NewsFlash - Winner

[Markus_Persson]

Grats man.  

You deserve it.

[Jens]

Congratulations to all PuppyGames coders!  

[Herkules]

Hm, Chris has been here, taking part in some general discussion, but still leaves us uncertain about the contest.

IIRC, the contest rules said that all winners are announced during a J1 keynote, which IMHO is the most significant part of the price due to the publicity it generates.

So, did that happen? Or is it still to come?

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[Matzon]

Chrome was talked about and demoed. SquareHeads wasn't mentioned but was played on stage and raved about it's performance. Super Elvis (puppygames, a uk company) was announced as the winner.
It's all available here:
http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/features/javaone.html

it's in the:
Speaker: Scott McNealy, CEO Sun Microsystems
Topic: The Java Community is Thriving
part 3 (after Looking Glass).

[Herkules]

Yeah, but Puppygames is only of the contestants demoed!! Right?

And thats against the rules! IIRC *four* should get the honorable mention. Beware they are not fullfilling their part of the contract!

Imagine, 10000 people listening, hundreds of thousands watching the webcast, press reporting.

This generates hits en masse, lots of downloads, huge reputation. This is highly valuable! Worth much more than the gamespy SDK.

[MyBrainHurts]

Congrats Cas and well done to all at Puppy Games  

[oNyx]

[...]
It's all available here:
http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/features/javaone.html

it's in the:
Speaker: Scott McNealy, CEO Sun Microsystems
Topic: The Java Community is Thriving
part 3 (after Looking Glass).

Doesn't work :-/

Tried everything on two machines (98se/2k) with 7 different browsers (2x IE, 2x FireFox, 2x Mozilla and Opera). Oh and yes, flash is installed, real and an up to date windows media player and yes I know that only these two IEs are supposed to work and I'd of course disabled all security settings - it didn't help.

IE just totally crashed my comp and I'm somewhat pissed off (I mean more than usual ). Why can't we just get an old fashioned plain link to a goddamn video, which just works everywere? Because it's too easy? Thought so  

Man... I really wanted to see it

[cfmdobbie]

Yeah, but Puppygames is only of the contestants demoed!! Right?

And thats against the rules! IIRC *four* should get the honorable mention. Beware they are not fullfilling their part of the contract!

Deep breaths, Herc!

I've just watched the video stream, and there was no demo, no screenshots, no big announcement.  Basically it was Chris saying "the winner of the competition was a game called Super Elvis developed by PuppyGames.  Congratulations to PuppyGames."

I guess that there'll be a big announcement of all the winners, screenshots, demos, URLs etc at some later date?

[Flynn]

oNyx: Give this link a whirl Linky

GD

*I would hazard a guess at the convoluted delivery method being due to the fact that it is an interface to lots of Sun related media*

[cfmdobbie]

Doesn't work :-/

On FireBird on my first computer it just complained that Real wasn't present.  (Of course it wasn't present - it's a serious development box!  Real is a goddam nightmare to have installed on a box you use every day.)

So, I switched to a different machine.  Mozilla just produced an almost-blank page, and disabled the right mouse button so I couldn't find out what was going wrong.  Naturally, the window was created via JavaScript so it took some fiddling to get the page URL.

Now I switched to IE on the same box.  It worked, but it didn't use Real but WMP.  I know this, because it crashes like a bastard with obscure WMP error messages.  You know the ones - "click here for more details" -> "no more information is available for this error".

Well, eventually it worked, but why oh why can't anyone do streaming video correctly?

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[oNyx]

oNyx: Give this link a whirl Linky

GD

I get redirected to that page:

The The Sun News Network is not yet optimized for your
operating system and/or browser.(*)
Click here for more information.

(* that isn't true, if those requirements listed at that "click here" link are correct)

Well, after cfmdobbie's short summary I guess it wasn't worth the trouble.

edit:
>but why oh why can't anyone do streaming video correctly?

Why oh why does everyone think streamed video is a good thing anyways? It's about as nice as having trousers which can display a video on your arse

</dramatisation>

[Flynn]

Why oh why does everyone think streamed video is a good thing anyways? It's about as nice as having trousers which can display a video on your arse

Actually the quality was quite acceptable.  

However ...
<ThreadJack>OK here is the platform independant technology for those with a petite arse then :-P http://www.on2.com/jplayer/index.php3 </ThreadJack>

[Herkules]

I guess that there'll be a big announcement of all the winners, screenshots, demos, URLs etc at some later date?

Don't think so. Thas was it.

"There was a contest, the winner is Cas, congrats; but now to something really cool .... "

Kind of disappointing, TBH.

[wiederke]

Congratulation to Cas and all coders of PuppyGames

GREAT WORK!!!

[crystalsquid]

More Gratz to cas & Puppy Games

It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy  

- Dom

[NVaidya]

An inspiration Cas !

Good Work !

Now, how about an article on the gory technical details of what it took to develop the game !

[princec]

You'll be kicking yourself if I tell you how easy it was...

Cas

[cfmdobbie]

Wait until the prize arrives before saying things like that!

[Markus_Persson]

You'll be kicking yourself if I tell you how easy it was...

Good gameplay doesn't require a lot of complicated programming.

[nonnus29]

Yes, congrats! As a side note I went to the puppy games site looking for the game yesterday and could not find it.

[Herkules]

http://java.sun.com/javaone/general_sessions2.html

The transcript of the session doesn't even mention the contest.

Obviously is wasn't a big deal.....

Games, Games, Games

To dispel the argument that Java technology is slow and doesn't do graphics well, McNealy invited Chris Melissinos, Sun's Chief Gaming Officer, to demonstrate some of the cool games that run on Java technology. Melissinos demonstrated two high-speed games, both chock-full of terrific graphics. He said that thanks to the Java technology-based game community that's been built up in java.net, "there is no application being written in the game space, in C++, that Java cannot do."

But what about game machines, McNealy wondered. "Where is Sun in that space?" To answer the question, Kevin Bachus, President and Chief Operating Officer of Infinium Labs, Inc. (and significantly, one of the four co-creators of the Xbox at Microsoft) came onstage to introduce a very cool game machine developed by Inifinum that will go on sale in November. Called the Phantom game receiver, the machine will allow game players to enjoy PC based games in their living room, including games built using Java technology. "We're going to ship with the J2SE runtime." stated Bachus, noting that the Phantom will be the first game specific box to ship with the Java runtimes already installed. Through the Phantom Game Service, game players will have access to hundreds -- even thousands -- of games on demand, including great new Java technology-based games.

[blahblahblahh]

What's really sad about that is that it could be the phantom that throws egg in Sun's face. Statistically speaking, the phantom is a damn risky bet (look at how many failed consoles litter history ). So I'm a bit surprised Sun chose to have a person (CEO etc) on-stage for a console rather than for a game, but maybe they know something we don't.

[princec]

The Phantom is a very suspicious bit of hardware. And they really, really should be talking to me about LWJGL.

Cas

[kevglass]

We getting any closer to finding out who the other winners are? Presumably they're already notified.. at least you'd hope so.

Kev

[SpuTTer]

Bueller? Bueller?

I see Chris just responded to another post, maybe he's making his way over here...

[ChrisM]

Sorry all for the delay...now...the winners!

Gand Prize: Super Elvis!

First Prize: Flying Guns

Honorable Mentions: Zoltar's Return and Stream Glider

Congrats to the winners!

-ChrisM