ACNews #73 14 июля 2020

Game competition - Welcome to a new gamedev compo for ZX Spectrum - "Your Game 6".

                           Your Game 6

Welcome to a new gamedev compo for ZX Spectrum - "Your Game 6".

Previously this competition was held in 2014 and collected 10
works: http://alonecoder.nedopc.com/zx/tiS_pack.zip

The competition, like last time, accepts games that fully work
on a bare ZX Evo board with baseconf firmware (i.e. 48K / 128K /
Pentagon1024 / ATM2 / ATMЗ + SD-card ). The game should not 
require any more devices, but can support them. Voting will be
conducted taking into account the system requirements of the
game.

The prize fund at the moment is 158,000 rubles and can be
increased with the funds of those who wish (see the contacts
section below).
The main sponsor is SASPACK LLC
By popular vote, the prize is divided as follows (in the future,
amounts may grow up, and other special prizes may be added):
50,000 rubles - first place 
30,000 rubles - second place 
20,000 rubles - third place 
Moreover:
50,000 rubles - prize from the jury (the jury is determined by 
the main sponsor)
The rest is for special prizes.

The deadline for accepting works is October 4, 2020. The award
period is within a month from this date.

The game should not be released until this date, except for the
demos released before 2020 (but during the development process
you can upload screenshots and video materials).
Only full games will participate in the competition, that is,
not demo versions.

For participants new to the ZX Evo (baseconf) architecture:
- Russian documentation (ATM2):
http://atmturbo.nedopc.com/inf/books/nedopc/atm_hard.zip 
- Russian documentation (ATMЗ + ¤®¯®«­¨â¥«ì­ë¥ ¢®§¬®¦­®á⨠ZX
Evo baseconf):
http://svn.zxevo.ru/dl.php?repname=pentevo&path=%2Fdocs%2Fzxevo_ 
base_configuration.pdf 
- English documentation (ATM2):
http://alonecoder.nedopc.com/zx/books/ATMHW.rar 
- English documentation (ATMЗ + extra features of ZX Evo
baseconf):
http://svn.zxevo.ru/dl.php?repname=pentevo&path=%2Fdocs%2Fzxevo_ 
base_configuration_eng.odt 
- http://alonecoder.nedopc.com/zx/evosdk_libs.rar - a set of
utilities and a tile-sprite library for development with C
language (ATM2 / ATMЗ).
- http://alonecoder.nedopc.com/zx/unreal_project.rar - a set of
utilities and a tile-sprite library for development with ALASM
assembler (ATM2).
- http://alonecoder.nedopc.com/zx/atm_example.rar - SjASMPlus
cross-assembler with the simplest example of sprite output
(ATM2).
- http://nedoos.ru/ - an operating system that simplifies the
development of large projects with SjASMPlus, C and NedoLang
(ATM2 / ATMЗ + SD-card / HDD).
- documentation for ERS system calls that allow you to directly
download files from FAT-drives (only for ZX Evo):
http://svn.zxevo.ru/dl.php?repname=pentevo&path=%2Fdocs%2F%D0%9E 
%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5+%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%80%D0 
%B2%D0%B8%D1%81-%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%B8 
+%27%27EVO+Reset+Service%27%27.pdf 

Contacts:
- for participants (team search, help with code, testing,
accepting promises and works): dmitry.alonecoder(at)gmail.com
- for sponsors (preliminary arrangement and transfer of funds to
the prize fund): staspi(at)yandex.ru