Omnimaga
Calculator Community => Other Calc-Related Projects and Ideas => Topic started by: ASHBAD_ALVIN on October 27, 2010, 03:54:48 pm
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Hello, there kind sirs,
I have came up with a new contest idea simular to that of cage matches but will be running at the same time as it with no conversing between the two. I present you... TEAM BATTLES!
Description: Basically,the point of this contest is to let people participate in a team project, and verse another team at the same time. The reason for this contest? There apparently has been an activity spike here at omnimaga; yesterday, for the first time ever we had 100 people logged on at the same time -- a HUGE milestone for the present Omnimaga community. To meet up with demand for people eager to enter a programming contest to display their skills, team battles will challenge 4 PEOPLE at one time to see how well the can code, and more importantly how well they can work with a team of fellow omnimagians.
Contestants per match: 4 total; 2 teams consisting of 2 people each.
How the deadlines work: After both teams accept the challenge, and I the judger announces the beginning of the coding period, the two teams will have 1 week to finish their project and have a representative turn it in to me via PM by no later than 12 PM eastern standard time on the deadline day.
Judging: Both teams will be evaluated by me and two other judges, picked prior to the match based on skill and ability to criticise constructively. The evaluation will be in 3 sections: one section to award up to 10 points based on how well the programmers worked in their team, based on the final source documents and forum posts. Another section will be awarding a total of 9 points split between the teams -- 3 points are awarded to a team for each vote a judge makes on their favorite product. The last section will be a community poll, where each vote for a team's product will award that team with 1 point. The winning team of the match will face a newly assembled team, and the losing team will be given complementary userbars (losers out system)
Rewards for winning: The losing team will win complementary userbars while the winning team will be given ultra flashy coolio winner userbars, the Forge award, and a possibility of other random prizes that somehow correlate to the match subject.
list of waiting contestants as of now:
Axe
Builderboy
ztrumpet
Raylin
shmibs
happybobjr
Qwerty.55
Runer112
BASIC
ScoutDavid
Yunhua98
ztrumpet
Builderboy
Raylin
happybobjr
Querty.55
Meishe91
Matthias1992
do YOU want to participate in these exciting matches? Please send me a PM telling me what calculators and languages you program for. The two languages are as follows: Axe and TI BASIC(83+/se,84+/se,Nspire with 84+ keypad).
Current Match:
yunhua98
Qwerty.55
vs.
Raylin
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z80 BASIC....means TI BASIC, right? You might want to change that since most people see 'z80' and read 'assembly' when in that context (I know I do), so they might get confused :)
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yeah, it's TI BASIC for z80 calcs 83+ and above :3
EDIT: changed to say what calcs z80 BASIC applies to to avoid confusion
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Hmmm i'm reluctant to participate in a group project, as per my experience they have never ever worked out D:
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That's too bad, as I'm sure any team would love to have your experience on their side :D
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Well I meant that z80, when you're talking about a programming language, usually refers to the stuff that is coded on the computer (calc84, Iambian, etc.) and runs really fast, but is super hard to code. TI BASIC is the oncalc language that is much worse than z80 assembly in terms of speed and graphics, but is a lot easier. So when I see z80 and BASIC put next to each other, I get a little confused. I know what you mean but for others it might be unclear :P
(I know z80 also refers to the type of processor on the calc...and I thought the Nspire does ARM?)
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i'm not going to participate in this because i know how i structure my programs, and having to work with two other people would definitely throw me off.
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I think i will join if we get enough participants, but remember you also need judges :P So thats 9 people altogether participating, 6 contestants and 3 judges. Lets hope everybody joins! ^^
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I'll nominate DJ to be a judge, that takes care of one --I'm sure he'll do it
EDIT: I hope I didn't take advantage of you DJ, I realized that signing you up prematurely is very unfair, jut editing this in before it makes a bad impact :(
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obviously, this isn't attracting people's interests. Does anybody have a suggestion that I can change part of the contest to make it more appealing?
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maybe 2 memebers on a team?
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good idea! Hopefully that will be better
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I am uninterested on this, because of the idea of a team. So it's a no fro me.
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I'll be IN for Npsire w/ 84keypad TI Basic :)
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I'll sign you up for BASIC -- the calc you decide to use doesn't matter as long it's in the list (which in this case, it is :3)
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so, you can have a 84 programmer against an nspire programmer?
