Who is part of the jury ("admins")?
And you didn't mention OpenGL explicitly. In this thread, the general conclusion was not to allow it, since it would then be an OpenGL game contest and not an SFML one.
Well, if we get some sort of system where the games are judged by the community, then you can ignore the admin part since source code will be available and people can check to make sure SFML was used.
As far as OpenGL goes, I feel like we
should be able to allow it. SFML's graphics only allows 2D stuff. It would be silly to not let people use 3D if they want to.
What remains unclear is the policy about contents :
- Must contents (audio, graphics but not fonts/intruments sample) be created during the contest ?
-> If not, can content be get from other sources as long as they are license free ?
Audio and graphics must be created during those 72 hours. I think this is pretty standard for game jams though.
- Is it a ONE GUY contest or teams are allowed ?
It can be done alone, or in a group of two people, but that must be stated when you submit.
- Can porting be done after the 72hours as long as sources have been comitted in time ?
Absolutely!
A practical question too : how do you plan to make people post their executable and sources ? On a forum thread for executables and MP (+thread if open-source) for sources ?
Posting a link to where the sources are is plenty. They can just have it all uploaded to github or something, and then just include a link to their repo.
Executables are a little tricky, but I would be fine with a link to them as well as long as the link contains everything it needs to run.
I am going to make time to make sure we have finalized rules
today. So far the only thing that will be left out of this first jam is going to be scoring.
