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Vote for uDevGame 2002 Winners
Chris Burkhardt writes "The development cycle for uDevGame 2002 came to an end last night, producing 41 brand new Open Source games for Macintosh. The games are now subject to a public vote for the next 9 days where voters can judge them in 5 categories: Gameplay, Graphics, Sound & Music, Originality, and Polish. The winners will be announced on December 2 (along with the release of source code for all 41 games, and postmortems for the winners). Read the iDevGames.com press release, and the original article."
LudumDare just finished up another of their 48 hour game programming contests. These contests require the author to create all the original game code, graphics, and sound by themselves in a 48 hour time period.
This time there were over 40 final entries in the theme of "Construction/Destruction" and "Sheep". The entries are open source, but a majority of them are written for Windows. About a quarter of the entries are written in languages like python and java, and will run on linux and mac.
After flipping through the screenshots for several of the udevgames entries, i'd say the results are comparable with the better LudumDare entries. Although i assume in the gameplay department, the udevgames have a little more going for them?
Voting is currently taking place, after which the projects will be revealed to the public. You can get a sneak preview of the titles by looking at the developers Timelogs and Screenshots. Anyways, Ludumdare offers no tangible prizes, other than the respect of your peers. 48 hours is so little time to create a game, it's a weekend of nerves and development. Highly recommended!