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Summer Scroller Competition

New Trier freshman Amanda Nguyen was named the winner of the WPL Game Design Club's summer game design competition. Her entry, "My Chemical Romance: Demolition Lovers" includes three levels, integrating original artwork, scoring, lives, plus multiple death-defying challenges from vampires, zombies and demons. To download or play her game, visit the Game Maker web page at http://www.yoyogames.com/games/show/46316.



Summer Pong Competition

Evanston, Park Ridge and Wilmette game designers who are participating in the Pong clone competition are reminded that entries are due on or before July 15. Each entry must be themed, must contain at least three rooms and must include unique dynamic features. Games must be submitted in .gm6 or .gmk format. Winners will be notified the week of July 21. Submissions may be dropped off directly at Park Ridge Public Library or Wilmette Public Library, or emailed to bmyers -at- wilmettelibrary -dot- info.

Shooting Scroller Competition

Deadline: July 31, 2008.

Instructions

1. Game must be a scroller (e.g., 1945, Galaga)

2. Make sure it follows all rules below (must meet file size and level restrictions)

3. Submit the game in GMA or GMK format to the submit page

Rules

  1. You can work as a team with other people. However, prizes are per entry. So if your team wins a prize, you'll have to decide what to do with it.
  2. You can't use a game you're already working on, unless you started it less than a week before the start of the competition. You can, however, use pieces of code from your past games or from examples, just as you normally would when making a game. But remember that creativity is a major part of this competition, so you probably don't want your game to be too similar to another one.
  3. You can't use graphics from other games, commercial or otherwise, unless you modify them beyond recognition.
  4. Be creative.
  5. You can enter more than one game.
  6. There can't be any inappropriate material in the game (think E rating).
  7. The game can have a maximum of 3 levels.
  8. The game must be less than 6 MB.

Judging

These are the judging criteria:

  1. Adherence to the above rules.
  2. How creative and original your game is.
  3. Overall functionality and interface.
  4. Graphics.
  5. Sound.
  6. Game play.
  7. How polished your game is.

Each judge will try all of the entries and then choose one winner and two runners up for each of the 4 criteria. From this, we'll determine an overall winner and two runners up in each game category, as well an a overall competition winner.

How to Enter

Entries should be emailed in .gm6 or.gmk format to bmyers -at- wilmettelibrary -dot- com

Prizes

1st place: $75 gift certificate from Borders

2nd place: $50 gift certificate from borders

3rd place: $25 gift certificate from borders

4th place: A pat on the back