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The 10Liners is a contest that programmers can show off their skills creating a game using the BASIC language using only ten lines of code. Any BASIC dialect is accepted, as long as it is a line-based BASIC. The contest webpage summarizes very well the idea behind the event:

The BASIC 10Liners competition is like a time journey into the time when you were still master of the machine and could tell it what you wanted from it. The competition has sparked great interest in recent years. We saw ingenious approaches to classic games, e.g. Breakout, Space Invaders, Pole Position, Tempest, or Pac Man compressed to a few lines of programming code. But also programming beginners, who created their first games with reasonable effort.

As the previous editions, there are three categories:

Category “PUR-80”: Write a game in 10 lines (max. 80 characters per logical line, abbreviations are allowed)

Category “PUR-120”: Write a game in 10 lines (max. 120 characters per logical line, abbreviations are allowed)

Category “EXTREM-256”: Write a game in 10 lines (max. 256 characters per logical line, abbreviations are allowed)

There are important rules that the contestant has to follow in order to participate, like for example, submit along with the 10liner, the expanded version of the game; no self-written machine code; but POKEs are allowed.

The deadline is next April 15th at 6pm (Central European Time). The winners announcement will happen on April 22nd at NOMAM retro convention in Lubeck/Germany.

Link: 10Liner