Well I'M glad there were still entries. I hope participation will be higher in future contests, especially that the game didn't have to be extremly large.

One major problem I see is that dozens of people want to enter, then at the end everyone cancel their entry...

Same here, it also didn't help that I took on a project that was just too large for the time alloted to finish it, and it never entered a playable stage

I think for this contest, even though the idea was to create the best game possible, even small games would have had a large chance of winning.

Same here, it also didn't help that I took on a project that was just too large for the time alloted to finish it, and it never entered a playable stage

Same for mine.   I wish I could have entered it though.

IMO the month long ls fine for these, since none of the entries were huge to begin with. I finished mine in 6 days.

One issue with Summer, though, is that two big contests will be running then (assuming Cemetech still do their annual contest). Plus maybe UTI will do one too. As a result, the smaller contests will have troubles competing, most likely.

It could just be an old post.

They were both at once, but Omni's finished 10 days later, but most Omni entries were rushed in at the very last minute because of RAM clears or procastinating.

For this Summer I thought about starting earlier for Axe/Nspire but finishing earlier too, then once Cemetech contest ends, do the BASIC/ASM/hybrid round. For some reasons I believe people aren't as busy in October as in September, except for a short while in the middle of the month, because last Fall in October we had 12000 posts.

That said, maybe starting earlier might be useless, because most people procastinate until the very end of the contest then rush in a smaller entry because they lacked time to finish their big one.