Sega Saturn Coding Contest 2006-Results
Posted by Graham. Filed under News, Retro. Tagged with Downloads, Fan Sites, Fan Stuff, Homebrew, Saturn.
German-based website www.rockin-b.de recently posted up the results to their Sega Saturn Coding contest 2006.
The contest was for people to create a “visually impressive game or demo” that will run on a standard Sega Saturn. Ports of games were allowed, as long as they enhanced to port to run on the Saturn hardware.
The contest was based on 4 specific areas, which they explain here;
“Unlike other contests, in this one the judges won’t give scores, points, marks or percentage rates. Instead, they sort all entries from best to worst in each of 4 categories: graphics, sound, gameplay and overall. The last category is the one which determines the final ranking by merging the results of all judges together.In addition to graphics, sound and gameplay (which are primarly thought to be an information for people downloading the entries afterwards), the overall-ranking is most importandly influenced by the objective of the contest. If you want to become one of the 3 winners and get an attractive prize, make sure you meet the objective!”
Dreamcast coding contests are fairly common on the ‘net these days - with many becoming official Dreamcast games. But it is quite unusual to see a Saturn coding contest, mainly because the Saturn is notoriously difficult to program for, but also because among many (uneducated) gamers the Saturn was considered to be a bad system-but we SegaNerds know better than that, eh?
So its always interesting to see something out of the ordinary and special like this. The final winners are not all playable games, as the idea of the contest was just to show off ‘what could be’ in terms of making a homebrew Saturn title. But the results look quite interesting and you can, in fact, download the winning entries from the site and run them on your Saturn at your leisure.
So for more information and to check out the winners and download the demos check out the site now!
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