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Winter Games

Winter is coming. The time of Christmas and New Year's Eve. The streets and shops are beautifully decorated. People are buying presents for their beloved, children have snowball fights and the radio plays Wham's "Last Christmas" over and over again.
After the success of last year's Christmas Contest we are loosening up the rules of this year's contest to all themes concerning winter. So be inspired by the winter time to create a little game or graphic demo.


The rules:

• Programming language is PureBasic V 3.91 or newer. Do whatever you want as long as you do it with PureBasic. Of course you must be the author of the whole code. But you are allowed to use freely usable code, if the author allows it (like codesnippets from PureArea).
• External engines and libraries are allowed this time as long as they are selfwritten (please include source) or are Open Source.
• Make sure that your programm does also run on older machines (i.e. 800Mhz, 128MB Ram, 32MB graphic card) and is not too big.
• Your entry must come as an executable and include the source. Take into consideration that your program should be easily compiled by everyone - otherwise users may not test it and -in conclusion- do not vote for it!
• All entries smaller than 5MB can be sent to my email-adress: rob@robsite.de
• Please upload all entries bigger than 5MB on some webspace, so i can download it from there and put it on the PureContest Site.
• The deadline is the 19th of december. All programs will be released on the PureContest-Site and judged by the two forum-communities (votes will be totalled).

Good luck!

and if somebody still wants to donate a prize, its time 'til 24.12

Of course you must be the author of the whole code.

That might be abit hard to follow since alot, or most people are using a few snippets written by others. I have lot of code that is made by others and I don't have the names of the original author. Maybe you should modify that part of the rule so the poster only posts codes that are posted with credits to original coder of various codes.

Jep, its a little clearer in the german version. you can use other codesnippets, of course. if someone publishes code to be freely used (like in the pureare). you can use it.
i only meant, that the users votes will probably depend on what you did and if 99% of your code consists of purearea-snippets, it wont be appreciated that much. but i changed the rule a bit.

Yeah that sounds good

Hey, maybe someone can make use of the new DirectX9c features

Thanks to noble donator DarkDragon from the german forum, we have a prize!
The original Black & White in a smug cardbox. Of course legal, with RegKey on its back



Go for it!

Is that a game?
Anyways, cool, more prizes

btw, is there somewhere we can test the contributions? and who is judging the contest?

Jep, its a game. Was the big hype in 2000 and actually makes fun

> btw, is there somewhere we can test the contributions?

your own pc, for example... or show it to some friends. but if its published before the end of the contest, it cant participate.

> and who is judging the contest?

See the last rule: "All programs will be released on the PureContest-Site and judged by the two forum-communities (votes will be totalled)."

So they will be judged in two threads.

Aaa got it

The contest has ended!

We have 7 submissions from 6 participants. I will now put them on the site and start a vote, which will run until 24.12 24:00

Ack, the only reason I didnt join was because the requirement of when the thread was started was PB 3.91. Heh, I just looked today and the requirement was updated to state 3.91 and higher Ah well.

I wish luck to the competitors!