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Maxim and I have to create the Homebrew/ entries. I'll probably starts in about two hours and they appear progressively.

Just submitted mine, hope it's still on time

Now this is the good life: Kids are asleep, chips are in the bucket, beer is in the bottle, and brand new SMS software rains from the sky! Happy 18th anniversary SMS-Power! :) This is going to be a great night...

Is it normal that if I log out I can see the votes? :|

sverx wrote

Is it normal that if I log out I can see the votes? :|

I also see the votes if I log out, not a local problem...

sverx wrote

Is it normal that if I log out I can see the votes? :|

You can also see them when you're logged in. Just click on "View Results".
You just can't vote if you're not logged in that's why you don't need to click "View Results" before seeing them. ;)

We should have fixed them now, let us know if some are still visible.

We're done adding all the entries! Phew!

I had a wonderful sms listening and gaming experience as I went through all the entries until I fell asleep. Very impressive stuff you guys have made!

I look forward to really enjoy each entry in more depth in the coming days. Oh - this will be the SMS Easter holidays :)

sverx wrote

Now, guess who's unscheduledly stuck in the office this evening...

Now guess who's won a Saturday at the office. Well, at least I'm listening to some great tunes so thank you guys!

We have the indexes:

http://www.smspower.org/Competitions/Music-2015
http://www.smspower.org/Competitions/Coding-2015

I've posted a news blurb and.. we got another unreleased game!

http://www.smspower.org/forums/15417-WildSnakeForGameGearUnreleasedAnAmazing18th...

I hesitated in how to post, if I should do separate posts. Eventually I thought that the release of WildSnake will attract attention from a few sites so it'll nice to have the competition entries showing in the same post.

When does the voting end - for how long can we still vote? Please excuse me if it has already been posted, but I simply can't find it.

So far it's set to 30 days, but we may reduce that to avoid losing interest - usually voting lasts about two weeks. If nothing else, it will wait until I have voted :)

I have uploaded all the songs to Youtube and embedded them in the relevant places. That should make listening a bit easier for most people.

Maxim wrote

So far it's set to 30 days, but we may reduce that to avoid losing interest - usually voting lasts about two weeks. If nothing else, it will wait until I have voted :)

If you plan to reduce it, please let us know... I tend to use as much time as it's available to try everything more than once and possibly also on hardware, and listen to the music during successive days before casting my vote... :)

Voting deadlines have been set, vote before 11th April.

Maxim wrote

You can send as many revisions as you like, we'll post the latest one on the 27th. After that you can post updates on the forum or on the homebrew page. You should still try to finish before the deadline, though...

can we post updates on both during these voting weeks now?

Yes.

Maxim wrote

Yes.

thanks! i uploaded version 1.01 at http://www.smspower.org/Homebrew/ZombiTerror-SMS , but it isn't appearing there yet - does this delays a bit, or would be better keep sending them via e-mail?

You have to edit the page to specify what the current version is. It's showing now.

Went through the numbers today and crunched the results!
Voters were tough on coding entries this year, but it is also a testament to the quality of entries :)

http://www.smspower.org/Competitions/Music-2015
http://www.smspower.org/Competitions/Coding-2015

Some notes:
- We have cancelled votes of people voting for their own entry (as we did in the past years)
- We have cancelled one vote which appeared to be either abusive either made in error.

Some of the coding entries were probably hurt by submitting updates while some people had already voted. If that is any consolation, Bruce Lee was second-to-the-last entry last year. Some of the games here have really good potential for updates so here's hoping that some of the authors will want to keep improving their games :)

Thanks everybody for participating! This was one of the most accomplished competitions we had in term of quality.

Lander2:

Congratulations to jmimu and db-electronics!

And thanks everyone for a super great experience. It was my first compo ever, and I have had a nice couple of inspiring and motivating weeks on the forum, checking the various threads, trying out stuff, etc. I already look forward to doing it all again next year :)

Thanks to Maxim and Bock for organizing it all!

Wow! Thanks to everyone who listened to and appreciated my tune. This was my first competition but definitely won't be my last!

Congrats guys! :-D

Congratulations everyone, winners and everyone involved. Lots of interesting things to see, lots of still unexpressed potential in many many creations. I also noticed Bruce Lee wasn't much more than a nice screenshot last year, and now it become a very complete and polished game, so I really hope to see this happening to the many unfinished and very promising entries we've seen.

