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RubyWeekend is a game development contest for the Ruby programming language inspired by PyWeek.^[1] The first contest started on June 13^th, 2008 and ended June 16^th, 2008, lasting more than 48 hours. The RubyWeekend contest is organized on Rubygame Forums's contest section.

Contents 1 Rules 2 History 2.1 First Contest 2.1.1 Games 2.2 Second Contest 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Rules

All games are to be licensed under an OSI approved licenses and all media are to be licensed under the Creative Common variants. There is no award in this contest, only "glory" and "honor". ^[2]

All ruby libraries are allowed, whether it is Gosu, Rubygame, Rails, or something else. The only requirement is that the game must be written in the Ruby programming language.

Developers may work alone and in pair but not any larger.

[edit] History

A user by the pseudonym Venut, the owner of the Rubygame Forums, organized the first contest. However John Croisant organized the second contest.

[edit] First Contest

The contest was announced to the public on the ruby-talk and rubygame-users mailing list and at the rubygame blog on June 10^th, 2008.^[3]

Only seven games was submitted before the end of the contest deadline.^[4] Ranking was determined by a series of polls for people to rank their top 3 choice.

Voting began on June 17^th, 2008.^[5]

The winner was announced to be Zombie Soccarrr with 35 points.^[6]

[edit] Games

• Port Town
• Zombie Soccarrr
• Election Year: Zombies vs. Pirates!
• The CopyPirate
• Carribean Onslaught
• Footracer
• Zombie Horde

[edit] Second Contest

The second contest took place on July 25^th, 2008. It started on 16:00 UTC and end on July 27^th, 2008 4:00 UTC.(Submission deadline is 1 hour after)^[7] This second contest has received more promotion than the last contest. It was announced on the Linux Game Tome, Free Gamer, and the FSDaily, a social news site for free software in addition to the Ruby-talk mailing list and the Rubygame mailing list.

This contest have 7 games submitted before the deadline, same as the first contest. Voting started soon afterward and ended on August 4^th, 2008 after the voting deadline has been extended from August 1.^[8]

The winner of the second contest is Opposite Islands, with 34 points.^[9]

• Mizutoka
• Cyber Deathmatch
• Playground Wars
• Opposite Islands
• Dungeon Farmer
• Solunaria
• Cheese Master

[edit] References

1. ↑ Proposal for the contest
2. ↑ RubyWeekend contest rule
3. ↑ Jacius posted to let people know that he announced the contest to various places
4. ↑ Contest thread for submitting games
5. ↑ Voting for 5 pointers thread
6. ↑ Contest result announcement
7. ↑ Contest detail on RubyWeekend #2
8. ↑ RubyWeekend #2 Voting thread
9. ↑ RubyWeekend #2 Result

[edit] External links

• RubyWeekend homepage