The Big C Game Competition

Thanks to Slamdance for its submission. Coming up at The Slamdance Film festival in Park City, Utah - Jan. 21 to 28 2005, programmers can compete in The Big C Independent Game Competition. "The Big C is calling for entries of all new games from emerging talent. Selected games will compete and be judged by festival attendees, with a Jury Award and Audience Award that include cash and prizes presented at the end of the festival. Game submissions should have an early-postmarked deadline of Oct. 1, 2004 and a final postmarked deadline of Nov. 14, 2004. Entrants may submit games on disk or provide a URL for judges to download." The event has an entry on the Gamasutra Calendar, for additional info.

Comments

How to make money in games fast!!!

[ghostlibrary]

Wow, there's a $50 entrance fee. If they get 200 entries, that's a neat $10k, plus they get to be judges and see what's really cool so they can hire the people.

With writing and poetry, this is an old scheme (not quite scam, but scheme). Charge for a contest and sell the results.

What's next-- for-pay music auditions for the RIAA? Ooh, I know-- submit your stories to slashdot, just $2 per submission, and if yours is chosen as the best submission of the year, you win! No dups allowed.

Re:How to make money in games fast!!!

[JMandingo]

Yeah, I was interested too until I read about the entry fee. "Our objective today is to recognize and support new, independent creators in all aspects of moving image including filmmakers, screenwriters and now, electronic game developers." Replace "support" with "get supported by". I think I will pass this year, thanks but no thanks. I'm surprised there wasn't something in the small print out the games becoming property of SlamDance.