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Oh... that would be a nice idea actually. I totally forgot to get the 2009 winners featured last year XD. Builderboy was featured as winner, though, in the Shift feature

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I'd be ok with it. Would you be releasing source code with the project release that we send you, or just the asm file after validating that it is written in axe.
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It will be up to the author after the contest deadline ends. Once we released the entries for the poll, the author is free to release the source or even updates of the game. However he cannot submit those updates for his contest entry after the deadline of course.

And yeah Eeems tried to install a iTouch forum theme before, but it failed because the theme is only for SMF 2.0 and I don't know enough coding to make one for SMF 1.1 that is easy to browse under SMF.

There is also a iTouch app for SMF and other forums that I could install, but unfortunately it's not free :/.

Sadly nothing we can do since the site is meant to be browsed with a computer. It's hard to satisfy everyone who use those >9000 other devices that are not desktops or laptops to browse the site :(

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Try closing OmnomIRC. You'll see the difference. ;D
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I think the winner and all other awesome games deserve Ticalc features, providing they are all really good games. :)

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True. At least 3 of the 8 number guessing games I received so far should be featured on ticalc front page I think. I rejected all quadratic solvers except for one, though, because they are not games.

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DJ, you've just reminded me of your Grayscale Number Guessing Game
Goodness, that would be terrible if we actually received number guessing games as entries...
Also, how could you reject my quadratic solver? I spent an entire minute working on it! :P
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True. At least 3 of the 8 number guessing games I received so far should be featured on ticalc front page I think. I rejected all quadratic solvers except for one, though, because they are not games.

whoa, did someone really try to send number guessing games?  I know the quadratic one's fake though.

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I was kidding, don't worry :P

I hope this doesn't happen for real, though :P

And lol Calcdude84se I remember that too XD, that was in 2006 when I started getting fed up about all crappy programs released on ticalc and no good games. One month after I posted that a former Omnimaga staff released a grayscale quadratic solver on ticalc.org XD (ticalc no longer accepted them at the time, but I think they got the joke and accepted that one anyway, plus it was exactly the 100th one ever uploaded in the 83+ quadratic solvers section at the time)

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For our contest entries, would it be acceptable if we also made an intro in a separate program in Axe (that wouldn't be required by our game), to include in the zip, like in Final Fantasy 1.198, so that we could develop the stories a little more on calc.


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That can be done

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UPDATE!

No rule changes this time, but the e-mail where you submit your entries did change! As said on front page, it is now   2 0 1 0 a x e c o n t e s t @ g m a i l . c o m

This should reduce the risks of entries getting lost into the notifications and spam that the other address receives and allow more people to access the entries, should anything bad happen to me, my internet or my computers by the time the contest ends.
« Last Edit: June 12, 2010, 03:08:20 am by DJ Omnimaga »

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Are we able to have a demo of a game with a few playable levels and submit that?
i.e. An RPG with a few chapters.
« Last Edit: June 16, 2010, 10:20:35 am by Raylin »
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Assuming you mean for final contest sumbission (not for public release before the contest deadline) demos are allowed as contest entries.

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Can I do a port as well? If so, count me in! Strictly taken it is not a exact port because of the limited capabilities of the calc. But i will use the general idea and setting....

I think I am gonna do a port of "The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom" which is the coolest puzzle game ever besides "Braid". If you are curious just hit YT or google
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