The first YakYak Programming Competition has finished, and we’re awaiting the results.
This “Just for Fun” competition had a straight-forward remit:
pick a *minimum* of 10 of your favourite yakak forum members to greetz in your demo, and at the end write a special greeting to the Yak. You can greet as many yakyakers as you like, but don’t make your demo too long (or too short).
Sounds simple enough, eh!
Well, we had from the 11th June to the 13th July to complete our entries. Needless to say the 13th July arrived and I hadn’t even started. *oops*
Luckily there were several others in the same boat and so the competition was extended by a week with a new closing date of the 20th July. Of course that meant I put things off a bit more and didn’t actually start work on my entry until the 17th. *double oops*
So, 4 days to knock a demo together, no problem. Except it didn’t turn out to be 4 days, it was 3 as the wife wanted to watch a film Saturday night (Sweeney Todd. Very good.). So, 3 days, no problem… well, I say days, but what I really mean is a few hours a day for 3 days… *eeek*
Anyway, I just about managed to pull things together in time, and the initial response I’ve had has been very flattering.
The demo is an old-skool romp, complete with starfields, scrolling messages, flashing colours… and a nice little sneak peak at something else I’ve been working with a friend at the end.
Anyway, you can see for yourselves at the links below (thanks go to RiK and Devlin helping out compiling the OSX and Linux versions respectively)
Last Minute & Cobbled Together [Win] (162) - 12.45 MB
Last Minute & Cobbled Together [OSX/Intel] (62) - 12.39 MB
Last Minute & Cobbled Together [Linux] (55) - 12.19 MB