At last, the Axe Parser Programming Contest results are finally available! We would like to thank you for your patience while we were judging the contest entries and preparing the results and to everyone who both participated to the contest and the survey.

The Axe Parser Programming Contest is the Omnimaga contest that received the highest participation rate so far with a total of 13 entries, the second being the March 2006 pixel-art contest, which received 9. Despite Axe language being very new, RAM clears and other factors, we manage to have 9 more entries than the 2009 Omnimaga programming competition, which gave participants 2 additional weeks to work on their entry compared to this year.

Many of the entries were great, either by the fact they were polished very well or the fact they were worked on in an incredibly small amount of time (sometimes a few hours). However, we had to declare a winner, a 2nd place and a 3rd place entry, so during the survey, 50 members voted for their favorite entries, while me, Quigibo and Builderboy tried to judge every entry on 5 points, attempting at finding as many flaws as possible in each game to prevent scores from being even. Games were judged on originality, gameplay/controls, graphics, entertainment value and useability. So now here comes the 3 winners, from 3rd place to 1st!

-3rd place was a "battle royale" between 3 entries: Jump, Splut and Simul, all of which received the same amount of votes. Jump, by ztrumpet, did not have a score as high during judging, but was still only 28 points behind the 3rd place winner. In Splut case, it went extremly close to win. In fact, it would have won if it was not a team project. Due to the contest rules, a penalty was given on his originality score as he did not make the game levels himself, although the penaltiy was not very high since the code was all written by himself. Because of that, his entry ends up falling 2 points behind Simul. This means that Deep Thought wins the 3rd place prize of the contest: a $25 online gift card (iTunes, Amazon, Newegg or another online store of his choice)

-2nd place came to Michael Lee's Axe Minesweeper clone, which managed to do extremly well on every points even thought there were bugs reported by the author. Finally the bugs did not hinder gameplay and judges had an hard time triggering them. He attempted to submit a newer version shortly before the deadline, but the file did not successfully go through. However, it did not stop him from scoring in the 500s (out of 600) and win the 2nd place prize: a $50 online gift card!

-1st place was a battle royale between the contest judges and the Omnimaga community. Despite having suffered a major data loss a few months ago and not finishing his entry either, the author still managed to achieve something of high quality before the deadline. Due to some control issues, his entry did not score as high as the 3rd and 2nd place during the judging process, but it drew a lot of attention on the public side and it became the Omnimaga community favorite contest entry, with a total of 8 votes. With 21.5 more points than Minesweeper, we are proud to announce that the winner of Omnimaga contest is Wacky Fun... er... I mean Advance Wars TI, by SirCmpwn! He wins the 1st place prize, which is a $100 online gift card!


The winners will need to PM me on the forums to get their online prize (and choose for which store they want it) so I can start the delivery process.

In addition to that, some banners will be made for various contest participants: 3 for the winners, one for everyone who participated, two for the highest votes and two for the highest judge scores.

More stuff might come out soon, such as comments on each entries by the judges. They will be posted in this topic later. We would like to thank everyone for participating and we wish we could give more prizes this year, considering the high participation to this contest. We hope to organize future contests in the future.

Congratulations to the winners!

How did WFRNG come second to last?

I would participate next year. =)

lol i got 1st from the judges

anyway congrats to those who won!
and gl to everyone in the next contest if there is one

lol yeah. I love though how all the judges scored mine in last exept DJ which gave me some *slightly* higher scores. Yay cant wait for next year!

congrats peoples!
and thanks for the wonderful prize donations as well. high stakes make everything so much more fun!

Congratulations to the winners! And to those whose entries were featured on ticalc.org!


Any ideas as to what the next Omnimaga contest might be, if there is another one next year?

Not sure yet, but it might either be another axe contest or a BASIC, ASM, Axe and hybrid contest. The later may be hectic, though

Also fun facts about the 2010 contest:

-Quigibo misspelled SirCmpwn nickname as SirCpwin in his judging results file. A prelude to SirCmpwn victory?
-Michael_Lee nickname was obliterated as well, same for Sir's contest entry name. SirCmpwn is definitively not 100% lucky.
-We almost got a second Wacky Fun Random Numbar Generator clone before the deadline, by Calcdude84se.
-All but 2 entries were submitted 24 hours before the deadline. The week before, we got worried this contest would be a failure.
-We went close to have a tie-breaker poll between Ikkerens and Deep Thought entry.