GitHub Game Off

Apple Store Credit? I'd rather take cash thanks.

Oh man I'm psyched about this. I love game jams, and GitHub's event will surely draw people new to the concept. The more the merrier!<p>I'm honestly a little turned off by the prize though. I'd rather there be no prize at all but instead some internet recognition maybe (like Ludum Dare). Perhaps they'll introduce some alternative prizes later on?

&#62; You have the entire month of November...<p>So... it's not November yet. Can you start?<p>EDIT: They answered this here: <a href="https://github.com/github/game-off-2012/issues/15" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/github/game-off-2012/issues/15</a><p>&#62; I should clarify that. Yeah, you can start now :)

No joke, on my "ideas to hack on" list, I have: "A game of some kind based on Github pull requests"<p>I think this could be good.

Can anyone recommend me some good game development books for someone who wants to create "small" games as a hobby? By "small" I mean that my goal is to be able to create games for ocasions like the GitHub Game Off, or some small indie games

I presume the projects that are built are intended to be public repositories, but it is not clear from the contest rules. Is that correct?

Anybody want to put a HNers team together for this?

No Ipad mini? Those prizes are <i>so</i> last week.

This is quite cool, the coding alternative to NaNoWriMo.