MSXdev '08 - #3 Formula Dice

With only five days to go, a new finished entry pops up out of the blue. Italian MSX fan Luca Giglioli (robylu) has submitted his entry for this yearly contest: Formula Dice. Labeled by the MSXdev website as a Managerial game, this game is all about car racing and -indeed- all the management issues surrounding such an event. Interestingly, the game has been made in MSX-BASIC. In fact, the BASIC source is available for download as well! The game itself is a 16KB ROM, and comes with an English manual.

As mentioned: in five days this yearly competition will be closed. This game marks only the third entry so far, and a modest number of other entries has been informally announced here and there. One of them was even demonstrated at the Nijmegen fair, last weekend. As such, the total amount of entries may have climbed up once the deadline has passed. Perhaps later after the deadline there is a time and place for discussions regarding the amount of participation in challenges in general. Perhaps we're lucky, and lots of games are being polished right now, resulting in a flood of entries on the deadline day. In five days we'll know!

Relevant link: MSXdev website