TomT64's Compo Site
Welcome to my compo site. Here I run compos (duh). See the currently running compo below.

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Previous Compos:
Spring Compo 2005
Christmas Compo Thing
Back to School Compo
Alternative Games Compo
New Years (2004) Compo
21 Days Before Christmas Compo
Christmas Compo Thing
December 16, 2004 - December 31, 2004

Updates

1/2/2005 @ 19:42 PST - AWARDS!

Most Addictive - Team Your Mother for Fukyuuten
Best Battle System - Team FUNCY for In the Steps of the Blackfoot
Best Art - Team Your Mother for Fukyuuten
Best Music/sound - Team NexTime Studios for Mynd
Best Story - Team FUNCY for In the Steps of the Blackfoot
Best Original Idea - Team FUNCY for In the Steps of the Blackfoot
Best Overall - Team Your Mother for Fukyuuten

12/31/2004 @ 20:37 PST - Apparently RPGMaker 2003 CAN be gotten for free legally, so I've restored teams that used it.

12/31/2004 @ 2:18 PST - The first judging has been submitted. Less than 24 hours until the deadline, less than 48 until the upload script stops accepting uploads!

12/26/2004 @ 0:46 PST - Added Most Addictive and Best Original Idea to the awards list.

12/16/2004 @ 17:45 PST - Someone joined using RPGMaker 2003. Bad bad bad. It's not a free engine and just THIS ONCE I forgot to mention that was a requirement. The rules have been updated to reflect this, and the team has been autodropped. If you are a member of this team you will need to email me to get your password restored if you will use another engine.

12/16/2004 @ 12:04 PST - Rules are up

12/15/2004 @ 14:25 PST - In some timezones, it is already December 16. So I declare the compo begun. Just remember the script doesn't take submissions until 12:01 am Pacific Standard Time.

12/11/2004 @ 19:16 PST - Compo info just went up. I need some judges. Email me at tomt64 AT tomt64 DAWT com to be one, but you won't be able to participate if you judge. If you know someone willing to just, also have them email me.

Forum and IRC

To discuss the compo, you can join an Esper.net IRC server and channel #compo or dicuss in This forum.

Rules

The compo starts on December 16, 2004. Start in any timezone you wish. The upload script begins taking uploads on midnight December 16, 2004. The compo ends on December 31, 2004. The upload script stops taking uploads on January 1, 2005, at 11:59 PM PST. The true deadline is midnight December 31, 2004, in your native timezone. So don't be late or you may make the judges cranky!

Only engines that can be gotten for free legally may be used. This includes custom engines you make yourself, because you're providing them for free. This does not include RPGMaker, or mods of existing games that are commercial.

There are no specific rules you need to follow when making your game, but awards will be given for the following:

Most Addictive
Best Battle System
Best Art
Best Music/sound
Best Story
Best Original Idea
Best Overall

There may be other awards as well, and these will be awarded after all the entries are in and judged.

Judging

Judges will be allowed to award a total of 100 points for each entry. They will be permitted to apply up to 50 points in each of the following categories, but the total must be 100 for all categories.

The categories are:

1) Story: How well thought out is the story?
2) How Well Everything Works: Huge bugs or minor bugs? Or are there any bugs? Was the implementation of every system thought out well?
3) Quality of original content AND/OR usage of ripped/third party material: How good is the original content, or does the 3rd party material fit into the game?
4) Fun: Is the game fun? How fun?

How many points each judge applies to each category is up to his/her own discretion.

In addition, each judge will nominate a game for each award category, and the results will be posted in an update at the end of the compo, and added to each of the judging comments for that entry.

Judges go here to judge

Joining

Join here

Submitting

YOU MUST SUBMIT THE FOLLOWING IN YOUR FINAL GAME:
Readme.txt, which includes controls for your game and what you ripped (if anything).
Example:

MyGame v1.01

Use "a" to attack, Space bar to throw a bomb, and the arrow keys to move around

This game has the following rips (not including graphics pack files):
ff7.chr
hahn01.vsp

Caveats:
  • Your file size must be under 15 MB. Email me the file with matching info if it is larger.
  • Do not include DLLs for ika. I will make these available via a separate download. If your engine requires DLLs, please do not include them but email me instead and I will provide them in a single download.
  • You can upload any number of times, and any number of demos. Each one will be there for download.
  • The file that will be judged will be the last one submitted unless you specify otherwise. The last one you submit will be the bottom one under your team name.
  • Overwriting is forbidden by the script. Turns out if you don't finish the upload, it won't appear, so you can keep trying with the same file name.
  • You can upload screenshots by selecting your team name and the short description of your screenshot under Game Name.
  • The time that will be listed is the time that the upload completed. Points will not be taken off if this is past the end of the compo, because the script doesn't allow you to upload after a certain time anyway!
  • The file you upload will have your team name prepended onto the filename.

