Hello all,

Some weeks ago the thought struck me that this forum needed a little more action in the contest section. It's been way too long since we had the last awesome contest with a cool price to win, and I feel like everyone's lost that satisfying feeling of completing a project or game. So, I started organising a new contest. Inspired by the DS/Wii/GBA development contests, organised every year at drunkencoders (drunkencoders.com/compo/), I imagined that we could accomplish something similar. After assembling a team of 5 judges, (Hellghast, HeelX, Mercuryus, Inestical and me (with special thanks to ISG)), we created the contest plan in full detail. And now we're ready to make it public.


So, what's to win?
Most important motivator, the price. And we have a price to offer you'll definately like: there's a starting total pricemoney of 150 dollar to divide among 1st, 2nd and 3rd place, respectively 50%, 30% and 20% from the pricemoney. But that's not all yet! You all have the possibility to donate any amount to the pricemoney, and help pushing it to an awesome height. Although this is not required, for fun's sake we strongly encourage you to contribute with us!
Sounds awesome? Well, there's even more. When we have reached a certain popularity, JCL agreed to contribute an extra price for the first place! What price this is you'll know when we reached enough participants .


Great! So what do we need to do?
We want you to create a casual game. You will not be judged on artwork, but on original content, the creative concept, gameplay and playability (so spend time on controls and interactions ;)). You'll get extra points when you compensate your horrible programmer art with good humour.
As the title suggests, the theme is springtime. Yes, we just entered the winter period, but we're already working towards spring. Anything related with spring in the widest sense will do. Honeybee hopper, Termite Terminator, Flower Defense... just be creative!


How to submit, and what's the deadline?
This contest will end at 28th of February, 23:59. As long as it isn't 29th of February, 00:00 anywhere in the world, your submissions are still valid. That leaves you around 2,5 months to create a game. Start on time, and feel free to submit any amount of games you want. Each submission will be judged and awarded individually. If you want to update a previous submission, that's no problem either. You can update until the deadline has passed.
Your submissions are bound to some rules, which can be read here . Most important is that they should be under 50 MB.
Send all your submissions to: contests@joozey.nl


You can read everything in detail on the contest page: 3dgscontests.joozey.nl

All come join, and have fun .

Regards,
Joozey

it's not clearly stated, i just wanted to be sure: you have to use a7? is a6 fine? does it have to be acknex at all? any limits on 3rd party software, hardware (as it's supposed to be a casual game) and so forth?

"there's a starting total pricemoney of 150 dollar to divide among 1st, 2nd and 3rd place, respectively 20%, 30% and 50% from the pricemoney."
uh... so if I'm third, I get more money than 1st and 2nd? :P

Changed

I'm in. Can't think of what I'll make though...

I'm assuming we can enter as a team?

Yes, you can enter as a team. Just send your submission in under one name, with the required information. This member will receive the won prices.

By the way do they have to be compiled or open source?

If you feel generous towards the community, they may be open source for sure .