Re: [Adonthell-general] French Ministry or Research organizes Free Game programming contest

[Kai Sterker]

On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 17:33:54 +0100 Benjamin Walther-Franks wrote:

> At Wednesday 22.01.2003 13:29, you wrote:
> >...Astounding update!
> >
> >I've just received an email from the contest organizers: after a few
> >complains similar to mine, they decided to allow older games (citing:
> >"Contestants can submit a game they started developping several
> >months or years ago") to participate, which means we can do it! :)
> >Whoohoo! See you in March in Paris! ;)
> >
> >Some counter-complains have appeared, of course. As a consequence,
> >the development time factor will be taken into account when judging
> >the games. Fair enough, I think. It's going to be much harder to win
> >big prizes, but anyway winning is secondary to the meeting itself!
> >And Adonthell has some interesting aspects anyway.

Indeed. In fact, I think the whole contest benefits from this change.
More competition, more mature content, more people :).


> I'm definately coming, you can count on me! Also I'll devote all free
> time I have (not much at the time) to making adonthell look it's best
> at the meeting.
> 
> Seriously, we should talk about this: what needs to be done until
> when. Now we have a deadline, we should sort that out soon. (I for one
> work quite well under deadline pressure... ;)

Do we need a presentation? In that case we could use a nice design for
the slides. Some adonthellish theme, whatever ...

Don't think we can do much on the gfx front though. Getting rid of the
pink noise is the only thing I can think of :).


Kai