Is QML an acceptable language for content entry?

I have a free open source game project (www.AncientBeast.com) here on github https://github.com/FreezingMoon/AncientBeast

It's a rather old project but only recently it took off regarding coding, since it doesn't uses an existing 3rd party engine and barely any libs at all and it was really hard finding a good lead programmer.

Developer preview playable over at http://AncientBeast.com/combat
Keep in mind it's very early and it will get into the contest theme better pretty soon.

We don't really care for winning but we thought that this contest could mean free exposure for the project, which might improve it's fate a lot.

1. Can Ancient Beast participate? It's a very serious project that won't get laid down anytime soon, unlike most of the games that are made specially for this competition. It only started to be somewhat playable just a few days before you announced this contest and it still has a long way to go.
2. Since the project coding is done already via Github, could we avoid having to push the code to the contest fork? Or perhaps having it as a submodule would be enough?

Do you have any suggestions/restrictions on what type of licenses can we use for our code?

perhaps I'm gonna use impactJS as framework for game off 2012
problem is the license won't allow adding impactjS itself on the repository

but other script would be okay (gameplay script)

am i eligible for the hackaton?

Q: are pre-existing projects (established well before the game-off started) allowed?

This isn't explicitly outlined in the README, and e.g. #35's starter says that's perfectly normal for a 16-months-old project to take part on the same grounds as 4-days-old ones.

Maybe I'm missing something and this really is a non-issue, but can awesome judges please clarify?

(This is similar to #5.)

http://octodex.github.com/
http://octodex.github.com/faq.html

I'm not an artist (nor would I hire one for this hehe) can we use and/or modify the above octocats for this challenge?

Issues #1 and #2 are written by leereilly, one of the judges. Currently, the answers to those questions are in the description of the Issue. I was confused by that – I thought to myself, if the asker knew the answer already, then why did he ask it? And how did he know the answer, anyway – he’s just some question-asker, not a judge. As it turned out, he is a judge – but I had to look at the official list of judges to find that out.

It would be clearer to edit the description of those Issues (#1 and #2) to blank and have the judge post the answer in a comment. That would clearly separate the question and the answer.

Maybe I don't see it but there does not seem to be a finish date.

Thanks for your help.

Although it is clear that the code should be open source and available through the entrants' repo, what about assets? Do these have to have similarly permissive licenses? I am mainly thinking of sound. Obviously it's completely trivial to load them from another location (so they are not included in the repository) but is this permitted?

There's ~1,200 entries, and I went through the first 100, and I really don't see any (with the exception of about 3) of them with commits after the repo got forked.

Does anyone have a script that would show which forked repos of github/game-off-2012 have actually been pushed to?

Maybe someone can direct me to how to use the public json api find this out?

It is said that we must submit before 1st december (not included I suppose), but in which time zone ?

Hello, the topic says it all. I'm wondering if a java applet is allowed to this jam.

Thanks in advance.

I want to join in as well, but I will only be able to submit code form Bangkok, Thailand.

So I was wondering if that will be an issue should I win some of the prize?

(I probably won't tho :p, but atleast it's better to compete without the doubts)

Hi, because this contest involves many different platforms im not sure if i should submit the game binaries or any sort of compile instructions?

Couldn't find this info anywhere else so im issuing it \o

I was thinking of making a game with the Octocat. Are we allowed to used GitHub resources in our game, like fork icon, Octocat and so on or should we stay away?

Hey, I just wanted to check before I'm putting a lot of effort into the challenge. I want to build a layer upon Github's Gist interface by using a Chrome extension. I'm not sure if you accept a web browser extension as a web-based game. More details here

Thanks in advance!

Does the forked repo need to be named "game-off-2012", or can we rename it to better reflect the game's name?

I'm poor musician and I can't even compare to artist/s who created music that perfectly fits my game. I don't own rights to distribute their music, so I decided to embed a hidden chromeless YouTube player as a music source in my game. Is it a problem?

I'm not a Phd in copyrighting issues, so I'd like to know from you if I'm doing anything ilegal.
I'd like to add a midi song in my game from an already existing and copyrighted song. Since this is not the original record is it valid to be used?

Hi.
I want to do this with a friend (we both have individual GitHub accounts) but I don't want to go through the trouble of creating an organization account. Can I just fork this repo to my individual account, and give him commit access, instead of creating an entirely new organization account?

