Havok™ Physics Innovation Contest : Official Rules

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Innovate with Havok™ Physics and Animation -- Win Cash and Game PCs!

We want to see what you can do with the recently released Intel-sponsored versions of Havok Physics and Animation for the PC. Intel sponsors these releases to put the world’s best simulation tools in the hands of developers everywhere, and now we are looking for the best examples of these products being used in innovative ways. Your game demo could earn you cash, a gaming PC, great exposure and maybe even a job! Keep reading for all the details including important eligibility requirements and restrictions.

Category Information

The contest has prizes for the entries based on the most innovative use of Havok technologies.

Category 1: Most Innovative Use of Physics in a Game

Your entry must be a playable* PC game demo that includes new or unique uses of Havok technology. We are looking for new ways for the player to interact with the game through physics, showing different uses of physics than what can be found in PC games shipping today. This can be a FPS, sports game, casual game, or any other type of game. Do not constrain your thinking!

For final judging, a panel of five (5) judges will review finalists and choose the winners. All entries must use the Intel-sponsored version of Havok Physics for PC

The winning entries will be judged on qualitative (new, realistic user experience) and quantitative (frames per second) criteria that include the following:

1. Use of physics in a way that has not been seen before
2. Using multiple features of Havok Physics and Animation
3. Realistic user interaction
4. Responsiveness
5. High quality visual content
6. Performance on Intel Core™2 microprocessor-based PCs
7. Number of votes garnered through the community
8. The entry must be submitted in one of the following formats: jpg, bmp, avi, wmv, mpg, mov.

Category 2: Best Physics Knowledge Base Entry

Along with your physics game demo, we are looking for contributions that can benefit the larger software developer community. This can be any code sample, optimization tip, technical whitepaper, a technical abstract of your demo, or any technical content that shares your physics knowledge with the broader developer base. This is an optional category and is not a required part of the submission for the other categories.

A panel of five judges (5) will review all entries and choose the winners based on the following criteria:

  1. Technical and detail accuracy of content submitted
  2. Originality of content submitted
  3. Value to the community

 

Prize Information

Category 1 will have four (4) winners, each receiving a cash prize. First place will receive US$10,000, second place US$8,000 and third place US$5,000.

The fourth prize is dedicated to a participant from the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland. Havok just celebrated the 10th anniversary of Havok& rsquo;s founding in Dublin, Ireland. For that reason we want to encourage entries from current Irish university students with a special prize of US$5,000. Entrants must be currently attending a third level institution within the island of Ireland, and must register using an email address with their school’s domain to qualify.

In addition, all four (4) winners of Category 1 will receive an All Access Pass (valued at US$2,000) to the Game Developers Conference (GDC) at San Francisco on March 23 – 27, 2009. Travel expenses are not included. The GDC All Access Pass will get you into all public events at GDC 2009. At the GDC, Intel will publicly announce the winners of the Havok Physics Innovation Contest and showcase winning entries in the Intel booth at GDC.

Category 2 will have two (2) winners. The first place will receive one (1) Velocity Micro® EdgeTM Z55 Gaming PC (or an equivalent model worth US$2,000). Second place will receive one (1) boxed Intel® Core 2 ExtremeTM QX9650 Quad Core Processor (or equivalent model worth US$1,000). Also, the knowledge base entry with the highest cumulative community votes each month will receive a 100$ gift card. Limit one gift card per person.

All entries will be tested on a PC running Microsoft* Vista Ultimate 32 bit OS and DirectX®9.0c or DirectX® 10.1 with:
• Intel® Core™2 quad core processor
• 2GB DDR3 memory
• Single high end discrete GPU

How to Enter

To enter you must complete the on-line web contest registration form detailing your game abstract, and you must submit your entry electronically. All contestants must upload screenshots and/or movies of their game or application to the contest website by January 16, 2009. Visitors to the site can vote on the screenshots and movies as soon as the entry is uploaded. Official judging will take place after January 16, 2009 and the finalists (Category 1 only) will be notified on January 22, 2009. Intel reserves the right to pick alternate finalist entries if any of the chosen entries are deemed ineligible to compete for a category prize.

Finalists will be required to upload their executable program by January 16, 2009 for final judging. All physics knowledge base entries (Category 2) must be submitted by January 16, 2009 to qualify for the first and runner-up prize in this category. Winners will be notified, and winning entries will be announced publicly at the San Francisco Game Developers Conference on March 23-27, 2009.

Deadlines

All deadlines will follow PST (Pacific Standard Time).

Contest begins August 20, 2008, 12:00 pm PST.
Screenshots, movies and executables (category 1) are due by January 16, 2009
Finalists will be notified by January 22, 2009
Physics Knowledge-Base entries (category 2) must be uploaded by January 16, 2009.

Winners will be announced at San Francisco Game Developer Conference on March 23-27, 2009. Names, entries and pictures of winners will be published on the contest website the same day.


Privacy Policy & Terms of Use

Contest Rules

1. These rules (including the Intel Privacy Policy and the www.intel.com Terms of Use) govern the Havok™ Physics Innovation contest, sponsored by Intel (the “contest”) and set out the terms and conditions between Intel Corporation and its affiliates (“Intel” or “us/we”) and each participant (“participant” or “you”).

