Prizes for Ironcoder V are being allocated. Contestants should have received an email from me with the details. If you took part in Ironcoder V and did not receive an email please contact me at chairman at ironcoder _dot org.
Congratulations winners.
The Winner of Ironcoder V is Ben Gottlieb with his “WikiPath” Wikipedia screensaver. This screen saver followed random paths through Wikipedia, display each page in a tile on the screen. The code was really well written with some neat tricks that kept the code simple.
Runners Up:
Blurred Life - Adam Leonard A great game/screensaver combo. Try and guess if a blurred image downloaded from Flickr is about life or not-life.
CrepuscularLife - Josh Freeman A really fast and energetic Conway’s Game of Life screensaver.
LifeLike - Ian Gowen Another Conway Game of Life screensaver, used a really cool colour technique to add dynamic colour to cellular automatons.
Pixure - Joseph Wardell A strange screensaver that used genetic algorithsm to breed pixels.
Other notable entries:
Best Non-Screensaver: Viva - Daniel Jalkut
Most Complex Quartz Composer: Tree of Life - Chris Parrish
Only Non-Objective-C Entry: Life Saver - Chris Liscio
Most Amusing Source Code: S#!t Happens - Jim Turner & Kristie Turner
We’ve had 30 entries for Ironcoder V. That’s a fantastic turn out, the best yet. So far I’ve looked at 16 entries, and I’m going to stop there and finish the rest on Monday 2nd April. I’ll be in #macsb at 5PM CST on Monday to judge the remaining 14. Wish me luck. It isn’t going to be easy picking a winner.
All entries are available in a single disk image at: Ironcoder_5.dmg (15MB). And once again thanks to everyone who has taken part.
That’s it. Time’s up. Put down your text editors. Stop your compilers. Remind your family that you’re still alive.
All the entries have been copied to the test machine. If you haven’t uploaded already and have a really really good excuse why you missed the ever so important deadline please email the chairman.
I’ll be judging entries starting immediately, but it will take some time to get organised. All contestants will be informed by email (you did include your email address in your Readme) how their entry did. Prizes will be sorted out in the following week.
Join the live fun in the #macsb channel.
Just a quick note for anyone looking for the submissions page, the URL has been up for a day or two but has been hard to find. Submit here:
Ironcoder 5 is on.
The API is the “ScreenSaver.framework” API.
The theme is: “Life“
You have until 5PM CST on Sunday, April 1st (April Fools Day) to submit your entries. Submit your entries here: http://ironcoder.org/contest/
Winners will be announced after 5PM CST on Sunday.
Come to the #macsb channel on irc.freenode.net if you have any questions or send email to “chairman at ironcoder.org”.
More information on the API here: Screensaver Framework Reference If you’ve never written a screensaver before this might be your chance to do something a little bit different. But don’t forget, just because the API may be ScreenSaver.framework that doesn’t mean you need to write a ScreenSaver…
This might help you debug a screensaver (or provide other inspiration): www.cocoadev.com
Example Screensavers: www.jwz.org
Great OpenGL Screensaver Resource: www.reallyslick.com
Lots of screensavers here, with source: www.epicware.com
Excellent tutorial on writing screen savers: www.macedition.com
SaverLab: dozingcatsoftware.com
You’re cheating if you submit this: mikeash.com
Maybe you want to put a custom view in a Screen Saver. Mark Dalrymple will tell you how to write one.
More links from twedge on #macsb: mactech.com, cocodevcentral.com #1, and #2
Scott Stevenson has put up a very nice links page: theocacao.com
More information on the theme: here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here.
No sample app this time. You’re on your own!
Good luck.
Ironcoder V is only two days away. We’ve had a great response to our call for sponsorship and I’ve just updated the sponsors page with a bunch of new sponsors. Prizes totaling a value of $2,300 have been donated so far.
There are now two very special prizes announced for Ironcoder:
First, Jonathan “Wolf” Rentzsch has been kind enough to donate a ticket to the next C4 conference as a prize. The first C4 was a great experience and I’m sure C4[1] will be too. See http://rentzsch.com/c4/ironCoderToTheMetal for more information
For the second prize Fernando Lins of devixdesign is donating 5 hours of his time to design an icon for the winner. Fernando has produced some awesome icons for some great Mac OS X products (some of which are in fact Ironcoder prizes!) and I’m sure he will produce a fantastic icon for the winner.
See you at 5PM CST for Ironcoder V.
We’re now updating a page with the list of prizes and sponsors of Ironcoder 5. The total value of the prizes is now over $1100. A great thanks to all our current and previous sponsors.
Visit the page (and perhaps sponsor Ironcoder yourself) here: http://ironcoder.org/blog/sponsors/
Mark your calendars, warm up your compilers, stock up on bouncy bubbly beverages…
The next semi-regular installment of the #macsb Ironcoder contest will start at 5PM central time on Friday, March 30th running through to Sunday, April 1st.
We’ll be hosting the contest on ironcoder.org and as always live commentary/support will be hosted on the #macsb channel of freenode.net.
Once again we’re asking software authors for to donate licenses of their software as prizes for the winners.
Jason Harris brings you Cocoaduel, a competition in the spirit of Ironcoder. It starts now and entries have to be in by Wednesday December 20th. So get cracking!