Second Annual Luxtoberfest Contest and Celebration
Sillysoft Games has announced the start of the second annual Luxtoberfest contest and celebration. The month-long festival runs through October and forms the yearly championship for the community surrounding the downloadable strategy game Lux.
Luxtoberfest features special events on every October weekend, starting and ending with Tournaments of Champions between the current highest-ranked players. Later weekends will include team play tournaments, map reviews, “Twitch Lux,” “Memory Lux,” and the grand finale award ceremonies.
All events will take place at 9 PM GMT time / 4 PM Eastern time / 1 PM Pacific time in a public network game of Lux marked with Luxtoberfest according to this schedule:
Saturday 1st - Luxtoberfest 2005 opening Tournament of Champions.
Sunday 2nd - Team-play tournament.
Saturday 8th - Luxtoberfest map review: play the best maps of 2005.
Sunday 9th - Twitch Lux tournament: 8 second turn time games.
Saturday 15th - Team-play tournament.
Sunday 16th - Hexathon tournament: featuring all your favorite hex
maps.
Saturday 22nd - Memory Lux tournament: all players have the same
color.
Sunday 23rd - History night: a journey through the historically based
maps of Lux.
Saturday 29th - Tournament of Champions.
Sunday 30th - Luxtoberfest 2005 closing award ceremonies.
The grand finale of Luxtoberfest will be the October 30th award ceremonies where the winners of the yearly Lux prizes are announced. All players are asked to email their votes to lux@sillysoft.net before the end of October in the following categories:
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[*] Best Map
[*] Best Host
[*] Best AI
[*] Most Entertaining Player
[*] Most Sportsmanlike Player
[*] Rookie of the Year (only players who were around for last year’s
[*] Luxtoberfest may vote for this)
[*] Most Strategic Players (Lifetime Achievement)
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The maps and AIs eligible for Luxtoberfest 2005 are listed on here:
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[*] http://sillysoft.net/contests/2005maps.php
[*] http://sillysoft.net/contests/2005ais.php
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Statistical prizes will also be distributed for:
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[*] Luxtoberfest Highest Ranking October Players
[*] Most Wins
[*] Most 6 Human Wins
[*] Most 6 Human Wins on Non-Classic Maps
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Sillysoft has gathered together of varied group of prizes for award winners. The generosity of these strategic minded software vendors is much appreciated:
Audio Hijack
Record any audio playing on your computer into a file for future use on Mac OS X. http://www.rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/
BBEdit
The leading professional HTML and text editor for Mac OS X. It doesn’t suck. http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/index.shtml
Blaze Media Pro
A powerhouse all-in-one multimedia software offering conversion, ripping, editing, recording, burning, playback, and much more. Available for Windows. http://www.mystikmedia.com/blazemediapro.asp
Delicious Library
Catalog, browse, and share all your books, movies, music, and video games with the award winning Delicious Library for Mac OS X. http://www.delicious-monster.com/
Democracy
A detailed political simulation game: try your hand as the president (or prime-minister) of a modern country. Available for Windows. http://www.democracygame.com/
Desperate Space
Experience huge battles in this asteroids style space shooter game. Available for Windows. http://www.jaggedbladesoft.com/desperate/
DROD: Journey to Rooted Hold
Swordplay and puzzles combine in this thinking man’s dungeon crawl game. Available for Windows and Linux (with a Mac OS X version coming soon). http://www.caravelgames.com/Articles/Games_2/JtRH.html
Gish
Award winning platformer game where you control a ball of tar on his quest to rescue his girlfriend. Available for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. http://www.chroniclogic.com/index.htm?gish.htm
IconWorkshop
A professional quality icon editor for Windows. http://axialis.com/iconworkshop/
Lux
The strategy game you know and love. Get a friend hooked today on Mac OS X, Windows, or Linux. http://sillysoft.net/lux/
Pax Galaxia
Simple and fun real-time strategy game for Mac OS X and Windows. http://sillysoft.net/pax/
Sillysoft Swag
Get your very own Lux shirt, hat or beer stein. Lux can take over even more of your life! http://www.cafepress.com/sillysoft
Trash
A 3D real-time strategy game based in a post-apocalyptic future. The surviving humans and mutants battle for control of the primary resource: trash. Available for Windows. http://www.inhumangames.com/
See you at Luxtoberfest!
ABOUT SILLYSOFT GAMES
Sillysoft Games is an independent developer of downloadable computer strategy games. Their flagship game Lux was one of the 2005 Independent Games Festival finalists. For more info contact lux@sillysoft.net or see http://sillysoft.net.
All the info about Luxtoberfest including more detailed event descriptions and the 2004 archive can be found on the web at: http://sillysoft.net/contests/
