Hello everyone. Phill Hasey recommended that I post my news directly
to your mailing list, so I hope you don't mind a short commercial.
I was looking at the various games on the PyGame site the other day
and thought, "We need some PyGame developers to enter uDevGames --
there's some cool talent here."
uDevGames, if you haven't heard is our flagship game development
contest, which was started in 2001. Its mission is to motivate game
programmers, make them more professional in terms of coding and
marketing and help to jump start their careers. In fact, many of our
alumni are now working in the professional game dev business I am
happy to say.
uDevGames kicked-off on December 2nd. The contest lasts for 3 months.
At the end, there's a public voting stage and then once the winners
are announced, we hand out some very very cool prizes. uDevGames is
also unique because each game's source is released back into the
public. (Open Source). But that hasn't stopped some developers from
improving on their own games and releasing updated titles as
shareware, or some cases as commercial published games.
As iDevGames is focused on the Mac, I regret to say that our Linux and
Window game coding brothers can't join in, unless their IDE of choice
allows for creation of a Mac binary. Still, its a great event for
those platforms as I have seen several of past games ported to these
platforms. Some developers actual develop cross-platform games from
the start.
We have an announcement about uDevGames here:
http://www.idevgames.com/news/official-start-of-udevgames-2008
There's also a 'must read' for uDevGames developers that is full of
advice. Actually, the article is great for any new game programmer!
http://www.idevgames.com/news/udevgames-2008-survival-guide
Again, thanks to Phil for letting me post here and I look forward to
seeing some of you join in the fun. Perhaps I might take a closer look
at PyGame once uDevGames is over and things return to normal at
iDevGames.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
.
Kind Regards,
Carlos Camacho
Editor-in-Chief
Websites: iDevGames.com | iDevApps.com | uDevGames.com