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as long as you can transfer the source code between the two calcs, it's fine (keep in mind this is with the 84+ keypad, so it's the same as that on a 84+)
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cool, put me donw for 84 BASIC then. ;)
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kk I will :D
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Sign me up for 84 Basic and Axe :D
Note that i cant do this contest while i am still doing the cage match though
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Sign me up for 84 Basic and Axe :D
Me too. :)
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ok, we have enough people for a match... but I want to see a few more people join first ;D
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Sign me up for 84 Basic and Axe :D
Me too. :)
Both Basic and Axe please. :) You just have me down for Basic. :D
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I'll fix that now :D
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this will be quite a challenge(mostly organizing two people's efforts). im thinking pm's to set things up and then conversing via private irc or gmail(seeing as we would most likely be using email to transfer demos back and forth), just in case you end up stuck with me.
EDIT: a song about teamwork and happiness (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmVxlCaMc-4&feature=related) to get people hyped :D!
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if you're talking to me, you won't be stuck ending up with me -- I'm the judge ;D
but yeah, that's good advice to all the contestants out there. Constant communication is one of the things I really want to stress in this competition.
Also, if I get 2 people to sign up for judges, I'll start the contest!
(if you sign up first round to be a judge, you won't be participating in that match -- you will be picked in a later match. So it's fine for future contestants to judge)
One judge I was hoping to get was DJ. If he sees this and says yes, that would be pretty awesome.
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This sounds like a cool idea, but I won't be entering for a while, because I'm focusing on Nostalgia. Maybe after I get a beta out...
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sure, sign me up.
It would be nice to have help with projects ;)
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Hmmm i'm reluctant to participate in a group project, as per my experience they have never ever worked out D:
I think it depends. If the project is small, it might work out well, but for large projects they got larger chances to fail, because eventually someone may move on or lose data, and with large projects this has higher chances of happening.)
This sounds interesting. I hope this works out well. :)
EDIT: ASHBAD sorry, I will probably not judge, as I already have too much on my plate, plus Christmas is coming so I'll get busier for a while with family stuff and at work. X.x
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Can we just have the community vote like for cage matches? it'd make things a lot simpler, and if its a tie, you break it?
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I've got two judges: shmibs, and ztrumpet. Here are the specs for the first match:
Language: Basic
Yunhua98
Qwerty.55
VERSUS
happybobjr
Raylin
THE MATCH topic IS:
Strategy game using only the homescreen.
DEADLINE: 2 weeks from today
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I would be up for Axe.
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I'll put you in ;)
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Perhaps run an Axe competition alongside the BASIC one? Even if I don't end up being in it, it would be nice not to wait 2+ weeks for the first Axe competition to start :P
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I wish I could, but there's not enough people to do the axe one at the same time; if you can help me recruit some people, maybe ;)
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I count 4 people waiting on the Axe list :P That's technically enough, although you'd be sure about which 4 people are going to be picked to compete lol.
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but 2 or 3 of themn are participating in the BASIC competition right now.
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I would but my current situation won't allow for enough communication with my team.
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Oh, well. Maybe later you'll change your mind ;)
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can someone link me to raylin's account i can't seem to find it...
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http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=profile;u=177
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I'm glad my schedule spontaneously cleared up last night so I could work on this.
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cool, do you accept?
I NEED ALL COMPETETORS IN THE MATCH TO ACCEPT VIA PM
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I will give my place to someone else who may want it. I have no ability with strategy games.
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are you sure? I can change th theme if you want (myust be done soon before anyone accepts)
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no, I should have no input on the theme.
If no one wants to take my spot, i will gladly participate.
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well, I can always put runer112 in for you...
make up your mind within the next 5 minutes before I send him a notification
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sry maybe next time.
I have already started a game while i wait for my cords to come.
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I'll take the two on without my partner.
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that'll make me feel unfair... :P
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Don't. I am a relatively good BASIC coder. If I lose, I lose.
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Don't put me in as a replacement, I signed up for the Axe list, not the BASIC one :P
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ok, then. even though it would be 2 on 1, I guess as long as ASHBAD_ALVIN agrees.
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AND THE TEAM BATTLES BEGIN!!!
The teams may now start working on the themed contest entry, and will have two weeks from today to finish it.
