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ACE 2010 Game Competition (submission deadline: 30 September 2010, 5pm PST)

ACE 2010 Game Competition (submission deadline: 30 September 2010, 5pm PST)
The ACE’2010 game contest is a worldwide competition for students. It emphasizes on the engineering and programming aspects of game development in mobile, PC and Console. To take part in the competition, team must register and follow the contest rules as outlined below. Each team must submit their full products covering the whole development process. After a careful evaluation by the program committee, several finalists will be invited to ACE’2010 in Taipei to present and demonstrate their projects and receive their awards at the conference.

Contest Rules

Registration and Proposals
Each team must have a designated member as their team representative before submitting their project. To register for participation in ACE 2010, the team representative should submit the following information on ACE 2010 game registration:

The (tentative) team members (names, email addresses, institutions).
The team representative name and email address.
If the project is being conducted in conjunction with an academic course, then the name of the course and the name and email address of the course instructor should also be provided. The course instructor must be informed of their participation in ACE 2010 Game competition, and the ACE 2010 Game competition committee may email the correspondence between the team and the comittee to their instructor.

Project Development
In principle, teams are free to choose their own development approach and to organize the process accordingly. However, certain project topics may explicitly state which approach must be taken, which details must appear in the delivered documentation, and which aspects of software engineering should be the focus of the project in order for the project to be judged a successful one.

Team Composition
To participate in the Programming Contest, you must be at least 18 years old. The Contest is open to individuals or teams of up to 4 people, but not to corporate entries. Every team must designate a contact person, to whom communications and enquiries will be addressed. The contact person must be a member of the team, or a faculty member supervising the students (for example if the project is carried out in the context of a software engineering course). However, the faculty member may not actively participate in the development of the project with the supervised team.

Copyright Issues
Unless exceptions are explicitly stated in advance, all artifacts produced by the teams will be treated confidentially by the program committee during the evaluation phase. However, a copyright release form will be requested from the selected teams to request for submission of a full deliverable of their project (see the evaluation procedure below).

Submission and Evaluation of Deliverables

Summary Report
To take part in ACE game competition, teams have to submit a document of approximate 4 pages before the deadline of 30 August 2010. In particular, each document is required to be formatted using the report template (word). The report should describe the various artifacts produced during the development, according to the requests formulated in the project description. Each submitted report will be evaluated by at least 2 members of the program committee. Evaluation will be based on standard quality criteria for software development, which will be elaborated in later announcements.

Please submit your work to ACE-GC submission system. If you have further questions, please contact ech_liao@cute.edu.tw

Evolutions
The judges will grade entries by using of the following criteria:

Originality of Concept -- Does the game introduce a great new idea?
Effective Use of the Platform -- Does the application take advantage of OS and hardware?
Polish and Appeal -- Is the application easy to use and is aesthetically appealing?

Final Deliverable
The finalists will be required to submit a final document of 4 pages before 15 October 2010. And the finalists must complete at least one day pass registration before November 7, 2010. They will be invited to present and demonstrate their projects in the ACE 2010 conference. Award winners will be selected during the conference by all conference participators.
The finalists are responsible to prepare all the material for a thorough evaluation of their game during the conference hence their registration is compulsory for their attendance. Every final document will be published in the ACE2010 conference proceedings after presentation and registration.

Timeline (important dates)

The key dates and periods of the ACE 2010 contest are the following.

1 August 2010 to 30 August 2010: Registration and Submission opens for teams intending to participate in the contest. When registering, teams will have to indicate which project topic they are developing, and who are their representative (see the "team composition section" as above).
1 August 2010: Team may start to submit summary report (submissions open).
30 August 2010: Submission for participation closes.
30 September 2010: Selection of the best teams, among which the finalists of the contest will be selected. The best teams will be asked to submit a final deliverable, which will be the basis for the selection of the finalists.
15 October 2010: Deadline for the submission of the final deliverable.
1 November 2010: Announcement of the finalists (no more than 20), who will be invited to attend ACE2010 at their own expense. The finalists must complete at least one day pass registration before 7 November 2010. The fee for one day pass is USD $200.
ACE 2010 (17-18 November, 2010.): Final evaluation and presentation of the awards.

Awards

All finalists will be recognized in the main conference. The distribution of prizes is shown as the following:

1st. USD $ 500
2nd. USD $ 350
3rd. USD $ 200

In addition to the prizes, a special recognitions will be given to teams that achieve outstanding results in certain specific areas. To be considered for a special recognition, a project must exhibit the overall quality that is necessary to be selected as finalist.
After the competition, a summary report of the finalists’ projects will be published on the ACE2010 contest web site.

Panel of Judges

The ACE 2010 game contest is co-chaired by and includes members both from academia and industry.

Co-chairs, panel of judges:
Yi-Chun Liao (China University of Technology, Taiwan)
Zhigeng Pan (Zhejiang University, China)
Chun-Hong Huang (Lunghwa University of Technology, Taiwan)

Jury Members:
Jason C. Hung (Overseas Chinese University, Taiwan)
Rong-Chi Chang (Asia University, Taiwan)
Yen-Da Chen (Lunghwa University of Technology, Taiwan)
Hung-Chang Chen (Ching Kuo Institute of Management and Health, Taiwan)
Chun-Chia Hsu (Lunghwa University of Science and Technology, Taiwan)
Nick C. Tang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Wen-Chih Chang (Chung-Hua University, Taiwan)
Chiu-Hsiung Chen (China University of Technology, Taiwan)
Ming-Chih Tung (Ching Yun University, Taiwan)