EG07 Game Physics Innovation Competition

We've uploaded videos of the competition entries to YouTube for your viewing pleasure.  Thanks again to all those who entered.

Brian Engqvist Johansen and Vincent Agerbech: Monkey Business (overall winner)
Kenneth Manta: The Ship Game
Nalin Sharma: Poker Blocks
Marco Fratarcangeli: Bouncy Wars
Hilko Cords: Real-Time Liquid Simulation
Adrian Boeing: PAL Benchmark Demo (COLLADA Prize winner)

Following review by the EG07 Game Physics Innovation Competition judges, the winners of the prizes, donated by Sony Computer Entertainment US R&D, were announced during the closing session of the Eurographics 2007 competition in Prague.  And the winners are:

OVERALL WINNER (1,500): Brian Engqvist Johansen and Vincent Agerbech (Monkey Business)
COLLADA PRIZE (500): Adrian Boeing (PAL Benchmark Demo)

The competition organisers would like to congratulate the winners and also extend their thanks to all those who participated.  We will be posting all the entries (in movie form) on this blog in a few days.

Steve & Ladislav 

As the closing date has passed, the competition is now closed.  Thanks to all those who have submitted entries; we'll be forwarding them to the judges first thing next week and will announce the winners during the EG07 conference.  Best of luck and thanks again.

Steve & Ladislav 

Submission for the EG07 Game Physics Innovation Competition is now open.  For details on how to submit you must first register on the forum and then visit the registered user forums.  Full instructions are available there.  For details on the rules and regulations as well as submission guidelines, please go here.

The closing date is August 24th (5pm GMT).  Shortlisted entries will be notified by email and announced on the website.  The competition winners will be announced during the game track of the Eurographics Conference in Prague on the 7th September. 

The judges for the EG07 game physics competition have been finalized.  All entries will be judged by the following panel, all of whom are independent of the EG07 organising team:

• Jay Stelly, Senior Software Development Engineer with Valve .  In this Gamasutra article Jay talks about development of the physics in the seminal HalfLife2.
• Matthew Wegner, Development Director of Flashbang studios and creator of the great www.fun-motion.com physics games review site.
• Erwin Coumans, Senior Engineer with Sony Computer Entertainment R&D US, and developer of the open source BULLET physics SDK. 

Many thanks to the judges for agreed to take part in the competition.  Each of the judges brings a unique perspective, from video game physics, causal game physics and middleware physics and we're delighted to have them on board.

Steve & Ladislav 

Thanks for your patience.  We've created a new set of forums and these are now online (based on simplemachines.org - which I have to say has been a generally nicer experience that phpBB, hats off to the guys at SMF). For future information regarding submissions you'll need to register on the forum.  Registration is not automatic, so there'll be a short delay before we get back to you (we're vetting each registration to prevent any further issues with SPAM), but this process shouldn't take any longer than 1 day.  The guest forum is open for general use.  To access the forums go here .

Apologies for the issues with the forums.  The Spammers have attacked and have flooded registration on the forums, so we've had to take them down for now.  We're looking at alternatives at the moment and may default back to a simpler set of web-forms for registration of interesting in submitting to the competition.  In the meantime all important announcements will be made via this blog so no information will be lost.

Again apologies, and we hope service will be resumed shortly! 

Intel has very kindly agreed to sponsor the Physics Game Lobby, as part of the Game Track of Eurographics 2007.  The Lobby will feature Intel® Core™ 2 Quad processor based systems from Intel and these will be used to showcase the best entries in the game competition and also examples of classic physics use in games.  The Lobby will be available for use by attendees at the conference to engage directly with the games or demos and experience the use of physics first hand.

We have created a set of forums for discussing the physics game competition.  The main competition site will be used primarily for announcements and distribution of information.  The forums provide a means for interested parties to contact us and ask questions or indeed share ideas with others.  

Any individual or team wishing to enter this competition must register with the forum first.  All information regarding submitting entries, uploading files, etc. will be distributed via the registered-user forum only (for the usual security reasons). 

We're delighted to announce that Sony Computer Entertainment US R&D has agreed to provide support for the Eurographics 2007 Game Physics Innovation Competition.  SCE US R&D is supporting this by providing sponsorship of the main prize, a special Collada prize and additional funding to support the running of the competition.  We are indebted to Remi Arnaud, Chief Collada Conspirator and his team at SCE US R&D for this support.  Collada is particularly relevant for the development of physics in games, with its support for a physics interchange format and the many tools now available for creating content, and even specific tools for adding physics markup to existing content.  Here are some links for those interesting in pursuing the matter further:

• Getting started with Collada
• Collada FAQ
• Khronos Group main Collada page
• Bullet Physics Collada Viewer