EDIT: yep it's 2 on 1 now, happybobjr is njow entitled some special things for round two in compensation though ;)
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Sounds interesting. I can judge probably when you want me too (just send a PM when you need me too and I'll see) but I can only judge TI-BASIC matches, or at least that's all I want to right now. As for competing I will participate in the TI-BASIC field.
Just for clarification between languages would people be opposed to start referring to 83/+/84+/SE BASIC as TI-BASIC and Nspire BASIC as Nspire-BASIC or N-BASIC? Just thought that might clear some confusion up. Also, I wouldn't talk about the Nspire at all really because that did kinda confuse me at first. It just kind of sounds awkward to me since I would think it's kind of implied. But that's just me, I don't mean anything rude by it.
Also, would it be to hard to split TI-BASIC up into two sub-sections? Pure TI-BASIC and Hybrid TI-BASIC? Because if one partner knows how to use xLib and such and the other contestant doesn't that could cause issues. (If you do this, I can only participate in the Pure TI-BASIC category.)
Also, good luck to the current contestants.
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For this match, it will be only pure BASIC. Maybe I'll add hybrid for the next match or something.
Also, I already have 2 judges, but next match will most likely be in axe so I might not need you to judge until match 3 ;)
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Ya, I figured since it's a homescreen match (not much you can use libraries for, I don't think, on the homescreen). I'm just saying you might want to for when you get into graphscreen matches, like have separate categories, because conflicts can arise if one person knows only Pure TI-BASIC and the other starts to use a library to achieve better graphics or something.
And ok, that's fine. I was just letting you know.
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ooh, people are actually doing this! i look forward to criticizing you all :P
good luck, everyone!
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I think this will be a good competition. Good luck everyone :)
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good luck to the three contestants! :D
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good luck to the three contestants! :D
Wait, three? I thought there were two teams of two.
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I'm taking on yunhua and you alone.
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Can we just have the community vote like for cage matches? it'd make things a lot simpler, and if its a tie, you break it?
Yeah I agree. Personally, I think next year if I do another contest I'll try to only have polls. It's much less work. I could maybe have them so people vote for best graphics, then gameplay, then controls/useability, and so on.
I'm taking on yunhua and you alone.
Wow 1v2? O.O But I guess it's fine if the one going solo doesn't mind and if there is at least one team participating.
Good luck people!
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I'll think about the judging some more and tell you my decision in a few days once I talk to ztrumpet and shmibs
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i think raylin actually has the advantage here. though qwerty and yunhua can churn out twice as much code, debugging will be a major pain due to two potentially buggy sources than one
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this can be a test to see which is better -- a solo run or a team of two
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Ah ok sounds fair. :)
The good side of judging is that programs gets judged more in depth for the content rather than just if someone likes it. If LordConipiuter entry for the Axe contest had no bugs, it might have stood a huge chance during judging, but I am sure people who vote would have not voted for it just because the file is large. :/ In other words, with just a poll, for certain contest themes, it may be unfair. However, just a poll allows the community to voice their opinion easier than if judges decide who gets high score and who doesn't.
And yeah I agree this could maybe show if team work is better than solo or the opposite. With team work, the issue is that both people can be in different timezones and have different life schedule, so it's hard to stay in touch. Also it can be harder to decide what to add, if there's a disagreement on features. There are less chances of data losses, though, as there are 2x more backups (providing they make them).
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Must the entire program be homescreen only or can we use the graph screen for menus and make the game itself homescreen only?
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the menu can be on the graphscreen.
everthing having to do with the actual gameplay though MUST be on homescreen only.
This excludes the title screen, pause screen, and the highscores screen (though they CAN be on homescreen if you wish)
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the menu can be on the graphscreen.
everthing having to do with the actual gameplay though MUST be on homescreen only.
This excludes the title screen, pause screen, and the highscores screen (though they CAN be on homescreen if you wish)
Okay, that makes everything a lot easier (and the final project better).
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It'll be cool to see how you make units and stuff (or whatever you're doing for your strategy game) with ASCII :D
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Yeah, I'll be interested to figure that out myself.
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Yeah, I'll be interested to figure that out myself.
Ican't wait for some more progres ;D
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Same here. I am curious about what type of strategy game will come out of this. :)
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can we use Axe Subroutines?
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can we use Axe Subroutines?
Well since it is a Pure TI-BASIC match I'm gonna say no. In Hybrid TI-BASIC probably ya.
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ah, ok, but can we have Shops and stuff on the graphscreen if there aren't any graphics and we're just taking advantage of the smaller text?
