Using the free lite-C version, Alexey has created an interactive level editor that really works!

This project shows how easy it is to to use external libraries and directx functions in conjunction with lite-C. All tools for creating this physics demo are free.

Not only for viewing models, but also for adjusting shader and material parameters with an easy to use panel.

It took some time until we found out how to start the engine of this fairground ride, but it's worth it! Solid physics, good light and sound effects, just everything you'd expect from a virtual ride.

Every Gamestudio user interested in particles should read this tutorial from cover to cover. This tutorial requires Gamestudio V6.10 or above, but is also useful for game programmers who still use A5. On a side note: this is the second contest won by Thomas Gisiger!

Giorgi has a different approach for his multiplayer tutorial - he offers more theory and less script. This tutorial requires Gamestudio V6.22 or above.

This adaption of the old fashioned memory game has turned out very well. Of all games tested, this had the most professional design and user interface. You have the choice to play memory on a 2D board or a 3D cube - a real challenge for your memory.

Ello sent a collection of no less than 7 effect demos, all likewise impressive. One of the smaller demos collected the most votes by the jury, so here it is - an animated light that changes its appeareance and brightness by mouse control. A Pro Edition well deserved!

Over a long period of time you can admire permanently changing fireworks - around 20 different effects were hand-programmed. Tomas is certainly an expert in particle effects now, if he wasn't before. But if you aren't a particle guru, how can you implement such impressive effects in your own game? The answer is offered by our other 2nd prize winner, Timo Stark aka Tripple-X:

This is not actually an effects demo but an effects editor written in C-Script. It's a very useful tool for designing all sorts of particle effects and visually adjusting them on the screen. And as soon as you're content with your results, a button click creates a particle script that you can just add to your project. Effect designing can hardly be easier!

This is a perfect demo for Gamestudio's physics engine. You can control a crane using your keyboard, and the task is to grab items from the ground and place them elsewhere. It's not as easy as it sounds! Amazingly, the complex and realistic behavior of crane, cable and claw is controlled by a very short script!

As well thought-out as it is designed, this simply is a 100% professional game, ready for distribution. The game runs absolutely reliable and impresses with it's graphics. Even the demo, where you can choose between a dolphin or a shark, offers quite a variety of selections.

This guy tries to find his way through 10 demo levels and therefore needs your help. Lost idols is a nice little puzzle game, of course you may not be too clumsy to avoid to fall. Like the first winner, this game runs reliable and it is also published by Suricate Software, so it is a second success for them too.

These are furious fighters which you really do have to see in action! Give and take punches and kicks, try to dodge the opponent's blows by crouching or jumping. The Ambient is cool, the graphics are as professional as the model's movement behavior!  

With Assault Daryl Thomas gets success in his sights. The small demo promises a lot! Good graphics, great terraforming and opponents that are one of the best programmed ever seen in a shooter.

'Ich AG' means something like 'Ego Corporation' and that is what you own. It's an economic simulation.
A witty idea! If you do a good job and deal economically with your gas, you can make good money.
But well, it isn't allways easy to mow without damaging anything. Since this is a business, you have to pay for the damages you cause.

A new idea: No game, but a collection of three Screensavers! Watch a dancing sword with or without sound. Or get the time of that rotating watch. The weather with it's sun, rain, snow, fog as well as day and night however, you should not really install on slower computers. But with enough memory space you can watch an animation with good terraforming and some nice effects.

Although the screenshots are marvellous, the game itself is even better. This demo simply offers far the best visual effect. Besides the great looking graphics there are a plenty of perfect details like water ripples, reflections and cool light and particle effects. The REVOgames team developed excellent plugins, for example a complete terrain renderer of their own. The only drop of bitterness: GLIDER only runs on T&L hardware.

A really good and very respectable shoot-adventure, logical and with a lot of fun playing it! OCEAN CITY is bristling with nice details, little effects that give the whole thing a lot of atmoshere. In addition it contains a great deal of humor. Harald Breitmaier even promises more of all that for the final game. Even on slower computers, the game always stays playable and works reliably.

This application offers the very best concerning actor animation so far. The motions of the expensively animated model of a dancer are almost perfect. On top of it there are excellent light effects and precisely balanced camera settings. 3D Kitten already can be purchased and, what might be an additional buying incentive for one or another, it offers even a strip of this lady.

Who just wants to shoot is well served here. You get a great cartoon intro, a pleasant varity of opponents, good quality of graphics as well as a quite good and consistent illuminated architecture (unfortunately the proportions of the player and his surroundings is not really perfect). Horux Interactive attached importance to details and that pays. Besides bullet holes there are some nice effects. Killed enemies dissolve slowly and leave puddles of green blood, little clouds of smoke arise etc. Aiming works reliably even on very old, slow PCs - this finally tipped the scales for winning. The behaviour of the opponents could be a little better and we missed the first person view (that might be because there was no documentation). Aye hombres, vamos a matarlos a tiros!

A pleasing and very professional designed tennis application with very good graphics.We are optimistic that PRO TENNIS will be perfected and finally then will meet it's very high demands.

This simply is a nice and gripping game with an addictive factor you'd better do not underestimate.       

Good graphics and a very addictive gameplay are the highlights of STAR HUNTER. Also and expressly to be mentioned are the very good speech recordings which do without alienation and are outstandingly spoken. This is of scarcity value!

Among the small games finally this one made it. ROCK BALL is a small and decently programmed little game for 2 players and it's simply fun! The game idea and it's convertion are just fun and this game meets it's demands without any problems. Certainly the graphics are simple but the red going heads of the two opponents exerting themselves are very convincing.

Nice details like the bushes swaying in the wind, scattering particles, and also rising score letters as well as suitable sounds complete the pleasant impression. It is also remarkable that Christopher Boyfield at his age of 12 years is our youngest participant who is sole responsible for a game. About addiction: we've tested a little longer than we needed to. Cheers!

The commercial game PLOING2, an addictive pinball/breakout mix by Suricate Software, which will soon be available in computer stores. With excellent gameplay and impressive beam and particle effects, this is one of the top products made with Gamestudio!

an A5 game at it's best: small, clever concept, and just fun to play. It does not stand alone, but represents a set of four applications, including a well made memory cube game, sent in by the the Brasilian FourX team. We're awarding the team for their overall work.

A very ambitious - maybe too ambitious - multiplayer strategy game, not yet fully finished. Nevertheless it was awarded for its game concept and its WDL programming. Hopefully this prize gives an incentive for finishing this promising game!

The action game PRAYERWARRIORS by GoodGamesUSA, and the split screen hovercraft racing game AEROFOIL by Nathan Sorenson from Canada! AEROFOIL was done in very limited time with the 30 days trial version only - and nevertheless shows how to implement impressive game physics. The game will soon appear among the demos on our download page.

With well written scripts and an original game idea, Marco Buerckel proved that even a 14 year old can program games like a professional.

A shooter? Yes - but this round-based battle is fought on a desk! Up to 4 miniature armies attack each other with rockets, grenades, and even a toy tank. An excellent idea, and well realized (except for a few minor bugs). By the way, the Ruhr-IT team was clever, sending not only one, but even three contributions to the contest... and this paid back by winning in two categories! So their prize is now a professional edition, plus updates.

Hardly a surprise: PLOING is a commercial quality pinball game, at least as good as some games you can buy in computer shops... but generously published as freeware. Every few weeks we find new levels with new features added on Remi's site. Remi even gave away a lot of his WDL scripting tricks in his french A4 tutorials.

C-Script programmed Drum Sequencer