What happens if someone forks what would be the winning entry minutes before the end of the competition, and adds a small improvement?

Technically, they have the better game, but it feels cheap to pull the prize from the person who put all the work in.

Hi

Here's my question :

• I forked the game-off-2012 repository
• I created another repository for my tentative entry
• I want the judges to be able to see my stuff in the end (if i get the time to do something ;) )

What is the best way to proceed ?

• copy all the code from my repository, when it's done, to my fork of game-off-2012 ?
• add the fork's repository as a remote for my existing repository (and push there ?)
• any other github trick that I'm not aware of ?

Thanks

Or I can just link to the game in README of my fork?

Having read the terms here: http://octodex.github.com/faq.html it's looking like we can't use Octocat for much! Is there an exception for this GitHub sponsored gamejam?

What is the recommended size of the game resources? 5MB? 20 MB? Is there any hard limit ?

Thanks!

What criteria will the judges choose winners based on?

I could imagine all of these possibly being criteria: “the game…”

• is fun to play
• is “cool”
• is closely enough related to the themes
• is not too literally related to the themes
• has beautiful graphics or a fitting art style
• provokes thought
• teaches you something
• has well-organized code
• contributes new, useful code to the open-source community

What are the actual criteria judges will look at? Do the criteria have different weights/importance (different point values)?

Something like "tinidor" for forks (tagalog) or whatnot. Also related, if I don't plan to have flashy graphics, is the storyline enough into tying the concept to the game? Or do we really need to actually show the graphics of forks/branches etc.?

For example, if I was to remake an iOS or Android game using web technologies? Wouldn't reuse any artwork or sounds, just the concept of the game. Is that okay?

I was thinking about building a multi-player game, but that would require some server-side technologies for communicating between players. Is this allowed?

Will we be judged on the quality of code, or on other things? Will there be different categories for winners, like most creative, smallest game, etc.?

Hi there,

I understood that we have to use some of the ideas behind Git, but can we actually make a game that involves Git or GitHub itselves ?

An example might be, you have to make some kind of pull request to a specific repository or anything. I understand that GitHub itself may not be a place for games but I wanted to be sure.

Best.

You have 5 iPads to give to the winners – does that mean there will be 5 winners? And how many runners up will there be?

Hello! In what territories is this competition valid? I mean, can anyone in the world participate in this contest?

Say we have a game engine we've written previously. Is it all right to re-use it?

What if we have an unfinished prototype? Is it all right to take this opportunity to flesh out old toys?

To quality for entry as a team you must fork the github/game-off-2012 to a free organization account

Can paid organisations enter as a team as well, or will we need to create another free organisation?

I'm thinking about entering as an individual. It was noted that open source media is acceptable, and the creator of such media would of course not be a collaborator, but suppose I used already produced audio with the permission of the artist, would that make the artist a collaborator?

I'm assuming, although I wanted to ask this as well, that any artist creating new materials for the project would have to be considered as a collaborator, promoting my status from an individual to a team.

before:

The GitHub Game Off 2012 is game jam / hackathon / coding challenge to create and open source a web-based game

after:

The GitHub Game Off 2012 is a game jam / hackathon / coding challenge to create an open source a web-based game

Hi git,

I believe that GGO12 accept all kind of programming language as long it meets written criteria. How about rule on using third party libraries (like LibGdx) or engine (like Unity)? Are they allowed?

Thank you.

In the description of the challenge, it says "You have the entire month of November..."

Are we supposed to wait until Nov. 1st to begin (a la Ludum Dare)?

Are there some set of browsers/version the game needs to support? Will the judges respect a request like "use latest chrome stable"? I personally don't want to think too hard about IE on my projects-for-fun, and some devs might want to use NaCl.

ei. I can make a HTML5 app on android, which uses specific things from the android OS ?

Is it possible to have multiple game entries? Like if you have 3 simple games, can you submit each game using a different team/individually? Also, what if your team can make 2 mini games, will that count as well? (fork it twice? or create a new free organization and fork again?)

I am a maintainer for a Java-based web UI toolkit (called Vexi - http://vexi.sourceforge.net) so would that count?

https://github.com/styleguide/css/7.0

I did not see any mention of license restrictions that are shown for Octocats

I have a friend who can't commit alot of time to the project but took pictures of some of his art. He gave them to me and said I could do what ever I want with them. Going to be coding alone. Should i submit as a team or as an individual???