Who wants to be a Judge? I’ve nominated jbanes on The Other Thread.
Blah^3 has been mentioned and accepted.
ChrisM has been nominated.
Naturally I’m up for it. (I’ll either withdraw my entry, or not score it) 
[quote]Who wants to be a Judge? I’ve nominated jbanes on The Other Thread.
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Umm… as much as I wouldn’t mind doing it, I don’t think making an entrant a judge is very fair.
[quote]Blah^3 has been mentioned and accepted.
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Just a side note on this, should we require that the judges do testing on Window’s machines? Macs are quite slow (although my own game performs very well ;-)) and Linux boxes don’t support full screen mode. I’m sure that Blah3h has a Windows box around somewhere, but I’m thinking we should just clarify this point.
[quote]ChrisM has been nominated.
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Agreed. How about it Chris? Do you mind being a judge?
[quote]Naturally I’m up for it. (I’ll either withdraw my entry, or not score it)
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That would be sad. A lot of people seem to get a real kick out of Stag Party 4K. 
If we can rope him into it, another possible judge is Cas. He sort of bowed out of the competition. Orangy Tang and EgonOlsen (sp?) might also make good judges if they’d agree. Probably should just take the first three that agree.
Would be happy to judge!
-ChrisM
[quote]Would be happy to judge!
-ChrisM
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Awesome! Thanks Chris, this really means a lot to us!
Two down, one judge to go! ;D
My laptop has linux and win, and I have an athlon with winxp when I’m at home too, so that’s no problem.
But it feels horrible saying that everything will be tested on windows. What are we, VB programmers? :P. And, given that windows has the broken timer…
But anyway, since I’ll have to install java 5, which I don’t want to do to any of my linux boxes, yes I’ll probably do most testing on windows anyway ;D
4 new contributions to the competition (and 3 old ones have moved to this area as well)
Yeah, thanks Chris.
[quote]Just a side note on this, should we require that the judges do testing on Window’s machines?
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Yurk. I see where you going, and do mostly agree. Still, yurk.
How about one of the points being for XPness? :-/
Here is my entry for the 4K contest. It is a asteroids like game. Check it out at http://woogley.net/j4k/trek
How do I get it to show up on the woogley.net/games page? ???
Features:
Asteroid like game with thruster controlled trek like ship.
Translucent shields.
Tumbling shaded cratered asterroids.
UFOs at higher levels.
Particle explosions.
Score and bonus ships.
Hope you like it.
[quote] Hope you like it.
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Very nice! The asteroid are cool. The particles seem to remain deadly when their no longer visible; I was dieing and I didn’t know why.
Only bad thing is you forgot the obligatory “-4k” when naming the game ie “Trek4k” ;D
Thanks, glad you liked the asteroids in trek 4k.
I have changed the name to trek4k as you suggested. Thank goodness I had 2 bytes to spare.
I think I also fixed the bug you saw. When an asteroid is killed it is placed off screen. I placed it at -1 -1 this caused it to be not drawn. But it could still kill you if you ran into it up in the top left corner. I moved it farther offscreen to fix the problem.
I wouldn’t mind judging. I can judge on Linux, Mac, and Windows.
Unless the game requires Java 5, I would expect it to run on all three major platforms. Points off if the game fails on one platform for reasons that could have been easily avoided.
Hi,
here is my entry:
http://www.woogley.net/j4k/4ktris/4ktris-1.0.jar - 4095B 
For your convenience there is also:
http://www.woogley.net/j4k/4ktris/4ktris.jnlp
linked to a slightly bigger jar file (because it is signed), with an
extra feature - displays frames-per-second.
(Primary location of the game is: http://sweb.cz/petrblahos/4ktris/
but it’s just too slow. After the contest ends you can find the source
code there).
Enjoy,
Petr
[quote]I wouldn’t mind judging. I can judge on Linux, Mac, and Windows.
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Great, thanks.
So we have our three judges, swpalmer, ChrisM and blahblahblahh, and forty games!
I’m looking forward to the results. Only a week left to go should you want to enter… Kev
Here’s my game entry. Combat 4k - it’s a 3d version of Atari 2600 tank combat game showcasing the power of Graphics.fillPolygon(). ;D
hey Rick, your asteroids clone game is very nice! Are u going to release the source code?
[quote]hey Rick, your asteroids clone game is very nice! Are u going to release the source code?
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Sure glad you liked it, I have put the source at http://woogley.net/j4k/trek/T.html
thank you very much ;D
I’ve got an entry to add tomorrow, I just found a few spare bytes which I need to use.
What is the exact time the competition closes? I know it’s the end of Feb, but what timezone?
Is it legal to modify the game’s web site after the date? My game’s just about done but I was going to beef up the web site a tad.
Will.