And there it is, for the fourth year in a row: MSXdev, the annual MSX1 game development contest that took the MSX community by surprise. After a slow start, MSXdev'04 resulted in 16 new MSX1 games, whilst MSXdev'05 even surpassed that success with 21 brand new MSX games for the whole community to enjoy. Contestants from all around the world sent in their contributions, including real new-classics and near to professional quality productions. Now, the time has come for MSXdev'06!.
Eduardo Robsy, founder of the MSXdev contest, and the person responsible for its huge success, has decided the time has come to hand his task over to a new team: the MSXdev Team. Their goal is to organize new contest, trying to maintain the original spirit that boasted the success of the previous editions. On Robsy's MSX Workshop you can find more information on Robsy's reasons to move on. The new MSXdev website shows that the new team have understood the spirit of MSXdev very well. It contains a lot of information (and downloads) of the previous editions of the competition, and it only takes a short look at the rules of MSXdev'06 to see that the spirit of the challenge has remained the same. In short, these are the rules for MSXdev'06: a.. Games have to be supplied as .ROM files and can be up to 128KB in size. Of course, smaller games are allowed as well b.. All games should be 100% compatible with the first generation of MSX computers, being an MSX1 with 16kB RAM and 16kB VRAM. The games should also work on MSX2, MSX2+ and turboR computers c.. It is allowed to use additional hardware like SCC, MSX-MUSIC, GFX9000, R800 et cetera. This time those add-ons will be taken into account when judging the entries, even giving them extra points! d.. Although original game concepts are preferred, remakes and ports will be accepted e.. Games have to be completed before December 31st, 2006 So, for now, people can start developing their MSXdev'06 entries and -like in previous editions- sponsors are free to contact the MSXdev team for offering new parallel contests, following the same sponsorship system we saw on the last edition. At the moment there is only one nice prize to be won: a Panasonic FS-A1GT MSX turboR computer! So, there we are, already looking forward to the new pile of MSX games that is going to be released in light of this competition this year. Developers: you have more than 8 months left to develop your games so you have no excuses. Happy developing, and good luck! _______________________________________________ MSX mailing list ([email protected]) Info page: http://lists.stack.nl/mailman/listinfo/msx
