Re: [pygame] Pygame-only competition

[luke p <rabidpoobear@xxxxxxxxx>]

okay, thanks for answering.

On 7/6/05, Richard Jones <richardjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 06:05 pm, luke wrote:
> > [snip]
> 
> thanks for the info
> 
> 
> > by the way (directed at richard) I followed a link (I believe to
> > October2004 LudumDare theme suggestions)
> > from the reestablished wiki and it was all spam about Best Place to buy
> > Cigarettes etc.
> 
> Thanks, somehow those edits slipped under my wiki-spam-watching radar.
> 
> 
> > Is this competition going to be hosted on mechanicalcat.com as LD was?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> 
> > "All entries must run on the latest available libraries (ie. the latest
> > release of PyGame, PyOpenGL, etc)."
> >
> > do you mean the source must be compatible with the latest release?
> 
> Correct. You don't have to develop with the latest, but it must run on the
> latest.
> 
> 
> > " You are allowed to use existing libraries that have been available
> > for at least one month before the competition. The libraries must not
> > implement any game logic."
> >
> > If you're starting the competition on the 21st, there are still 2 weeks to
> > write applications or libraries right?
> 
> Yep. It looks like it'll be the week after though.
> 
> 
> > If I (for example) write a basic tiled-world creator by this deadline, and
> > I post the source to a free host such as Brinkster
> > do I need to do anything other than that?
> 
> Documentation accompanying the code would be good. The intention here is to
> remove any unfair advantage you might have by eg. using your own
> map-rendering code. There's no value to anyone else if you release that code
> exactly a month before the comp with no comments in the code and no
> accompanying docs or example usages :)
> 
> 
> > Do I need it to be linked from
> > somewhere or would it be sufficient to just post
> > an announcement on this mailing list and then in the IRC channel (gotta
> > have an IRC channel) once the comp. starts?
> 
> An entry on the pygame.org libraries section would be good. Until the new
> pygame.org gets going, you could submit it to the PCR.
> 
> 
>     Richard
> 
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