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The Smart Contest 2013 – Topic for the second round

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We are definitely in a playful year this year.
“The Smart Contest” is soon entering the second round.

The topic this time will be “Game development”.

Wartrail main screenWartrail, by Eric Grange.

Created in Smart Mobile Studio

Hopefully, you learned a few things from our articles on “Graphics programming”. These tips and tricks might come handy now. If you missed them, take a look here:

Take also a look at the entries from the first round of the Smart Contest:

During the last few days of April we will publish a series of articles to get you started on game development in Smart Mobile Studio. Stay tuned! This will be a comprehensive step by step tutorial.

In the mean time, you should head over to delphi.org and listen to Jim McKeeth’s interview with Jason McMillen on game development. Jason is the guy behind Pascal Game Development, and he shows you several interesting resources.

If you google “HTML5 games”, you will find lots of cool examples of what Smart Mobile Studio is capable of producing.

So, pick your favorite game and start the thinking 😉

In case you missed it:
First prize in each round will be a tablet (iPad, iPad mini, Android based tablet, Windows tablet). Value ~750 USD

Q: Will it be possible to participate with a trial version of Smart Mobile Studio?
A: Yes! 😀

Best regards,
The Smart Mobile Studio Team

Smart Contest 2013 – Round #1

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February is upon us and so is our announced graphics competition! This is the first competition out of four this year. So this is your chance to win some exciting prices by showing off your Object Pascal skills!

The topic of this round is: graphics programming (eg. demo-scene, fractal art, visualizations etc).

The rules are as follows:

  • Registration before the 10th of February (registration at contest@smartmobilestudio.com)
  • Deliver your contribution before 1st of March
  • Games are not accepted this round (that’s scheduled for a later date)
  • User interaction is allowed (but not mandatory)
  • Porting of retro demos is allowed (providing it is a clean rewrite)
  • JavaScript snippets are allowed (within limits)

Fractal art

Fractal art

Demos

Demoscene

Prizes

First prize is a tablet device of your own choice (up to USD 750). So have your pick between

  • iPhone
  • iPad
  • iPad mini
  • Windows Tablet
  • Windows phone
  • Android tablet or phone

Judges

Primož Gabrijelčič

Developer of the popular omnithread library, author of the Smart Mobile Studio Bible, contributor to the Smart Mobile Studio IDE and RTL, and dedicated object pascal speaker and innovator

Christian Budde

Developer of various open source projects. Among these, the popular Delphi ASIO & VST Project for professional audio related development. Another focus of his work is Graphics, which is reflected in projects such as the modernized AggPas implementation, an independent object pascal png library and a native object pascal interface to TrueType fonts (called PascalType). He is also contributor and maintainer of  Graphics32.

Currently he is working on the Smart Mobile Studio IDE and RTL.

Delivery

All contributions must be delivered in full source and binary with no missing pieces. The project must compile on the current version of Smart Mobile Studio (1.1 branch).

Happy coding!

The Smart Contest 2013 – Topic for the first round

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Fractal art created by longan drink.

Fractal art created by longan drink.

As previously announced, we will arrange 4 contests this year with some really cool prizes.

The topic for the first round will be “Graphics”.

We will reveal the details of this round by the end of January, but pay attention to our upcoming blog posts. They will give you lots of inspiration and get you started on the “graphics area” with Smart Mobile Studio.

(To get some inspirations right away, you can click on the image above).

In case you missed it:
First prize in each round will be a tablet (iPad, iPad mini, Android based tablet, Windows tablet). Value ~750 USD

Q: Will it be possible to participate with a trial version of Smart Mobile Studio?
A: Yes. We will even extend your trial period to cover the competition period if that is necessary. 😀

Best regards,
The Smart Mobile Studio Team

Introducing a playful 2013 :-)

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We want to have more fun in 2013.
We want people do discover what Smart Mobile Studio is capable of and we want to share all the excellent stuff people create with Smart Mobile Studio.

So.

In 2013 we will run a few competitions 🙂

Four rounds on various topics with some nice prizes.

The “competition months” will be
– February
– May
– August
– November

Revision of contributions and announcement of winner will happen during the following month.

First prize in each round will be a tablet (iPad, iPad mini, Android based tablet, Windows tablet). Value ~750 USD

More details will be given before the first round.

 

(Don’t miss out on our Special offer ending tomorrow.)