TI-Freakware's Programming Contest

TI-Freakware is hosting its first ever programming contest! Prizes include a mint condition TI-89 Titanium (1st place), a gently used TI-83+ Blue (2nd place), a brand new TI-Keyboard (3rd place), and some TIFW T-Shirts (honorable mention).

The genre of the contest is somewhat open, giving programmers a choice of RPG, side-scroller/platformer, arcade, and puzzle. We will be accepting ASM, BASIC, and C games, and for any calculator model.

Signups start on June 16th, 2006, and will end on July 30th, 2006. Once you are signed up to the contest, you may begin coding. If you want or need to amend your contest entry, you MUST pm us on the forums. The contest itself will end November 30th, 2006.

This contest is meant to be fun for everyone. We will try to keep contest restrictions to a minimum. However, we will request each contestant refrain from releasing any detailed information, source code, or screenshots of the game to the public. You must keep it secret until after the end of the contest.

For more details involving the contest, and/or to sign up, visit the TI-Freakware Contest Page.

If you have any other questions regarding the contest, please send them to contest@tifreakware.calcgame.org

I want to try! But as soon as I read this topic, all the game ideas I had for months I instantly forgot.

ROFL, Well, you have till July 16th to enter, after that, you are SOL. I think a month is ample time to remember that though...

Uhh... July 30th is the cut-off.

Hmm, well... oops

I thought we said for one month. >.< Guess I better check the rules page as well...


also, people are wondering exactly what you mean with the external file stuff...

Well... we said one month (July 1st to July 30th), but then we decided to start a little early. So, we have a 6 week window to register.

An External Data File can be a something like the following:
- save game file
- external graphics data file
- external variables file

right, but I don't think it should need to be included in the zip. I prefer less files sent to calc.

I second that, nice site Freak, me likes.

All we want to see is some sort of "External File." This can be a save file that is created at runtime; hence, not in the zip file. Or, it could possibly be a file that contains graphics data -- which most likely means it will be included with the zip.


The whole idea around the external file is to ensure each contestant can read and/or write to an external file -- that's all. This is an important programming concept.

Yeah, at the minimum of having a save file as an external file isn't bad...

So far there are 9 entries.

9 entries already?

That's cool

And I just signed up, so that makes at least 10

Where do we sign up? Count me in for a BASIC rpg. With xLIB.

Follow this link

Contest page

Time to show you what omnicalc is capable of. ^^