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Students Compete at Video Game Creation

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the games-people-make dept.

zalas writes "Stanford's computer graphics class holds a video game writing competition each year at the end of the term, and this year's results are finally online. You can download all the finalist entries from the website. The winning entries featured very original game concepts, such as sending a spiked soccer ball through wormhole planets or infesting a growing maze of cheese with mold. Judges at the competition included representatives from Electronic Arts, Microsoft and the creator of Pong, Allan Alcorn. Ironically enough, the winners of the wacky category who received a voucher for an XBOX360 wrote a game that only worked on OSX laptops with the drop-protection motion sensors."

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  1. /. TROLLS COMPETE AT FIRST POST... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Film at 11.

  2. Waste of time by tsume · · Score: -1, Troll
    I could never motivate myself to make a product which wastes time for everyone. Real innovation comes from making productive programs which not only save time, but make money. I hope these kids learn to like the life of a EA game programmer. Long hours, not enough pay, and a serious crimp in life style. I recommend these kids rethink their future plans as programmers if they choose the infamous "Game Developer" path. I don't really understand kids, they do go to college, then the whole CS 101 is full of these types of comments like...

    "I wanna make a game!" "Oh I'm going to make the next best Unreal"

    Get a life people, programming is NOT about games, and real work does take time. I know most of the kids drop out of the class, but there are still the ones who even think they can make a game on their own which will be a huge seller.

    KIDS! You are not as smart as the Quake engine author, you can't do it by yourself. Quit the overzealous cocky attitude!

    There are plenty of decent subjects which you can actually achieve and produce valuable code. Games are just throw away work afterall. Engineering areas need good programs for simulation, nuclear stations could use better monitoring programs, even improvements to existing code which does REAL WORK is great too!

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    I really don't care for karma, anyone marking as troll or flamebait is just a game player/dev who is in denile.
  3. SLASHDOT MODS S-u-C-k !!11!! one by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Here's for more wasted karma. Or better yet, mod parent INSIGHTFUL or whatever.
     
      Good day, sir!

  4. Re:irony? by BinLadenMyHero · · Score: 0, Troll

    Just because it was the winner, it doesn't mean that *everyone* voted on it.