CodeCraft #1 Results

    Yeeaah! CodeCraft and the voting are over, and it was a great success:

      33 entries, respectively 24 and 9 entries for the 1Kb and 4Kb categories!
      15 contributors, some of them with up to 5 entries!
      39 votes, thus having an amount of 234 points to sum up!
    The standard of quality was very high, and i strongly recommend you to download all entries. You can also have a look at the snapshot of my desktop with some entries below. You'll see the diversity in the entries, ranging from system tools to games, with a lot of demos and inutilities. You'll also see how hard was the voting, with only three places to fill when all productions have something that makes them so different and attractive.

    Ok, ok... Drum rolls, applauses, here they come... :)
    ...And The Winners Are...


    1024 bytes Results


    ItsDemoTime by Armoric/Arm's Tech (28 points)
    FractalSpinZoom by PT/DFI (16 points)
    MultiBoing by Pervect/Topix (13 points)


    Followed by pArAnOId (12); BitStretcher (9); Othello and Wimpory (5); rays and raytracer (4); preview and tun1k (3); acorns, beatz, sweeper and wimplife (2); logo and emu16 (1).

    A pack of entries was promptly formed, all of them with a few points but not enough to distance the others. This can be explained by the diversity of entries, which made the choice really hard. It's not before ten votes that the pack started to extend, leaded by FractalSpinZoom. Just behind, MultiBoing and pArAnOId had a hard time following, and fighting each other.
    But since the beginning of the voting, the wonderfull ItsDemoTime by ArmOric has made a lightning acceleration to the first place, and made a lone race until victory (next time we'll make anti-doping test ;).


    4096 bytes Results


    Sto? by eXoTiCorn/ICeBird (35 points)
    X-FileZ by casma (20 points)
    Escape by Tom/Kulture (18 points)


    Followed by SockZ (14); MiniPet (12); x (11); HugeMacros (5).

    There has been a hard fight for the 2nd place between Escape and X-FileZ, it was fun to see them exchanging places at almost every new vote ;). Outside the top 3 there also was a fight between MiniPet, SockZ and X to know which one would come 4th, with loads of changes brought by the last 2 votes.
    Anyway, so high above all those quarrels that one can wonder if it even noted about their existence, stands the winner of the 4Kb category: the fantastic Sto? demo by eXoTiCorn. A masterpiece, indeed.


    Here is the full list of CodeCraftsMen:

    Mark Adcock (casma): X-fileZ
    James Andrews: Foxel
    Alain Brobecker (baah/Arm's Tech): Paranoid, PreView, SockZ, WimpLife
    Owain Cole (of VotI): MiniPet
    Frederic Elisei (ArmOric/Arm's Tech): ItsDemoTime
    Alexander Fox: Grow
    Christopher Fox: Othello
    Martyn Fox: DeleteGuard, StopWatch
    David Gamble (QSundel/Reactive): BeatZ, PostAmp1, Raytracer, RotFader
    Tony Haines: BitStretcher, X
    Eli-Jean Leyssens (Pervect/Topix): Acorns, Logo, MultiBoing, Sweeper, Wimpory
    Kostas Proitsakis (GUS/Arm's Tech): ColourDust, HugeMacros
    Dennis Ranke (eXoTiCorn/ICeBird): Emu16, Mp32Wav, Modes, Sto?
    Paul Thomson (PT/DFI): FractalSpinZoom
    Tom Thorne (tom/kulture): Escape, Rays, Tun1k

    Thank you!

    Thank you for sharing with us your CraftsManShip in programming, for pushing back the limits of tiny coding, for showing how your grey cells can arrange 1024 or 4096 bytes to produce thrilling pieces of software.

    Thank you to all people who have shown interest in CodeCraft and have voted for their favorite entries, hence helping us make this coding contest be such a success.

    Thank you all...

    ...and see you in CodeCraft #2!

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