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

[Chris Cowley <forename.surname@invalid.grok.co.uk>]

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?).

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