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OS/2 CONTEST: Entertainment Development Council's 1995 Warped Games
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jadahl@badlands.NoDak.edu)
Wed Aug 23 08:37:47 1995
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 06:41:56 GMT
From: jadahl@badlands.NoDak.edu
Reply-To: jadahl@badlands.NoDak.edu
Submitted by: Jim Dahl (jadahl@badlands.nodak.edu)
Source: Jim Dahl (jadahl@badlands.nodak.edu)
Date received: 1995 July 22
Date posted: 1995 August 23
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The OS/2** Entertainment Development Council and The 1995 Warped Games Contest
The 1994 release of OS/2 Warp has propelled OS/2 from almost
exclusively corporate and software development environments into homes
across the world. The influx of home users has generated a tremendous
demand for OS/2 entertainment software -- a market which was almost
non-existent just a year ago. While IBM has made efforts to
develop a relationship with major game developers, it is difficult to
convince companies to be the first to venture into uncharted territory
when their current markets still prove lucrative.
In June 1995, a discussion on the usenet newsgroup comp.os.os2.games
proposed a game development contest, with cash prizes to encourage
OS/2 applications development. Jim Dahl offered to coordinate such an
effort, and along with five other OS/2 enthusiasts formed the OS/2
Entertainment Development Council.
The council's first major act is organizing the initially proposed
shareware contest: The 1995 Warped Games! It is an open contest for
shareware game developers who release native OS/2 games between June
1, and December 31, 1995. Entry details will be available on the EDC
homepage later this summer, so developers, start your games! As a not-
for-profit organization we are also actively seeking individual and
corporate sponsors to help put on the contest.
The council also has a very thorough game development page which is
update regularly with links to OS/2 and game development information
available throughout the internet.
For more information, visit the OS/2 EDC homepage at
http://naftalab.bus.utexas.edu/os2games
** OS/2 is a registered trademark of International Business Machines, Corp.
