The Puppy Games Award for Java Gaming Excellence ?

[g666]

Well?

Sorry I really should have explained what i meant

I was of course referring to:

Ok, how’s about we just do it! Deadline is 00:00 GMT 30th April. Must be runnable on Windows, OSX, Linux and deployed via Webstart; there are no other restrictions. Machines used for judging will be my laptops (all 3 of them, in various configurations, so code carefully!), my iMac G5, and whatever Linux machine Elias from Oddlabs has got TT running on. We won’t enter except maybe for fun. Criteria are gameplay, graphics, sound, production. Prize is glory and $100 PayPalled from Puppygames plus all the lame publicity we can muster. Theme is… rocks, tunnels, earth, channels, digging. Gentlemen + odd random girl, start your engines.

Cas Smiley

[jbanes]

What is it? Is it a competition? Then what are the rules? Is it a general industry award? Then why would I need to enter? (Perhaps it needs nominations?)

[woogley]

we should do it but I think the theme should change … o_O

[Alan_W]

Sadly, I’m probably not entering because I’ve got an exam this month & am on holiday the first two & a half weeks of April. Even if the deadline moved, it wouldn’t help a lot, as I’ve an exam in May too. Oh, and there’s my day job to fit in too. Just too busy right now

Miners4M : :LOL: - If I had time, I suppose I’d be doing Miners3D ;D

Thinks vaguely about writing a 3D dungeon crawl with added mining. Probably using map language from StormTheCastle, but with a new LWJGL based renderer. Or maybe use the StormTheCastle code “as is” & just write a new world database for it, which would be much quicker. Wouldn’t win through as it’s an applet software renderer. However there’s no built in support for mining. I could use objects to fake walls, which when mined, opens access to pre-existing tunnels. It would still require some code mods to make it more like mining. Also really needs octree sorting to be incorporated to improve rendering speed. Currently it uses BSP trees, but it’s a bit broken (works but not optimally).

Alternatively, one could try Markus’ approach, but with a 3D bitmap. However it would be simply huge with any decent resolution and is therefore almost certainly a non-starter.

Argh, look at the time, must go…

[Binary_Mage]

I love competitions Count me in!.

[wazoo]

A good a time as any to learn LWJGL!

Awesome idea Cas!

[Markus_Persson]

Count me in!

[rdcarvallo]

Hi,
In other threads Cas said that LWJGL is not required… So, can I go with Java2D??

  Rafael.-