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This is a list of events (competitions, jams, etc.) that [Cat's Eye Technologies][] has participated in.

### Esoteric Awards 2001

*   year: 2001

Also known as "The Essies", it has an entry on the esowiki: [Esoteric Awards](https://esolangs.org/wiki/Esoteric%20Awards).

We entered [HUNTER][].

### Esoteric Awards 2002

*   year: 2002

We entered [GraNoLa/M][].

We also entered ['N-DCNC][] in an Essies, but I don't recall which year it was.

### Mini Game Compo 2009

*   year: 2009

We entered [Bubble Escape 2K][].  It won first place in its class (2K)!

### NaNoGenMo 2013

*   year: 2013

NaNoGenMo isn't really a competition; or rather, it is, but you are only
competing against yourself and the clock (or rather, the calendar.)
Here is [a list of completed entries for 2013](https://github.com/dariusk/NaNoGenMo/issues?q=is:open+is:issue+label:completed).

During NaNoGenMo 2013 we developed [The Swallows Engine][] and submitted
"The Swallows" series of novels:

*   [The Swallows][]
*   [The Swallows of Summer][]
*   [Swallows and Sorrows][]
*   [Dial 'S' for Swallows][]

All except the first were Completed.  (The first was a few words shy of 50,000 words.)

We also submitted [Nif][], which was Completed.

### NaNoGenMo 2014

*   year: 2014

Here is [a list of completed entries for 2014](https://github.com/dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2014/issues?q=is:open+is:issue+label:completed).

During NaNoGenMo 2014 we worked in the [NaNoGenLab][], which was an effort to do
one small experiment in procedural text generation per day in the month of November.
This was nominally successful, and the fruits of these experiments were turned into
a number of Completed novels at the end of the month:

*   [3×C(21,3)+2×C(215,2)=50000: The Novel][]
*   [A Rainy Sunday Afternoon][]
*   [Hope and Remembrance][]
*   [Threnody for Abraxas][]

For the unofficial "sub event" of "NaMoDiGenMo" — generate something in the theme Moby Dick —
we also submitted [Doby Mick][] (or, the Excessively Spoonerized Whale.)

### NaOpGenMo 2014

*   year: 2014

NaOpGenMo 2014 was a spin-off of NaNoGenMo 2014 where the participants were
to spend (the remainder of) the month of November generating a 2.5-hour-long opera.

We submitted [The Shortbread Rocketship][], which was Completed.

Here are [all operas generated for 2014](https://github.com/cpressey/NaOpGenMo/issues?q=is:open+is:issue+label:completed).

### AltGameJam 2015

*   year: 2015

We used this one-off game jam as an excuse to build [The New Gamerly Realism][].

### JS1K 2015 "Hype Train"

*   year: 2015

[JS1K](http://js1k.com/) is a yearly [JavaScript][] golfing competition.
2015's theme was ["Hype Train"](http://js1k.com/2015-hypetrain/).

We submitted "[Canvas Feedback][] 1K", which was not a serious attempt at golfing
JavaScript, but fun to enter regardless.

### RetroChallenge 2015/07

*   year: 2015

We submitted [SITU-SOL][], which was [declared the winner](http://www.wickensonline.co.uk/retrochallenge-2012sc/2015/08/08/rc201507-full-time-summary/)!

The blog we wrote while doing it was called [Bootstrap Zero](https://archive.org/details/bootstrap-zero-archival-copy/)
and it contains many scans of hand-written pieces of 6502 assembler code.  Some of that code is accessible in a
machine-readable form in [the SITU-SOL distribution](https://catseye.tc/distribution/SITU-SOL_distribution).

### NaNoGenMo 2015

*   year: 2015

Here is [a list of completed entries for 2015](https://github.com/dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2015/issues?q=is:open+is:issue+label:completed).

We submitted [A Time for Destiny][], which was Completed.  It was generated by [MARYSUE][].

### NaNoGenMo 2017

*   year: 2017

Here is [a list of completed entries for 2017](https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2017/issues?q=is:open+is:issue+label:completed).

We submitted [Legiony McLegionface][], [Vanish Like: The Novel][], and
[The Collected Works of Every Novel Generator Ever (Abridged Version)][].

