Other B4A Minigame competition 2014 Xmas edition

[sorex]

The year is reaching its end which means a lot of minigame compos will reach their deadline aswell.

What about a minigame compo for B4A with a Christmas based theme for the game(s)?

A month left to create a minigame which should be enough.

Rules could be...

- Christmas/Winter themed
- Made in B4A (source need to be provided as proof)
- Made by yourself (not taking a flappy bird or match3 game example from this forum and just replace some gfx)
- Game may not be released before by you on Google Play (as in no quick game recycling by using new gfx to fit the theme)
- Filesize limit not set yet (5Mb?)
- Deadline reached, the poll is online.
- Voting from Dec 28 - Jan 1st via forum poll?
- Attenders/Winners might know the result on Jan 1 2015

Erel knowing, he might throw in some B4i+B4A,B4i license(s) or something for the winner or top3.

Erel is so kind to donate 3 B4i + hosted Mac builder licenses for the top 3.


So it's always worth attending for that, the fun , the challenge or to explore the other side of app building (games).

See it as promoting your skills and the possibilities of B4A.


Current entry list:

game title - author (used libs, classes, modules)

Don`t tip the tree! - Mike H. (core, gesturedetector, animation, animationplus)

PicPuzzleXmas - The Desolate Soul (core, javaobject, msstaggeredgridview, mediabrowser, filehelper, msanimator, reflection, msmaterialmenu, stdactionbarhelper, threading, phone, callsubextended, mscardview)

15 Tiles Xmas Edition - UDG (Reflection, StringUtils, dgPickers, Classes: DraggableView, CustomListView, Module: StateManager)

Xmas Mahjong - cbc551 (core,audio,acceleratedsurface,scrollview2d,gesturedetector,animationplus)

Santa Chaos - Ilan (Admob, Animation, Core, Reflection)

Santa Got Stuck up the chimney - Dibb3386 - (Core, Gesture Detector)

Elf attack - RandomCoder (core,phone,reflection,audio)

CLAUStrophobia - Sorex (core)

 

[Douglas Farias]

I subscribed a premium account at http://www.graphicstock.com/ so if anyone need anything (image/vector/icon...) from this site, just let me know. I'm happy to help you.

make a xmas pack of image for free xD

 

[sorex]

Hello, I want to participate!! I'm very excited!

excellent, that's the right attitude.

Where do I have to subscribe?

nowhere, if you finished something you just upload it somewhere and post the link in this thread or by personal message to me.

Can I use donationware libraries?

you mean like an animation library from a forum user? sure, as long as you don't take an entire example and just change the sprites/images.
It needs to contain own written code otherwise it's rather useless and less challenging.

 

[ilan]

i have one more question..

Xmas is not one of my holidays, may i make a hanukkah game??

 

[sorex]

you probably never saw snow either overthere so that's a difficult question

xmas is not really religion depending I guess? it's pure commercial these days.

so I don't think it's a problem for you guys to stick to the theme?

 

[WAZUMBi]

I have a few ideas but the 5mb limit is a tough one for a game...

 

[WAZUMBi]

The grand prize should be a new MacBook Pro so the winner (presumably without a mac) can start developing for iOS...

 

[sorex]

I have a few ideas but the 5mb limit is a tough one for a game...

that one is not really active

 

[sorex]

The grand prize should be a new MacBook Pro so the winner (presumably without a mac) can start developing for iOS...

Actually, I asked Erel to donate B4i licenses (which he did) so people have less costs to jump onto the IOS train as the hardware alone is already expensive enough.
And while showing off your IOS app(s) to friends it will lead to promoting B4A/B4i aswell so it's a win win situation for all of us.

 

[ilan]

you probably never saw snow either overthere so that's a difficult question

xmas is not really religion depending I guess? it's pure commercial these days.

so I don't think it's a problem for you guys to stick to the theme?

i have saw lot of snow, i was born in israel but when i was 8 years old i moved to AUSTRIA and there i saw lot of snow, also we got sometimes snow too in jerusalem and other places, not much but there is snow in israel.

never mind, i will see if i can make a simple nice game for this competition...

 

[WAZUMBi]

I was thinking between 10mg to 15mg

 

[sorex]

I used a strikethrough on the sizelimit line so it's less confusing.

 

[MikeH]

...and I finished my app within 5mb as first suggested

 

[sorex]

First entry has been added to the first post.

 

[ilan]

...and I finished my app within 5mb as first suggested

MIKE, your game is really great, i like it, you are the winner for me (until now )...

 

[MikeH]

It`s the first game I ever wrote

I didn`t think I`d have so much fun writing it, I`ll probably write more in the future.

Thank you Sorex for starting this comp

 

[RandomCoder]

I subscribed a premium account at http://www.graphicstock.com/ so if anyone need anything (image/vector/icon...) from this site, just let me know. I'm happy to help you.

@susu now that's some real Christmas spirit. You get a huge 'Like' from me!

Regards,
RandomCoder

 

[susu]

Just sent a pack of images to thedesolatesoul. Anyone else need anything? Just PM me

 

[sorex]

good news, I think I came up with an idea for a minigame myself. not an original gameplay one (which is hard to do) but it will work out nice for the theme title & game wise.

 

[RandomCoder]

@Cableguy have you thought about porting your B4PPC pairs game across to B4A? Maybe you could add a Christmas theme? Not much time left now, but if you throw in a few more 'off work coding' days you might be able to do it

 

[peacemaker]

Can ice-fishing simulator be judged as Xmas game ? Winter walking, drilling ice - why not Xmas ?
3MB+ only, so - mini.
Really wrote on b4a, attached.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=peacemaker.propilkko

If yes - i'm ready to join