[ PDRC 3.666 ] 03.01.2007 - 04.03.2007 - Multi System Coding Competition

[wraggster]

PDRoms the Home of Homebrew Roms for the Whole scene have today reemerged from a few months of being offline to announce a new Coders Competition for a ton of systems, heres the newspost in full from PD Roms:

Introduction Text :
It's time for a new coding competition, PDRC #3.666 hits the web. This is the sixth coding competition held by PD Roms. Due to the success of PDRC #2.5 we rewarm a topic...

PS: You are allowed to DIRECT LINK one of the banners if you wish.

Your job :
Create a one-screen LCD style game for one of the following systems:

Super Nintendo Entertainment System aka SNES (tested with ZSNES or Snes9x)
GP2x (tested on the real thing, one file games only, seperated readme files are ok)
Gameboy Advance (tested via Supercard on the real thing, if it does not work on a SC via Visualboy Advance or no$gba)
Gameboy Classic and/or Color (tested via BGB or no$gbc)
GP32 (tested on the real thing, one file games only, seperated readme files are ok)
Dreamcast (tested on the real thing, please submit a burnable cd image/selfboot plus scrambled or unscrambled binary)
Nintendo Entertainment System aka NES (tested via emulator)
Wonderswan Classic and/or Color (tested via emulator)
PC Engine / Turbo Grafix 16 (tested via emulator)
Neo Geo Pocket Classic or Color (tested via emulator)
Sega Master System (tested via emulator)
Sega GameGear (tested via emulator)
Intellivision (tested via emulator)
ColecoVision (tested via emulator)
Megadrive / Genesis (tested via emulator)
Neo Geo and/or Neo Geo CD (tested via emulator, submit drivers if required)
Nintendo 64 (tested via emulator)
Disclaimer: All mentioned trademarks are property of their respective owner and are in no way affilated with this competition.

General Rules:

All systems will take part in one pot!
Participants keep their full copyright.
Games must not contain any copyright violation (Use of copyrighted characteres, titles, etc.). By entering a title you guarantee to have (obtained) all rights on the used code, media, graphics, etc. We reserve the right to refuse and/or disqualify entries violating copyright. In case you have obtained permissions to use copyrighted stuff, we want to see a proof.
The game must be freely distributeable to everyone - We don't care under what kind of license your are going to release it.
Due to fairness we do NOT allow plain ports. Everyone should have the same base to start an entry. We don't have a problem if you get impressions from other existing games.
Games have to be unreleased and stay unreleased till the final results are out, but can be announced or promoted beforehand.
Submit as many entries as you like. Each entry seperated in one compressed file (.zip prefered)
Judges are allowed to enter, but their entry will not be voted/scored for a prize. Same applies if a judge is indirectly involved in a production (eg. leveldesign, graphics, music, ...)
Submit your entry to submission(at)pdroms(dot)de - By submitting your entry, you agree to have fully understand all given rules.
Submission Deadline is Sunday 04.03.2007 23:59 in YOUR timezone.
We reserve the right to modify rules, for better and clearer understanding. We are also in the position to RAISE the prize money or add more prizes at any time. Any changes will be stated out at the bottom of this page.
Rules for your production:

We do NOT accept Fenix, Python and LUA coded games - use a REAL coding language, thank you!
The entry must be child-proof - No abusive material (racism, pornography, extreme violence...)
You can use the full size resolution of your picked system, but the game has to be on one screen.
The "sprites" must be in one color, preferably black.
The background picture can contain as many colours as you like, but keep the colors realistic in relation with the foreground.
The game must play like those old "Nintendo Game & Watch" or "Q&Q" games. To get a proper impression have a look at this picture:

As start sequence you have to show all "sprite positions" at once (see picture), if you add a logo or anything before such a screen, is your choice (xy presents or similar stuff)
Please don't add funky music to your entry, a LCD game doesn't have real music. We expect beep sounds
Prizes:

#1 150 US$
#2 100 US$
#3 50 US$

If you submit three games and all three games rank in the TOP 3 you will take all the money.
The prize money is paid per winning title. If a team has worked on an entry, they have to share things themselves.
To claim your prize money there are a few ways: 1) Paypal 2) A bank account in the European Union or 3) Money transfer via Western Union (any transfer fees for that will be cut from your prize money!)
Judging:

We judge on gameplay, gamefun, realism and originality. Use the advantages or disadvantages of your selected submission platform in a wise way and get more out than other competitiors. We announce the name of judges by mid of February 2007..

[Shrygue]

God, a competition to come up with a game like the old LCD with the beeping sounds - all very strange to me. Oh well, let's see how it goes.

[StealthCP]

STFU YKB!!! These competitions are designed to revive the programming skills of people who made things for old consoles! It is an ART!

[Skateblind]

Good luck to all those entering this, I won't be, due to it being very restrictive and having too many possible systems. Loads of people are gonna enter in their games and even though they may be master pieces, they wont get mentioned due to the amount of entries. Good luck to all those entering anyway, I cant wait to see the amount of great games that get rejected due to these wierd restrictions. :P
#edit# Wragster, if you think my comments are gonna affect the competition badly, then please remove this reply#edit#

[Hungry Horace]

no Amiga possiblity? that's computer racism that is!

[Atien]

Too bad! I'm already making a LCD style game for another competition since three weeks now... but it has to work on the internet, so I'm making it with FLASH.
If the PSP was in the list, I would surely convert my game(&watch) for it...
If you are interested, I'll give the link to play my flash game when my competition will be over... by the end of april. I have more time than you to polish the whole thing

By the way, good luck for those who participate! :thumbup:

[Cap'n 1time]

pretty interesting. but remember no lua, fenix, python, and i would suspect flash action script as well