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With the end of NOMAN 2019 this April 14th, the Basic 10Liners contest is also over and the winners announced.

If the BASIC 10Liner contest is new for you, check our previous article about it: 2019 BASIC 10-Liner Contest in On!

This year there were nothing less than 83 contestants which made the task to give scores to all of them an almost impossible one. As one of the judges I have to say how impressed I was during the many hours I put in to read the documents, installing emulators, playing the games (and trying the apps). If I have to define all the contestants in two words I would say creativity and skill.

Creativity because although there were many remakes and homages and ports of classics, there were also many original ideas that I couldn’t help to think many of these ideas would make very interesting full featured modern games.

I pick skill as the second word because, oh my! How it is possible to achieve so much using so small number of lines of code! Also, the number of advanced techniques showed me that the contestants knew what they were doing and I have a lot to learn. Even for the WILD category which allows the contestant to go beyond the 10-line limit, the games were simply jaw-dropping!

During the last week and a half, the judges voted and gave scores for all entries and rank them in all three categories: PUR-80, PUR-120, EXTREME-256 and WILD.

Here are the best three on each category:

PUR-80 –Write a game in 10 lines (max. 80 characters per logical line, abbreviations are allowed). Only built-in BASIC variants are allowed.

Highway Hoppers by romwer

Highway Hoppers (Commodore 64) LOGIpics (Amstrad CPC) Last Ninjutsu (Commodore 64)

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

Pixelated Puzzle by Vitoco

Pixelated Puzzle (Atari 8 bits) Lander (Atari 8 bits) reactorX (Atari 8 bits)

EXTREME-256 –Write a game in 10 lines (max. 256 characters per logical line, abbreviations are allowed)

Mini bros. by Vitoco

Mini Bros (Atari) Floody Bot (Atari) OVO (Amstrad)

WILD – Any BASIC, no limits

Mooyan by Giuseppe Stassi

Mooyan (MO6) Eggsman (BBC) Mini Ch. Editor (Atari)

There was also a Public’s Choice category during the show with the following:

Mines20 (VIC-20) MiniMans20 (VIC-20) Hill Roller (M200) & Floddy Bot (Atari) Mini Bros (Atari)

This year contest proves once more BASIC is still a great and capable language. You can see all the entries final ranking and their scores following the link below. On the same page, you can download all the programs accessing the top menu BASIC 10Liners 2019. If you have never use a specific emulator, don’t worry for every entry has support material telling how to run the program.

Link: Basic 10Liners 2019 Results

