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-THE 2009 CDN SPEEDGAME IS MADE POSSIBLE BY OUR SPONSORS!-

-THE GIST-

Welcome to our FOURTH ANNUAL SpeedGame Contest!
Our goal is to create quick, fun games focused on different aspects of Christian teaching (either moralistic, theological or both)
to promote Christ, Christian Games and Fun!.

-THIS YEARS THEME-

This years theme is:

The Epistle to the Galatians!

Will your game be based on the Fruits of the Spirit? The Temptations of the Flesh? The abandonment of the Gospel?
Separation from Legalistic Law? Or one of the other many themes present in Pauls message?
Dig through your Brains and Bibles and come up with a Creative and especially FUN idea!.

-JOIN IN-

JOINING IN IS EASY!
Using your favorite FTP client, login to:

FTP: ftp.christiandevs.com

USERNAME: u47539544-speedgame

PASSWORD: contest

Make a folder with your name and include a ENTRY.TXT in the folder with your full name and email.
ALL ENTRIES MUST COME IN A ZIP OR RAR FILE..

-TALK! About the SpeedGame-

-Join in on the SpeedGame Contest discussion by clicking here-

-CHALLENGE PHASES-

DESIGN PHASE (JUNE 9TH to 12TH): Design what you're going to develop for this years SpeedGame.
After the challenge is done we encourage you to share your design process with others!

DEVELOPMENT PHASE (JUNE 13TH to 27TH): Develop your designed game before the time runs out!
We encourage you to write a post of your development experiance after the challenge is complete!

COMMUNITY JUDGING PHASE (JUNE 28TH to July 4TH): If you haven't already, create an account on TALK.CHRISTIANDEVS.COM and use your two votes to vote on this years winners!

-WHAT'S UP FOR GRABS-

GARAGE GAMES - Changing the way games are made and played: Torque3D Professional ($1000 value), iTorque Game Builder - development suite for the iPhone ($500 value) and Torque Game Builder ($250 value)!

GAMESTREAMER.NET - Instantaneous Gaming: $500 worth of cash prizes!

THE GAME CREATORS: $260 vouchers for thegamecreators.com store and 12,000 GameCreator points!

CHRISTIANGAMES!NOW!: Select games from the store!

BLUEGILL STUDIOS An undisclosed cash prize

CHUMBALUMSOFT Three copies of MILKSHAPE 3D!

-CATEGORIES-

Presentation of Christian Content Is it done well? Judged on things like clarity, continuity, applicability, and how well it "fits" with the context, and the quality of any writing.

Fun Gameplay Experiance Fun-ness (is the game easy to pick up and fun to play? Judged on things like learning curve, engagement, excitement, and replayability)

Creativity / Innovation Is the author creative and expressive in their design and implementation? Does the game advance the art of Christian-based games?
Does it break new ground, or breathe new life into old ideas? Judged on how well the author pushed and stretched and experimented
with the boundaries of what Christian-based gaming can be.).

Polish Polish on the look/feel (how good does the game look and feel?
Judged on things like graphics, sound, continuity, consistency, intuitive menus, game stability)

-CONTEST RULES-

1) PROJECTS MUST BE SUBMITTED BY OR BEFORE MIDNIGHT JUNE 27TH TO QUALIFY
No entries, patches, bug fixes will be allowed after this time.
If you live within a different timezone it is your responsibility to make sure your entry is handed in on time.
Please give yourself enough time to upload your entry.

2) PROJECTS MUST LIST THE RESOURCES THEY USED (PRE-EXISTING CODE, ART, SOUND, ETC)
AND WHAT PROVERB THEY ENCOMPASSED IN DESIGN.

3) Pre-existing codework can be used but more points will be awarded to those who work from scratch

4) The games must be made exclusively for this competition. You are not allowed to work on games that you have started previously.

5) The games created during this competition will be made open source at the end. This will serve 2 purposes.

i) The games will be freely available for everyone.

ii) People can learn from others code and it gives something back to the community.

6) Entries must comply with the following criteria.

i) Some Christian content, this is after-all a Christian developers competition and the object is to create more Christian games

ii) Games must not be contain extreme violence, sexual content, occult practices or bad language. Be wise with your choice of content.

iii) Games must not breach any copyright laws.
If you don't fully understand the ins and outs of copyright law, the safest option is to create everything yourself.

7. You are not limited in anyway to what language you program the game in or what tools you use
(ie Game Maker, Torque, Click team products).
We encourage you to harness all the tools you can use, within such a small time period you'll need it!
You will be able to reuse your own libraries (such as graphic, keyboard, sound routines).

8. The game must be able to run on one of the following environments.

i) Windows XP

If any additional libraries are required, please add these to your final installation file.
We do not expect to have to go hunting around the net to get your game to work.

9. Games must include full instructions on controls and how the game actually works.
A quick readme file outlining the controls and general background information on the game will be required.

10. Games CANNOT exceed 20MB in a compressed ZIP or RAR format.
We're encouraging quick, easy downloads this year, when extracted games are allowed exceed the 20MB limit.

11. SPEEDGAMES MUST have the following image displayed on load of the game for 10 seconds

-THE 2008 CONTEST ARCHIVE-

-Click HERE for last years winners!-

-THE 2007 CONTEST ARCHIVE-

-Click HERE for last years winners!-