2. You must be aged 18 years or over or you must obtain the consent of your parents or legal guardian before you participate in the contest. If you apply to register for the contest, if you contribute to the contest or the Intel® Software Network Community once you are registered or if you accept any contest prizes, you accept these rules. Employees of Intel Corporation, its affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and promotion agencies, and the immediate families of each may not enter. This limitation is void where prohibited.

3. The contest is open to participants worldwide. All national and local laws and regulations of the resident’s country of residence apply. Residents of countries under U.S. embargo are not eligible to enter.

4. We may refuse your contribution for any good reason.

5. Intel provides you with access to a variety of resources on Intel® SN, including communication forums, documentation, download areas, code samples, videos, blogs, articles and contests (the “resources”).

6. You agree to submit contributions to the contest on www.intel.com/software under the following conditions:

a. Intel does not claim ownership of your contributions to the contest in form of sample code, content, videos, articles or any other contributions you submit to Intel® SN. By submitting your contributions, you are granting Intel and its affiliated companies the following worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, unconditional, fully paid-up rights:

(1) to make, have made, use, copy, reproduce, modify, and create derivative works of the contributions,
(2) to publicly perform or display, import, broadcast, transmit, distribute (directly and indirectly through multiple tiers), license, offer to sell and sell, rent, lease, or lend copies of the contributions (and derivative works thereof),
(3) to sublicense to third parties the foregoing rights, including the right to sublicense to further third parties, and
(4) to publish your name or alias in connection with this contest and your contributions.

b. Your contributions to the contest will be available to other participants and to ensure they are safe and freely usable by other participants, you warrant that:


*You own or otherwise have all rights necessary for you to provide the contributions and grant the rights described above and you do not disclose any information which would constitute a violation of a confidentiality obligation;
*Your contributions do not contain any viruses, worms, spy ware, or other components or instructions that are malicious, deceptive, or designed to limit or harm the functionality of a computer; and
*Your contributions are not subject to license terms that require any software or documentation incorporating or being derived from your contributions to be licensed to others.

c. Apart from prizes offered as part of the contest, no monetary compensation will be paid for any of your contest contributions.

7. Intel is not responsible for contest entries not received due to lost, failed, delayed or interrupted connections or miscommunications, or other electronic malfunctions. Intel is not responsible for incorrect or inaccurate entry information, whether caused by you or any other persons or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the contest.

8. Physical prizes awarded for the winning contributions will be sent to participants within six (6) weeks from the date of the notification email or confirmation of the winning participant’s physical address, whichever is later.

9. Prizes are personal to the participant submitting the winning contribution and cannot normally be transferred. All prizes are subject to availability and they may change at any time. Intel may award substitute prizes of equal or greater value. A cash alternative is not available. The winner accepts responsibility for all federal, state and local taxes and fees in connection with the prizes.

10. Intel does not provide any warranty on the prizes. To the fullest extent allowable by law, Intel specifically disclaims any representations or warranties, express or implied, regarding the prizes, including any implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose and implied warranties arising from course of dealing or course of performance.

11. We may, on notifying you, immediately suspend or terminate your rights, if you breach these rules or if we reasonably believe that you have submitted a contribution in violation of these rules.

12. You can withdraw your contribution at any time by notifying us. If a contribution is withdrawn your rights to win a prize in this contest are lost.

13. These rules apply to your contribution and the resources, unless we provide any items to you under more specific terms, in which case those more specific terms will apply to the relevant items. We may make changes to these rules at any time without notice to you. The most current version of the rules can be reviewed on the Intel® SN website. Contributing to the contest or accepting prizes will constitute acceptance of the revised rules.

14. Our only responsibilities with respect to the contest are set out in these rules. These rules prevail in the event of any conflict or inconsistency with any other communications, including advertising or promotional materials.

15. For any feedback or questions regarding the contest or the prizes you can contact Intel by sending an email or by participating in the contest discussion forum here.

16. If Intel improperly denies you any prizes, Intel's entire liability and your sole and exclusive remedy will be limited to a distribution of the equivalent amount of prizes as set forth above. By participating in the contest, you waive any and all rights to bring any claim or action related to such matters in any forum beyond one (1) year after the first occurrence of the kind of act, event, condition or omission upon which the claim or action is based.

17. If for any reason this contest is not capable of running as planned due to infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes beyond the control of Intel which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, i ntegrity, or proper conduct of this contest, Intel reserves the right at its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual who tampers with the entry or voting process, and to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the contest.

18. Intel assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of entries. Intel is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or telephone lines, computer online systems, servers, or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any e-mail or entry to be received by Intel on account of technical problems, human error or traffic congestion on the internet or at any web site, or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to participant's or any other person's computer relating to or resulting from participation in this contest or downloading any materials in this contest.

19. The promoter of this contest is Intel. The contest is administered by:

Intel® Software Network
Intel Corporation
2200 Mission College Boulevard
Santa Clara
CA 95054-1549
USA

Telephone: +1 (408) 765-8080
Email: isn.support@intel.com

 

*Acceptable performance guidelines for gaming according to the PC Gaming Alliance Performance Definition

 

Pass/Fail Game Metrics (fps):
First Person Shooters: 24+ frames per second
Real Time Strategy: 20+ frames per second
Role Playing Games: 20+ frames per second
Racing Simulation: 50+ frames per second
Flight Simulation: 20+ frames per second
Playability = FPS + Responsiveness + no Graphical Problems

 

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