RULES:
1. Your entry must be playable on MSDOS, Unix, and Macintosh machines
with very little fuss on the part of the player. Remember, it is in your
best interest to have as many people play your game as possible.
2. Your entry must contain no more than 8 distinct locations. A location
is distinct if some sort of movement command can enter or leave the location.
3. Your game must have a 'win' state. There must be a goal, in other
words. The player cannot just be wandering aimlessly.
4. It should take an average player no more than 2 hours to 'win' your
game. It will be suggested to players that they stop and rank your game
after 2 hours have passed, then continue playing if they wish.
5. To enter, first write your game, then ftp to
ftp.gmd.de:/incoming/if-archive. put or mput your game there as:
It will be moved to a special directory set aside for that purpose. It
is probably best if we all use the same form of compression on our
games. Perhaps either .zip or .tar.Z would be good. You will need to
email Volker Blasius (volker@gmd.de, I think, I'll look it up.) and tell
him that this upload is a competition entry.
6. The deadline for uploads is August 1.
7. The judging will work as follows. Every player that has played all
the entries (and maybe can answer a question about them? I dunno. I'm
trying to avoid unfair judging here, any ideas?) will e-mail me with a
list of their 3 favorite games. There will be no weighting, each game
will receive 1 point per vote. The deadline for voting is August 30.
Entrants are not allowed to vote.
8. On September 1, the entrant whose game received the most votes will get
his/her pick of the prizes that have been donated. The next in line
shall then get next pick, and so on, and so on, until we run out of
prizes. (Probably around 2nd-3rd place.) In the event of a tie, the two
entrants can work it out on their own who gets what, and will both be
considering as having placed the same.
How does that grab you? Any suggestions for changes? I really think
that only people who have played all the entries should be allowed to
vote, otherwise it's unfair to the authors of the games they didn't
play. So, either honor system or answer some quiz questions on the
games, in which case the author must supply me with one.
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