourite of the 6 Nspire/Prizm (although we didn't actually receive any Prizm entries) category entries, which are:

It's said in the first post ! ;) No Prizm entry.. :/

That doesn't explain why it is called nspire/prizm. It only explains what i already said, that there are no prizm entries.
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: AzNg0d1030 on July 09, 2012, 12:27:17 am
Lua tower defense has given me errors midgamep all 4 times I played it.
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: Adriweb on July 09, 2012, 05:07:41 am
Quote from: AzNg0d1030 on July 09, 2012, 12:27:17 am
Lua tower defense has given me errors midgamep all 4 times I played it.
I've had error reports from users running 3.1.... I have coded it with 3.2 and couldnt reproduce such bugs.....
If you can, you can update to 3.2 and then downgrade back to 3.1
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: Loulou 54 on July 09, 2012, 12:37:45 pm
Quote from: flyingfisch on July 08, 2012, 06:46:31 pm
Quote from: Loulou 54 on July 08, 2012, 04:25:44 pm
Quote from: flyingfisch on July 08, 2012, 04:19:27 pm
Hmmm... why does it say "nspire/prizm" when there are no prizm projects?

Quote
This is the place for you to vote for your favourite of the 6 Nspire/Prizm (although we didn't actually receive any Prizm entries) category entries, which are:

It's said in the first post ! ;) No Prizm entry.. :/

That doesn't explain why it is called nspire/prizm. It only explains what i already said, that there are no prizm entries.

Mmh ok, I think that's just in order to keep the original name of the categorize, who was given before we know the actual entries..
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: flyingfisch on July 09, 2012, 12:49:00 pm
Quote from: Loulou 54 on July 09, 2012, 12:37:45 pm
Quote from: flyingfisch on July 08, 2012, 06:46:31 pm
Quote from: Loulou 54 on July 08, 2012, 04:25:44 pm
Quote from: flyingfisch on July 08, 2012, 04:19:27 pm
Hmmm... why does it say "nspire/prizm" when there are no prizm projects?

Quote
This is the place for you to vote for your favourite of the 6 Nspire/Prizm (although we didn't actually receive any Prizm entries) category entries, which are:

It's said in the first post ! ;) No Prizm entry.. :/

That doesn't explain why it is called nspire/prizm. It only explains what i already said, that there are no prizm entries.

Mmh ok, I think that's just in order to keep the original name of the categorize, who was given before we know the actual entries..

Oh ok.
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: AzNg0d1030 on July 09, 2012, 06:17:32 pm
Quote from: adriweb on July 09, 2012, 05:07:41 am
Quote from: AzNg0d1030 on July 09, 2012, 12:27:17 am
Lua tower defense has given me errors midgamep all 4 times I played it.
I've had error reports from users running 3.1.... I have coded it with 3.2 and couldnt reproduce such bugs.....
If you can, you can update to 3.2 and then downgrade back to 3.1
Ah I see now.  Thanks for the info
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: cyanophycean314 on July 11, 2012, 08:53:29 pm
Is there any approximation as to when voting ends and/or the results will come out?
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: shmibs on July 11, 2012, 09:26:50 pm
things should be announced by about two weeks from now
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 14, 2012, 01:07:07 pm
Darn I wished voting would end a bit into my vacations. D: Hopefully I have some free time then to try the entries.

By the way, would it be possible to state which version of Ndless (not 3.1 but rather the rXXXX ID number) is required for each ASM/C entry? Because most new Ndless games will only run on one single build of Ndless it seems.
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: lkj on July 14, 2012, 02:28:34 pm
I didn't know about that. My game (pacman) is the only asm/c entry and it was built with r623.
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: ExtendeD on July 15, 2012, 03:33:46 am
By the way programs which require a minimum version of Ndless should use the assert_ndless_rev() (http://hackspire.unsads.com/wiki/index.php/Ndless_features_and_limitations#Checking_Ndless.27s_version) function to display a message asking to update and exit the program propely.
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 15, 2012, 02:55:17 pm
Ok thanks. Because it was kinda annoying when I had just updated Ndless and then ran plenty of programs released, only to get reboots.