    • All that being said, go here to submit your file.

    Entries

    Make your Entry here
    Edit your Entries here
    Edit your Team info or Join here
    Engine Specific Downloads - Ika DLLs
    - Sphere Engine/Binaries (for games without the engine included, must also download DLLs)
    - Sphere DLLs (for Sphere games without the DLLs)
    - Verge Engine, DLLs, and basic tools
    BigBob Studios Screen Shot 1 - January 1, 2005 @ 5:03:08 PST
    BigBob Studios - Chocobo Breeder v1.7 (Final) - January 1, 2005 @ 5:05:02 PST
    Casper-Lite inc screenshot_01 - December 16, 2004 @ 11:04:48 PST
    screenshot_02 - December 16, 2004 @ 11:09:54 PST
    FUNCY Screenshot 1 - January 1, 2005 @ 9:25:28 PST
    In the Steps of the Blackfoot (Sphere required) - January 1, 2005 @ 23:53:36 PST
    Meticulous Productions Thrust - December 31, 2004 @ 21:46:20 PST
    Thrust Patch - December 31, 2004 @ 23:42:57 PST
    NexTime Studios Hexagonal Tile Test Screenshot - December 18, 2004 @ 11:40:19 PST
    Hexagonal Tile Test Screenshot 2 - December 19, 2004 @ 1:59:31 PST
    WildTiger's Sexy Tiles and Indicator - December 19, 2004 @ 3:28:13 PST
    Beware the Sprites! - December 24, 2004 @ 5:06:48 PST
    Caution: This Screenshot Not Suited for Dirack. (13+) - December 30, 2004 @ 22:03:45 PST
    Mynd - Final Entry - January 2, 2005 @ 1:19:01 PST
    Your Mother Eternal Skies Teaser Screenshot - December 31, 2004 @ 20:26:49 PST
    Screenshot - January 1, 2005 @ 1:31:15 PST
    Teaser Video - January 1, 2005 @ 20:14:45 PST
    Fukyuuten 1.002 - January 2, 2005 @ 0:12:22 PST
    Fukyuuten patch 1 - January 2, 2005 @ 0:31:40 PST
    Fukyuuten patch 2 (includes all fixes from patch 1) - January 2, 2005 @ 0:51:23 PST
    Zott Screeny of Battle... Pretend the circles are moving! - December 27, 2004 @ 20:08:21 PST
    The Quest for Colour, Version Only (we're never touching this bastard again) - January 1, 2005 @ 22:35:01 PST
    team smarties DEXTERITY CHALLENGE 2005 - January 1, 2005 @ 19:24:39 PST
    DEXTERITY CHALLENGE 2005 TEASER SCREENSHOT - January 1, 2005 @ 19:26:19 PST
    Judges go here to judge

    Team Name TomT64 K9 infey Final Score
    Your Mother 94 85 90 90
    FUNCY 89 89 85 88
    NexTime Studios 93 88 78 86
    Zott 88 87 80 85
    BigBob Studios 67 55 60 61
    Meticulous Productions 75 55 48 59
    team smarties 1 22 0 8


    Teams

    Teams can be up to 4 people. It has been asked if you can have more than this. Yes you can, but remember that this may be more difficult to organize and if you have too many people the judges might take this into consideration with judging the results of such a team. Below is a list of teams that already joined

    Team Name Members Engine
    BigBob Studios BigBob85, hopstar117, HyperKnight32 Sphere
    FUNCY SDHawk, troupe, Uncommon, Sew Sphere
    Meticulous Productions Akujin C++
    NexTime Studios LinkMaster Sab, Wild-Tiger, Couchfiend, Creft Python w/ pygame
    Your Mother andy, Hatchet, corey, Thrasher, Troupe, Kael ika
    Zott overkill, toen, troupe, zip verge3
    team smarties Derek Smart, WIP, Kael, Derek Smart Explorations RPG Creation System v 7.91.123.5812089132.1512 +pie
    Casper-Lite inc K9, GrammerNazi_v2, Casper Sphere
    Consummant ludos Vexo Custom DirectX Engine
    MongiSoft Master C (or MC) Sphere
    Morning Crew BGenesis, Gen. Newspaper, Sgt. Breakfast, Mjr. Walkies Sphere
    RPG Studio William Toolkit 3
    Samurai girls team Alicia & Helena RPGMaker 2003
    Volunteer Idiot Joey Peters Sphere
    Yo Momma Marcus Gamemaker
    loneduck rm duck Sphere

    Make your Entry here
    Edit your Entries here
    Edit your Team info or Join here
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