What kinda games?
I'd be down for events like "Strip an A500 down to it's MoBo with a pocket knife" or "Stack 100 floppies in record time". 
Was planning on attending the entire weekend. Plans may have changed. Unless I can bring my dog... Still got plenty of time to make arrangements though.
Well, I hope you, with or without your dog, can make it to AmiWest 2009 as I have just recently received the :rtfm: official approval to run an Amiga game competition during the show. I was waiting for it to be announced on the AmiWest website and/or the AmiWest Blog, but it is a busy time for those guys and they have not had the time to update those two AmiWest resources yet and I could not contain myself any longer.
The Amiga Game Competition will consist of 5 different Amiga games to be played on 5 different types of Amiga computers. The planning is not set in stone yet, but it looks like I will have one game running on a Classic Amiga (probably an A600 w/2mb RAM), another game running on a SAM440ep w/AmigaOS4.1, another game running on an Efika w/MorphOS2.3, another game running on either a MiniMig v1.1, or on a C-One computer running a MiniMig core via it's add-on FPGA board, and the fifth game running on a PC using emulation such as AmigaForever, or AmiKit/WinUAE.
I am accepting suggestions for which games should be used on the above listed hardware, but each of the games chosen must have a numerical score given as the result of playing the game, as all scores for each of the 5 games will be totaled to determine the winners. Prizes will be awarded to at least the top three scorers in the competition, as well as one prize raffled to a random person just for participating in the contest.
The entry fee to participate is $2 and pre-registering to participate is encouraged, so we will have some idea of how many contestants we might have and therefore can estimate the time needed to complete, but no money will be accepted before the AmiWest 2009 show begins. The registration fees collected will be used solely to offset the cost of obtaining the prizes, and if there is any excess money, it will be given back to the first place finisher in the contest as well as the first place prize.
If time permits, and the SACC organizers agree, the top three scorers after the 5 games have been completed, will play a sixth game head to head against each other, with the display shown on a projector screen for everyone to see easier, and if possible, we will try to stream this feed to the Internet as well. The placement for First, Second and Third places to determine which prizes are awarded would be based on this sixth game without regard for the scores of the first 5 games and I already have a game in mind for this final head to head to head game, but will not be disclosing that information to anyone before the competition begins. I don't want anyone to be able to practice more than someone who may not own the games that are to be used in the competition.
So, what do you think? Please post your suggestions for which games should be used in the competition here in this thread. To pre-register so I can have an idea how many people will be there to participate in the competition, please send me an email to "
amigadave@earthlink.net " with AmiWest game contest as the subject. I am not making any money off the contestants, and will likely have to use some of my own money to purchase the prizes, but even if all the prizes are obtained through donations from other sources, as I wrote above, all money collected from entry fees will be returned to the contestants as additional prizes, or as cash to the first place winner.
I hope you all like this idea and if it will get even one more person to attend AmiWest 2009 that was not planning on coming, or was not sure about attending, then I have succeeded in my goal to add value, entertainment and additional attendees to the AmiWest show.
