NEW Shooter Development Competition Launched!!

[Leper]

www.shmup-dev.com is proud to announce that our second competition, dubbed “DRAGON SHMUP” has been launched on May 1st, 2006. The competition focuses on shmups, which stands for shoot em ups, a sub-genre of the SHOOTER genre. There are dozens of prizes which are Games, Game development tools, and impressive business tools for shareware business.

Sponsors include:
Delgine – www.delgine.com
Twilight Games – www.twilightgames.com
Intermediaware – www.intermediaware.de
Anawiki Games – www.anawiki.com
Pixel Perceptions – www.pixelperceptions.com
Stormcloud Creations – www.stormcloudcreations.com
Spidahost – www.spidahost.com
IndiePath – www.indiepath.com

This competition is focusing on any aspect of the shmup genre under a few conditions. The game must star a fantasy/medieval dragon as the main character. The dragon must shoot something, either lasers out it’s eyes, or some sort of gas out of its mouth. (or both)

The competition setting must be in a fantasy realm that appears to be in the medieval era mixing with magic that has been seen in many “fantasy” style games / movies. One could think of goblins, orcs, or other dragons, perhaps large birds, etc, etc, etc.

Judges will be rating the games on most original, best graphics, best sound, and of course, best of the best! The contest is running from May 1st, to July 1st, and a more detailed list of rules along with a comprehensive FAQ are all available at www.shmup-dev.com after clicking on the "competitions" tab.

[dxgame]

"Judges will be rating the games on most original, best graphics, best sound..."

May the best media win! :rolleyes:

[Leper]

No worries maties!

So somebody wanted to know what the sponsors had to do with it, and I'd like to answer that the sponsors are the ones offering the way cool prizes (hundreds of dollars worth of stuff)

First Place
$25.00 worth of free advertising (https://adwords.google.com/select/OnsiteSignupLandingPage?client=ca-pub-3932000594707687&referringUrl=http://www.gametrove.net/&hl=en&gl=US) on GameTrove (http://www.gametrove.net)
PTK (http://www.phelios.com/ptk/) Game Development Toolkit by Phelios (http://www.phelios.com)
igLoader V2 (http://www.igloader.com/) (TURN YOUR GAME INTO AN ONLINE GAME LIKE FLASH) and consultation from INDIEPATH (http://www.indiepath.com)
iNet (http://www.indiegamebusiness.com/gamedev.inet.php)(6 Monthsd free hosted online scores holding 600k entries and more!) from INDIEPATH (http://www.indiepath.com)
FREE Press Release written and distributed via PRtoday (http://www.prtoday.net) from INDIEPATH (http://www.indiepath.com)
DELED (http://www.delgine.com/index.php?filename=product_deled) Pro 3D Game Engine from DELGINE 3D (http://www.delgine.com)
Space Taxi 2, Fragmentor, and a Snake's Life TWILIGHT GAMES (http://www.twilightgames.com/)
Psychoballs and Absolute blue from INTERMEDIAWARE (http://www.intermediaware.de/)
Three Games of your choice from Anawiki Games (http://www.anawiki.com)
PPFonter PRO from PixelPerceptions (http://www.pixelperceptions.com)
Four games of your choice from Stormcloud Creations (http://www.stormcloudcreations.com)
Free Bronze Web Hosting package for one full year from Spidahost (http://www.spidahost.com)

Second Place
$15.00 worth of free advertising (https://adwords.google.com/select/OnsiteSignupLandingPage?client=ca-pub-3932000594707687&referringUrl=http://www.gametrove.net/&hl=en&gl=US) on GameTrove (http://www.gametrove.net)
igLoader V2 (http://www.igloader.com/) (TURN YOUR GAME INTO AN ONLINE GAME LIKE FLASH) and consultation from INDIEPATH (http://www.indiepath.com)
iNet (http://www.indiegamebusiness.com/gamedev.inet.php)(6 Monthsd free hosted online scores holding 600k entries and more!) from INDIEPATH (http://www.indiepath.com)
Space Taxi 2, Fragmentor, and a Snake's Life TWILIGHT GAMES (http://www.twilightgames.com/)
Psychoballs and Absolute blue from INTERMEDIAWARE (http://www.intermediaware.de/)
Two Games of your choice from Anawiki Games (http://www.anawiki.com)
PPFonter from PixelPerceptions (http://www.pixelperceptions.com)
Two games of your choice from Stormcloud Creations (http://www.stormcloudcreations.com)
Free Bronze Web Hosting package for one full year from Spidahost (http://www.spidahost.com)

Third Place
$10.00 worth of free advertising (https://adwords.google.com/select/OnsiteSignupLandingPage?client=ca-pub-3932000594707687&referringUrl=http://www.gametrove.net/&hl=en&gl=US) on GameTrove (http://www.gametrove.net)
Space Taxi 2, Fragmentor, and a Snake's Life TWILIGHT GAMES (http://www.twilightgames.com/)
Psychoballs and Absolute blue from INTERMEDIAWARE (http://www.intermediaware.de/)
One Game of your choice from Anawiki Games (http://www.anawiki.com)
PPFonter from PixelPerceptions (http://www.pixelperceptions.com)
One game of your choice from Stormcloud Creations (http://www.stormcloudcreations.com)