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yes. it is time for one, i reckon.

A DMOD contest. I'm here only from June this year, so I don't know exactly what is a DMOD contest. I only read at CoE that it was at an Alternative Hero contest, with Lyna's Story and Quest for the golden nut.

It's basicly a special contest (so not a standard DOTY or DOTM award). Which usually has a theme. (like evil hero or alternative hero)
Then some DMOD authors should make a specific kind of DMOD in a short amount of time, and then is decided which DMOD is best.

Take note that 'deciding the best D-Mod' happens just like the DOTM/DOTY (voting) so there's no jury judging or so

I reckon as well.

Theres been an Alternative Hero one a Evil and a good one and so on, whats left?

Alternative World?

one screen dmod

Scratcher: good idea. I have a cool idea I could make.

*weee* A contest sounds fun!!

Hmm, interesting idea.. I've thought of making a D-Mod with a limited number of screens in the past but 1 screen would make the challenge more fun Likely the D-Mod authors who like mapping more than scripting wouldn't participate but then, scripting's fun too

Wouldn't everyone make a weird DMOD if you had a one screen DMOD contest? Then it ends up being another weird DMOD contest.

But what about 'best christmas DMOD'?

But what about 'best christmas DMOD'?
I'd think everything this community has to offer in form of Christmas D-Mods is sort of used up (as for most of the other holidays as well).. but one screen sounds scarily good! Let's do that?

The problems with such D-Mods is that u need graphics, and for those who aren't that skilled at that area(like me) can it be hard to create own graphics for the christmas D-Mod, but I am for a D-Mod contest, its been a long time ago since we had one.

Ok, so what's the theme? If it's a one-screen DMOD, I have an ideea too.

We've get to get official confirmation that there will be a contest at all.

The contest will not be based on a one-screen D-Mod.

A two-screen one?

Hmm.So we're still trying to come up with ideas for a contest then?

Let's see,how about...

political dmod?
philosophical dmod?
religious dmod?
elemental dmod?
movie based dmod?
classic novel based dmod?
cartoon/comic based dmod?

EDIT:

Animal based dmod(like 'Attack of the Giant Platypus')

Fruit/Vegetable based dmod(like 'Killer Bananas from Outer Space')

Fruit/Vegtable sounds good ( )

No 'fraid not. I already have an idea, but I can't tell anyone about it until I officially announce it.

Heh, I understand. You won't want to give people a headstart, eh?

Yep.

How about a d-mod where the player is a vampire? That would be super.

No thanks. We already have enough D-Mods that suck.

Mayhaps that contest would be the one that would push that statement past figurative and into literative truth.

A d-mod, so powerful, that any matter that would come into contact with it, would be anhilated.

As if someone would actually make it.

When is going to start and what's the time limit going to be?

Yes, that's something I'm very interested in too...

I can't wait, maybe a new contest will give me some motivation to actually crack on with a d-mod.

Maybe.

Sabre: If I remember correctly, staff can't participate.

Oh, and because there is a prize, and the voting will be conducted by the Dink Network Senior Staff, any entries by Senior Staff are not eligible. (that was the vampire one)

Hmm

Maybe we could change the rules staff can enter but not vote. People can only vote if they havent realeased a dmod for the contest

I'd suggest a "Make an innovative new spell" contest, as I already have one in the waiting... but I'm now senior staff (and I've already showed it off to a few people). Maybe we should just do that anyway.

Prize? What prize? *eyes widen*

For the Weird D-Mod contest, the prize was going to be any videogame RPG for any game system. But Paul won, and he said he couldn't think of another game that he wanted, so I ended up buying him a real, mini-sword.

Sabre: If I remember correctly, staff can't participate.

Oh, yeah. Gutted.

A contest eh? Wait a second... I getting a strange felling.. It's my will to live, it's come back! I kind of lost it right about the time I realised my half finished 38965 line script was so riddled with bugs i could never compleat it sucesfully.

EWait a second, 38965 lines?? I have to find a different javascript counter. I would post the script here, but it would break the forum.

When is it gonna start? Might as well say when your going to tell us all what the theme will be so we all get a fair chance.

Eh... 38965 lines? And you where still within the 64K limit there is for filesize!?

One the World of DinkC puzzles is 51.1 KB and has 2665 lines.. so yours would ehm, likely be too big But we understand, "38965 lines" means "very big script"

Heh

And you have written all those lines, or most of them you copy-pasted from other/the same script?

Its 46KB. It has to large parts which together make up about hal of it. They were copyed and pasted from each other and I changed the variable names. And I mean it when i say half finished. And thats half finished the crappy half arsed version with only 1 AI player. I gave up around the time I started the AI system. Haven't worked on it in about a fortnight.

I'm not quite sure when it will start... my hope is within the next two weeks.

Ok. Cool. Or as I should say; kool. Try to make it something with super hard to do and challenging script writing that pushes the limits of dinkc. But just dinkc please. Rory no like all krazyness with visual c ++. Rory takes 5 minuites to find "+" sign. Rory speak in third person.

Give an exact date of when you are going to announce what the challenge is going to be and don't randomly announce it so some people start sooner than others.

Even if he announces the exact date the contest will start, some will read this forum less frequently than others so unless you glue people to their computer, we'll see the newsitem at different times anyway.

Besides, I don't think that an advantage of a day really makes that much of a difference. (exept if the time limit is really short)

I dunno how long the time limit normally is. I asumed it would be what a week or two? iF THATS THE CASE THEN A DAY WOULD MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

Vampire one: 2 months
Weird one: 7 weeks
Evil hero: 9 weeks

oh.

Shouldn't this have started by now?! *hint hint*

My guess will be next month... I have too much going on right now.

Since dink v1.08 undergoes public beta testing I'll believe you.

Thats good, i've got some exams coming up which I realy should work for as they determine things like what class I get put in to do my GCSE's. They're probably not all that important as when the teachers decide what class we get put in thaty also look at previous exams and such, but meh, I never have actually spent more than half an hour revision for any test (about sixteen secenods being the average amount of time I spend revising) so I think I should work for these.