No problem, etoile :). Is it not our aim, nor our pretention to convince everybody that #CPCRetroDev is a great contest. You have every right to believe what you want, and tell us your raw opinion as you are doing.
Thank you in any case for letting us know your thoughts. They may come in useful for future editions :).
BTW, for those interested:
- This is not an assembly only jam. Participating students from the University of Alicante are required to code in assembly, because that's part of their engineering curricula. However, other participants are free to code in whatever they like, as stated by the rules.
- Yes, one of our links is to Wikipedia, because Cesar Astudillo is so well known in the 8bits that he has his own wikipedia page. We are honoured to have him, and I personally would love to have a Wikipedia page talking about me just half as good as the one devoted to Cesar. Of course, he actually deserves that page and much more. You can easily track his record. I understand, by your criticism to Cesar, that you may not be a fan of 8bit computing (specially on Amstrad and ZX Spectrum machines). Otherwise, you would probably know him :)
- We are not asking for source code and raw files. We encourage it, but not impose it. Participants are rewared for sharing code with free licenses. This comes from what @jmlg97 has already said: this contest was born at the University of Alicante and has an educational nature. Therefore, we encourage any sharing that helps the whole community to have more resources for learning and evolving. You can easily track more than 150 games presented to previous editions, most of them with source code: @jmlg97 already gave you the links :). Take into account that this is not Unity or Unreal development, nor these games are for modern platforms: we are talking of games made for an Amstrad CPC 464, which is a 37-year-old computer. That makes a great deal of difference.
- As for leaving jammers alone, I don't remember us telling anything to jammers :). We are organizing our contest as every other year, for those who want to participate, not telling anyone else what to do. If you don't want to compete, or think this contest is a scam, you can safely forget it and enjoy your time participating in other jams or contests :). We won't ever tell you what you have to do or think: that's, of course, up to you :)