Battle of the Bytes

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Hosted by South S-n-T

Prizes

1st: $300
2nd: $100
3rd: $50

Rules

• No plagiarism
• No more than 3 people per team
• Games must be school appropriate (PG-13)
• You must CODE the site yourself. More info about this below.

If your team violates the rules you be given a warning.
Repeated violations will result in removale from the contest.

Judging Criteria

1. Asthetics
2. Ease of use
3. Clear Instructions
4. Fun/Challenging gameplay
5. Originality

Suggested platforms

These are websites that you can use to make the game or use to learn how to code.

1. n00b: Scratch, Code.org - These are websites designed for beginners, they use block based coding and simple line based coding
2. INTERMEDIATE: YoYogames - Medium Difficulty
3. LeGeNdArY: Unity, HTML5, Maratis; http://www.maratis3d.org/ - This website makes 3D games, it is very time consuming and challenging. We recommend only people with experience in 3D animation should choose this site.

Timeline

Sign-up - December 2-19

mid contest check-in - TBD

Final submissions due - February 21st

Game Presentations and Awards - March 6th

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Accceptable Coding Programs

To be a valid submission the game must be coded by you. You can use a coding language or block programming. The computer cannot make the game for you. Examples of prohibited sites: Flowlab, Gamefroot, GDevelop, ect. This is not a complete list, if you have questions you can contact Karl Griffin at the email below.