get a new contest going?

[Pino]

How about we offer a couple of weeks for people to design a 2d game based around arcade. Points given for creativity (so everyone doesn't just create pong) along with points for programming techniques and 'clever' methods. I'd like 50% of the points to be given by you guys in a public poll the other 50 from the mods this way we can all try each others projects out.

Any thoughts?

[Pino]

Or a themed contest: for example, create a game that somehow combines tetris and pong. Atleast this would show how creative people can get when they get a limited theme, everyone seeing very concrete results, as creativity in the code side may often go unnoticed (for some reason I've felt this way quite often).


But someone really really should just get started on anything. Everyone has ideas and suggestions, but nobody has been really willing to finally do something about it. I've tried, a few times, but I end up either being too busy (with work) or losing interest in other ways.

Merri,

I may not be replying but I am monitoring this thread as soon as I know I can get a few people involved I will set it up no problem!

[Lord Orwell]

what do you mean based around arcade?

[psychotomus]

Simple arcade games i think.

[Lord Orwell]

sounds like a great idea. And it would not matter if it was .net or vb6 i would say. Although truthfully we could bias the points towards vb6 due to the higher difficulty of playing sound, etc. in vb6.

[Pino]

Well it will be opened up to Vb.Net and Vb6!

ok i'll get something whipped up and get this going

[Lord Orwell]

(makes mr.burns finger movement)
Excellent.