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Third-party utility competition
Hello everyone.

After an influx of new users (And I hope coders) and a small capital investment from someone, I have decided to hold a competition.


Basically, it's like this. Everyone who wants to participate, donates as much tc as they can spare (any amount is fine), and begins coding...a third-party utility for Toribash. This can be anything.

NOTE: Tell me when you're donating, and when you're participating. You may donate without participating.

For example (What I am working on currently):

http://www.toribash.com/forum/showthread.php?t=15253 -- TBMonitor. The logging and services bot for Toribash servers.

And a widget of some sort that shows your current rank, belt, etc easily.

What do I mean by the 'best' one? Well, the most useful. The best thought-out. At the end of the competition, I will make a public poll (or a private if the public one is unfair to you) with all the utilities, and the one with the most votes wins the pot.



Donators so far:

hampa (indirectly so to speak)
Ishi
Slith
Archlurps
SlainVeteran
veb
suomynona


Participants so far:

Jok.
suomynona
SlainVeteran


Pot size: 252,718 toricredits.



The length of the competition is undetermined, and will be determined once we get participants, so we know about how much time everyone needs.


You may participate with as many utilities as you want.

You are allowed to use any programming language you want, however the utility must be third-party. NO Lua scripts.

Note: You may not release the source code during the competition.





If you have any questions about the way to connect to Toribash servers or other such things, feel free to ask me, or hampa, or whoever else knows about it.




Discuss.
Last edited by Jok; Nov 7, 2007 at 07:27 AM.
I don't even understand,but I don't code any ways so I don't care.
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3 participants confirmed, pot is at 250k+. Come on people, even if you know the slightest bit of coding it can be enough.

If you have questions regarding stuff like connecting to servers or other such things, ask me, I'll be happy to help.
What is third-party utility anyways?
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A third-party utility is a utility made by a third-party (someone other than the game creator) for a program.

In this case, it is a program made by someone other than Nabi studios that is a utility for Toribash.
I has a flavour
So what is the utility suppsoed to do? Please be specific also. Like somthing on the forums... somthing in games... what?
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Anything. Read my post.

It can be anything, from a widget that shows you your rank, to one that shows you your toricredits, to a bot that logs activity in a server, to an auto-move-setter or something.

It can be anything you can make, as long as it's related in any way to playing Toribash.
i dont know what i can make.
My programming knowledge is very limited...
VERY LIMITED!

I could make a game or something to play while its not your shot, but wouldn't be very useful. And it would be a completely seperate program. No integration.

Im outdone very quickly with programming skills, so i will just need a bloody good idea. lol
I might attempt to learn some more so i can have a better chance. :/
Keep in mind that it must be something you can't do without Toribash. So, for example, a game you can play while you wait, would have to depend in one way or another on Toribash. As in, it uses data from the current game, or is integrated, or some such.
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Keep in mind that it must be something you can't do without Toribash. So, for example, a game you can play while you wait, would have to depend in one way or another on Toribash. As in, it uses data from the current game, or is integrated, or some such.

ohhhh... then im fucked.... lol
How about if the game uses toribash graphics? Not directly loaded from the toribash folder but using screenshots? It could still be played without toribash, but it would look similar to toribash with the characters and such. =D Would that still count?
Last edited by Jam0864; Nov 8, 2007 at 09:12 AM.