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As a follow up to the PSP Contest, there will be a PS3/Wii Contest.
Thanks a lot for the entries! There are about 10 entries, and I'm happy with the quality of the video's I've seen so far.
Extension: you are allowed to make modifications/submit entries during the voting/review, until 9th of March.
Review and Voting
- * During Game Developers Conference, March 5-9 2007 San Francisco
* Review of submissions by professional game developers during this GDC
* Potential display at a booth on the conference
* Voting based on those reviews
* Results and winners will be announced Sunday 11 March 2007
The goal is to build a cool Rube Goldberg demo, using Bullet physics engine. You can use Blender with Bullet, but also OgreBullet, C4Bullet, IrlightBullet or you can use your own graphics engine for a Bullet demo.
See one Mousetrap simulation movie on Youtube made with Game Blender+Bullet.
- Platforms: choose either Win32, Mac OS X or Linux (just ask on forum if other)"Rube Goldberg" who came up with the idea of making very
complicated inventions to do simple things
See here for his original comics: http://www.rube-goldberg.com/
Also here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg
For more recent examples try this search on youtube...there are over 400
videos of various machines, some built in game engines but most are
real-life contraptions.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_q ... rch=Search
This video shows a bunch of particularly good ones.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlVpCcJ- ... ed&search=
This kind of demo would require a number of simple objects like
dominoes, pendulums, wheeled carts, staircases and other stuff that
could be assembled into complex gadgets.
- Everyone can enter this Contest for free
- By submitting the entry to the contest, you agree it can be used to promote Bullet and published/distributed.
- A wiki page will be added for contest entries
- Don't make it a puzzle-game, it should just be a Rube-Goldberg style machine that is fun to watch. Some interaction is allowed, but don't make it a duplicate the Incredible Machines game!
Registration and submitting a machine:
Either send an email to contest2007@bulletphysics.com , or private message on this forum to 'Erwin Coumans' with:
1) Your firstname, lastname, country
2) Link to your Machine (.blend) or the .blend, or source code if you use Bullet with your own graphics engine
3) Youtube movie link or screenshot of your machine
Good Luck!
Erwin