In the spirit of a little Easter holiday fun, we're setting the PlayBASIC community a week long design and programming challenge.  The objective here is to cut through the fat and get to the core of your game idea fast, without the inevitable feature creep.   So the game designer needs to formulate their concept, then build a working prototype of the game within 7 days or less.   (16th/April/2011  -   24th/April/2011)




 Game Requirements:


     + The game must be Easter themed, meaning that it should use Easter Eggs and or the Easter bunny as the primary character(s).   Please refrain from using any religious themes, this will not be tolerated!

     + The game must feature a GOLD coloured Easter egg somewhere.

     + The game must include a title/menu page (even if the only options are Play & Quit)  

     + The game must be playable by a single person on a single computer, so games with computer controlled characters will need some form of AI.  

     + The game can use any control system combination the designer prefers  (Key / Mouse / Joypad), however if you choose joypad as the primary control device, make sure it's playable via keyboard or mouse also. (Not everybody has one).
     
     + Artwork - submissions have a size requirement (listed Bellow), so  artwork need only be suitable, high quality artwork isn't necessarily required.   (Art = 1-5 Votes awarded by UnderwareDesign.com)

     - Music & Sound - The game doesn't necessarily have to include music, but some sound effects would be nice.  (Music = +1 votes, Sound =+ 1-5 Votes. Awards by UnderwareDesign.com)

     + Blogs - Each contestant is required to start a WIP (Work In Progress) thread in the Show Case board plotting their progress over the week.  

     + Existing Works - In an effort to maintain some fairness, we'd prefer entries be written from scratch  rather than some re-skinned existing work.  (Expect -10 votes for )
 

   Well, you've got lots to do and not much time to do it, so get those fingers typing !


 


Dead Line

   Begins -> Saturday 16th Of April  (Competition Is complete)
   Closes -> Sunday 24th Of April (11:59 PM / MIDNIGHT Melbourne Australia)    See Current Time In Melbourne


  This competition is now complete. Thanks to all participants...






Judging

     * At the close of the challenge, the community will be given a week to vote upon the best all round entry.  That's assuming there's more than one entry.  
     
     * The best all round entry will the game that plays the best, and best complies to the rules outlined above.  Failing to comply with any of the game rules / requirements,  the game will receive -5 votes for each failure.  



Prizes

    * The winner will be eligible to receive up to 3 free hours of PlayBASIC programming from me.  

    * All submissions will be highlighted through the PlayBasic IDE news service / News Letters or on Twitter and Facebook.




Submission

    * Submissions are to be written in PlayBasic V1.64L or higher.

    * Submission can only be accepted in Source Code form only.

    * Authors can use external Media (images/music) provided you created the media/and or have permission to distribute the includes media or the Media is in the public domain.

    * Zip up your Submissions and please try to keep it smaller than 2.5 meg !

    * Authors automatically give consent for their submission(s) to distributed and used for promotional purposes via UnderwareDesign.com, PlayBasic code tank.

    * Authors can submit as many times as they like.

    * To make your final submission, zip up your projects source code + media and attach it post it in this thread.

I really like the prize! That's very generous and could come in really handy.

Is it okay to compile the program and offer it elsewhere, or do you want it so the source code is only available here?

QuoteIs it okay to compile the program and offer it elsewhere, or do you want it so the source code is only available here?

 You can do whatever you like with it after the challenge, it's your game...  The whole idea of making the challenges open source, is purely to help others gain some perspective on how other real life members go about programming a game.

Can you clarify the close day? You have "Saturday 24th Of April". Did you mean Saturday the 23rd or Sunday the 24th?

   Originally it was to be sat -> sat, making it 7 days, but during writing that was extended out to 7 and 1/2 days to help compensate for different time zones.   That's been extended again  from midday to midnight on the Sunday the 24th, making it a full 8 days in our time zone.   Check the time in Melbourne link to get an idea of how long is left.  It's currently 1:34PM on tuesday, so there's about 5 and 1/2 days left.       

i would extend it to midnight monday

Count Down: 23 and 1/2 hours to go

Submission: EGG HUNT

HOW TO PLAY

This game is played using the mouse.

Click on "HUNT" to start or "QUIT" to exit.

A background image is displayed and a circle moves around the screen to choose an egg from the image. Once the egg is chosen, it is displayed in a circle at the bottom-left of the screen.

An egg-shaped cursor and a 30-second timer appear. After three seconds, the timer (in the upper right hand corner) starts to count down to zero. The player can now move the egg-shaped cursor to try to find the part on the background image that matches the egg in the circle.

The player needs to click the left or right mouse button when he/she thinks the egg outlined by the cursor matches the egg in the circle. If the player is wrong, an X appears on the cursor. If the player is right, the time it took to find the egg is shown inside the egg cursor, and the next egg is chosen.

The player needs to try and find a dozen eggs in the image before the game ends. At the end of the game, the location of each egg is shown and the player is awarded either a golden, silver or bronze egg depending on the total time it took to find all twelve eggs.

Press the ESC key to quit during the game.

The player can add 800x600 PNG or JPEG image files to the "egg hunt images" folder, and the game may load the image randomly at the start of a new game.

EDIT: I originally attached the wrong file (it contained an image that was not public domain). The final file with all public domain images is now attached.



Blog

   Development Blog/WIP thread


Download

 Attached bellow.

submission :  EGG SELECTOR

not fully complete some bonus stuff missing and not fully tuned and tidied up , but just done in time
read instruction in intsructions txt , also i will need some help on the random generator thing , later on hopefully some one will help

EGG SELECTOR INSTRUCTIONS


move mouse left and right to move pointer on wheel , do not move mouse down or up as this does nothing
click mouse button 1 to select highlighted basket , the basket will then move to center on wheel and drop egg
click mouse button 2 this starts a new game once game as finished



object of game

drop the same colour egg in its same colour rabbits arms , dropping wrong egg on the wrong colour rabbit will lose a life..
dropping the gold colour larger egg into any rabbits arms will lose a life..
when chick appears at bottom of tunnel your need to give him the golden egg with question mark on
this will do one of 3 things
1.mega points
2.wheel dircetion will change
3.colours of eggs in baskets will swap

scoring
you will get 100 point for each egg dropped correctly , plus time over times 5
get mega points if golden egg is given to chick and mega points is rewarded in random prize
lose a life by giving wrong egg to wrong rabbit
and also lose a life if you time runs out and rabbit or chick will move away given up hope of getting hes egg

good luck

mick ;D


Blog

    Development Blog/WIP thread


Download

  Attached bellow.

  Both look really good,  It'd be nice if you post screen shots / how to play info with the files.. saves me doing it :)

I didn't even think to post screenshots, thanks for adding them to the post. Next time I'll take care of it.

Instructions for play are included in the file "EGG HUNT How To Play.txt" found in the zip archive. Here is that text for those who want to know more about the game before downloading...

Actually, I'll go ahead and add these to the post with the screenshots.

Kevin, are the people who submitted games allowed to vote?

yep..