4 Hour Mini Games Contest... Reloaded :-)

[Corun]

I enjoyed yesterday's mini games contest so much that I'm gonna try and do another one tonight. It seems that a few people who would have liked to take part couldn't because they didn't know about it. Hence, I am announcing it here.

And I've got (what I think is) a good theme! The game must include Water as a main game element.

I plan for the contest to start 11:00 British Standard Time. Or 6:00 EST. (That's in about 2 hours 20 minutes from when this was posted).

Please post here if you plan on entering or if you need the time moved slightly later or earlier.
You should also go to IRC a bit before it starts as well incase there are any last minute changes.

Thanks!

[aarku]

My fingers are still too blistered from the last one. ;-)

-Jon

[Nick]

You should do one tomorrow night. I'll actually be able to do it (but only at like 8pm EST). These seem so fun. I wish I had more free time to do them.

[Corun]

Erm, Well. It seems less likely that people would be available on a Friday night.

[diordna]

What will the theme be?

*plans to join*

[socksy]

The theme will be water, it says in the first post.

[BeyondCloister]

Shame this did not start a couple of hours ago when there was actually time to do it :(

If someone decides to run a 4 hour contest during normal waking hours in the UK then I maybe interested.

[socksy]

Same, others take over the emac at this time. I'm left on a G3 so I'm planning to quickly have a text based version, and release at 11:30. Or something.
Expect:
>sploosh
you have just splooshed
>die
you have just splooshed yourself to the ultimate fate to splashing heaven
or not...
>fly
this is a water game dumbass
>kasploosh
that's more like it

and so on...

[hangt5]

Is this starting in 20 minutes? or did i miss it by 12 hours?

[emileej]

Yea now its starting in five.

I'm in.

[Corun]

Starting in 5 minutes. Come to #idevgames on irc.freenode.net.

Everyone good luck! Post your entries here before the deadline

[Corun]

Go. k, thanks

[hangt5]

Im in......

[Duane]

water might be too big for a 4 hour contest :(

[emileej]

My brain is offline. Need sleep. I'm out.

[geezusfreeek]

Okay, I'm 1.25 hours behind, but I'm entering. I don't expect to finish, but you never know....

[BeyondCloister]

Well here is my entry. Only got under 2 hours on it but need sleep for work in the morning and it is already 12:45am here.

The H to O Download (http://www.cloisterroom.com/MacGames/HtoO.zip)

[emileej]

Request: Hold the next competition in the daytime?

/me is going home

[geezusfreeek]

I'm pulling out. As I said earlier, I started late. On top of that, I just now gathered all my old resources and got them working. It is just plain impossible to finish in an hour and a half at this point. I have not even started on any game-specific code.

[Carlos Camacho]

Why don't you guys make it a tradition like "Monday Night Football"?

i.e. "Wednesday 4 Hours", W4H

[socksy]

Good idea, but seperate the UK one will you? It's two in the morning here.

My entry did not get finished, misses a few main features such as input and anything to do so I provide it here only for purposes that people can have a look at it and change it to their needs later. Written in lua via PlayKode;
http://www.zen22638.zen.co.uk/ben/drips_WIP.zip

[Corun]

I've given up as well. Pah. Someone warn me next time that water is f***ing hard to do...

I thought up a few possible theme ideas for the next one though:

- Gravity
- Symmetry
- Racing
- Programming (As in, a game that involves programming :-))
- Grids (As in, it must use a grid or grids as the main game element)

[diordna]

Here's mine:

http://diordna.macintoshdevelopers.net/Walaga.zip

Unlike you unfinishing need-sleep gotta-get-up-for-work types, I actually made something :)

[EvolPenguin]

I beleive Diordna is the winner, cuz he's the only one who didn't drop out. CONGRATULATIONS :D

Alex

[aaronsullivan]

Walaga wins for me, but H to O was a clever pun. :) I got a chuckle out of it. Walaga has a weird bug where the bubbles compete for the text at the beginning and it sort of randomly switches back and forth between them for me. Once I started playing it went away, though.

[hangt5]

Yeah i dropped out too, i forgot i had a class to go to.

[BeyondCloister]

I beleive Diordna is the winner, cuz he's the only one who didn't drop out. CONGRATULATIONS :D

Actually I submitted H to O as a fully playable game at the 2 hour mark so I did not actually drop out, I just got got done much quicker ;)

[socksy]

Starting from next friday, we could have a competition from around 9:30 to around 11:30, GMT +1. I don't like being up early hours to do a contest, that would be the last day of work/school for people where they can take a break from all the work for four hours. I would have it as earlier but then we'd miss have I got news for you ;) . Then not so many people would drop out hopefully, and it would let us UK people have a fair chance...

[willThimbleby]

I went to sleep before I posted here. So here is the link I only posted in irc: http://will.thimbleby.net/downloads/WaterWindow.zip

For some reason you have to run it from Xcode, I couldn't get it to compile for deployment for some reason. You'll need a fast computer and it helps to have few windows on your screen.

[EvolPenguin]

Sorry about that Andrew, I had forgotten because you had finished so early, and i missed yours in irc will.

Alex

[BeyondCloister]

Sorry about that Andrew, I had forgotten because you had finished so early

Obviously not a very memorable game if you had forgotten about it so quickly :cry:

[willThimbleby]

Well I fixed that compile bug now. Obvious now but at 3 in the morning beyond my capabilities.

I've updated the download (http://will.thimbleby.net/downloads/WaterWindow.zip) and I've changed the colour of the water to a putrid green so that it shows up better against the desktop. It's faster and you can now alter the parameters of the smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulation as well.

[aaronsullivan]

I dig WaterWindow. I guess it's sort of a sim-game, eh? :) My favorite thing to do with it is create a pit using three windows and let it fill up like a pool. Then you can spring a leak or push the bottom up an watch it spill over. Nice.

[aaronsullivan]

Making complex waterfalls is fun, too. I made a new version of the water sprite. See if you like it:
http://homepage.mac.com/aaronsullivan/media/water.psd

[willThimbleby]

Hey, cheers. Thats a cool sprite, and it looks even more disturbing when you alter some of the sim parameters. Here's some I'm using and it looks scarily alive. (h=8,µ=0.28,rho0=2.8) :)

[whogben]

Wish i'd enter just so I could title my game H2Owned!

[ardam the third]

both water window links are broken