Skwire Empire is a giant collection of programs written by DC member Skwire.
You'll find everything from small utilities coded in requests to posts on the Coding Snacks section of the DonationCoder forum, to full blown applications like the awesome mp3 player, Trout.
One of the most prolific coders on the DonationCoder website, skwire never misses a NANY event, and rarely passes up the opportunity to fulfil a Coding Snack request.
- Number of programs available: 70+
- Last updated: Feb 2018
- Visit skwire's new empire home: http://www.dcmembers.com/skwire.
- Visit skwire's section on our forum: here.
THE 2006 DONATIONCODER.COM ACCESSIBILITY GAME PROGRAMMING CONTEST RESULTS
Congratulations!
First off, our sincere congratulations to all the winners! Accessibility presents a huge challenge to a game designer, and we had quite an amazing diversity of genres from the finalists, and innovation in so many different areas -- from storyline/writing to game play variety. There is a lot of room for improvement here, and the authors may have discovered that making an accessible game is harder than it sounds, especially for programmers who have never considered the issue of accessibility. But the spirit and creativity behind each of the games was wonderful and the IGDA Game Accessibility SIG will be happy to work with any of the authors who are interested in taking their games to the next level and making them even more accessible. - Michelle Hinn, Chair of the IGDA's Game Accessibility SIG.
About The Prizes
First of all we have to say a huge thank you to the sponsors of this unusual contest. There are many excellent game development websites, and we appreciate that the sponsors of this contest were willing to support the non-traditional focus of this contest and bring a little light to the issue of accessible gaming. Keeping with the spirit of this contest we asked each of the entrants to rate their preferred prizes and we tried extremely hard to find a way to get everyone who entered something they would be happy with - we hope that we've succeeded in that. We've highlighted one game as the top contest winner, and then presented the rest of the collection in no particular order.
Download and Try For Yourself!
On behalf of the authors we invite you to download and play these games. If you enjoy them, please consider making a small donation to the authors to support their continued development! Your donations make a difference.
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Branston and the Lost MachineHanan Finnerty isn't even in college yet, but his entry to the contest was chosen as our overall favorite and top prize winner. His "Branston and the Lost Machine" Flash game is so packed with style and personality and fun that it's bursting out of every scene. Although the drawings in the game don't have a professional polish, they are funny and clever and compelling, and as we played the game we found ourselves laughing and constantly surprised by new things. Not satisfied to stick with one control scheme, in Branston you actually switch at different points between dramatically different control schemes. The creature riding levels are inspried and not to be missed. We dare you to try to play this game without smiling. Now that's not to say it's perfect - not by a long shot. It's not a completely finished game, and it's not a polished or professional experience, but it's so damn impressive in terms of vision and ambition that it captured our heart immediately and never let it go. We can't wait to see what the author will come up with in the future.. Because of all this, "Branston and the Lost Machine" was our choice of best overall entry. Congratulations Hanan, we think you have a real future in the game development world. Play the online flash game: Here.
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