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sure, but NONE of the gameplay can involve it. Shops is an exception too ;)
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ok, cool. ;) so I'm assuming as long as anything that can be considered a game by itself is not allowed on the graph, right?
so transitions are allowed?
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sure, but NONE of the gameplay can involve it. Shops is an exception too ;)
No need to worry about the game itself involving the graphscreen. It's bad enough trying to decompress the home screen data, let alone doing it for the Graph screen.
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So, lemme get this straight. You can use the graphscreen for shops, menus, pausing, high scores, and the title?
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I think so. I'm not sure shops should be an exception, though. Makes too much of the gameplay on the graphscreen. I'm not running the competition, though.
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I think the only thing that can be on the graphscreen is the title screen and a main menu, otherwise everything else must be on the homescreen. That's how I understood it anyways.
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sure, but NONE of the gameplay can involve it. Shops is an exception too ;)
^this
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I almost wanna say that the shops should be on the homescreen. Those are definitely part of gameplay.
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I almost wanna say that the shops should be on the homescreen. Those are definitely part of gameplay.
i somewhat disagree. Shops (to me) have always been kinda like a pause feature when you reach a certain part of a game.
I believe it more depends on what kind of shop you have. (Phoenix shop vs Runescape shop)
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But it's entirely possible to have the shop on the homescreen, and not difficult, so I don't see any reason why it shouldn't be on the homescreen. If the game is on the homescreen, anyway, then it's not going to have superb graphics.
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But it's entirely possible to have the shop on the homescreen, and not difficult, so I don't see any reason why it shouldn't be on the homescreen. If the game is on the homescreen, anyway, then it's not going to have superb graphics.
I have large objections to using Menu(
It forces labels and goto's and what not. And i was taught to avoid such things
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you don't need Menu() to have a homescreen menu.
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You don't need to use Menu(. Make your own menus, that don't need gotos
EDIT: Ninja'd
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or if you really like Menu...
5
Menu("ONE",A,"TWO",B,"THREE",C,"FOUR",D)
Lbl A
Ans-1
Lbl B
Ans-1
Lbl C
Ans-1
Lbl D
Ans-1
If Ans=1
//Do first code
If Ans=2
//Do second code
If Ans=3
//Do third code
If Ans=4
//Do fourth code
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or if you really like Menu...
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The menu function doesn't look very professional in my opinion. It's only really useful for math programs.
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or if you really like Menu...
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The menu function doesn't look very professional in my opinion. It's only really useful for math programs.
The Menu function is a simple way to do things.
For example, The Impossible Game's menu is a more professional menu, better looking, more advanced.
About the math programs, yeah, Formulum will be based on a Menu( hahaha
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i guess you could, never thought about that...
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since you CAN use the graphscreen for that, you might as well. But don't spend too much time on the menu part :P
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How are we supposed to submit the finished projects? By e-mail or posting?
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you have to email or PM them to me. I and the other judges will then release it after we look it over.
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or if you really like Menu...
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The menu function doesn't look very professional in my opinion. It's only really useful for math programs.
On top of that, it only allows 7 choices maximum. :(
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or if you really like Menu...
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The menu function doesn't look very professional in my opinion. It's only really useful for math programs.
On top of that, it only allows 7 choices maximum. :(
Technically, but you can always chain together Menu( commands if you want but it can get messy.
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YEah I did that in some of my games, but yeah, when you got like 3 pages, one of the ends up with 4 choices, as the 5th choice is back, 6th next and 7th return. X.x
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Shouldn't this be stickied?
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Hmm... let me check if the list isn't too cluttered first...
EDIT: NOpe it's fine, plus the Cage matches are stickied already, so I'm stickying this now.
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Can the current battle be on the first post so i don't have to go through every page?
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Done.
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@guy: yeah, I'll fix that tomorrow when I got some more time.
@rayli: excellent, see if you can somehow do something to spice it up, unless you really want to submit it now. If the latter is so, then send it to [email protected]
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No, Raylin edited your post to include the current contest.
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oh, that was nice of him. :)
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@rayli: excellent, see if you can somehow do something to spice it up, unless you really want to submit it now. If the latter is so, then send it to [email protected]
Raylin is ready to submit already? :o
Wow, we're about a week behind.
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Nonono.
I just edited the post.
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Okay, good.
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can you extend the dealine? I had midterms this week and I haven't got much time. :(
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how much time do you need? Because raylin might need one too.
