Hello,
There has been a microscopic ammount of interest in a Codea Competition, so I thought it wouldn’t hurt to host one. Here we go:
Theme: Survival games
Make a game where the player has to last as long as possible without loosing or dying. Some examples of these are Jet Pack Joy Ride, Snake, Missile Defense, Crabitron, etc. Some Codea-made examples are TouchLine and Big Bigger, which could be entered into the competition.
Rules:
• I suggest that the game has a start, game, and loosing screen.
• Make it look pretty. A large part of what makes a game good is its effects and graphics. 3D is even better.
• Please do not copy other games exactly. If you aren’t inspired, give the game concept a new twist.
• The game shouldn’t crash.
• The game should either be locked to one orientation, or resize in landscape and portrait orientation.
• The game should look or be complete.
• You may work with others, just let me know who else you worked with.
• Feel free to make a development thread. People love to see what others are working on.
• Enter your entry by June 7. I will release my verdict and feedback on all the code and give away the prizes on June 10.
How to enter:
There are a few ways to enter your app.
If your app is already on the App Store and is free, then give me a link to it.
If you app is on the App Store and is paid, send me a redemption code for it.
If you have the code for your game, but it isn’t on the App Store, then you can email the code to zoyt12 (at) gmail (dot) com.
You can also send me a private message to me with the code in it or a conversation thread with the code in it.
If you have the game in code form, please send me the name of the game.
Entries:
I will post the name of the game and the creator here when I get some entries.
Please throw in a little something for prizes. It could be anything worthwhile, wether it’s a snippet of code or a redemption code for your app. PM me anything you would be willing to throw in.
@Zoyt hallo, I am working on a simple boardgame for the competition, but it is not simple I get something strange Codea stops/ freeze and i have to restart Codea 2 times to get it running again. If it is not a mistake of me then it is maybe an bug in codea. I use a menu structure base on your idea:-) every scene on its one works fine but, when I connect them, it goes wrong. Can I send the source to you for a second opinion? The game is to show how to use a menustructure and not for selling.
I hope you can help-
i will send it to your gmail adres and some explenation what the scenes do.
I will send it tomorrow, have to cleanup the code a bit. Do you only want the lua files or the total codea directory of the game in a zip?
@Zoyt I’d like to see more of a game in a weekend type competition where we do not know the theme until the day of. It can end up with some pretty unique and silly games do to the time constraints. But I really like the competition idea. I’ll see if I can throw something together!
@Dreamdancer - It really doesn’t matter. @JakAttack - It’s very borderline, but I’ll accept it. @Briarfox - I pondered that idea, but my goal is for people to get inspired to make something.
If anyone has anything to contribute to the prizes, that’s be great. Thanks!
To be clear. What I have send to zoyt is not for the competition. It is not even close to a survival game. I have some ideas for a game like that. But first I need to understand Codea better what is possible what are the bounderies, I have now something that crashes Codea, I like to know, is it a bug or a unclear boundery of Codea or do I have to change my way of coding. Maybe can I catch this problem in a tutorial for other users If there is a solution for it. I wish everybody in this competition succes an happy coding. -
