It’s that time of year again when SourceForge starts taking nominations for the best projects in a number of categories. Please show your support by nominating us again this year at the SourceForge CCA nomination page.

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There’s now slightly less than a month remaining to get your entries in for the 2008 Drunken Coders Winter Compo so hopefully you’ve all at least made a start. This year entries are being accepted for Wii and Gamecube as well as the usual GBA and DS – currently the prize fund has reached almost $1000, with ~$850 for DS/GBA and ~$100 pledged for Wii/Gamecube.

The recent addition of MaxMod to the libraries supplied with devkitARM makes it even easier to add your christmas jingles so we’re looking forward to a high standard this year.

devkitPro will be donating 50% of the donations and ad revenue for December to the prize pool.

Drunken Coders Compo

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It’s finally time to get your votes in for devkitPro. We made the finals in 3 categories

--  Most Likely to Be Ambiguously Accused of Patent Violation
--  Most Likely to Get Users Sued
--  Best Tool or Utility for Developers

Get over to the voting page now and help us win one of the categories this year.

In case you need a little incentive Sourceforge are giving away a discount coupon for Thinkgeek -  I think I might have to spend mine on this little gem. Create your own Mario themed environment with restickable vinyl wall decals. Click the image for more details.

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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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