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Personally, I'd like a week extra. I'm really busy next week, so I won't be able to code much.
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Hmm...
I can do that. One more week after the deadline. That goes for everybody ;)
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yeah, a week'll do. ;)
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speaking of ray needing extra time...
i remember seeing something about your calc being bricked on sunday?!
how did that situation turn out?
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he's fine now, but he lost a weeks worth of data apparently, so this extension is fair for both parties.
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X.x
That seems familiar with his Cemetech contest entry D:
I hope he can finish it in time and not get another data loss the hour before submission...
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Hmmm.....both contest deadlines getting extended....
Maybe the deadlines should be longer in the first place, then shorten them if both programs are turned in before hand.
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Although it shouldn't be too long either, otherwise people tend to wait at the last minute more, it seems, to work on their entry.
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I don't know what Raylin's doing with his project, but we are most definitely working on ours.
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Ya, he's been working on it.
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I don't know what Raylin's doing with his project, but we are most definitely working on ours.
Haha. Don't worry about my progress. You'll still get stomped. :)
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From the previous posts, it seems you lost your progress. Is that true? Or did you manage to recover most lost time?
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I don't know what Raylin's doing with his project, but we are most definitely working on ours.
Haha. Don't worry about my progress. You'll still get stomped. :)
Not a chance of that happening, unless you've figured out how to hack the homescreen into using individual pixels with BASIC.
/me goes off to finish the menus for Battlefield
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O.O?
I assume you imply that you did that?? O.o
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You'll have to wait and see... ;)
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Is it with ASM libs btw? I wonder if he allows them...
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No ASM is allowed, including Libraries. This is a pure BASIC competition. I could do some really cool stuff with the tilemapping engine if I only I could use ASM functions.
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You speak as though you have hacked said homescreen into showing pixels.
I find this interesting.
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You're on.
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I am really confused, though. Are you using an OS glitch or something or a 2.53MP-only thing? Could you PM me your trick if you don't want it public? It irks me that you are so cryptic. Just "A" doesn't say anything to me...
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There isn't a way to hack BASIC into doing something beyond it's commands without hacking the interpreter itself. Since TI created BASIC to be perfectly safe for anyone to use, there's no way to modify the interpreter without ASM. Unfortunately, ASM isn't allowed, so that's not possible. When I said that the routine can only display certain sequences, I meant the alphanumeric characters that TI-BASIC uses the buttons to enter, such as A, B, C, 1, 2, 3, and so on.
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Ok but it still doesn't explain how you display individual pixels on the home screen as you said you did earlier. :/
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Ok but it still doesn't explain how you display individual pixels on the home screen as you said you did earlier. :/
The individual pixels are the collections of pixels that make up each character.
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So, you made custom text input, not a way to display a single pixel on the homescreen.
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Oh ok I see now. Then it's more ASCII art than individual pixel display, I guess.
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Oh ok I see now. Then it's more ASCII art than individual pixel display, I guess.
I don't think so. I think that he's saying that his game lets him type characters without pressing ALPHA.
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Oh ok I see now. Then it's more ASCII art than individual pixel display, I guess.
Exactly :)
I just wish the homescreen allowed text overlay. That would be almost as good.
I don't think so. I think that he's saying that his game lets him type characters without pressing ALPHA.
Well, yes. The custom Input routine does automatically read keypresses as letters.
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Ah ok, I was confused a lot X.x
And yeah, I wonder why it doesn't let us display our text at the vertical position we want on the home screen, considering both the TI-73 OS and 84+ newer OSes' MATHPRINT feature lets you do it to a certain extent while doing maths...
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Technically you can output a single individual pixel, only catch is that it's the same pixel in each spot and you can't do much with it :P (I'm referring to the single point stat-plot type token.)
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Well, looks like progress IS being made, guys. I'm getting excitted :D
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Technically you can output a single individual pixel, only catch is that it's the same pixel in each spot and you can't do much with it :P (I'm referring to the single point stat-plot type token.)
Yeah true, lol. At first I thought he meant that then I re-read the different off-set thing and got confused.
I'm glad there's progress, too. :)
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So that it's perfectly clear, the deadline is the 18th.
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Wow that far? O.o I was sure it was ending like this week, after being pushed back a week later.
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yeah, Raylin is right -- it end the 18th. I think that's enough time for you guys to give me good games to score ;)
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I am no longer participating in this battle.
