Announcement: Seven-Day-Roguelike Playing Competition (7DRLPC) for 2009
Slash
contest established by Antoine from rgrd!
The goal of the 7DRL Playing Competition is for entrants to play,
provide feedback on, and (if possible) complete as many Seven Day
Roguelikes as possible, within a single week.
The week of the challenge will be from Wednesday 25 to Tuesday 31
March. Everyone who wishes to enter the competition should announce
themselves on rec.games.roguelike.misc (RGRM) by 25 April.
We will create a thread on RGRM for the contest. Players should post
to this thread to score points in the competition - including mini-
reviews (25 points), victory posts (50 points), and bug reports (10-25
points). Detailed scoring is described below.
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What is a Seven Day Roguelike?
A Seven Day Roguelike (7DRL) is a roguelike created in seven days.
This means the author stopped writing code one hundred and sixty eight
hours after they started writing code. More details can be found at
the RogueBasin article: http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php?title=7DRL
The 2009 7DRL competition took place within the week of March 7th to
March 15th. The outcome of the contest has been written up at
http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php?title=7DRL_Contest_2009
In brief, 45 developers took up the challenge; of these brave souls,
25 managed to successfully complete the challenge and post a new,
complete, playable roguelike. A further 4 completed 7DRLs in a week
other than the competition week.
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The goal posed by the 7DRL Playing Competition is to play, provide
feedback on, and (if possible) complete as many of this year's 7DRLs
as possible. Entrants can score 7DRL points by doing this. (7DRL
points have no cash value and can only be exchanged for an equal value
of 7DRL points.)
We will create an official Contest thread on RGRM - please post
contest entries there.
The first condition for scoring any points for a game is to publish a
mini-review on RGRM. Without the mini-review, you can't score in any
other categories. Please try to be positive in your review, and bear
in mind that these games were the product of just one week's work. The
hope is that they will incorporate a cool idea and/or entertain you
for a few minutes, not that they will be as polished as Angband or
ADOM.
Points are awarded as follows:
A mini-review on RGRM at least 25 words of constructive comments: 25
points
A victory post on RGRM (for games with a victory condition): +50
points
First bug report on RGRM of reproducible non-crashing/game ending bug:
+10 points
First bug report on RGRM of reproducible crashing/game ending bug: +25
points
A player can only score once for each category for each game.
The completed 7DRLs are linked at at
http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php?title=7DRL_Contest_2009
and http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php?title=2009_Out_of_Challenge_7DRLs
Anyone who attempts all 25 can also score by playing games from
previous years. These are linked at http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php?title=7DRL
Of course you can play the games any time, not just between 25 and 31
March, but only posts within this time period will be counted for the
7DRL Playing Competition.
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Happy 7DRLing!
S.
antoine....@gmail.com
> Welcome to the third Seven-Day-Roguelike Playing Competition, a
> contest established by Antoine from rgrd!
<delurk>
Hail to Slash for starting the comp, and I hope someone beats him this
year
</delurk>
Paul
> Welcome to the third Seven-Day-Roguelike Playing Competition, a
> contest established by Antoine from rgrd!
I have taken the liberty of copying your post to RogueBasin
http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php?title=Seven-Day-Roguelike_Playing_Competition
(which is more convenient than a newsgroup posting for some people).
The link for posting reviews still goes to the rgrm thread.