On the Swift Student Challenge page, it says "Create an interactive scene in an app playground that can be experienced within three minutes."
Does this mean a game needs to take a maximum of 3 minutes to play through in its entirety? Or does this just mean the judges will play the first 3 minutes of the game, and it is my responsibility to make sure that those first minutes give a good idea of what the rest of the game would be like?
Thanks in advance!
Hey Coder T!
Thank you for posting to the developer forums.
To answer your question, the maximum length of 3 minutes is applied to the judging of the app time, so it should take a maximum of 3 minutes to fully experience your application. I recommend you make it possible to experience the majority of your application within 3 minutes, as there is no guarantee that the judges will run it for longer than 3 minutes.
Good luck!
Raymond
Or does this just mean the judges will play the first 3 minutes of the game, and it is my responsibility to make sure that those first minutes give a good idea of what the rest of the game would be like?
I would think of it like this. It's basically a 3 minute demo of your game. You can always include more content beyond 3 minutes but you should make sure that all the core parts of your game are playable in that timeframe.