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Voting closed: June 06, 2014, 05:03:57 pm

[gigaraptor487]

I have been developing an idea that I thought may be of interest to those on the forums. Basically It would involve running a game/program competition sometime later this year devoted exclusively to ASCII/ANSI/code page 437 games. Since people on this forum are particularly interested in this type of thing (It is the Dwarf fortress and Liberal Crime Squad main forum anyway) I thought It may be a good place to see If people are interested in taking part.

Spoiler: details (click to show/hide)

This competition is centred on a love for all things text based. The competition will take place for 2 weeks (to allow for plenty of time) the dates are yet to be decided If this generates interest (probably August-September). The brief is this:
-   To create great programs and games for people who use terminals
-   To produce source code which could be studied by beginners
-   To allow beginners an accessible first game/programming jam
-   To have fun

I have had a number of other ideas and capabilities as well but they are only worth sharing If people want this to become a concrete event.
Are you interested in doing this?


EDIT: Added poll to get an idea of what people want overall

[Gatleos]

I'd be game. A bay12 programming jam feels like something that should have already happened... maybe it already did. It would be great if it could become a tradition.

[Tawa]

Sounds cool yo.

[MorleyDev]

Already planning on doing the SFML game jam at the end of the month. Not a big fan of long jams, I'm more of a "either take 2 days and hammer out a prototype" or "take your time and make something properly" kind of programmer. The 1-2 week things are in the weird middle ground for me of too short for real programming, too long for hacked-together-coding.

But I may give it a shot anyway

[itisnotlogical]

Might give it a shot. I'll hopefully be attending college starting September though so idk if I'll have time when it actually starts.

[gigaraptor487]

Well I am actually quite surprised at such a quick turn out, I guess I better get working on the website and my web server then...

As for the length, It can all be changed and while I don't think 2 days Is a bit short somewhere between a week and a fortnight I think Is perfect, but again that Is just my opinion.

As I said under the details one of them Is to make good programs as well as to prove that you can create something amazing quickly

Will follow up soon with a more detailed framework.

It is more likely to be earlier august but again It Is a community thing.

[GlyphGryph]

Agreed - One to three days is "just right" for a game jam, to me.

Two weeks is just... that's a miserable amount of time for a game jam. I wouldn't really have much more time to spend on a game in two weeks than I would in two days - I have other things going on my life, and a two week game would essentially mean there would be absolutely zero opportunity for clearing enough space from my schedule to work through it. And it would mean any work I did simply wouldn't be competitive with this people who could.

[gigaraptor487]

I should have clarified that the 2 weeks was meant that you could have a break In between, but again It Is great to see a response and I will design around the requests of the community

[Lukewarm]

If you had one, I'd have the impetus to look up the basics of games and mangle together two or pieces and have a vague idea about something or other, after I'd done whatever I'd looked up how to do for long enough.  My coding isn't very practiced.

[Darvi]

I've got exam season coming, so I won't have time to participate.

*picks the first excuse that comes to mind for something he had no intention of doing anyway*

[Levi]

I might be in.  Haven't had a lot of energy lately, but I HAVE been in a bit of a gaming lull so it might be a fun thing to do.  If its a console/terminal thing it might be helpful to link some libraries/tutorials.  Unless libtcod counts, in which case I'd just use that.   

[Hugehead]

I'd be interested.

[Angle]

Can we use existing code of ours? Would we be expected to make our code public?

[Orange Wizard]

I might have a go. I don't have a great deal of experience, but whatever. Someone has to come last...

[Skyrunner]

Interesting, but I suck at making things rapidly..