However, continue the battle until the deadline.
My mood may subside by then. But, right now...
Oh, man.
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I'm sorry to hear that. Hope life clears up a bit for you :(
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I'M sorry you feel this way, I hope you change your mind.
ASHBAD Will the deadline be extended?
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Yeah, I was excited about your entry. Hope you change your mind, too.
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Raylin, I'm very sorry to hear :'(
Do you need any extensions at all? If so ,I'd be more than happy to grant you what you need.
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Restarting my project from scratch. I will release my engine later on.
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Sorry to hear that. Will you be releasing in time for the deadline?
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I am making a whole new game... but maybe, I dunno.
I wanna say yes.
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sorry about the deadline pushes, but can we change it from Thurs to Saturday? because i doubt I would be allowed to upload anything before that. :(
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/me hopes both of you can manage to finish your entry in time without too much hassle (ram clears/parents/etc)
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RAM Clears? /me doubts...
Parents? may cause the entry to be late, but not deleted. ;) I think Qwerty is really busy this week though.
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Busy is right. I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to find time to sleep, let alone code complicated decryption algorithms.
EDIT: I'm glad this is a team challenge. I would have lost almost of the progress just now to a RAM clear if Yunhua didn't have a copy.
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Yeah it's always good to keep backups in case. What sucks is when every backup fails at once (hard drive failure, combined with both people calcs crashing at once and jumpdrive dying), though :P
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fine, saturday at the latest to submit ;)
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Both entries are due tomorrow at 5:00 PM EST (-5 time zone, like in washington DC).
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Aw, I was hoping we could submit at 11:59 PM...
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ok, make that 11:59 PM EST then.
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You know I was joking, right?
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hmm no i didn't. Well then 5:00. I don't like non-obama jokes.
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Which joke? ???
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Which joke? ???
This one: Aw, I was hoping we could submit at 11:59 PM...
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Hmm I never heard of it X.x I don,t get it...
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I think he was just being silly about how he wanted to submit it at a super specific time :P
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Idk either so much. I think Qwerty wanted to make a joke about how deadlines are always 12am (like the axe parser contest) and how people stay up late to submit their entries last minute or something
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Idk either so much. I think Qwerty wanted to make a joke about how deadlines are always 12am (like the axe parser contest) and how people stay up late to submit their entries last minute or something
^This
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Oh ok, although I wasn't getting the Obama reference. :P
But it's true that most people wait at the last minute. For Omnimaga contest, 12 of the 13 entries were submitted during the last 24 hours before the announced deadline. I was getting scared the contest was gonna be an epic failure.
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But it's true that most people wait at the last minute. For Omnimaga contest, 12 of the 13 entries were submitted during the last 24 hours before the announced deadline. I was getting scared the contest was gonna be an epic failure.
Not only was my entry submitted less than 5 minutes from the end of the contest, but I started on it only 6 hours before. :P
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Oh ok, although I wasn't getting the Obama reference. :P
But it's true that most people wait at the last minute. For Omnimaga contest, 12 of the 13 entries were submitted during the last 24 hours before the announced deadline. I was getting scared the contest was gonna be an epic failure.
lol I meant that since it didn;t make fun of obama it wasn't funny -- and I was joking too :P
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Lol. Just as a note, a lot of ppl take politics seriously especially in the us with the current siuation :P I know you're joking but some other people might take it the wrong way :)
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Yeah it might be best to be careful. Even in Canada people can have strong political views. Unfortunately with politics some people won't accept that other people have different opinions so it's a good idea to try to not instigate a political debate on a random forum on the internet. :P
But it's true that most people wait at the last minute. For Omnimaga contest, 12 of the 13 entries were submitted during the last 24 hours before the announced deadline. I was getting scared the contest was gonna be an epic failure.
Not only was my entry submitted less than 5 minutes from the end of the contest, but I started on it only 6 hours before. :P
Wow o.o
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sorry for double post but HOLY FUCK the contest ends in 2 hours and I have NO SUBMISSIONS
EDIT: not double post anymore but still HOLY SHIT I need those by 5
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*!@#$@N %$&#@!&@!&!#@*!@#*@!&!@#& loops. Integrating these is a bloody pain. You won't be getting a tested version, Ashbad.
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Sign me up for Basic.
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will do so matthias. and qwerty that's awfully weird you had ~3 weeks oh well just get it to me by 5.