As for me, I always take the lower positions, but, hey, that's the way it is. I'm probably more inclined to create tools than to use them myself.

edit: we need some 'press report' of the results and hopefully some Internet word-of-mouth to show what this community is doing, and grow the userbase and creations quality and quantity year after year.

Congratulations and thanks to everyone who participated for providing such interesting stuff!
I wish there were more times in the year when many cool new homebrews are born!

sverx wrote

Congratulations everyone, winners and everyone involved. Lots of interesting things to see, lots of still unexpressed potential in many many creations. I also noticed Bruce Lee wasn't much more than a nice screenshot last year, and now it become a very complete and polished game, so I really hope to see this happening to the many unfinished and very promising entries we've seen.

As for me, I always take the lower positions, but, hey, that's the way it is. I'm probably more inclined to create tools than to use them myself.

edit: we need some 'press report' of the results and hopefully some Internet word-of-mouth to show what this community is doing, and grow the userbase and creations quality and quantity year after year.

I wouldn't say your scores are that bad! There are still a lot of 6s and 7s. It seems like people don't like demos that much (which can also be seen with Bruce Lee) - your score is only 0.32 below Bruce Lee. So I'd say that's not too bad! :)

Congrats to the winners.
It was very impressive, and i think it is awesome that people are creating such fantastic stuff for the SMS still.

Thanks to everyone who enjoyed my tune. :)

Calindro wrote

I wouldn't say your scores are that bad!

Never said that :) And it's a fact many many entries were better than mine so I'm really not complaining.

Bock wrote

This was one of the most accomplished competitions we had in term of quality.

This is true. I was amazed by the quality and number of entries. Congratulations to all participants and, of course, to the winners who really deserve it.

Congratulations to all. It's good to see past entries getting recognition in updated works which were not rated enough last year! My team itself used PSGLib =)

And we didn't even had prizes this year!

Congratulations to jmimu and db-electronics!

This year had awesome entries!

Thanks! I had a lot of fun doing it.
This year the competition was great, with many great entries, I've learned a lot! Congratulations!

Congrats everyone :D

Author	Message
Bock Site Admin Joined: 08 Jul 2001 Posts: 8371 Location: Paris, France	Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2015 6:09 pm
	Maxim and I have to create the Homebrew/ entries. I'll probably starts in about two hours and they appear progressively.

gvx32 Joined: 17 Sep 2013 Posts: 117 Location: Gravataí, RS, Brazil	Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2015 7:58 pm
	Just submitted mine, hope it's still on time

hang-on Joined: 23 Mar 2013 Posts: 573 Location: Copenhagen, Denmark	Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2015 8:28 pm
	Now this is the good life: Kids are asleep, chips are in the bucket, beer is in the bottle, and brand new SMS software rains from the sky! Happy 18th anniversary SMS-Power! :) This is going to be a great night...

sverx Joined: 05 Sep 2013 Posts: 2943	Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2015 8:51 pm
sverx Joined: 05 Sep 2013 Posts: 2943	Is it normal that if I log out I can see the votes? :\|

db-electronics Joined: 06 Dec 2013 Posts: 334 Location: Canada	Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2015 8:54 pm
	sverx wrote Is it normal that if I log out I can see the votes? :\| I also see the votes if I log out, not a local problem...

Calindro Joined: 14 Apr 2013 Posts: 546	Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2015 9:35 pm
Calindro Joined: 14 Apr 2013 Posts: 546	sverx wrote Is it normal that if I log out I can see the votes? :\| You can also see them when you're logged in. Just click on "View Results". You just can't vote if you're not logged in that's why you don't need to click "View Results" before seeing them. ;)

Bock Site Admin Joined: 08 Jul 2001 Posts: 8371 Location: Paris, France	Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2015 9:41 pm
	We should have fixed them now, let us know if some are still visible.

Bock Site Admin Joined: 08 Jul 2001 Posts: 8371 Location: Paris, France	Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2015 10:17 pm
	We're done adding all the entries! Phew!

hang-on Joined: 23 Mar 2013 Posts: 573 Location: Copenhagen, Denmark	Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2015 6:21 am
	I had a wonderful sms listening and gaming experience as I went through all the entries until I fell asleep. Very impressive stuff you guys have made! I look forward to really enjoy each entry in more depth in the coming days. Oh - this will be the SMS Easter holidays :)

sverx Joined: 05 Sep 2013 Posts: 2943	Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2015 9:22 am
sverx Joined: 05 Sep 2013 Posts: 2943	sverx wrote Now, guess who's unscheduledly stuck in the office this evening... Now guess who's won a Saturday at the office. Well, at least I'm listening to some great tunes so thank you guys!

