Feel free to post your comments about which game(s) you liked best/worst. and any areas where improvements could be done. *PLEASE GIVE ONLY CONSTRUCTIVE CRITISM* thx. I saw a LOT of great game ideas and a obviously a heck of a lot of effort went into these games. I think everyone who entered deserves a Round of applause. I believe that everyone of these games, given some improvement pointers, could be released as Valueware products e.g by Xtreme Games LLC (www.xganes3d.com) - This way everyone''s a winner. /Memir

Suggestion to the contest officials:

When you announce the winners, do like the IGF and give awards for several categories. You''ve only gotta give the prize for the overall winner, but I''d like to see what you guys thought had best visuals, sound, animation, use of humor, original theme, use of sprites, etc.

We''ve got a lot of entries, and I don''t think the overall winner''s gonna be clear-cut, so you might as well mention what you liked in each entry.

I just played through all the games again last night, but it was late, so I decided to wait till this morning to post this.

I had technical difficulties with:
The Tailgator - the alien bitmap was mangled sometimes
Go Karts - crashed my machine twice, couldn''t start
Radik - The top portion of the screen was mangled. (Did you hand-write your blits? It looked like the surface pitch was off.) Also, as soon as I press space I die.
Caelum - The game ends really fast without me doing anything. (The computer players do all the work.)
Nuker Fleet - Couldn''t run. But I am under the listed system requirments. (I have a P200, says it requires P233.)

And here''s some thoughts:
Bugman - What exactly is said when you score an extra life?
Whoopi - More than 1 hit would be nice.
Shmup - You shoot a little too wide. It stinks to be right in front of something with guns firing, and go around the target. Plus having a few extra lives would be nice.
Gen''s Gold - The camera scrolling in the direction you are facing is kind of neat at first, but it gets kind of annoying. Maybe it should just move when you move the character in the direction.

If your game isn''t listed, I had no problems with it.

One thing that made me feel good was that there was a VB game in there! (Shaolin Soldier)

Tailgate was nice also but there was some problems with graphics flickering.

NukerFleet was an OpenGL app which didn''t like my multimon configuration (like all other OpenGL apps) was a bit lazy to turn it off and test it tonight.

Whoopi just crashed on me.

Well, I guess I''ll just have to wait for next contest to enter my game. :D

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-Now Working on Pokemon like Engine!

Hi guys,

Sorry if you had some trouble with The Tailgater. I tried to see if it would work on other computers and it did over here. Best I could do for testing with the time allowed .

-Nick

He he he , silly me , I forgot to make sure that the mines are not place near the player at the start of the game , as far as the mangling hhmm lett me see what I can do . I will provide a link as soon as I''m finished with the game , a couple of days or so. This was a good learning experience for me .

..Trying to take me outta the Ghetto , but I'm still buck wild . So I'll hustle up wit em , knuckle up wit em hoody hooo..............

Whooohooo! Shmup runs under NT!! Shmup runs under NT!!!

So erm, just wondering what happens now?? how long will it take before we get the official verdicts, rankings, who gets a copy of the FastGraph, etc.?

Jesse: Sorry about the Camera in Gen''s Gold - It was a quick rush game (3 days remember ), So I didnt have enough time to locate my Copy of Yoshi''s Story on the N64 to perfect the Camera modeling, hence it''s not exactly the same Camera.

I''m gonna be building up a list of things to do for the Final Release of Gen''s Gold. One of the first things on the list is the Camera - It''s Fux0red. I''ll also add a Water Engine & Teleportation Engine, and perhaps the ability to Morph into other characters and Fly. That should make it more phunn Ohhh yes and MORE levels!!!

/Memir

Another thing, Memir, is that the first levels should be really easy, so the user gets really into the game. I had alot of trouble jumping off of the vine onto the platform on the first level, and until you get used to the camera changes the flying monsters are hard to avoid. Might be just me, but remember that you''ll be better than most people at your game, so make it easy.

If you remember, in many platformers (Super Mario, Sonic, etc) the first few levels are really simple. Almost anybody could get through them their first play. It''s later on that they start getting hard. But by then the player is hooked and is really used to the controls. (That might be good advice for everybody who writes a run and jump.)

Great work, though. Especially for three days. I spent longer than three days on mine and I can find lots of problems with Bugz.

Jesse Chounard

Just out of curiosity Jesse, are you running Windows 2000?

"... you act as if stupidity were a virtue."
-- Flight of the Phoenix