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The first 3 events are:
Most Cheerful skin (February 18)
Most depressing skin (February 20)
Fastest skin (February 22)
Note that all entries must never have been publicly submitted prior to January 15, 2002.
When you submit a skin, it is eligible for all the different events so you don't have to pick an event to be included on. A user who uploaded one skin could theoretically win all 15 events.
These first 3 events are kind of warm up events. What makes a skin cheerful? What makes on depressing? These are a matter of taste and require a user to know enough on user interface design combined with human perceptions to be able to create that.
Fastest skin, on the other hand, is measurable. The best known skin benchmarking program is SkinBench (though we will be using an internal benchmarking program for our tests). The judges will have quite a bit of latitude though on this though. The benchmark we use only goes down to the nearest 100 milisecond. This is important for you to know as a skin author because if two skins finish the benchmarks in say 7.3 seconds, which one will they pick? That will be up to them.
The first 3 warm up events will provide >$250 in cash and potentially another $500 or so in prizes.
You can update your skin as many times as you like. But the version evaluated will be the one that is available to us at the time we begin evaluating the skins.
If you have any questions or want any clarifications, please comment below and we'll try our best to help.
Have fun!
If you want to make skins for the contest you'll need WindowBlinds and SkinStudio.
You can get the Olympic version from one of the founding sites or from here:
http://www.guiolympics.com/download.asp
Most Cheerful skin (February 18)
Most depressing skin (February 20)
Fastest skin (February 22)
Note that all entries must never have been publicly submitted prior to January 15, 2002.
When you submit a skin, it is eligible for all the different events so you don't have to pick an event to be included on. A user who uploaded one skin could theoretically win all 15 events.
These first 3 events are kind of warm up events. What makes a skin cheerful? What makes on depressing? These are a matter of taste and require a user to know enough on user interface design combined with human perceptions to be able to create that.
Fastest skin, on the other hand, is measurable. The best known skin benchmarking program is SkinBench (though we will be using an internal benchmarking program for our tests). The judges will have quite a bit of latitude though on this though. The benchmark we use only goes down to the nearest 100 milisecond. This is important for you to know as a skin author because if two skins finish the benchmarks in say 7.3 seconds, which one will they pick? That will be up to them.
The first 3 warm up events will provide >$250 in cash and potentially another $500 or so in prizes.
You can update your skin as many times as you like. But the version evaluated will be the one that is available to us at the time we begin evaluating the skins.
If you have any questions or want any clarifications, please comment below and we'll try our best to help.
Have fun!
If you want to make skins for the contest you'll need WindowBlinds and SkinStudio.
You can get the Olympic version from one of the founding sites or from here:
http://www.guiolympics.com/download.asp