Maybe you'd like to brush up on your Amiga game making skills by having a go at our next games making contest! Our last one was quite successful, and a lot of people took it as an opportunity to learn more about developing on the Amiga and to finally have a go at something they'd been holding back from trying for so long.
Our last game making contest was themed around Christmas, but we will have a new theme for each contest we hold, and we're going to try holding four contests each year. At the end of each contest, we want to help everyone who entered to polish up their games, make them play better and look and sound more professional, and then release the games on Aminet, our own upcoming Amiga games distribution service, and as compilation CDs which we will sell from our online store for a budget price (the CD ISOs and coverart will be freely downloadable if you choose to burn and print it yourself).
Each contest we hold will allow you to create a game in any genre you like, as long as it goes along with the theme of the contest, so it has rules, but also quite a bit of freedom.
The Amiga games market has been pretty dead for a long time now, and up until last month we only had two or three Christmas-themed games to play during the festive season. Thanks to our first competition, which had an incredibly tight deadline of only two weeks, we now have over ten Christmas games for the Amiga, with more to come. Future contests will have longer development timeframes, and plenty of different themes to help give people something to be creative with.
If you'd like to check out the entries for the current contest, check them out here -
http://amigachristmastree.condor.ser...mpetition.html
There are also a few more games that were made that didn't make it in time for the contest deadline which are being worked on and will be released with the rest of the games once they've been completely bug-tested and fixed up.