From:	 No Starch Press<amanda@nostarch.com>
To:	 lwn@lwn.net
Subject: SDL Game Contest Entries Now Available for Download
Date:	 Thu, 24 Jan 2002 14:57:35 -0800 (PST)


For Immediate Release

No Starch Press is pleased to announce the winners of the SDL GAME
DEVELOPMENT CONTEST. Michael Speck won first place with "LBreakout 2," an
Arkanoid-genre game. Andreas Roever came in second place with "Tower
Toppler," a tower climbing game. And Bill Kendrick won third place with
"Vectoroids," an incarnation of Asteroids. All 25 entries are now available
for download: http://www.nostarch.com/game_contest_results.htm. 

With an open call to the gaming community, contestants were challenged to
create a computer game under 1 megabyte using the Simple DirectMedia
Layer. Contestants responded with a wide range of game types, including
clones of Asteroids, Arkanoid, Missile Command, Bomberman, and Connect
Four. Original concepts include "Wok", a highly unconventional ball tossing
game, "54321", a mind-twisting 4-dimensional puzzle game, and "E-Type", a
typing tutor program. 

John Hall, a contributing author of PROGRAMMING LINUX GAMES ($39.95,
1-886411-49-2, No Starch Press, http://www.nostarch.com/?plg)
wanted to create a forum for resident game developers and newbies
alike. "There is no lack of talent and creativity in the free software
world, but sometimes people need a little motivation to put their ideas
into code. The goal of this contest was to motivate amateur game
programmers to bring their projects nearer to completion, and with several
previously unseen game submissions, I believe we succeeded."  

The contest was sponsored by NO STARCH PRESS 
(http://www.nostarch.com), publishers
of PROGRAMMING LINUX GAMES, a Linux Journal Press book, LINUX JOURNAL 
(http://www.linuxjournal.com),
the leading Linux magazine, and LOKI SOFTWARE, INC. (http://www.lokisoftware.com).

Media Contact: Amanda Staab, 415-863-9900, amanda@nostarch.com

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