MSXdev'14 announced

Guess what's back? The MSXdev'14 game development contest has been already announced and it is here again to give MSX developers the chance to learn and compete in one of the most famous MSX challenges ever!

The most important fact for this edition is, again, ROM size: this time things can become bigger, as any size will be accepted as long as it does not require a ROM mapper. Other aspects of the contest have been polished, so be sure to check the whole rules in this thread over at Karoshi forums. Anyway these are, in brief, the contest rules highlights:

Games should run on a plain MSX1 and be compatible with higher generations.
ROM format (from 8 to 48 KB), and 16KB RAM.
Vote system will be public at a Karoshi MSX Community voting thread, and users will be able to set points to every entry at different categories per game.
A second deadline for fixed versions has been set, for those presented games that requires so. Those fixed versions will be taken in account when judging the games.
Donate for the main prize! Be sure to check the donation thread at Karoshi MSX Community to contribute with your donation for the main prize!

From now on you have until 15th June to create your thread and upload your entry or to donate for the main prize. International developers are wanted, as we really missed them the last couple of MSXdev editions: every contest thread is written in English, and you can configure the boards in English by following the instructions of this thread, so don't be shy and join the MSX "fiesta": Everyone's invited!

Relevant link: MSXdev'14

Comments (19)

By snout

Ascended (15184)

03-10-2013, 08:43

Something tells me this edition is going to be epic! Good luck to all contestants, looking forward to your entries!

By ro

Scribe (4364)

03-10-2013, 10:52

MSXDEV is king, long live the king!

By Warchild

Paragon (1275)

03-10-2013, 16:09

Nice logo!!! Spanish users will recognise it for sure My congratulations for this dessign

New and amazing games are coming!!!

By viejo_archivero

Paragon (1395)

03-10-2013, 17:28

C'mon, you non-spaniards! Show the MSXdev'14 your best!!

By ray2day

Hero (641)

03-10-2013, 20:38

By theNestruo

Champion (276)

03-10-2013, 21:16

snout wrote:

Something tells me this edition is going to be epic!

I share that feeling! Yay!

By JohnHassink

Ambassador (5548)

03-10-2013, 23:15

¡Que viva MSXdev!

By flyguille

Prophet (3028)

04-10-2013, 14:53

OK this time I will be IN!.

which public free tools are availables and are recomended for tile graphics and sprite design, and other for simple music stream.?

By gasparrini

Champion (321)

Hello Guys,

Also I am very happy and also I love this contest MSX DEV '14.
However, I would like many partecipate, but in this time I am little tired......

Because: I had any personal problem with women and girl, and this makes me crazy
and also because unfortunately I am without job from many time......
However, I wish do a travel in spanish for partecipate at the next RETRO MADRID,
and do also friendly with all members of MSX. I like too do this meeting....

I repeat, I am tired of live here in Italy..........
For now is all......
Best Regards.....
(^_^)
AG.

04-10-2013, 15:55

flyguille wrote:

which public free tools are availables and are recomended for tile graphics and sprite design?

I coded two command line tools to convert PCX images to MSX charsets and sprites. If you find yourself comfortable with a command prompt, you can give them a try
Grab the tools here: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-dULQ_O2vS4ejRvR1pNLTF6TXc/...
Comments are welcome here: http://karoshi.auic.es/index.php/topic,2472.0.html

04-10-2013, 17:09

theNestruo wrote:

I am looking more like an IDE, in the old times, I had an IDE of my own, running it in the real MSX1, so you can looks how the animations goes about sprites, deploy multiple charsets for screen2, and see how sprites looks being the background, plus some functions for creating / edit the map in a 2x2 tiles per map point. Is today something like that?, and then, all disk I/O for input output from/to disk.

By Maggoo

Paragon (1212)

04-10-2013, 19:19

Very cool, this should be a great edition !

By mars2000you

Enlighted (5833)

04-10-2013, 19:29

It will be a great edition !

Enjoy also the new design of the MSXBLUE-DEV website !

http://msxdev.msxblue.com/

By Ivan

Ascended (9281)

04-10-2013, 21:27

Nice logo! Where did you get it from?

06-10-2013, 16:03

gasparrini, you changed your mind? You've said you won't participate, and you suddenly present two games???

By tonigalvez

Champion (291)

07-10-2013, 00:58

Very cool MSXDEV, 48k is very well rom space. Long live to MSXDEV and thanks to Viejo Archivero for this contest.

07-10-2013, 08:21

Thnx toni, but the thanx must go to everyone supporting the contest, developers, users, websites, communities... thanks everyone to make every MSXdev edition memorable!

By hap

Paragon (2036)

07-10-2013, 12:18

mr viejo I must be blind I can't see the Paypal donate/donar button that's supposed to be at the top-right.

07-10-2013, 12:30

hap: aww, you're right!! must add it again, it is gone since the latest community downtime, when we installed the last version of the forum engine. Thnx for reporting!

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