Today marks the end of Shmup-dev.com’s “Horizontal Shooter With Boss” programming competition, and The2Bears.com has a handy overview of some of the entries. Some of these look very, very cool. Congratulations to everyone who entered! Hopefully this one will generate some more sponsorship and bigger prizes for future shmup programming competitions; I’ve heard good things about DarkBASIC, but giving someone a game programming tool as a reward for programming a game is like giving someone a free pie for winning a pie-eating contest. Honestly, though, I’m sure that the entrants were in it more for the exposure and the challenge than the prizes, and I would’ve been right in there with them if I’d heard about it more than two weeks ago.

And speaking of game creation contests, remember that there’s only ten days left in the Armor Gaming Challenge, and there’s only a month and nine days left in the New Grounds Pico Day Contest. So get a move on!

Update: The final results are in, and have been organized into a nice clean page here.

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