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Yunhua was been unable to get the battle engine to me until this morning because of parents and computer access. Plus, our code seems to be mutually incompatible :P
We've both been extraordinarily busy.
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Yunhua was been unable to get the battle engine to me until this morning because of parents and computer access. Plus, our code seems to be mutually incompatible :P
this is what i meant when i said raylin has the advantage.
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Hooray. RAM clear.
I lost everything again.
Now, it's time for me to call on the calculator gods and program a game in one hour.
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*sigh...
Do you guys need till tuesday? I'll move it till then
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I can't tell whether I should be grateful or Sad :-\
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question: is there a theme to this contest?
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yes: a homescreen based strategy game. in BASIC.
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yes: a homescreen based strategy game. in BASIC.
neat. i think you should let them duke it out in one hour though, it'd be interesting to see the results. plus the extensions have been insanely long already...
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/me has no idea what to do.
/me would rather play spore than work out more extensions anyhow
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Don't extend it. I have pulled things out of my arse before.
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if you are sure, then go ahead. if the other group can't get anything in, the I guess you would win then :P
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/me has no idea what to do.
/me would rather play spore than work out more extensions anyhow
Don't panic!
/End of useless advice
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We can get something in. I would have submitted it already, but !#@% sourcecoder is messing with my insanely complicated menu structure and Wabbit's acting up. The game itself is *finished.*
I have no idea what's wrong with the menus. The code hasn't changed.
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This sucks about the RAM clear Raylin and Qwerty about being busy. Hopefully you guys can manage to do something in a shorter amount of time. Somehow I feel Raylin has a huge advantage, though, considering he managed to submit a Cemetech contest entry in one hour o.o
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Submitted :-\
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Ah ok. Btw it's still Axe, right (after reading the list on the first post)? Because if it's pure-BASIC, then Raylin's calc kinda scares me. ???
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after this, can you put me on a currently unavailible for contests list? cause I really don't have the time right now for Team Battles, the second and third update I made was mostly rendered useless by Qwerty.55's updates (not you fault. ;)). And I can't read others code well.
oh, and btw, Qwerty did most of the work. I guess I was just a little cut off from the internet. :( but, yeah
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Almost finished with something...
Not a strategy game to the extent that I wanted.
No time to put in the elements...
Still coding BRB
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Good luck!
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Indeed, all the best!
If there is need of a judge/reviewer I'll be glad to do it...at least for this time ;)
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oh, and btw, Qwerty did most of the work. I guess I was just a little cut off from the internet. :( but, yeah
You did the work I wanted to the least :P
By the way, can I be discounted from the next few competitions? This battle sucked. It wasn't because of Yunhua. I just don't like deadlines.
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If there is need of a judge/reviewer I'll be glad to do it...at least for this time ;)
If Ashbad allows it, you can have my spot for judging this one. I don't really have time right now to judge. ;)
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If there is need of a judge/reviewer I'll be glad to do it...at least for this time ;)
If Ashbad allows it, you can have my spot for judging this one. I don't really have time right now to judge. ;)
Cool but the decision is, like you pointed out, up to him.
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DONE!
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O.O
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That's impressive.
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wow...
but yeah, I'm really not good at reading other people's code, which is why I really respect those people who take the time to look over your code when you need help, and also why I'm no longer using ASHBAD's engine for my platformer-ish game. ;) (not that his engine was bad.)
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Same here, I have trouble even when there are comments. I have my way of coding so I often get lost anyway. :(
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I'm no better at reading other people's code. It was kind of difficult to integrate your code with mine. But it was done! ;D
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I can't even read my own code after a while. :P
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ATWAB engine.
Run TEST2 to play.
[2nd] - Change directions
Arrows - Move camera
TRACE and GRAPH - Move camera a screen at a time
[ALPHA] - Stop moving
Merh. Basic stuff. You may need to experiment.
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readme for battle field, very simple
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@yunhua98
where can I find your game? wether I am going to review/judge it or not I'd still like to play it...
thanks!
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Yunhua doesn't have the programs anymore.
Here is the beta version. Run Program Battle to access the game.
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coolio, guys!
it looks like there's been a bit of trouble over this contest since i last had time to check the thread... but the stuffs submitted now, anyways.