Also there really needs to be more promotion for these polls on the front page and board index, because so far only 11 people downloaded the entries O.O
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on July 15, 2012, 03:06:19 pm
Quote from: DJ_O on July 15, 2012, 02:55:17 pm
Also there really needs to be more promotion for these polls on the front page and board index, because so far only 11 people downloaded the entries O.O
Yeah, that's an idea. I think that would help. Perhaps we should all have a signature bar, linking to these threads.
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: lkj on July 15, 2012, 03:10:00 pm
Quote from: ExtendeD on July 15, 2012, 03:33:46 am
By the way programs which require a minimum version of Ndless should use the assert_ndless_rev() (http://hackspire.unsads.com/wiki/index.php/Ndless_features_and_limitations#Checking_Ndless.27s_version) function to display a message asking to update and exit the program propely.

Programs which don't use a new feature of ndless are also compatible with older revisions, aren't they?
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 15, 2012, 03:10:53 pm
Quote from: Stefan Bauwens on July 15, 2012, 03:06:19 pm
Quote from: DJ_O on July 15, 2012, 02:55:17 pm
Also there really needs to be more promotion for these polls on the front page and board index, because so far only 11 people downloaded the entries O.O
Yeah, that's an idea. I think that would help. Perhaps we should all have a signature bar, linking to these threads.
I thought more about having the thing that has the contest logo at the top of the page so it links to both surveys, like last year.
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: Jim Bauwens on July 15, 2012, 03:55:00 pm
While only 11 people only dowloaded the Nspire specific zip, 58 people dowloaded the zip with both z80 and Nspire ;)
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 22, 2012, 08:37:27 pm
Yeah I notice that. I guess it's a sign that maybe nothing will ever take over the 83+ series lol (probably the reason why the 83+ is still sold after 13 years despite the limited improvements since 1993 with the 82)

Anyway done testing entries. My vote went to The Squares do not Die, although Pacman came close:

LuaTowerDefence
This is my favorite game now that I figured out how to use it. If it wasn't for being so hard to figure out how it works, it would probably have gotten my vote

Osmos
Could never figure out how to play

pacman
My second favorite and a so close to the original game. It gets a bit repetitive, though, although the difficulty at least helps with the replay value. :)

Siam
Could never figure out how to play.

snake_multi
Didn't run at all. Caused invalid file format error (OS 3.1 on calc and 3.2 on student software)

The Squares Do Not Die
My favorite of all. Although not as smooth and nice-looking as Pacman, I found it to be more original and due to the increasing difficulty, the replay value is much higher I think. Also, although the controls are a bit annoying at first, you get used to them fast and the game has intense gameplay
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: Adriweb on July 23, 2012, 12:31:31 am
Quote from: DJ_O on July 22, 2012, 08:37:27 pm
Anyway done testing entries. My vote went to The Squares do not Die, although Pacman came close:
You know, you could check 2 programs... :D

Quote from: DJ_O on July 22, 2012, 08:37:27 pm
LuaTowerDefence
This is my favorite game now that I figured out how to use it. If it wasn't for being so hard to figure out how it works, it would probably have gotten my vote
Thanks :)
Also, did you read the readme on the next tab(s) ? I fully explain the gameplay/controls there.
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 23, 2012, 01:04:34 am
I did but it still wouldn't let me figure out at first. I guess I was just too new to that kind of game or too used to the cannon defense version in Starcraft. My main issue was that putting towers in the middle of the path didn't do anything and I had to place them on walls, unlike in Starcraft where it's the complete opposite.
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: Adriweb on July 23, 2012, 01:26:45 am
Ahhhh I see :D
I didn't know about the Starcraft way, so ... :P
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: cyanophycean314 on July 23, 2012, 09:03:28 am
Thanks DJ_O!  :)

