15
Feb
Dream Build Play
Damn, it's hot. Summer sucks, bring on Winter!
Microsoft have finally announced some details on their Dream Build Play contest, though details of the full contest are still elusive. They are doing a warm up challenge called 'Relatives Of Space War', where you have to use either code or assets from the Spacewar Starter Kit and put them into a game.
I've been trying to come up with some good ideas all day but all my ideas would either require too much and work (and therefore time, the deadline is in 2 weeks), or are too little and wouldn't be worth entering.
The prize is pretty nice though, $500USD (and a copy of Windows Vista, if I'm reading the terms and conditions correctly (hrmm, I just checked this and it doesn't seem to be true... I'm sure I saw it in there earlier today)), so I just had the idea of maybe just changing the graphics of Sopwith XNA, chucking in some assets from Spacewar and entering that. Hey, it's worth a shot, right?
Wait, Spacewar is in 3D, isn't it? Hrmm, that might be more difficult than I thought. I wonder if I converted them to sprites whether it would still be consisted a close enough relative? Distant cousin, perhaps?
