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Oracle Apex 5 Game Challenge

It's finally here, weird though but check this out, I never knew or believed one can design a game on oracle apex. 

I , a very fresh learner, and lover of oracle apex, would love to see the games designed on apex 5.0 .. It still sounds weird gaming... on a db..?

Well till November to see the results. I think I'll do a sticks, scissors rock ! game.. what ya think

see some details below

Building the game

01 - Any kind of web-based game is allowed to build. 

02 - It can be text-based or graphical. 

03 - It can be desktop, mobile or both. 

04 - The Oracle database must be used to store the game's meta data. 

05 - APEX must be used as the GUI (Graphical User Interface).

Legalities

01 - Submission must be solely owned by the submitter - not the submitter's company or corporation. 

02 - ODTUG and 3rd party affiliates have the right to make the submission available for download to the public at large. 

03 - Code will be released to the public as open source code under the MIT license. 

04 - Any third-party artwork or code used must be declared and have an appropriate license. 

05 - ODTUG holds no legal responsibility for the distribution or use of this submission. 

06 - Entries must be submitted by Monday October 09, 2015. 

07 - Entrants may submit multiple submissions (each will be considered on its own). 

08 - If multiple people work on the game, only one person

Guidelines

01 - The submission will be tested in APEX 5.0. 

02 - Installation instructions should be provided along with the submission. 

03 - If the submission runs on a particular browser, the documentation should specify that. 

04 - All instructions must be submitted in English. 

05 - The submission needs to be a zip file containing all the necessary files. 

06 - The submission should be sumbitted thro

Judges

Joel R. Kallman

Joel is the Director of Software Development for Oracle Application Express

See Martin's Post in twitter

Dan McGhan

Dan is an Oracle Developer Advocate with a passion for JavaScript and HTML5

Vincent Morneau

Vincent is a developer at Insum Solutions. He also is the organizer of this competition.

Prizes

Grand Prize

A Microsoft Surface 3 or iPad mini 3

& a one-year ODTUG Full Membership

Second Prize

A GoPro Camera

& a one-year ODTUG Full Membership

Third Prize

A one-year ODTUG Full Membership

Important Dates

Submissions Open :Monday June 22, 2015

Submissions Close: Monday October 09, 2015

Results: Monday November 02, 2015

It’s official. development competition has been announced! see http://competition.odtug.com  for more

Oracle Apex Sites to Consider

1. Place to see  sample applications click here
2. Not for development purposes but for sample data see here (a big thanks to http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/ for rich source of sample data) and here to for quick data.
But the best is mockaroo.com

How to Install Language Version of Oracle Apex 5.0 or 4.2

First, you have to have your Oracle apex already installed (4.2 or 5.0)

Download the oracle apex version (not the apex en.zip, thats the English version)

Extract it and save in the C:/ drive

open the apex folder /open the builder folder
the builder folder you see some language codes de (for German),fr (for french),it(italian) etc

Open your command prompt (cmd)
Go to your directory in the cmd( .. in my case C:/apex/builder)

Language Packs in C:/Apex/builder/

Enter the below code in your command prompt to set the NLS_LANG to your specified language


SET NLS_LANG FRENCH_FRANCE.WE8MSWIN1252

(Here we are adding a French version to our Apex instance, if it were German it'd be set NLS_LANG *****_****.***** see NLS_LANG list here)

Then Check by entering the below code in the cmd
c:\apex\builder>@.[NLS-LANG].
Please note the full stops and the @sign

If you get something like :
unable to pen file ".[FRENCH_FRANCE.WE8MSWIN1252]."
the "filename" between the [] being the language you selected french in our case
It is not an error but the value of the NLS_LANG registry parameter.

Navigate to the language directory you want. Here its french so we want to load so enter
c:\apex\builder\fr>
it'll be c:\apex\builder/de> for German

Log in to SQL*Plus;
c:\apex\builder/fr>sqlplus / as sysdba
Load your language by entering code @load_"your language".sql
c:\apex\builder\fr>@load_fr.sql

if it were german it'd be load_de.sql Then apex should load up. If  you have apex 5.0 you'll see your language option below