Bock Site Admin Joined: 08 Jul 2001 Posts: 8371 Location: Paris, France	Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2015 9:46 pm
	We have the indexes: http://www.smspower.org/Competitions/Music-2015 http://www.smspower.org/Competitions/Coding-2015

Bock Site Admin Joined: 08 Jul 2001 Posts: 8371 Location: Paris, France	Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2015 11:19 am
	I've posted a news blurb and.. we got another unreleased game! http://www.smspower.org/forums/15417-WildSnakeForGameGearUnreleasedAnAmazing18th... I hesitated in how to post, if I should do separate posts. Eventually I thought that the release of WildSnake will attract attention from a few sites so it'll nice to have the competition entries showing in the same post.

hang-on Joined: 23 Mar 2013 Posts: 573 Location: Copenhagen, Denmark	Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 5:01 am
	When does the voting end - for how long can we still vote? Please excuse me if it has already been posted, but I simply can't find it.

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 13731 Location: London	Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 7:26 am
	So far it's set to 30 days, but we may reduce that to avoid losing interest - usually voting lasts about two weeks. If nothing else, it will wait until I have voted :)

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 13731 Location: London	Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 8:14 pm
	I have uploaded all the songs to Youtube and embedded them in the relevant places. That should make listening a bit easier for most people.

sverx Joined: 05 Sep 2013 Posts: 2943	Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 12:28 pm
sverx Joined: 05 Sep 2013 Posts: 2943	Maxim wrote So far it's set to 30 days, but we may reduce that to avoid losing interest - usually voting lasts about two weeks. If nothing else, it will wait until I have voted :) If you plan to reduce it, please let us know... I tend to use as much time as it's available to try everything more than once and possibly also on hardware, and listen to the music during successive days before casting my vote... :)

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 13731 Location: London	Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2015 11:13 am
	Voting deadlines have been set, vote before 11th April.

nitrofurano Joined: 01 Aug 2012 Posts: 299 Location: Porto, Portugal	Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2015 10:29 pm
	Maxim wrote You can send as many revisions as you like, we'll post the latest one on the 27th. After that you can post updates on the forum or on the homebrew page. You should still try to finish before the deadline, though... can we post updates on both during these voting weeks now?

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 13731 Location: London	Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2015 6:35 am
	Yes.

nitrofurano Joined: 01 Aug 2012 Posts: 299 Location: Porto, Portugal	Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2015 9:39 am
	Maxim wrote Yes. thanks! i uploaded version 1.01 at http://www.smspower.org/Homebrew/ZombiTerror-SMS , but it isn't appearing there yet - does this delays a bit, or would be better keep sending them via e-mail?

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 13731 Location: London	Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2015 9:40 pm
	You have to edit the page to specify what the current version is. It's showing now.

Bock Site Admin Joined: 08 Jul 2001 Posts: 8371 Location: Paris, France	Voting Results! Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 6:29 pm Last edited by Bock on Thu Apr 16, 2015 10:16 am; edited 1 time in total
	Went through the numbers today and crunched the results! Voters were tough on coding entries this year, but it is also a testament to the quality of entries :) http://www.smspower.org/Competitions/Music-2015 http://www.smspower.org/Competitions/Coding-2015 Some notes: - We have cancelled votes of people voting for their own entry (as we did in the past years) - We have cancelled one vote which appeared to be either abusive either made in error. Some of the coding entries were probably hurt by submitting updates while some people had already voted. If that is any consolation, Bruce Lee was second-to-the-last entry last year. Some of the games here have really good potential for updates so here's hoping that some of the authors will want to keep improving their games :) Thanks everybody for participating! This was one of the most accomplished competitions we had in term of quality. Lander2:

hang-on Joined: 23 Mar 2013 Posts: 573 Location: Copenhagen, Denmark	Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 9:09 pm
	Congratulations to jmimu and db-electronics! And thanks everyone for a super great experience. It was my first compo ever, and I have had a nice couple of inspiring and motivating weeks on the forum, checking the various threads, trying out stuff, etc. I already look forward to doing it all again next year :) Thanks to Maxim and Bock for organizing it all!

