Sid Meier and The 48 Hour Game

[NightrainSrt4]

Sid Meier goes to the University of Michigan to take part in the annual 48 Game Development contest.

23 minutes, but a very cool and interesting video.

http://wolverinesoft.org/news/69


Edit: You can download and try some of the games created here. (http://wolverinesoft.org/game) Unfortunately Sid's game isn't available.

[d_stilgar]

That was pretty cool. Sid must have some pretty cool tools, scripts and functions built already.

[NightrainSrt4]

I don't know. I got the impression you weren't supposed to go in with anything but your IDE's.


Outside Assets

All significant libraries and pre-made code must be submitted to the contest coordinators by February 5th, 2010. After that, any exceptions made may impact the scores of the participants.

Otherwise, all code and assets must be created within the 48 hours of the competition, with the following exceptions. Outside music and sound effects will be allowed. Copyrighted music may be used as long as the entrants ask for permission from the copyright holder. They do not have to receive a response within the 48-hour period, but they must receive permission before we can post the game on the WSoft website. (If they are unable to receive permission, they must remove or replace the copyrighted materials.) Sound libraries (outside sound effects) may be used, as long as they are publicly available, and listed below.

Publicly available code libraries will be allowed, provided they are approved by the contest coordinators and listed below. If you have some personal, general code that you would like to use (e.g. DX or input device initialization routines, collision or physics routines, etc.) package your code as a library, and send a .zip file to the coordinators for approval.

Things that will help your library be accepted: clean code, informative comments, additional documentation, submitted before the contest begins, the more generally useful code, the better, and make sure it compiles without error! Remember, it has to be available to everyone else to use.

Whether or not Sid followed the same rules as the students, I do not know.

[BuzzKillington]

"Even when it was illegal."

Programming used to be illegal??