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Geek Culture / Imagine Cup 2009 - $25,000 Game development competition

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ico
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Posted: 6th Jan 2009 14:37
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I was made aware of this competition recently.
There's several categories, but the game development one seems most interesting to me.
Make a game using XNA Game Studio 2.0 or XNA 3.0
The theme is "Solve the world's toughest problems" yikes...
Grand prize is $25,000. That's a lot of beer money

Imagine Cup - Home page
http://imaginecup.com/Default.aspx

Imagine Cup - Game Development category
http://imaginecup.com/Competition/mycompetitionportal.aspx?competitionId=21

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General Reed
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Posted: 6th Jan 2009 15:04 Edited at: 6th Jan 2009 15:07
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Looks good, Trouble is a team would need to be found. Looks like a serious competition.

Edit: Maybe not, You can be a singleton, Just would seem a bit weird going to cirao on your own lol.

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Roxas
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Posted: 6th Jan 2009 15:42
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Sucks... I dont want to use XNA.

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General Reed
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Posted: 6th Jan 2009 17:04
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Quote: "Sucks... I dont want to use XNA."

Lol, Ye i know what you mean.

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Oolite
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Posted: 6th Jan 2009 17:20
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What? For 25k i'd make it with my own spleen...


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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 6th Jan 2009 17:32
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If only they would let you enter with your spleen. I'd love to see it, I imagine you'd have to be quite creative...youtube it and maybe you can become the next youtube star alongside Chris Crocker, the Star Wars guy and Chocolate Rain...

...on second thoughts, lets not do that, that's a bad idea.


I'll go back to my cave now.

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soapyfish
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Posted: 6th Jan 2009 19:50
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You can only enter if,
Quote: "You are actively enrolled as a student at an accredited educational institution that grants high-school or college/university (or equivalent) degrees any time between January 1, 2008 and May 31, 2009"
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I don't have a problem with that, just thought it might be helpful to point it out before any oldbies got too interested

Is it common practice to say you cannot enter if you're a resident of Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, or Syria?


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flashing snall
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Posted: 6th Jan 2009 20:50
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hmm. XNA is actually a lot of fun. Did anyone here enter in the Dream Build Play compo? I tried in that one with StarFighter, and failed horribly

This one, could be interesting, maybe I should scrape the team back together...


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JoelJ
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Posted: 6th Jan 2009 21:10
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Quote: "Is it common practice to say you cannot enter if you're a resident of Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, or Syria?
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Probably has something to do with the USA's relationship with those nations. Dumb, if you ask me.

Well, I think this is cool... I've been thinking about getting into game development recently, so I think I just might!

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Jeku
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Posted: 6th Jan 2009 21:34
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Quote: "Probably has something to do with the USA's relationship with those nations. Dumb, if you ask me."


Doubtful. I think it's more because those countries would not allow their students to enter and/or win money and/or leave the country. North Korea doesn't even have the internet.


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Sven B
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Posted: 7th Jan 2009 19:39 Edited at: 7th Jan 2009 19:39
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I've taken a look into the rules of the competition and I have to say it looks like an impossible challenge to me.
To take the challenge on your own is like suicide (not really, but you get the point) and I don't have the contacts to make a team that can beat teams on a professional level.

Goodbye $25,000...

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Have a problem, solve the problem, and have a new problem to solve.
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