Re: The 1st Annual 1-2K Text Adventure Competition

[Gene Wirchenko <genew@mail.ocis.net>]

Chris Cowley <forename.surname@invalid.grok.co.uk> wrote:

>On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 02:54:41 +0000 (UTC), Paul Allen Panks
><panks@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
>
>>I would like to officially announce the formation of The 1st Annual 1 to 
>>2K Classic Text Adventure Competition. I will be accepting BASIC, C/C++, 
>>Fortran and Assembly language submissions for 1 to 2K text adventures 
>
>Sounds like fun. I think I might have a go at a game for the Spectrum.
>My creative writing skills aren't really up to much though!
>
>Like Gene Wirchenko, I'd also like to know whether the 2K limit is on
>the source or the binary. I personally think it would make sense for the
>limit to be on the size of the binary for submissions intended to be
>compiled/assembled, and on the source for interpreted submissions, with
>any dynamically-allocated space used for variables or temporary storage
>not included in the limit (it would start to get annoyingly difficult to
>police variable usage when you're at the mercy of platform-specific
>garbage collection, etc -- and this is supposed to be fun, right?).

     Agreed.

>[rec.games.int-fiction removed -- I think that newsgroup is intented for
>discussing games that actually exist!]

     You do not want to flirt?

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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