The Java 4K contest is fun. As some people know I try to enter every time, but this year it's all just got a bit silly. The point of 4K is thats it's a challenge to fit a game into 4K. No one is going to write a great game, no one is going to build a masterpiece, it's just a way to make things interesting and limit the scope to allow some of the people with less time to compete.

At the end of it all you get comments from your peers on the game, and if you're lucky a result that makes you feel like you have some ability at game writing. So how come suddenly it's all so serious:

http://www.javagaming.org/forums/index.php?topic=16357.0

Similar thing happened last year when judging was mentioned. Does it really matter? I mean really? Why do you want judging by a group of random community members:

1) To get you some feed back - you get this through your forum post

2) To make you feel special - get a life.

3) To show everyone else how great your game is in comparison to theirs. Seriously, get a life.

What a horrible way to taint such a fun activity - a shadow cast by a select few over what is otherwise one of the most interesting, fun and innovative contests around.

At least someone is being positive:

http://www.javagaming.org/forums/index.php?topic=16378.0