Breaking the dimensional wall, Rare-Earth Nuggets 2022 Programming Challenge officially opens!

This spring, belongs to a group of dreamers who want to break through the dimensional walls

They may not be good at singing or dancing

Still longing to pass the fingers flying over the keyboard

Virtual code to connect to the real world

Today, rare-Earth Nuggets 2022 Programming Challenge officially opens

From the rally horn on March 24 to the awards ceremony on May 29

Covering colleges and universities nationwide

Include 3 big questions

Over 100,000 RMB cash award

More opportunities to get bytedance internship offer

Waiting for inspiration to come from your fingertips

Ignite the spark that could change the world

In the name of rare earth mining & A-soul

Let’s get together

Blossom technology, enjoy life!

Introduction of competition

The Rare Earth Nuggets 2022 Coding Challenge is a large-scale creative competition for developers initiated by Rare Earth Nuggets, which is committed to continuously excavating outstanding creative talents in programming.

Rare Earth Nuggets 2022 Programming Challenge is hosted by Rare Earth Nuggets and Asxi Lightyear virtual girl group A-Soul, and hosted by Asxi Lightyear and Douyin Special Effects Open platform. This competition will provide a platform for developers to realize their fantastic ideas with the help of browser plug-ins and open platform tools of Douyin special effects. Developers are encouraged to use advanced technology to develop products with new experiences and new interactions to solve practical problems in life.

Scan the poster QR code orClick to enter the official website of the contest, you can register to participate in this activity!

Details on the track

Track 1: Plug-in track

Entries must be created in desktop browser or IDE with a-Soul imagery. Plug-ins must run smoothly, have clear logic and no obvious loopholes, and have functions including but not limited to improving performance and leisure. Specify Chrome for desktop browser and VSCode for IDE.

Data statistics plug-in question description

Function design around the statistical direction of daily work output of developers, such as day, week, month, year, cumulative and other dimensions of writing code time, write code word count, write code line statistics, at the same time combined with the IP image of A-soul results show, in A visual way to quantify the developer’s work summary;

Daily assistant plug-in questions description

Designed around relieving the anxiety of developers in daily busy work, such as sitting reminder, drinking reminder, health tips, etc., combined with the a-Soul image for interactive reminder, so that the product becomes the daily warm heart encouragement teacher of developers;

Description of the improvement tool plug-in challenge

Surrounding developers professional development and the daily work of effect on function design, based on rare earth nuggets open API for developers to technical content accurate recommendations, search, IP query, color conversion, encoding conversion, translation and other various types of development tools to integrate, in effect for the daily work on the professional growth of the developers at the same time;

Content distribution plug-in contest description

Based on the RARE earth mining API and a-Soul image, users are directed to recommend popular content, and recommend high-quality articles, boiling points and other content to users in an anthropomorphic way, so as to relieve the pressure of busy work while obtaining professional technology growth;

Community growth plugin question description

Design daily check-in and lottery functions of the community based on rare earth mining check-in and lottery API and A-Soul image. Meanwhile, guide users to use the ore won by check-in and lottery to consume in the mall. At the same time, integrate the nuggets’ message notification, and inform users of new messages when there are reminders through A-Soul. Make A-Soul A personal assistant to users in the rare earth mining community;

Question 2: Interactive special effects track

Entries are required to create tiktok effects or mini-games based on the open platform of Tiktok effects combined with a-Soul images. The game should have smooth interaction, clear and reasonable logic, no obvious loopholes, and innovative interactive gameplay; Special effects can restore classic character modeling based on douyin special effects open platform tool, explore more gameplay, define your Style with technology.

Track 3: Game track

Entries are based on A-Soul, with A creative rendering or fun gameplay. Among them, works in the rendering direction are based on ShaderToy, the specific content is not limited, highlight technology or effect, interaction and playability is better; The gameplay direction of the work requires the use of Unity 2020.3.26 version to develop a casual game based on physics mechanism, it is recommended to have multiplayer confrontation or cooperative play, the game experience process is complete, full of fun. All submitted works should run smoothly on PC (RTX2060 >30fps).

Submission Rules

Work Submission:

During the preliminary competition, participants should submit their works on the official website according to the process. The works should be submitted in the form of ZIP/RAR compression package with a size of less than 500MB. The name of the compression package is: Track name – work name. The content includes Demo, resume of team member, work introduction document.

Naming conventions:

A team name can contain a maximum of 10 characters, digits, and underscores (_).

Package:

Work submission package should include video Demo, work exhibition poster (16:9), introduction of team members (excellent participants have the opportunity to get bytedance internship Offer), PPT of work introduction, code compression package; Participants can log in to view individual/team submissions.

Copyright:

Entrants shall have independent, complete, clear and undisputed intellectual property rights to their works, which shall be original (non-job works for the social group) and have not been published in other channels. All entries are politically correct, positive and healthy, and abide by national laws and regulations. All entries involving the virtual girl group A-soul must meet the rules of the second creation.

Virtual girl group A-Soul two creative rules

www.bilibili.com/read/cv9344…

Review rules

Preliminary review:

All works submitted will be reviewed by the official team, and works that meet the evaluation rules will be displayed on the contest platform.

Work Evaluation Rules:

The top 40 in the preliminary evaluation group were nominated for the Award of Excellence and entered the finals.

The final entries will be evaluated by experts and the public:

1. Expert judges: The final entries will be graded one by one in terms of completion, innovation, interest, practicality, commercial prospects, etc.
2. Public evaluation: During the contest, all users can vote for their favorite works through the official website of the contest. The public evaluation votes won by the works will be converted into corresponding points and added to the works. Each 200 votes will count for 1 point, with a maximum of 5 points. Ordinary users can cast two votes per day (one vote for each Web user or mobile user).
3. Total score: Total score = Completion + Innovation + fun + practicality + business prospect + bonus.

According to the evaluation rules, the works ranked first in total score will win the first prize, the second to the fourth prize will win the second prize, and so on.

The best popularity award is awarded to the highest entry voted by the public judges.

The best creative award, the best Technical Award and the best Performance Award are all selected by the expert judges. The works that do not win other awards in the final will be awarded the Excellent Award and the Excellent Nomination Award.

The competition advocates fair competition and eliminates ticket brushing. The organizer will strictly check the voting situation of the competition, and no cheating such as ticket brushing is allowed. Participants and judges are welcome to supervise each other and report to the organizing committee. Once found, the participants will be disqualified.

Award setting

The ambassador

Whether it is the developers who are deeply engaged in the industry, the technicians who love the virtual girl group A-Soul, or the college students who have A bright future can apply to be the promotion ambassador of the event, and complete the invited tasks to win the exclusive award.

Activity rules

1. Click here to skip to the activity page, complete the contest registration, and obtain the exclusive invitation poster;
2. Share exclusive posters, invite successful and a certain number of entries through the review, you can get exclusive rewards.

Winning notice

1. Winners and all participants will be notified of the results via the official website and SMS. All prizes are pre-tax and will be withheld and paid by the sponsor within 60 working days after the end of the contest according to the tax policy of the entity registration place.
2. The prize money will be paid by bank transfer, and the bank account information provided by the team leader shall prevail. The distribution of the prize money shall be completed by the teams themselves.