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

[miauw62]

Sounds cool, but I suck at making things.

[Darvi]

Neat, but I suck.

[gigaraptor487]

Alright, so over the last half of a day I have come up with some ground rules and also a rating system If people are interested(obviously can be changed). Also, I should have made clear that while this will be predominantly bay12forums users I intend on telling people on other forums such as gamedev.net and osdev.

Spoiler: Ground rules + rating system draft (click to show/hide)

Ground rules

• No graphical approximations of ASCII/ANSI/Text (ie nothing like SDL graphics)
• You can write whatever program you like(doesn't have to be a game)
• You can use non graphical features of libraries like SDL (although all output should be through either std output or a terminal handling library)
• You can use widechars or UTF-8 If you feel like It
• You can use small snippets of code from other projects in the jam
• Remember, the primary aim Is to write programs that make terminal user's lives better (but not GUIs)
• Have fun

A few categories that I have come up with If a grading system Is wanted:

• Code section
• Difficulty of Programming language (I don't think what Is attainable in C in 2 weeks is even close to what Python can do)
• Efficiency or speed of the application
• Cleanness of the Code
• Portability across operating systems/architectures
• Size of code
• Application itself
• Utility/Fun
• Depth/ Wideness of Utility
• Aesthetics/ use of charset
• Ease of use
• Overall rating (IE how endearing It Is, not the sum of the  above parts

Obviously these are up for discussion. Once stuff Is decided on I will put a webpage online for It(have a webserver sitting across the room from me) and publish a more official thread on Bay12 and on other forums.

Thanks for the interest.

[Skyrunner]

I don't think difficulty of code should be a grading consideration. The language of choice should have been chosen because the programmer thought it was the best in this case. Also, difficulty is subjective--some people think C is a nightmarish language while others are comfortable in it, etc

[gigaraptor487]

However you could argue that to get a working prototype It would take more LOC or time for a program in C than a program in say python

[miauw62]

By coding in Python you sacrifice power and speed. Language should not be a rating consideration, because a lot of people know a lot of different languages and every language has it's own use cases.

I'd say to just let people vote for which program they think is the best.

[gigaraptor487]

That could be a good idea, It is just we need a poll that cannot be biased as happened with the roguelike of the year poll going to noxico, although a rating scale may be a good idea If people doing a programming jam for the first time as It can give them pointers where they may need to improve in order to become better programmers (not saying anybody Is in a real position to dictate this however).

[Graknorke]

I'll have a look at what's done. Since I am once again returning to the banging of heads against walls that is trying to figure out how to programming anything remotely complex or useful.

[Johuotar]

Sounds interesting. Now if I just could do something..

[gigaraptor487]

Since I think I will be able to start It in roughly early august after going over It a bit, It shouldn't be too hard to learn programming over that time.

[gigaraptor487]

Alright, I am currently programming the website, please post comments of what you want on the website (nothing to special, I only know HTML/CSS, no real embedded web languages) such as forums and such.

Simultaneously I am figuring out how we will go about accepting entries and such.

Thanks for your time

[Levi]

I was thinking this might be a little more low-key, kinda like the 14 day roguelike challenges we had a while back.

[gigaraptor487]

Well the base website Is finished, will be opening the port and providing a dynamic dns service to the server soon. I will produce a separate thread for that soon

Also, while this is a predominantly a bay12 jam this will be mentioned on different forums as well (such as gamedev.net).

[gigaraptor487]

You can look at a very very (I mean 1995 like) basic version of the website here


I will be doing the full announcement tomorrow.

[Darvi]

Typo: it's brilliant.