The Competition Game Loader (CGL) is meant to make judging game development competitions easy. Generally there are a great number of entries, and each participant needs to run and judge each of the other games. Each game has it’s own dependencies, instructions, and notes, and going through all of this for every game is tedious at best and infuriating at worst. CGL aims to eliminate the pain by providing a common interface to all the games, keeping track of which ones you have played already, and including helpful information like screenshots, developer information, and a link to the game’s judging page.
Edit 2012:
Billknye took the CGL idea and ran with it, creating a new Version 2.0 using .net. It adds a mountain of features, especially behind the scenes for the developers in the form of play feedback and bug reports. You can still use the old version below, but the new one is significantly better. Check it out here.
Feedback, wiki, and more information at the google code page: http://code.google.com/p/compogameloader/
Some Features:
- Just point CGL to the directory with all the entries (say, the folder from the torrent)
- Shows a list of the entries, along with screenshots and author info if available
- Keeps track of which games you have already played
- Shows list of dependencies and where to get them, and attempts to test if you have them already (python only)
- Searches for readme and displays inside CGL
- Button to run game and provides console output
- Shows author written how-to, even while playing game
- Shows link to entry judging page for easy judging
- Run files from a zip without manually extracting
Screenshots
Overview Tab
Dependencies Tab
Error Handling and Console Output
Info
CGL is written in Python and uses wxPython for the GUI system
Download
Get the latest version from the google code page: http://code.google.com/p/compogameloader/downloads/list
Hi Collin. I really like the simplicity of Chronolapse but I think I found a bug in it that I would like to see if you can fix. I want to use the scheduler so that it starts and stops every day at the same time. I can set it and it works but if the computer reboots unexpectedly and Chronolapse restarts (shortcut in the startup folder) the schedule is reset. Also I think it would be great to have a checkbox for days you want Chronolapse to take pictures. For instance I want to timelapse construction of my house but they only work M-F. I don’t want Chronolapse to do anything on the weekend. Thanks for a great and simple utility for timelapse photography.
That’s a great idea for an enhancement jimwink. I’ll add it to the issue tracker. Also, this is the CGL page, not the chronolapse page.