Updated 19.12.2007

International creative programming contest
CREATIVE BALTIE 2007


Announced and organized by: SGP Systems

Contes categories
There are three categories announced by age:

A - students to 10 years (including)
B - students to 14 years (including)
C - students from 15 years (including)

For category classification, the age of the contestant or the age the contest team's oldest member due to the date of the final is desicive.

Contest rules

  1. The contest projects can cover any subject except the "bloody" one.
  2. The contest project can be created in the SGP Baltie 3.7 or SGP Baltie 4 C# (or combination of both) only.
  3. The contestants and all their co-authors must have their SGP Account created. (They apply for the contest by their UID.)
  4. The contestant can apply for the contest just one project.
  5. Author of the contest project can be an individual or a team. The age of the oldest team member is decisive for category classification.
  6. One contestant can be a member of several teams and can also compete as an individual. If contesting as an individual, one cannot be leader of any team. The team leader cannot lead another team, and cannot compete as an individual.
  7. The authors of the contest project/project guarantees the novelty of their work. All files (images, music, sounds, texts etc.) can by only one's own (own photographs, own drawing, own music record) or those supplied with SGP Baltie 3.7 or SGP Baltie 4 C#. No other files, modified or taken over, can be used, even if they are free to use, that mean whole contest project must consist of author work of an individual or a team! The author's obligation is to state all co-authors! E.g. when parents or siblings have recorded something for the contestant, they become automatically the co-authors and their age is desicive for category classification.
  8. If any unacknowledged help to the contestant will be found out, he/she will be disqualified and expelled for good from SGP contests.
  9. No scripts are allowed in the project, even those in the HTML documentation.
  10. Accessory files (images, sounds etc.) can be created in tools, standardly supplied by the operating system where the Baltie 3/Baltie 4 is being run or freeware (or GNU/GPL) tools, under the condition that use of these tools does not rule out to the organizers (SGP Systems or TIB) propagation of the contest projects including those accessory files.
    The author states that no third person can lay claim on his piece of work.
  11. By applying project to the contest, the contestants agree with the fact that their projects have nature of contest piece of work by the art. 61 of the czech Copyright Act (code nr. 121/2000) that has been created without claim to reward and as such can be used by the organizers for further propagation as a freeware on the web pages of the SGP Systems and their respective partners, on the CD/DVD media attached to the magazines or through any other distribution channel.
  12. Sending project (please monitor regulary, it is subject to change)
    The contestant will send one .ZIP archive with the name in format
    yyyy-uid.ZIP,
    where yyyy is the current year and uid is your UID from your SGP Account.
    Examples of the archive file names:
    2007-12345.ZIP (contestant UID: 12345)
    2007-20082.ZIP (contestant UID: 20082)
    We do not accept other formats than .ZIP! We suggest you that after uploading you download the archive to a different folder, or better different computer, extract the content and check whether is all right and no file is missing (a common fault).
    The project must be completely in english language, including comments and other accompanying texts.
  13. The ZIP file can have maximal size 5 MB (i.e. 5 242 880 bytes).
    In the case of the projects in SGP Baltie 4 C#, you send only source files of your project (no DLL libraries or EXE file) and additional files created by you (images, sounds, models, text and data files) that are needed for project to run correctly.
  14. Obligatory content of the contest folder:
    name-s.HTM short and apt program description in the HTML format, attention - no images!
    mane.HTM
    name.PDF    		 detailed project documentation in the HTML od PDF format
    name.BPR
    name.SGPBPRJ    		 source texts of the program
    name.Bnn
    name.Cnn     		files with tiles (you send only those you have created), where nn stands for numbers from 00 to 99
    name.Snn files with scenes (you send only those you have created), where nn stands for numbers from 00 to 99
    name*.* all other project files (includes, data, WAV, MID, BMP etc.) and subfolders

    name*.* is at most 32 characters (including extension) and we suggest to not use spaces or national accented characters, use only characters A-Z, a-z, 0-9, "-" (hypen), "_" (underscore) and "." (dot).

    We also recommend add to the project an icon, sized 32x32 points in the .ICO or .BMP format, name.ICO or name.BMP. The icon in the .BMP format (32x32pt) will be converted to the .ICO by ourselves.

    Warning!
    We will evaluate only those projects, to those we will have all necessary files including source codes. In such no case we will be unable to evalute your project which will be excluded from the contest!
    We do not accept ANY standalone executable program files (even renamed in any way)! It means that all executable files must be able to be created any time in the SGP Baltie 4 C# or executed in the SGP Baltie 3.7.

    The program must run from any folder, so in the LoadScene commands use solely the "*\\" as the source folder specification. E.g.: LoadScene("*\\GAME1.S01");
    In the Baltie's File table, use "Game1.wav" or "*\\Game1.wav" elsewhere.


    Rating criteria
    Criterion Points Description
    1. Project functionality 0-10
    2. SOurce code quality 0-10 lucidity, brevity, effectiveness, resources demands, naming correctness, literal avoidance
    3. Source code formatting 0-10 Baltie: correct indentation, comments
    4. User interface 0-10
    5. Graphic appearance 0-10
    6. Help 0-10 simpllicity, availability, completeness
    7. Complexity of the subject 0-10
    8. Project originality 0-10
    9. Total size of the project in kB the less kB the better; complementary criterion for ranking list determination when equal points are obtained

    Important dates of the CREATIVE BALTIE 2007:
    30. 11. 2007   Application and correction deadline is at 24:00. No files will be accepted after this deadline!
    Send your projects soon enough to be able to correct the potential formal flaws before the deadline of the correspondence round.
    31. 12. 2007   The contest final results will be published on SGP Systems website.

    Notice.
    The contest organizer reserves the right, in the smooth course interest, to update this proposition (date and place of the semifinal and final, prizes, accomodation etc.), do not announce first place, cancel some category (when not enough contestants) or cancel the whole contest.
    Plase, follow up current information on this page carefully. If you need a professional help please visit the SGP Forum.

    All information exchange between organizers and contestants (including sending the contest projects) will be entirely through the internet. The only authoritative information are those presented on this page. That mean they are above all other information, published in the press, radio, television or on the web pages of other companies or institutions.

    The official and the only one e-maill address used for the communication between contestatns and contest organizers is:
    contest2007@sgpsys.com

    E-mails sent to another address will not be processed by the organizer.

    CREATIVE BALTIE 2007 Entry Form

(c) 2007, SGP Systems