The idea of this contest was to create something like 2D games - or other useful apps - from only text and monochrome bitmaps. For instance, a PONG game can be created without any external files.

But 3D is allowed if we find a way?

Am I right that the rule is we just deliver a bunch of c,h,fx files and nothing else?
Whatever I do within this code is not limited as long as no graphic files or models or other text files are incldued in the project from start?


Guess I have some similar ideas as Ventilator.

Thanks George

Can I ask really dumb question please ?

What's the difference between a 2D game and a 3D game ? I mean from a Lite-C point of view ? Whilst I can see the difference from a players perspective, I don't understand the difference as far as Lite-C is concerned.

See I told you this was a dumb question !

Cheers

Drac.

2D doesn't require a level_load() call .

"Am I right that the rule is we just deliver a bunch of c,h,fx files and nothing else?" Yes, you are right.

"What's the difference between a 2D game and a 3D game ? I mean from a Lite-C point of view ?" A 2D game runs in a 2D space, not in a 3D space with a camera that looks down. You can picture a 2D game as a drawing on a piece of paper while a 3D environment would be (let's say) your room. On top of that, a 2D game can't use the psysics engine, the collision engine and so on.

i'd like to know the answer on that Q too...

So my soruce code can cotnain whatever I want it to contain? If I hear no further 'no' with detailed exceptions, then I assume 'yes' as answer

Are we allowed to create *.mdl-files at runtime? Or would that count as cheating?

Thanks George. Mag is good as always.

It is pointless to forbid external files.. I could dump a file and embed it into my sourcecode, while I extract it on startup on disc. I would'nt wonder if there were entries with executables being ridiculous big because of embedded textures, music and so on.

I would'nt generally forbid this kind of stuff, but would add a maximum filesize for the executable, maybe max. 4 MB or something like this? Or is the Lite-C compiler restricting the max. size of executables?

If I would enter, I would do definitely something 3D related and since I have not the knowledge to generate sophisticated 3D meshes, I would dump them into my sourcecode. Textures, shader related images, heightmaps, particles, etc. instead, would I generate by my own algorithms. The same for music.