Irrlicht Engine

what David Perry had to say about this project
http://www.gameproducer.net/forums/showthread.php?t=926

rules have been updated, please visit
http://www.videogameteam.com/modcenter/competition.html

At this point I'm not really sure how the voting will be done, but there will be 5 finalist (teams) approved by dp

In the rules state that teams have to followthe community design, then if teams participate in desgin there is a chance that final decision on certain pieces might be affected by them ...

another video done by Westwood UGT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYdKEmaRePg

Mmm. They're keeping a very low profile then. That's actually a smart thing to do, of course.

Some might be required to keep everything private (agreement with engine provider). But actually it's better to be open (to some extent). Because it's very good for team to receive feedback from ...

besides Merciless there is 10 more teams registerd on MC (1 team is not associated and 1 team doesn't count). Some of them are kept private. Some are using "big" name engines as well. I have been in contact with at least 5 or 6 teams so far. So I think it started to pick up.
I will be testing some ...

if you remember the frst milestone was a demo video. It is still way ahead of the milestone due date. Even though the milestones are not required, it's good to have so you can get feedback from community.

http://www.mercilessdevelopment.com/top ... _large.wmv

keep in mind video was done after very short time after joining the contest.

just an update for you guys

dp had meeting with dev that are participating (2 teams showed up). 1 team had already POC demo video and even playable demo. And it didn't look bad. They are using source engine. If you interested to see what they came up with in such a short time I can give you the link

By the way, are you from Malaysia, mjuricek? I saw your post at IGDA forum (malaysia chapter)... here

I'm from florida, USA.
And yes I posted on several IDGA chapters, but before I posted I asked for permission (in this case from Hilmy)


Are the rights to submitted 'community' artwork ...

I doubt it; it's on a third party web site. However, at some point Acclaim are going to try to lock developers in, at least with first refusal rights. They are going to provide test resources, and so will have an implicit claim. Absent an explicit contract, the transfer of value will create an ...

Like I mentioned eariler, the rules being clarified (they finally listened). I have been spamming dp's email since the day I got my first responses from you guys. And I appreciate it, even most of them were negative, but it helped alot.
Same with the date. Most likely it will be pushed back. We ...

Why? They're already working for you for free for a year; I don't think you should be making the deal any worse with "need to" conditions.

Out of interest, how many teams have signed up so far?

I'm not here to promote MC, but they offer tools that could be very helpfull. It's free anyway.
As far ...

I think this competition is a great Idea, be aware of the following though all entrance.

1. Each Entrant further agrees to and does hereby grant the Sponsor, their subsidiaries, affiliates, agents, and customers the non-exclusive, irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide right and license to reproduce ...

reason why desing doc is rather vague is that we are still in desing process, still easrly stage. And any dev team can participate as well.

Server architecture is up to a dev team to decide what they think would be the best. Minimum required was 3000 players per server and 8 players per instanced ...