I thought voting should've ended yesterday and the results would come out?  :P
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: Loulou 54 on July 23, 2012, 06:42:52 pm
I see that Siam's rules are a little complicated to understand... x)

But I think it's the same as Age Of Empire : needs a little time to learn how to play, but becomes very gripping ! :P
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 24, 2012, 01:40:44 pm
Wait could we really check two programs?? O.O

The survey didn't even specify it for me ???
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: Nick on July 24, 2012, 01:42:32 pm
yep, that's why they were checkboxes, and not radiobuttons :) it stands in the title of the poll xp
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 24, 2012, 01:45:12 pm
Oh right. I am used to seeing it below the survey or something. Didn't notice it as part of the title. X.x

Looks like 12 other people didn't notice either because according to the results versus total voters, 13 people including myself only chose one entry.
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: Adriweb on July 24, 2012, 02:09:33 pm
arg.... :(
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: AzNg0d1030 on July 24, 2012, 03:42:50 pm
I did know but I forgot and chose one and clicked OK before realizingXD
Well, I would've only checked one though.
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on July 24, 2012, 03:55:48 pm
On the z80 thread we could change our vote. :/
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: Juju on July 24, 2012, 05:23:45 pm
You can change your vote on this one too.

I leave you until midnight (eastern time) to vote on both z80 and nspire, then I'll publish the results.
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 24, 2012, 05:39:02 pm
Oh I thought it was already finished lol. I'll edit my vote then.
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: squidgetx on July 24, 2012, 05:39:53 pm
I just edited it so that you can change your vote :P
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 24, 2012, 05:42:09 pm
yeah I just saw. I now vote for The Squares do not Die and Pacman.

Also I am surprised Pacman got so few votes considering it's almost exactly like the original O.O. I guess originality and the presence of a few other notable games had an impact on this though.
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: AzNg0d1030 on July 24, 2012, 08:56:53 pm
Quote from: DJ_O on July 24, 2012, 05:42:09 pm
yeah I just saw. I now vote for The Squares do not Die and Pacman.

Also I am surprised Pacman got so few votes considering it's almost exactly like the original O.O. I guess originality and the presence of a few other notable games had an impact on this though.
Hm, on my calc it ran REALLY slow.
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: cyanophycean314 on July 24, 2012, 09:19:36 pm
There was an updated version. It's in the original post.
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 24, 2012, 10:16:42 pm
I didn't find Pacman to be slow actually. I tried on my Nspire CX and it ran exactly at the same speed as on the NES. If you downloaded the older version, it is possible that it ran very slow though.
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: lkj on July 25, 2012, 06:44:27 pm
Yeah, I think most people voted with the older version. It was very stupid of me that I didn't test on a real calc before submitting  :-\

But anyway, The Squares Do Not Die was my favorite entry, I'm glad that it won  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 25, 2012, 07:02:15 pm
Yeah I think the issue is that most people downloaded the ZIP file immediately after the news was posted, then never bothered to check again so they didn't notice the update.

And yeah it was my favorite as well. Pac Man was second since I tried the updated ZIP file. TOwer defense was third. Siam and Osmos looked nice, but understanding how to play, even with the readme, was too hard, and Snake didn't run at all.
Title: Re: Contest 2012 Community Vote (Nspire/Prizm)
Post by: AzNg0d1030 on July 26, 2012, 06:40:03 pm
Quote from: DJ_O on July 25, 2012, 07:02:15 pm
Yeah I think the issue is that most people downloaded the ZIP file immediately after the news was posted, then never bothered to check again so they didn't notice the update.

And yeah it was my favorite as well. Pac Man was second since I tried the updated ZIP file. TOwer defense was third. Siam and Osmos looked nice, but understanding how to play, even with the readme, was too hard, and Snake didn't run at all.
Yup, that was my problem