EDIT:
i tested out Yunhua/Qwerty 's entry on wabbit and this was the result:
the cheat menu rendered an
(http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/divbyzero.PNG)
on the battle menu, no keys respond but clear, and that is on a delay.
there is no way to exit the battle shop...
the campaign menu's Return selection takes one to the graphscreen.
i suppose that it could just be terrible-terrible wabbit-related errors, however, so i'll have to test this out on hardware later.
EDIT2:
hmm... yours looks interesting, ray. i like the tilemapping, but what exactly is the point?(apart from running back and forth/getting eaten by the pi at the rightmost end of the map?).
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ROFL.
That error's a joke, right?
More seriously, there is a way to exit the Battle Shop. It's to press the Clear Button. However, Source coder screwed up something, because I had the same problem with wabbit.
Here's a screenshot from the most recent version before sourcecoder:
(http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/Battle9.gif)
I made absolutely no changes to that part of the code structure throughout the integration process, so I don't know what happened. I've tried multiple things to fix it and I've looked through the code half a dozen times trying to find the error.
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Wait lol... that is sure a joke :P. I assume it's because it's not implemented yet, right? I know I was planning to implement some easter eggs in Illusiat 13 at one point that did such weird things, but the game was never finished.
Anyway I'll have to try this when I get some time. :)
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Ah ok but what's with the Divide by Zero error then? ???
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I think it's a joke he made up. The cheat menu already contains enough memes ;D
Plus, the algorithm contains only one division and the denominator in it can't possibly be 0.
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Lol ok. I wonder how many times I'll lose the game when playing this. X.x
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At least twice. ;D
Actually, that's really funny. I might consider making that a cheat code.
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on the battle menu i was being impatient and hitting clear during loading. the others, however, still stand(including the div-by-zero, although i was just typing random things in)
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I'm not sure how you got a divide by 0 in the cheat menu. It *should* be impossible.
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Wait lol... that is sure a joke :P. I assume it's because it's not implemented yet, right? I know I was planning to implement some easter eggs in Illusiat 13 at one point that did such weird things, but the game was never finished.
Anyway I'll have to try this when I get some time. :)
Ah ok but what's with the Divide by Zero error then? ???
DJ Omnimaga double posting? Shame on you ;)
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Oh woops, I was checking a bunch of threads, but clicked back and forgot I replied to this one. Later I posted again, but I replied from a previous page. X.x
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DJ Omnimaga double posting? Shame on you ;)
He didn't double post, I just deleted my post before I saw his pop up. It was bad timing.
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I'll give you guys till monday to put finishing touches on these submission. I can't judge them today anyways.
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DJ Omnimaga double posting? Shame on you ;)
He didn't double post, I just deleted my post before I saw his pop up. It was bad timing.
Oh I see, lol. X.x
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Interesting. Well good luck you guys. I'll have to check out the games later when I get a chance :)
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What happened to this? ???
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What happened to this? ???
Not just this, Cage Matches too!
I want a contest! I love contests!
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I think Raylin cancelled his project, right? IIRC some life stuff came up then he kinda stopped all calc projects he was working on. I also remember joining one of the HCWP thing on Cemetech, which he founded, and he was not online... hopefully he returns soon. Maybe another contest could be started in the meantime?
It could also be due to finals, though.
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I think Raylin cancelled his project, right? IIRC some life stuff came up then he kinda stopped all calc projects he was working on. I also remember joining one of the HCWP thing on Cemetech, which he founded, and he was not online... hopefully he returns soon. Maybe another contest could be started in the meantime?
It could also be due to finals, though.
Contests are a way of motivating programmers to do the best stuff out there, if given a short time limit, they'll make something good. Too long limit, they'll forget about it, no pressure, make something good. Given the exact time and pressure? Perfect programs!
I want a contest!
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With a long time limit, people wait at the very last minute to create or release something. I would never start a huge contest like the Axe Parser one during the school year, though, because most people have less time to work on something large and anything can happen, while during Summer, you usually have more guaranteed free time (although camping can occur)
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I don't know about in here but ya in the solo cage matches Raylin had to postpone it a bit (I think that was the final verdict). With finals coming up soon before winter break in the United States school can get really hectic since it's semester finals. I'm thinking once winter break comes things will start easing up on people and more contests will go on and such. Like DJ said, school time can just be a hard time to program.
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Necropost :P
What happened to this?
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wll, i have been working hard.
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By the way, since this no longer seems alive, should I unsticky this topic?
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yeah.