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Here’s a short summary of all contestants at the start of the competition, in alphabetical order.

Alex Okafor is making Wildboarders, a side-scrolling, snow-boarding game. He is integrating many components from the community, to save time. (feed) (screenshot)

alphabirth is making something similar to Tetrisphere. (feed)

Andre Odendaal is making Mac Attack, a 2D, multiplayer, cooperative game where you run a fast food outlet. Each job at the restaurant is a mini-game. Check out Pizza Frenzy, Hammer Heads for gameplay comparison, and McDonald’s game for graphical style. (feed) (screenshot)

Andrew is probably making a 2D, strategy game, but loves Final Fantasy, so we’ll see. (feed)

Anton Afanasyev is making a 3D, multiplayer Space Invaders. (feed)

Ben James is doing Kurodust Fighter, a Double Dragon or Final Fight-style, 2D beat ‘em up game with his Kurodust music band members. (feed) (screenshot)

Catalin Zima is doing a beautiful butterfly puzzle game for his girlfriend, from a 3D third person (third butterfly?) view. He has also released a DebugComponent, to show people how neat the Service system is. (feed) (screenshot)

Darkside is doing Hack-1, a hacker game, similar to the hacking interface in System Shock 2, or even Pac-Man. (feed) (not a screenshot)

Darth Farza is making Farmaggedon, a 2D, side-view, platform game, where you battle Martian invaders in a re-make of Lode Runner. One interesting feature is the adaptive terrain, maybe something like Lemmings. (feed)

Endre is still deciding on a game type, but is leaning towards a shoot-’em up, similar to Rambo. (feed)

Fabio is making a 3D, real-time strategy game, where you run an ant colony. It has two views, surface terrain, and ant hill overview. (feed)

Garrett Hoofman is making Schism 2.0, with a Ninjas versus Pirates theme. (feed) (not a screenshot)

hexx is making Hamster Games ‘06, a 2D party- or family-game. (feed) (not a screenshot)

JLarkin is making a 2D, side-scrolling Super Mario Bros-like game, set in the federal world of CIA, FBI, and possibly the TV-serie X-Files. (feed)

Johnnylightbulb is making a 3D, first-person shooter, but without weapons or enemies, that ought to be interesting. (feed)

Max-Studio might port their Gqanaz puzzle game from the mobile phone platform, or they might do something completely different. (feed) (screenshot)

Liam is making 2D, tactical-strategy game in the vein of Advance Wars. (feed) (screenshot)

lightbrush is making a GCube, a 3D cube with a tiny casual game running on each surface. Fresh. (feed) (code) (screenshot)

Lonely Gnome Studios is making Hostile Takeover, a 2D, top-down, turn-based strategy game, a bit inspired by King’s Bounty. The setting is in an office complex, and you are the CEO, sending out your “troops”. (feed)

Luca started with a Space Invaders clone, but will be restarting soon. (feed) (screenshot)

Luis Estrada is working on a 2D game similar to Ninja Gaiden. (feed)

Luke Trainor is making Faith & Misery, a 3D, side-scrolling, shoot-’em up, possibly with some RPG storyline and character development. He’s also working hard on the tool side of making the game. (feed) (screenshot)

Machaira is remaking the board game Robo Rally into a multiplayer computer version, but has had a HD crash, so we’re hoping things turn out for the best. (feed)

Mariusz is making Small Ninja, a platform, maze game. (feed) (character)

Matthew Randall is making Music Mogul, a 2D, puzzle, action, plat-former game, with five mini-games. (feed)

Meade will start out with a 2D shoot-’em up, where your bee collects pollen. He’s also starting out with the tool side. (feed) (tool screenshot)

Michael Morton, of ziggyware.com, has been waiting for the start signal. In the meantime, he’s cranking out many great XNA tutorials. (feed)

mycatfield is remaking the classic Games Workshop board game Space Hulk. (feed) (screenshot)

Nirosys is making Lament, which is based on a basic newbie-programming game, but he will be adding some innovative gameplay ideas.  (feed) (screenshot movie)

NNG is making an advanced casual game, possibly with some new game play ideas, because he has applied for a patent. (feed)

Nuno Ramiro is making War Age, a remake of an old 2D game. (feed) (screenshot)

Patrick J Bennet is remaking the classic Robotron 2084, as Bozotron, and he’s actually teaching programming in his blog at the same time. (feed) (screenshot)

Paul E Coyote is still planning, but will try to be educational in his blog. (feed)

Riku-Juhani Niemelä is making Tsumba, another Games Workshop board game conversion. (feed)

Robert is deploying nuclear weapons in his Nuclear Dawn, a 3D, multiplayer, real-time strategy game. (feed) (screenshot)

sonix is making a platform runner, Jazz JackRabbit and Sonic the Hedgehog, and starting with the level editor. (feed)

supaG is making Melee & Magic, a free-fighting, platform action game, set in a fantasy world. Gameplay is inspired by Super Smash Bros. Melee. (Feed)

Tanit is making City of Darkness, a 3D first-person shooter, with a zombie theme. His goal is to make a publicly availabe 3D engine at the same time, with a custom-built API.  (feed)

wehso is making a 2D, shoot-’em up, flier game. (feed) (screenshot)

Yau is making a 3D game, and will be releasing more info during the weekend. (feed)

Update

If you don’t like the alphabetical order, how about a ranking based on number of posts and comments?

Here’s all blogs with at least five posts, plus those with less posts, but at least ten comments, in order of activity.

There might very well be quality games being produced by the other participants, and these might not be the best, but they are currently, first of November, getting the most attention. (Posts/Comments)

1. Machaira (14/26)
2. Crazy PJ (8/29)
3. CatalinZima (8/16)
4. paulecoyote (8/4)
5. Alex (7/24)
6. Gambit_Sunob (7/17)
7. supaG (6/16)
8. Kobalt64 (5/18)
9. Johnnylightbulb (5/11)
10. LOTG (5/8)
11. Darkside (5/3)
12. Darth Fahza (5/3)
13. LonelyGnome (4/13)
14. NNG (1/10)

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Cheers!

Joran