Sgstair has recently announced a new competition for budding hackers to show off their optimisation skills. The object of the exercise is to write code to produce a speedy Mandlebrot set generator on the DS so, if you think you’re up for the challenge, head over to the akkit competition page.

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The Independent Games Festival organisers recently announced a new competition that might be of interest to devkitPro toolchain users. The IGF has been running a competion for independent game developers since 1998 and this year they’ve decided to start a new competition for mobile games. There are some great prizes up for grabs.

• IGF Mobile Best Game ($10,000)
• Innovation In Mobile Game Design ($2,000)
• Innovation In Augmented Design* - Presented by Nvidia ($2,000)
• Achievement In Art ($2,000)
• Technical Achievement ($2,000)
• Audio Achievement ($2,000)

* The ‘Augmented Design’ award goes to a game that best uses an aspect of mobile phone technology, such as GPS, camera, motion-sensing, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or other special mobile-centric features in gameplay.

If you’re looking for some ideas of the kind of games that win awards then you might care to have a look at IG: Independent Games award winners

For more competition details see the IGF mobile site.

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Kojote has just announced the latest event over at PD Roms

The task for this competition is to backport an existing Nintendo DS game to the GBA.  There are currently some interesting prizes on offer including some rare GBA carts and GBA accelerometers.

PS: If you feel left out: Release a NDS game first and then “backport” it to GBA and release it with this compo

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