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Didi
Registered: Nov 2011
Posts: 479 |
Event id #2286 : Intro Creation Competition 2014
After the success of last year's Intro Creation Competion, I want to continue and maybe we can even top last year.
After the big X party and while it is getting colder outside, you may have some sparetime to create something for it. ;)
Competition runs from October 28th until December 27th, 2014. So you have 2 months to deliver your creations. This should be enough for an intro.
As comment editing is still disabled, please use this thread for questions, discussion and everything else concerning this competition.
THE RULES:
- Has to work on a plain stock C64 (PAL standard) without any extensions.
- Has to be a one-part intro. Fade-ins and fade-outs are OK.
- Has to contain at least one Logo at whatever size you like.
- Has to contain a changing or moving text message (e.g. scrolling text, different lines fading in & out, etc.)
- Has to contain music (not just a humming sound, please).
- Maximum RAM usage is $4000 bytes at one block, at whatever location you like. Screen RAM counts as used memory. Exclusions are system addresses like VIC (inkl. Color RAM), SID, CIA, Stack, Zero-page, IRQ vectors.
- Has to be interruptable any time by pressing SPACE-key (exception are fade-in and fade-out).
- Graphics, charsets and music do not need to be exclusive, but the code should be! So no reuse of existing code with just exchanged graphics and music.
- Intros may not have been used before entering the competition.
- Entries must be handed in as executable format startable with RUN (.prg or embedded in .t64 or .d64).
- Max. 3 entries per participant. Entries might be taken back from the compo until deadline. That means if you want to remove one of your works from the compo to make space for another entry from you, this can be done until deadline.
Deadline for entry submission is December 27th, 2014 at 23:59:59 (11:59:59 pm) CET.
Voting closes one week later at January 3rd, 2015 at 23:59:59 (11:59:59 pm) CET.
Voting platform is CSDb (with all disadvantages it may have), therefore entries have to be posted here.
Entries will be ranked by weighted average of CSDb votes. Entries with the same weighted average are ranked by their percentages of 10s, 9s, etc.
No prices to win, just the fame. May the best creation win. |
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Didi
Registered: Nov 2011
Posts: 479 |
All custom data has to be in the $4000 block you chose. Color and VIC data has to be copied where it has to be to make it work. ;) If I check RAM with ROMs turned off I need to see a max. $4000 long used block, whatever it is. |
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Mace
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 1799 |
Okay, just to be sure: does it have to be NTSC fixed or not? |
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Didi
Registered: Nov 2011
Posts: 479 |
NTSC compatibility is optional. |
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Hein
Registered: Apr 2004
Posts: 933 |
Phew. |
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Mace
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 1799 |
LOL @ Hein... :-) |
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Didi
Registered: Nov 2011
Posts: 479 |
Still 8 days to go until deadline... Come on, you surely have some more ideas in mind! Maybe during some boring time at christmas? ;)
Non-CSDb-Users may send their entries to
didi64@quantentunnel.de |
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Didi
Registered: Nov 2011
Posts: 479 |
All entries are validated now.
Unforntunately I had to disqualify some of them:
- Bubbles Intro by The New Dimension (size limit)
- Chubby Chubby SID Chip by The New Dimension (size limit)
- Dotted Disaster Intro by Excess (size limit)
- Shitmen Intro #32 by Shitmen (no changing text message)
- UpsideDowntro by PandaLovers (size limit, no SPACE exit)
- Cashback Intro by Delysid (size limit)
If the entries are fixed until deadline, they may be back in.
Shitmen and PandaLovers entries seemed to be designed to be disqualified.
I also set 2 valid entries outside the compo because they were replaced by improved versions:
My Scary Intro by Warriors of the Wasteland
Raster-Disaster Intro by Excess |
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Richard
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 619 |
- Maximum RAM usage is $4000 bytes at one block, at whatever location you like. Screen RAM counts as used memory. Exclusions are system addresses like VIC (inkl. Color RAM), SID, CIA, Stack, Zero-page, IRQ vectors.
That rule is one hurdle some of us had trip up on this year. :) |
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Xenox
Registered: Jun 2003
Posts: 87 |
Didi, sorry, but when you disqualify intros because they have no changing textlines, then you have to disqualifie some more intros because they have no textline... |
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Didi
Registered: Nov 2011
Posts: 479 |
Changing text was put in as alternative to scrolltext, which was the reason to disqualify entries last year.
Quote:- Has to contain a changing or moving text message (e.g. scrolling text, different lines fading in & out, etc.) |
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