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Offline Scion

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Closing Date?
« on: November 19, 2008, 05:17:33 AM »
Just wondering when the closing date is for entries?
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Offline Zeggy

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Re: Closing Date?
« Reply #1 on: November 19, 2008, 07:34:20 AM »
It's on the Contest details page :)
http://www.bbgamezone.net/contest.php
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Re: Closing Date?
« Reply #2 on: December 05, 2008, 08:45:25 AM »
Hey, more on the closing date.  Do we have until midnight on the 11th?  (I think I may need all that time)  What constitutes a submission?  If a submission is just a link to my game, what is to stop me from making changes after the deadline?

I think that for this contest we can count on everyone being honest and not working on the game after the deadline because from this discussion board this is the most decent set of people I have met online.

Also, I don't suppose I would mind submitting actual code, but as my game runs on a web framework it would be really hard for you to run my game unless you had the framework installed.

Maybe next time you can stipulate a set of frameworks that may be used for a submission (like Rails and something for PHP) so you can have people submit their game in a way that they cannot change.  This is more overhead on you though as you would have to host the submissions for the judges.
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Re: Closing Date?
« Reply #3 on: December 05, 2008, 09:15:26 AM »
Basically, you can still work on your game after the deadline. You could even submit an unfinished game.

The point being that when the judges are playing your game, and if something is broken or incomplete, it would probably count against you and reduce your chances of winning. So to be safe, you should have everything completed by the end of the contest date.

You don't need to submit any code, nobody needs to see it. You made the game, and the game belongs to you and nobody else :) After the contest is over, it's still your game and hopefully it will become a popular game!
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Re: Closing Date?
« Reply #4 on: December 05, 2008, 09:16:43 AM »
As for me I will be working after deadline (I can stop for 24-48 hours, but no longer). You can not expect people to not make any changes for a whole month :D Players would kill me...
It is like an avalanche, once it gets speed no way to stop it :)
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Re: Closing Date?
« Reply #5 on: December 05, 2008, 01:47:29 PM »
It just seems like the idea was to have a timed contest.  You definitely don't need to stop working on the project, but you can work on your project while having a frozen submission.  They just need to live in independent locations.  Most people I know do that anyway for development vs. live locations so they don't sink their user base on untested code.
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