i want to propose a contest for the next msx meeting...

the participants gets msx (all the same or similar), and starts programming a game, starting from zero using all his skills.

So, win the best game developed from zero, without using any disk or preexistent code or GRAPH or sound in 2 hours.

Only allowed BASIC programming or conding assembler only from the BASIC interpreter.

As price, the game published in some magazine.

Pffff... two hours is WAY too short to code a fully functional MSX game, even in BASIC! And if you don't have sound or graphics at your disposal, it's worse! What would we get? More of 'em word-guessing games? Or even worse, snake-clones?
I don't think this is a real good idea. At least the time limit should be somewhat relaxed: let's say, from 10h till 16h or something (which usually leaves about one hour for evaluation).

I CAN!!!

i can do a platform game in 2 hours... with almost two stages. Presentation / GAME OVER

GuyveR800 used to be able to do a snake it in 20 minutes. So a whole game in 2 hours should be possible.

I didn't say it was impossible, but the point is that you don't get a real 'quality' game (for as far as quality counts, then).

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GuyveR800 used to be able to do a snake it in 20 minutes. So a whole game in 2 hours should be possible.

Right... 2 hours sounds possible if you've had some practice.
Still, sitting behind an MSX for 2 hours doing nothing but programming doesn't sound like a good way to spend time on an MSX fair! There's too much cool stuff and cool people to be 'busy' for that long.

Something for the MSX Marathon on October 9th, then?

/me waves to GuyveR800 and Grauw

But I thought something like that was done way before, when Matra attended the fair and the marathon...

Arrh, don't remind me, that was a disaster -_-;;. MkII from Matra was about the only one who got something done (then again she/he was pretty much ignored by everyone else :/ so there wasn't much else to do I guess).

Anyways, a programming compo sounds nice, but personally I tried it a few times and it all didn't work out, for me at least. I'd rather have some fun playing games ;p. But, if people want a programming compo...


~Grauw

but guys, must it really be a QUALITY game? ! flyguille just said about making game from zero. I guess you have used to that everything must have glorious super-grafix. It´s nice idea to put people using the thing what made msx famous: THE MSX - BASIC !