We're on the look out for 3D model artists and Sound Effect producers/Musicians. You will be working on a new version of our top-selling DarkMATTER product (you can familiarise yourself with it at //www.thegamecreators.com/?m=view_product&id=2104) which will be retailed across our web sites and distribution network. At the moment we are after:

1. 3D Model Artists. Must be able to demonstrate a high quality level of work (including texturing/skinning) on a regular basis.
2. Sound Effect and Musical products to work on a new sound and music library.

Cadsa Gap (Centre for Advanced Digital Screen Animation - Games and Puppetry) is a government funded initiative with the Film and Telivison Institute of Western Australia to create a games and animation industry locally. This initiative is to get programmers, 2d/3d artists story writers and even puppeteers talking to each other.

We currently are a bit short staffed in the programming area and would like to invite anyone with some Dark Basic experience, Who lives in Western Australia to join our cohort. This is a volunteer position under interlectual property contracts, which will entitle team members in an equal share of profits. If this sounds interesting contact me at markalfonsi@hotmail.com"

1. Constructive solid geometry (carving) allows you to carve chunks out of solid objects, or cut a hole in a wall.
2. Hollowing objects lets you make an enclosed room out of a simple box.
3. Import Quake, Quake 2, Q3A, and Half-Life maps, Quake 3 BSP's, and .DBO.
4. Export .map, .X, .DBO, and DarkBASIC BSP's, with the DBBSP compiler.
5. Any Cartography Shop map can be saved as a prefab.
6. Support for import, export, and object DLL plugins lets you add new primitives or exporters.
7. Scale, rotate, and skew mousetools.
8. Vertex manipulation.
9. UV coordinate options like offset and scale.
10. Standard Windows interface.
11. OpenGL 3D rendering.

From Lee Bamber, developer of DarkBASIC and DarkBASIC Professional: "The response to the Retro competition was nothing short of awesome, and it's great to see such creativity thriving in the DarkBASIC community. Some of the entries reached commercial quality in many areas, and with continued development can be published. The hardest part of judging is choosing one game over another, when just as much work has gone into the game that was not chosen. I wrote many games in the past that became 'unchosen', and used the feedback I got to make improvements and ultimately make better games. You have already done the hard work, my challenge to you now is to continue improving your game, sell around 30 copies and buy your own prize. That way, you still win!"

It's always hard choosing the winners, but it has to be done and the follow games were selected by us all as being worth of the prizes. We now present the winning games, click on any screen shot for further information and a download link.

This month we've got an amazing DarkBASIC game called CrazyBall. The aim is to bounce your ball to the end! It's even got a level editor (kinda!) and it's all nicely done and good fun to play! Do you want to win a free DBDN membership? Then get coding and post your work to the forum!