Oh dear god, no more conspiracy theories please. Don’t get jojobean any ideas. 😉

Hm, theoretically, there could be nearly 50 modes added with adventure on all difficulties, all pocket&cushion level, als score attack levels and random mode.

But I am afraid BH highscore table are a problem, since there’s no good way to check your scores in random and adventure modes. No high score lists, no “best score” anywhere, no way to pause your game after losing your last life to take a screenshot of the score.

The other two modes show your best scores, but I don’t think it’d make much sense adding them, since there’s a best score you can reach more or less easily if you know how.

Perhaps we could make our own criteria like “best total score in pocket&cushion mode” or something.

Yep! It is. I need to have another look at the game this evening to see which highscore tables can be added to the site. Any proposals?

Thanks for pointing these things out! I updated the rules. Most notably:

– Multiple entries are allowed, but will be rated individually (means you can’t collect votes through multiple projects). This means on one hand, that your project will compete with each other, on the other hand that, if they’re all good, you’ll maximize your chance of winning with one of the projects.

– In case of multiple submission, each individual can still only get one prize (i.e. if someone’s projects place 1st and 2nd, he will get the 1st prize, while the 2nd prize will be awarded to the 3rd placed entry and so on).

Nice work! Can we see more pictures?

http://www.planetvb.com/modules/tech/?sec=utils&pid=gccvb

The latest release doesn’t even have to be compiled.

According to Kitaro it was a switch statement that… didn’t switch. 😀 It got messed up by the code optimization routine of VUCC. To fix that, he wrote an equivalent replacement which did the same, but was not affected by the code optimization.

But Arremer, you’re not going to use VUCC, but gccVB, or are you?

P.S. 300th news posting, yay! 😀

And shortly after, a new member with the User ID 1337 releases the first entry for the coding competition. It’s a conspiracy! ;D

Wow, that was fast! Pretty good game as well, what a great idea to combine those two games.

OK, I created and uploaded the splash screen. I did not yet have time to test it, though, so it’d be great to hear some feedback whether it’s working for you guys. 🙂

Hey Usch, welcome to our community! It’s always great to see a new face interested in development for the VB.

About your question: I did not yet have time to upload the splash screen, but I will do it asap, promised!

DogP got it right. It was great to see all those projects released for the last competition, but in the end it was many projects which never got finished. And since we did only see source code for one third of the submitted projects, there was no big didactic effect. IMHO, it’s for the best of all of us, when new programmers have a lot of code to learn from, can help improve existing code or even finish unfinished projects. This competition is mainly about helping the VB homebrew scene grow and get new people on board, rather than seeing who can code best. 😉

You’re free to pick any license you want. So if people really want to stop others from “stealing”/copy&pasting their code, they can just do it through the included license I guess.

The first 10 entries, maybe more, if I can afford it, just wanted to be on the safe side. 😉

VirtualChris wrote:
I’m already at work on something! 🙂 What does “open source” mean?

Means that you have to include the full source code in your entry.

User ranks depend on the post count and can not be set individually, sorry. But you could post like crazy to reach 250 posts and the “(VU)Expert” rank. 😉

Amazing auction! But… $50,000? Paha. It’s worth maybe 1/20th of that. But it will be interesting to see for how much it goes, if it’s anywhere near a fraction of the asking price, I really need to put up my VUE Debugger. 😛

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Too bad, disabled the autologin again. :/

RunnerPack: IIRC, there’s some security issues with letting sessions open for long times. Still, cookies were actually set to last 12 hours, but I have expanded that to 72 hours now. We’ll see how well that works for the user experience. 🙂

Does not seem to work for me. :/

Are these suggestions for other blocks to add or for a new name for the existing one? What’s wrong with “Recently Replied Topics”? Does it sound bad to a native english speaking person?