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[scotay]

http://yoyogames.com/news

This year in the Netherlands the Creative Game Challenge is again taking place. This is a game development competition for Dutch highschool students, organized by Utrecht University and supported by YoYo Games. This year’s theme is Collisions. All games in the competition are created using GameMaker, and large prizes can be won. The top prize is 1500 euro. So all Dutch GameMaker users that are in highschool (VWO, HAVO, VMBO) are recommended to participate in the competition. You must register before the end of February and submit your game before the end of March. For more information, see: http://www.creativegamechallenge.nl/



Samsung Bada Challenge

Always good to hear good news, back in our post in October 2011, we are delighted to congratulate the winning team from Dundee’s own Abertay University that picked up first prize in the Samsung bada Student Developer Challenge. The competition challenged teams of students to create new games for Samsung’s app store – starting with a gruelling 24 hour game jam.

Tom DeMajo, Erin Michno and Ian Reynolds, collectively known as Quartic Llama, built Moeba, an side-scrolling, colour-changing action game with a unique organic style. Players have to destroy cells by tapping the phone screen, to keep their character safe





Abertay University also took the prize for the best university, because it produced the winning team. Three other teams out of the twelve who competed came from Abertay, highlighting the university’s presence within the games sector.

The contest, judged by Samsung and a panel of mobile industry experts, gave the team £5,000 and their game will be promoted on the Samsung Apps store.



GMC

The Global Game Jam as well as the GMC Jam was over the weekend, a lot of busy people were beavering away on their own games. A link to your game MUST be posted here before the end of the Jam to qualify for votes in the final stage (ends 23:59 PM GMT Monday 30th Jan).

Some of you may have noticed that the GMC was down for several hours over the weekend Well, the server had crashed and took the database with it. Mike D. spent Saturday afternoon repairing it as best he can but the database did take some damage, including (most significantly) the user database.

It looks like many users have lost their accounts, so you will have to re-register. You should be able to use the same name, but you will have lost your stats, friends and the like.

We are really sorry about this, but it's beyond our control.

If someone has had to re-register, can you please post here -http://gmc.yoyogames.com/index.php?showtopic=530337&st=0

Thanks!

The YY Team

[makerofthegames]

2012 gaming comps, eh? GMC Jam 5-8 this year. :3

[2DLuis]

It's great to see how much field GameMaker is gaining at the international level.

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You'd think the database was backed up automatically?..

[Artaex Media]

Well, first time I'm signing up for the comp.
Still looking for (Dutch!) team member(s)

[NukeTheCat]

Is this only open to Dutch?

[chance]

This is a game development competition for Dutch highschool students...

Is this only open to Dutch?

If by "this" you mean the Creative Game Challenge, then yes. I thought the announcement was pretty clear.

Personally, I don't really mind. Most Dutch high school students are smarter than me anyway.

[NukeTheCat]

Well, that's a bummer... I always like a challenge even when I don't win.
Hope there will be a worldwide competition (or at least one in Malaysia )

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[stafff]

That´s very uncool, that the challenge is only available for dutch people. Why is this posted then at yoyogames.com ? I think maybe 5% are dutch on that site, so why only for them post this, in English, where everyone understands it...

I´m sad, i wanted to participate,too. Finally found out it´s impossible

[chance]

That´s very uncool, that the challenge is only available for dutch people. Why is this posted then at yoyogames.com ? I think maybe 5% are dutch on that site, so why only for them post this, in English, where everyone understands it...

I´m sad, i wanted to participate,too. Finally found out it´s impossible

Are you suffering from "Dutch envy"? Seriously man... that's sad.

YoYoGames posted it because of their history and ongoing relationship with GameMaker's founder, Prof. Mark Overmars, of Utrecht University in The Netherlands.

Besides, those Dutch high-school kids would probably kick your ass at this competition anyway.

[Artaex Media]

That´s very uncool, that the challenge is only available for dutch people. Why is this posted then at yoyogames.com ? I think maybe 5% are dutch on that site, so why only for them post this, in English, where everyone understands it...

I´m sad, i wanted to participate,too. Finally found out it´s impossible

Well just to notify you, without us (the Dutch people) there would be no Game Maker.
Thus you wouldn't be on this forum because it would never have existed

Also, you can participate, well not exactly, but you can contribute (to participants from the Netherlands, like me )

Edited by Artaex Media, 03 February 2012 - 09:29 PM.

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[IQbrew]

Well just to notify you, without us (the Dutch people) there would be no Game Maker.
Thus you wouldn't be on this forum because it would never have existed

I like feeling proud of the stuff people of the same race did, too. White power!

[chance]

This year in the Netherlands the Creative Game Challenge is again taking place. This is a game development competition for Dutch highschool students, organized by Utrecht University and supported by YoYo Games. This year’s theme is Collisions. All games in the competition are created using GameMaker, and large prizes can be won. The top prize is 1500 euro.

"Collisions" is a great theme for this year's comp.. Eager to see what games win. Last year's winner are here. The theme was "water".

And lots of money at stake here too. 7500 euro ! ($9.8K USD)

You can buy a lot of wooden shoes for that money.

[darkgot]

Could we enter the comp if we know someone who has a dutch neighbour.