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AppGameKit Classic Chat / TGC Hackathon Diary!

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baxslash
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Posted: 27th May 2012 23:34
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Home at last and the kids are asleep. Thanks for the encouragement guys it really helped

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Hodgey
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Posted: 28th May 2012 00:41
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Quote: "I have since found out that we did not win, some kind of social post card editor won the big prize. "

You guys put in a valiant effort nonetheless, well done!

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baxslash
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Posted: 28th May 2012 00:58
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Thanks Hodgey

Hopefully we can release an un-branded version for you all to try in the near future...

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The Slayer
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Posted: 28th May 2012 02:13
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Quote: "No just returning the joke "

Heheheh, you got me there, fella!

Sad to hear you guys didn't win.
But still a very good attempt, guys! In our eyes, you DID win, so have one on us.

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MikeS
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Posted: 28th May 2012 03:54
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Looks great guys, best of luck!



A book? I hate book. Book is stupid.
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darkvee
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Posted: 28th May 2012 10:11
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Awsome job baxslash. Your a winner in my book.

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halley
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Posted: 28th May 2012 11:50
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Wonderful game! Excellent!

The Miracrea Games
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baxslash
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Posted: 28th May 2012 11:55
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Just to some up my thoughts on the hackathon:
It was a great experience and my thanks go to Rick and TGC for asking me along! it was nice to finally meet Rick and collaberate with the pressure on!
We produced a simple working game with all the basic gameplay elements within about 32 hours which is no mean feat. We were in the vast minority in terms of creating an actual application from scratch rather than a web app or re-hash of something we already had in development.
That might sound like sour grapes but it really isn't, there were a number of really great ideas, some of which deserved to be produced in their own right rather than having to be squeezed into a competition brief and I really hope some of them take off.
The winner was a great idea and I look forward to seeing how it is developed into a finished app.
I'm sure the game we produced will become available in some format in the future so you can see what we managed to make in such a short space of time. Thanks again for all your support, it made me smile to hear your comments (read by Rick) while I furiously coded away

The winners and their apps can be viewed here: https://plus.google.com/117517201037060589294/posts

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Ancient Lady
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Posted: 28th May 2012 17:35
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It sounds like it was overall a great experience (and you should have won).

I enjoyed watching the process and getting to put faces to names.

I look forward to playing the game.

Cheers to you, Rick and the TGC team. You all rock!

Cheers,
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baxslash
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Posted: 28th May 2012 18:46
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Thanks AL

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Marl
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Posted: 28th May 2012 19:44
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Nice work Baxslash.

I agree with the sentiment that it wasn't really a level field if someone could bring in a 90% produced project and just tidy it up for the comp.

I can see it now: "No! the app was completely created here, I just included my standard code library for support functions "

As most have said here, you stood above the crowd in doing exactly what you intended to do - produce something from nothing and that something was excellent.

Well done, and nice game BTW.

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Quote: "The winners and their apps can be viewed here: https://plus.google.com/117517201037060589294/posts"

I don't want to be seen as the critic of the day, but who wrote this?
Quote: "And the winner is... After a weekend of hard work it's time to celebrate the hackers, coders, designers & idea makers from our Mobile #CadburyHack

The overall winner who'll be receiving £10k of support to develop their idea in time for London 2012? feeel it, who let you capture an image AND the sound/atmosphere around it to create the perfect postcards/memories of your Olympic experience this summer. They've taken pride of place at the centre of our Live Art piece, we hope you like it!"

Talk about bury the lead

It took me three reads to find the winner hidden in all that fluff

P.P.S. Has the definition of hacker changed?

I think Gary McKinnon's lawyers might like to know
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_McKinnon
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RickV
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Posted: 29th May 2012 12:07
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Hi folks,

Here's a video of the final game;

Journey of Joy

Rick

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baxslash
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Posted: 29th May 2012 12:16
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I'll just point out that the controls were meant for accelerometer and that when it's played on a device it's a little less sensitive. If we make a release version for Windows I'll reduce the control sensitivity a bit!

Here's the video for those who don't like travelling to YouTube...


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bjadams
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Posted: 29th May 2012 13:05
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Baxslash does it use your own Particle system?
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baxslash
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Posted: 29th May 2012 13:11
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Quote: "Baxslash does it use your own Particle system?"

Yes. I just made a system on the day, it was pretty basic. There were two kinds of particle, stars and bubbles; stars moved in a constant direction, grew, faded and rotated; bubbles moved backwards and gradually floated up, grew, faded and didn't rotate...

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Pilz X Schizo
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Posted: 29th May 2012 17:01
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Gameplay, Graphics, and Music are all fantastic. Great Job.
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MrValentine
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Posted: 29th May 2012 17:10
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Very smooth, question, how did you record it?

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Ancient Lady
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Posted: 29th May 2012 17:16
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Awesome! I want to play! Any platform is good.

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baxslash
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Posted: 29th May 2012 17:27
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Quote: "Awesome! I want to play! Any platform is good."

We don't own the rights to some of the images in the game (IE. Cadbury) so we can't send it out in its current state but we will try to publish a version of it soon at least in windows format.

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Ancient Lady
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Posted: 29th May 2012 17:47
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Oh well, it will still be fun to play.

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RickV
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Posted: 29th May 2012 17:55
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I recorded it on my PC with fraps!

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baxslash
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Posted: 29th May 2012 17:57
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Oh, I nearly forgot to thank Daniel of TGC for the only 20 or so lines of code that weren't my own

I used his functions for setting the accelerometer for the current angle of the device. Worked a treat!

The other 1000 lines (more or less) were my own

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MrValentine
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Posted: 29th May 2012 18:09
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Quote: "I recorded it on my PC with fraps!

Rick"


I thought so so I went and downloaded the demo, thanks for responsing

you guys are amazing! <I mean it!>

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BatVink
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Posted: 7th Jun 2012 00:03
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The story is here...

http://www.thegamecreators.com/news/2012/06/agk-at-the-hackathon/

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