yeah I feel teribly sorry too but I still can contribute.
How about that the 3rd place get a individual non-organic model by me.

regards

Aztec

ps:(others keep up the good work)

i got stuck at mass tarffic acident(i just waited to mess to be claned up i didnt crashed.) today and lost alot of hours, but i still have the sunday and i guess i'll start with a mini puzzle game tonight.

Nothing on tv tonight so I will jump in.
Just registered to the ticker - starting after registration confirmation...

It's a nice contest, but it has some major downsides. Most sad downside is that I will be doing this in void when I don't finish it on time :P. And I wont finish it on time. Less so, if this contest is over, I wont finish it at all . And I have nothing learned about my project, nor can anyone else. I think this is for more participants the case, so we're stuck with a heap of unfinished projects nobody wants to finish without a contest... ^^. Second thing is that I need to let go of alot of "good" code and ideas, and end up with alot of bad samples and a poorly executed idea.

I remember you writing that we could start that project we always wanted to do right now, but this contest is far from that philosophy :P.

just something that suddenly struck me mind.
Good job on this contest nonetheless ^^.

Joozey, I just read about your problem in the ticker:
What about a 'fake' solution: measure the distance between the gears, compare the distance to the sum of their radius, if they match, set a flag, if another gear's distance matchs too, stop the gears from turning.
So, every time when a gear with the flag already set touches another gear the connected gears stop.

I don't know what sort of game you are going to make, but it is too bad to cancel it.

Add a flag for each gear which tells in which direction it is turning.
Then do a distance check like proposed by Pappenheimer.

If two gears with different rotation direction are in distance of a gear, then you have a lock.

Two connected gears always require to have different rotation direction.

no registration confirmation after 12h - too bad.
(u should check such problems before u start such a short time contest!)

Netherless I will finish my project.

you can resend activation link, on reg page.

Thanks for the feedback!




Too bad that it doesn't work, did you check your spamfilter? If you had post that earlier, maybe we could have worked something out. Oh well.

I realize that we should have tested that beforehand - and we did! The problem is, this contest had to be organized in a very short amount of time, since we wanted to do it around now - shortly after christmas - since most people then have a bit of free time. If you take into account how quickly the whole contest was organized, I think we managed pretty good.



I disagree: I'm very positive that you've learnt something from thsi project! Maybe you've improved when it comes to working under pressure, maybe you've learnt a few neat tricks when it comes to time-improvement, maybe you've seen that you are able to create a prototype in a few hours. Maybe you've learnt something very different, and maybe you are not totally aware of it, but I'm certain that due to this contest, you actually did improve and learnt something new.

As far as the time is concerned - Thats an interesting dilemma we're in, huh? If the time we give is too long, then you can't really take part when you have a bigger project. If its too short, then these kind of problems arise. What would be a better time? A week?


We've toyed with the idea of doing this kind of contest semi-regulary (say, four times a year), so we are naturally very interested in hearing your opinion on it: How often, what amount of time, with or without themes, give more or less "inspiration", etc. If you could take a moment and answer these questions, that'd be great!

I've learned a lot since now. I never made an animal before, but I must have one for my game and I think my reindeer isn't so bad. I really like this contest because until yet I haven't finished one project, but this is the first one which could realy be finished. I hope I can manage it, but now I must go back to work^^