How Things are

We’ve had our final auction of this Three Thing Game. After a lot (and I mean a lot) of money changed hands the final thing mapping as as follows.

Team Name	Thing1	Thing2	Thing3
A Druish Princess	Invading	Marvel	wearing glasses
Aint no partly like a kambham-party	Steaming	Spam	copyright infringement
Beta Jester	Tron	Speed	attack
Battle Brothers	Something beginning with P	Ship	Spoon
Brayshawshank-Redemption	Pink	Nuts	In the rain
BRB	Snowing	Spendthrift	Banker
C Hash	Keyboard cat	Vampire	at midnight
Chicken Dippers	Chicken	Hamster	Parade
COMPUTER SCIENCE FC	Ghost	Yoghurt	Gangnam Style
Did you mean "Uncle Mikes Recursive Prolog Party?"	Fighting	Toast	Party
Double Jump	Atomic	Bath Sponge	Raider
Fresh Pot	Shark	Saxaphone	At the Zoo
Honeybadger Productions	Ninja	Mountains	Defence
Left 4 Dev	Cooking	Neon	Apocalypse
LightMass	Evil Wizard	Cricket Bat	in the graveyard
M.C.S.	Camel	Bus Stop	Werewolf
Men On A Mission	Sneaky	Assassin	With a moustache
Michael Jacksons Indian Takeaway	Poptart	Deoderant	Teddy Bear
Mr. Parse	Jelly	Orchestra	Four Letter Word
Mulan	Daft Punk	Rhymes with Truck	Pinball
No Method(), No Class{}	Caffeine	Monkey	under attack
Pigs Might Fly	Pirates	Duvet	racer
QWERTYUIOP	Lion	Skeleton	Swimming
Red Light:Green Light	Heroine	Nick Cage	wearing a tutu
Rusty Spoons	Roman	Motorboat	Pig
Sheerware Games	Flying	Bombs	Tank
SkyNet	Bungling	Bread	Pie
TBC	Zombie	Butler	Swimming Pool
Team HAL 9000	Dragon	Spider	goes fishing
Team Plan B	Gazebo	Javelin	word processor
Team Titans	Lonely	Robots	find love
The C Hashes	clone	Vampire	Apocalypse
The Compilers	Underwater	Atom Bomb	bike ride
The Cosmic Corn Snacks	Students	Bishop	assault
The Infamous Two Sirs	Goldfish	Plug hole	Invasion
The Runners Up	Grunting	Spring	Light cycles
The Y-Nots!	Fruitcake	Banana	temptress
Three Men	Lightning	Kung Fu	plays piano
Three Game'o'holics	Fighting	Desk	In a Dress

I think my favourite has got to be “Ghost Yoghurt Gangnam Style”. Can’t wait to see the game.

So Many Things. So Little Time.

What 20,000 pounds actually looks like. Of course you can't spend it in the shops...

Teams and their Two Things

We had our Thing Auction today. Last year we just managed to get through all the lots in the time that we had. This year we had more teams and just didn't make it. There was a time when I thought that we would get everything done, then a couple of mammoth bidding wars put us a bit behind schedule.

Never mind. We plan to run the "Third Thing Auction" just before the Rather Useful Seminar on Wednesday. That's at 1:15 pm in LTD on the Third Floor of the Robert Blackburn Building. The lecture is all about preparing for Three Thing Game, so it seems rather appropriate.

If any team really can't wait until then to get their hands on a thing, they can contact me and I'll dig one out for them.

It was fun though. The sound the crowed made when the thing "Keyboard cat" came out was wonderful.

October 2012 Three Thing Game Registrations are now Closed

Three Thing Game registrations are now closed. We have Forty teams signed up to do battle in code combat. Although turning up, eating pizza and learning some new skilz is also fine by me.

The auction for things is next on the agenda. Amanada has lovingly prepared 40 batches of 500 "Bank of Thingland" pounds for the teams to use to outbid each other for things for their games. That's 20,000 pounds we are giving away today!

We have 120 items to auction in 50 minutes. Should be fun.

Three Thing Game Rises Again

Produced with the approval of Imperial Stormtroopers everywhere. 

Registration for the October incarnation of Three Thing Game is now open.  It starts on Monday 22nd of October with the "Amazing Thing Auction" with real fake money. Then on Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th we have the infamous 24 hour overnighter, this time with added Mono Game fun-ness.

The team from Mono Games will be on hand to help you port your game to Windows 8, and we will have some Windows 8 systems set up for testing. With a bit of luck you might win whatever big prize we can cobble together for the day, and perhaps win even bigger, by getting your game into the Windows 8 Store before anyone else.

If you are just a first year in our department you are welcome to come along. We will be running a special XNA sampler in the week before the competiton where we will give out some "skeleton code" that you can use to get started.

You can find the registration form here. Fill the form in, give it back to me, Rob Miles, with your registration fee and wait for the magic to happen. It's going to be fun. It always is.

If you have any "things" that you'd like to have included in the auction, put them into the comments on this post.

Three Thing Game for Autumn 2012

The next Three Thing Game will be on the weekend of the 27th and 28th of October. The MonoGame team will be coming along to show us all how to take XNA games and run them on Windows 8 machines which will be fun.

We will be holding a Thing Auction in the week before the 24 hour session, with real fake money you can use to bid for things.  To find out more you can follow the Twitter feed for the events.

http://twitter.com/threethinggame