uDG entran's comment (Score 1)

As an entrant (and previous entrant) to the uDG I would like to share many of the benefits of this contest. 1. it gets you off your rear, I mean most people don't do much on their summer vacation. 2. It gives you a spotlight and more feedback then you generally see. 3. Your work is voted on and for example if you look at this example score: Graphics: 4.3 Gameplay: 4.5 Sound/Music: 2.1 Origionality: 3.5 Polish: 4.0 Then I would have made a fairly good game, based on something else, improving on the game but failing in the audio department. I would know where to work on for next year. Just seeing what games get what score really helps me as a developer. I can see what the gamers like, and then I can see the code that made that happen. The uDG is about improvement of the general game programming community more than anything else. 4. It gives programmers valuable experiance in a limited time development period. Too many indie devs have no clue how to pull that off (especially when there is no outside pressure). Also I would like to point out that all big game developers were once small game developers. Look at pangea software for a recent example. They have become fairly large for a company that started out with an arachnid clone.