Announcement: Seven-Day-Roguelike Playing Competition (7DRLPC) for 2008
Antoine
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 Sunday 6 April to Saturday 12
April. Everyone who wishes to enter the competition should announce
themselves on rec.games.roguelike.misc (RGRM) by 6 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 2008 7DRL competition took place within the week of March 8th to
March 15th. The outcome of the contest has been written up at
http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php?title=7DRL_Contest_2008
In brief, 24 developers took up the challenge; of these brave souls,
10 managed to successfully complete the challenge and post a new,
complete, playable roguelike. A further 6 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
http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php?title=7DRL_Contest_2008
and
http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php?title=2008_Out_of_Challenge_7DRLs
Anyone who attempts all eight 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 6 April
and 12 April, but only posts within this time period will be counted
for the 7DRL Playing Competition.
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Happy 7DRLing!
A.
Antoine
> Welcome to the second Seven-Day-Roguelike Playing Competition!
>
> 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 Sunday 6 April to Saturday 12
> April. Everyone who wishes to enter the competition should announce
> themselves on rec.games.roguelike.misc (RGRM) by 6 April.
Greetings all,
The annual Seven-Day Roguelike Playing Contest is now completed.
The winner is... Jeff Lait with 315 points!
In second place we have... Slash with 160 points
In third place we have... Antoine with 50 points.
I hope those involved enjoyed themselves, and that the contest
provided value to the 7DRL developers whose games were played and
reviewed.
Slash, do we have some (electronic) medals to hand out?
A.
Jeff Lait
> On Mar 28, 5:10 pm, Antoine <antoine.from.r...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Welcome to the second Seven-Day-Roguelike Playing Competition!
>
> > 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 Sunday 6 April to Saturday 12
> > April. Everyone who wishes to enter the competition should announce
> > themselves on rec.games.roguelike.misc (RGRM) by 6 April.
>
> Greetings all,
>
> The annual Seven-Day Roguelike Playing Contest is now completed.
>
> The winner is... Jeff Lait with 315 points!
> In second place we have... Slash with 160 points
> In third place we have... Antoine with 50 points.
Woohoo! Thanks for doing the accounting.
--
Jeff Lait
(POWDER: http://www.zincland.com/powder)