Viope game programming contest

[hongviope]

Want to win prize worth €10000?
Are you fascinated by games?
Are you interested in programming?

If YES, this is your OPPORTUNITY.





Viope Solutions proudly announces Viope Game Programming Contest.

WHAT?
The contest is organized by Viope Solutions. Participants can compete for Computer/Console game or Mobile Phone game. The competition involves partners and judges from Rovio, Digital Chocolate, Recoil, IGDA, Remedy, Unity, Playtech, Housemarque, Kajak, AIESEC and Studio On Mars.

WHO?
The contest is everyone around the world.

WHERE?
The submission of your game will be done via Viope World e-learning platform.

WHEN?
The contest is open from 09th October 2012 till the beginning of 2013.

HOW?
Individuals and team of up to 4 members can register through our website.

For information, please go to our website www.viope.com/contest
Don’t forget follow us on Facebook www.facebook.com/viope or Twitter www.twitter/com/viope

WE CHALLENGE YOU TO CREATE THE BEST GAMES EVER!

Rules from http://viope.com/contest/ ("rules") :

The contest is organized by Viope Solutions Oy and is open from 09th of October 2012 and close on the 31th of December 2012 11.59pm GMT.

1. Are entitled to participate any person currently enrolled in a secondary institution, universities or polytechnical schools, other applicants can also participate.

2. The participants can enroll on their own or form a team of maximum 4 members.

3. The team members receive a login to the Viope system.

4. The participant fills up the form provided on the enroll link. The participant agrees that information provided on the enrollment form can be forwarded to partners and judges of the contest.

5. Viope Solutions Oy reserves the right to refuse an application.

6. Each team can compete for:
Computer/Console game
Mobile Phone game

7. A team can compete in two categories, a team member can compete in various teams.

8. A team member can be replaced during the competition according to 2.1.


1. The games are submitted via the Viope World e-learning platform before the closing date.

2. The game cannot already have a publication or have recieved an award in another competition.

3. A pitch and a design document of the game must be provided with the game.

4. The final submission must include a minimum of two (2) levels excluding any tutorial.

5. The team owns full right on their game. Viope Solutions Oy will not use any content of the game without the written (email or letter) consent of the team manager.

6. Computer/Console games must be running on Windows and Mac. Exception is made for XNA developments. Mobile games will run on the targeted platform.

7. Teams can submit a game using existing technologies such as engines, frameworks, models. Teams must own full right to use those technologies.

8. Teams can submit a game using existing content and materials. Teams must own full rights to use those assets.

9. Game content are free, nonetheless, sexually explicit or suggestive, unnecessarily violent, abusive, threatening, racist, sexist, homophobic, vulgar, obscene, immoral, offensive, indecent, hateful, derogatory, profane content or the use of illegal drugs or the promotion of illegal activities are not allowed. The Finnish law is considered as the base-law for the contest.

10. Any breach of rules 3.7 , 3.8 and 3.9 will disqualify the team.

[qubodup]

Hello and welcome!

I took the liberty of including the contest rules in your post. I have some questions about the rules:

1. Are only students allowed to join? Or is anybody allowed to join?
2. May teams change during the creation of the project if there are always no more than 4 active members?
3. Can external help be accepted (for example can the team requests from an external artist to create an art asset or ask a programmer to implement a shader for them)?
4. The rules say "The game cannot already have a publication". May the source code be developed in the open (publically readable) and may the game be developed under open source licenses (for example GNU General Public License v2, which is the same license that GNU/Linux uses) and free art licenses (for example Attribution v3, which is a license that free culture media projects like Tears of Steel use).
5. Is the team required to transfer ownership of the game to Viope?

(I will send this message via email, in case you have not subscribed to this thread.)

[MCMic]

[*]Is the team required to transfer ownership of the game to Viope?

Seems like not :

5. The team owns full right on their game. Viope Solutions Oy will not use any content of the game without the written (email or letter) consent of the team manager.

But this bugs me :

Teams must own full rights to use those assets.

Does that mean the teams can't use FLOSS art that they did not do?

[qubodup]

But this bugs me :

Teams must own full rights to use those assets.

Does that mean the teams can't use FLOSS art that they did not do?

"Full rights to use those assets" probably means "Must have permission to use" and does not sound like "Must hold ownership over" to me.

[MCMic]

Hum, I think you're right, I misread it :-)

[charlie]

What kind of violence is acceptable? Soldiers hacking each other to death in a war game? Head shots in a shooting game?

[qubodup]

I got a friendly reply today:

Thanks for contacting us.

We are still ironing the rules so some small changes are expected during the next 1,5 weeks.

- anyone can participate - we encourage schools and students to take part
- teams should not change during the contest. However, it is possible to form a new team
- external help is allow as long as you own all the rights
- open source code can be used as long as their licenses are respected
- the team is not required to transfer any rights to Viope

[lucas@viope]

Hi everyone,

I will try to clarify a few issues.

- The contest is open to anyone who wishes to participate.

- The assets used in the games must be fully own by the team.As stated, all assets does not need to be done by the team.
That means you can use any open-source assets as long as you do not violate the rights of the author.
If the asset is not open-source but you have the approval from the author to use them then there is no violation.
We just do not want authors to figure out their creations are used without their consent and give trouble about it (which would be fair).
Same applies for code scripts, you can find and use script online as long as you respect the rules and regulations of the asset.

- I saw a question about violence. Obviously, you are allowed to create a game that would show violence, like a war or zombie game. A dismembered zombie would NOT be considered violence as it is part of the game.
What we will not accept is unnecessary violence.
To give an example, you are playing Paperboy Revival 2012 and the player is able to slay a little girl with an axe on his tour while it is not required by the gameplay, this is unnecessary violence.

- About changing team members. It has been decided that when adding or replacing a member, a new team is created. It is just easier on our side to deal with a new team than having to change an existing one.
The new team would just continue where they left.

We do not want to keep people from joining, we just want to make sure everything goes fine for everyone.

Hopefully that clarifies a bit. My advice would be to just enroll as it is free and see where it goes.

Any issue feel free to ask

[charlie]

Free Gamer team anybody? I'm up for it! I'd probably do graphics/design/testing/basic-programmer. (Jack of all trades, master of none?)

[qubodup]

Free Gamer team anybody? I'm up for it! I'd probably do graphics/design/testing/basic-programmer. (Jack of all trades, master of none?)

Best start a "Plan for Game Dev Contest Team" at viewforum.php?f=5 ?