verge 3: Free 2D Game Engine

How About M?

Well, judging has finally completed. The winners are below, but before you go and look at the chart, please remember: All of these games were great. I had a lot of fun judging for this competition and hope to see compos of similar quality in the future.

So thanks to everyone! You're all awesome.

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Now, without further ado, your rankings

18 pts: Mademoiselle

15 pts: Dial 'M' for MacGuffin

 9 pts: Monster Magnet Meow

 7 pts: Marble Massacre

 7 pts: Mason's Memoirs: The Middle Months

 7 pts: Wind (with a capital M)

As you can see the judges had some thoughts in line with each other but we each had different favourites and ideas about what was better or worse.

The way that we decided the results were that each of the three judges came up with their own criteria and then ranked each game within their own system. Then, I took the rankings and gave out points: 6 points for first place, 5 for second, etc. etc. Adding the points up we got overall rankings.

In any case, I will be posting full reviews from each judge in the posts that follow. Congratulations to CrazyAznGamer, and congratulations to everyone who participated!

Just wanted everyone to know: Judging is underway. We're hoping to post the results this weekend.

That is all.

Hey everyone.

It's been nearly eight hours since the compo was theoretically over, so I think that's been a soft enough deadline, yeah?



To remind everyone, the constraints were that VERGE must be used, there had to be three distinct areas, and it had to implement the theme of "How about m". (You can thank Overkill for that inspired/erroric theme.)

Good job to everyone. We had six entries by the end, and they're all great. Seriously. Here they are, in no particular order:

• Marble Massacre by ustor


• Mason Memoirs by Eldritch (you'll have to copy this link location and paste it into your address bar, sadly)


• Dial 'M' for MacGuffin by Gayo, Hyptosis, McGrue, ustor, Zathras, and MS Comic Sans


• Mademoiselle by CrazyAznGamer


• Monster Magnet Meow by Overkill and Toen


• Wind (with a capital M) by Syn, Code, and Rockstar

Since I have news posting privs and I didn't participate in the compo, I've taken over moving, shaking, and judging duties. So far as I know, there have been three people who have shown interest in judging: myself, SDHawk, and pthaloearth. This doesn't mean we can't have any more last-minute judges! If you would like to be an official judge, please reply to this thread or get ahold of me at the email address in my profile.

I'm going to try to ensure that we turn around on the judging as quickly as we can. Let's not repeat that last compo, yeah?

Okay, so the How About M compo is almost over.

However, I don't think anyone should drop their new years plans to mash in last minute stressful game features. So I'm thinking submission deadlines should be... lenient. The compo will have technically ended at December 31st, 2008, 11:59 Eastern Standard Time (GMT - 5), but I expect most people will just hand it in on January 1st at like 5am in their timezone. Even if that's a lot more time than should be given, that's just fair in case there's uploading problems or you just didn't realize it was due an hour ago or something. Plus it results in potentially more polished games, if there's less of a strict hurry.

Also! We're still looking for judges. Please announce if you'd be willing to judge the entries.

Please post here or drop by #m on irc://irc.lunarnet.org to do some last minute taunts, to ask questions, or to get help if you're having trouble with uploading or something.

Post submitted games as a reply to this.

The clock's ticking... Good luck!

Hey guys!

Did you know Overkill added Variable Arguments to v3? Like a year ago or something?

And then didn't document them?

Well, now you do. ;)

Edit:
CallFunction() updated.
Varargs explained!
String-calling explained!

You may all now praise Overkill instead of mocking him. Maybe.