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2011 Halloween Engine Competition!

News posted 1st September, 2011 by Strife

Can it be? It's alive... It's alive! IT'S ALIHEEEVE! HAH HAHAHAHAHA!

After a frightening delay, it's been settled that Phase II of the 2011 Engine Competition will be a grand spookfest. It's pretty much been a tradition for the Daily Click to host a Halloween contest each year, and since the engine competition is so close to October, we figured we'd run the delightfully mad experiment of fusing the two together into some sort of Frankenstein monster. Bwoohoohaha.

Anyway, the rules are simple: Pick one of the game engines from Phase I and build a Halloween-themed game around it. The deadline is October 31st, and the winner will receive a rather generous grand prize: One whole year of free web hosting! The top three winners will also receive DC Points and have their reviews posted on TDC.

Click here to view the contest rules and download the game engines!

We hope you'll join us in this contest afresh,
Build us some monsters to consume our flesh!
Jumping and slashing and shooting abound,
It's simply the spookiest contest around!

Posted by s-m-r

1st September, 2011

Thanks for the front-paging, admins.

Can someone edit the first post of the discussion thread, so the proper date is displayed for the competition deadline?

The deadline is 31st October, 2011, 12am GMT.

(love the poem, by the way...!

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Posted by Windybeard Games

1st September, 2011

THAT POEM ROCKS!!!!!

Posted by Mr. Hexagon

1st September, 2011

Who made the fancy logo???

Posted by s-m-r

1st September, 2011

You can thank OMC for that excellent logo.

Posted by MasterM

2nd September, 2011

Great work on the logo and I like the idea.

Many years ago (I think 2003) I held my own Halloween competition here on tdc and I got like 6 or even more submission! Great work everyone and I still feel bad because it took me ages to judge them.

Oh yeh anyways looking forward to what people will do. I feel like doing a Halloween game now myself.

Posted by Strife

2nd September, 2011

Do it, MasterM! The very face of Spookdom calls upon you to send chills down our spine.

Posted by s-m-r

2nd September, 2011

Halloween is my favourite holiday, so I'm really happy that this competition coincides with it.

Looking forward to seeing and playing plenty of spooky entries...!

Posted by MasterM

3rd September, 2011

"Halloween is my favourite holiday" yeh I don't know. I can't relate because I am German and you guys can't relate because you are NOT German.

the best holiday is father's day which is the day where every man gets drunk and I seriously mean it. We wander around in the country side getting drunk as fuck just bumping into groups of other males who are also drunk as fuck. German holidays haha (im not making this up btw)

Posted by Jacob!

3rd September, 2011

Anyone that does not feel interested in this competition, remember that GameBuilder will probably host a Halloween game competition too

It hasn't been decided yet, so we don't know what the specific theme will be n_n

Posted by Eternal Man [EE]

3rd September, 2011

I love the Halloween compos! And the fact that this year's compo will use prebuilt engines means that contenders can put the juice in design and development rather than in internal workings, ever so sublime.

I hope to give it a go.

//EE

Posted by MasterM

5th September, 2011

lets be fair: the engines are SHIT

i use the newgrounds version of TGF2 and I know a lot of people who do to and I cant even open the engines with TGF 2 NE edition.

so can people rebuild the engines so ANYONE can open them? it should be illegal to use any weird extensions. hell engines should be done in KNP so anyone can open them.

Posted by Jess Bowers

6th September, 2011

MasterM, I just downloaded and tried my engine with TGF 2 NE and it worked fine. What sort of issues were you seeing? My engine doesn't use any extensions so that shouldn't be the issue.

Posted by Jess Bowers

8th September, 2011

BTW, I LOVE the logo!

Posted by Carnivorous id

8th September, 2011

The logo wins first place! I love halloween but sadly I've just started using MMF2. Can't wait to see what everyone else cooks up though!

Posted by Wackyjackie

11th September, 2011

I can't find time to even open MMF

Posted by s-m-r

12th September, 2011

Yeah, I'm stoked about the logo. Old Man Clayton did an excellent job!

Master M: any further problems with the engines? I used no extensions in the engine I supplied.

If any other engine submissions use extensions, I'm sure you can find them at the following link:

http://ext.neatwares.ath.cx/list/

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