db-electronics Joined: 06 Dec 2013 Posts: 334 Location: Canada	Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 9:36 pm
	Wow! Thanks to everyone who listened to and appreciated my tune. This was my first competition but definitely won't be my last!

kusfo Joined: 29 Mar 2012 Posts: 683 Location: Spain	Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2015 6:53 am
kusfo Joined: 29 Mar 2012 Posts: 683 Location: Spain	Congrats guys! :-D

sverx Joined: 05 Sep 2013 Posts: 2943	Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2015 8:00 am
sverx Joined: 05 Sep 2013 Posts: 2943	Congratulations everyone, winners and everyone involved. Lots of interesting things to see, lots of still unexpressed potential in many many creations. I also noticed Bruce Lee wasn't much more than a nice screenshot last year, and now it become a very complete and polished game, so I really hope to see this happening to the many unfinished and very promising entries we've seen. As for me, I always take the lower positions, but, hey, that's the way it is. I'm probably more inclined to create tools than to use them myself. edit: we need some 'press report' of the results and hopefully some Internet word-of-mouth to show what this community is doing, and grow the userbase and creations quality and quantity year after year.

Calindro Joined: 14 Apr 2013 Posts: 546	Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2015 8:18 am
Calindro Joined: 14 Apr 2013 Posts: 546	Congratulations and thanks to everyone who participated for providing such interesting stuff! I wish there were more times in the year when many cool new homebrews are born! sverx wrote Congratulations everyone, winners and everyone involved. Lots of interesting things to see, lots of still unexpressed potential in many many creations. I also noticed Bruce Lee wasn't much more than a nice screenshot last year, and now it become a very complete and polished game, so I really hope to see this happening to the many unfinished and very promising entries we've seen. As for me, I always take the lower positions, but, hey, that's the way it is. I'm probably more inclined to create tools than to use them myself. edit: we need some 'press report' of the results and hopefully some Internet word-of-mouth to show what this community is doing, and grow the userbase and creations quality and quantity year after year. I wouldn't say your scores are that bad! There are still a lot of 6s and 7s. It seems like people don't like demos that much (which can also be seen with Bruce Lee) - your score is only 0.32 below Bruce Lee. So I'd say that's not too bad! :)

tibone Joined: 30 Mar 2009 Posts: 280	Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2015 12:29 pm
tibone Joined: 30 Mar 2009 Posts: 280	Congrats to the winners. It was very impressive, and i think it is awesome that people are creating such fantastic stuff for the SMS still. Thanks to everyone who enjoyed my tune. :)

sverx Joined: 05 Sep 2013 Posts: 2943	Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2015 2:30 pm
sverx Joined: 05 Sep 2013 Posts: 2943	Calindro wrote I wouldn't say your scores are that bad! Never said that :) And it's a fact many many entries were better than mine so I'm really not complaining.

Kagesan Joined: 01 Feb 2014 Posts: 636	Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2015 4:57 pm
Kagesan Joined: 01 Feb 2014 Posts: 636	Bock wrote This was one of the most accomplished competitions we had in term of quality. This is true. I was amazed by the quality and number of entries. Congratulations to all participants and, of course, to the winners who really deserve it.

Niloct Joined: 25 Dec 2005 Posts: 599 Location: São Paulo - Brazil	Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2015 8:17 pm
	Congratulations to all. It's good to see past entries getting recognition in updated works which were not rated enough last year! My team itself used PSGLib =) And we didn't even had prizes this year!

TinchoDJ Joined: 12 Jan 2005 Posts: 184 Location: Reconquista, Santa Fe, Argentina	Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2015 3:57 am Last edited by TinchoDJ on Sun Apr 19, 2015 1:31 pm; edited 1 time in total
	Congratulations to jmimu and db-electronics! This year had awesome entries!

jmimu Joined: 06 May 2012 Posts: 52 Location: France	Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2015 6:29 am
jmimu Joined: 06 May 2012 Posts: 52 Location: France	Thanks! I had a lot of fun doing it. This year the competition was great, with many great entries, I've learned a lot! Congratulations!

TmEE Joined: 31 Oct 2007 Posts: 852 Location: Estonia, Rapla city	Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2015 11:21 pm
	Congrats everyone :D

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