### NaNoGenMo 2018

*   year: 2018

Here is [a list of completed entries for 2018](https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2018/issues?q=is:open+is:issue+label:completed).

We submitted [The League of Extraordinarily Dull Gentlemen][],
[The Defeat at Procyon V][], and [ETERLAN SEPTEBMER][].

### NaNoGenMo 2019

*   year: 2019

Here is [a list of completed entries for 2019](https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2019/issues?q=is:open+is:issue+label:completed).

We submitted [Anne of Green Garbles][],
[The Insidiously Rainbow-Wigged Dr. Fu-Manchu][], and
[The Epic of Goog-a-MESH][].

### NaNoGenMo 2021

*   year: 2021

Here is [a list of completed entries for 2021](https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2021/issues?q=is:open+is:issue+label:completed).

We submitted [The Lion, the Witches, and the Weird Road][],
a novel generated by the [Dissociated Parse][] algorithm.

### NaNoGenMo 2023

*   year: 2023

Here is [a list of completed entries for 2023](https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2023/issues?q=is:open+is:issue+label:completed).

We submitted [The Other and the Same][],
a novel generated from a Markov chain obtained by
taking the intersection of 10 other Markov chains,
using [Chainscape][].

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['N-DCNC]: ../article/Languages.md#-n-dcnc
[3×C(21,3)+2×C(215,2)=50000: The Novel]: ../article/Texts.md#3c2132c215250000-the-novel
[A Rainy Sunday Afternoon]: ../article/Texts.md#a-rainy-sunday-afternoon
[A Time for Destiny]: ../article/Texts.md#a-time-for-destiny
[Anne of Green Garbles]: ../article/Texts.md#anne-of-green-garbles
[Bubble Escape 2K]: ../article/Games.md#bubble-escape
[Canvas Feedback]: ../article/Gewgaws.md#canvas-feedback
[Cat's Eye Technologies]: ../article/General%20Information.md#cat-s-eye-technologies
[Chainscape]: ../article/Tools.md#chainscape
[Dial 'S' for Swallows]: ../article/Texts.md#dial-s-for-swallows
[Dissociated Parse]: ../article/Tools.md#dissociated-parse
[Doby Mick]: ../article/Texts.md#doby-mick
[ETERLAN SEPTEBMER]: ../article/Texts.md#eterlan-septebmer
[GraNoLa/M]: ../article/Languages.md#granola-m
[Hope and Remembrance]: ../article/Texts.md#hope-and-remembrance
[HUNTER]: ../article/Languages.md#hunter
[JavaScript]: ../article/Project%20Dependencies.md#javascript
[Legiony McLegionface]: ../article/Texts.md#legiony-mclegionface
[MARYSUE]: ../article/Tools.md#marysue
[NaNoGenLab]: https://catseye.tc/distribution/NaNoGenLab
[Nif]: ../article/Texts.md#nif
[SITU-SOL]: ../article/Languages.md#situ-sol
[Swallows and Sorrows]: ../article/Texts.md#swallows-and-sorrows
[The Collected Works of Every Novel Generator Ever (Abridged Version)]: ../article/Texts.md#the-collected-works-of-every-novel-generator-ever-abridged-version
[The Defeat at Procyon V]: ../article/Texts.md#the-defeat-at-procyon-v
[The Epic of Goog-a-MESH]: ../article/Texts.md#the-epic-of-goog-a-mesh
[The Insidiously Rainbow-Wigged Dr. Fu-Manchu]: ../article/Texts.md#the-insidiously-rainbow-wigged-dr-fu-manchu
[The League of Extraordinarily Dull Gentlemen]: ../article/Texts.md#the-league-of-extraordinarily-dull-gentlemen
[The Lion, the Witches, and the Weird Road]: ../article/Texts.md#the-lion-the-witches-and-the-weird-road
[The New Gamerly Realism]: ../article/Games.md#the-new-gamerly-realism
[The Other and the Same]: ../article/Texts.md#the-other-and-the-same
[The Shortbread Rocketship]: ../article/Musical%20Compositions.md#the-shortbread-rocketship
[The Swallows]: ../article/Texts.md#the-swallows
[The Swallows Engine]: ../article/Tools.md#the-swallows-engine
[The Swallows of Summer]: ../article/Texts.md#the-swallows-of-summer
[Threnody for Abraxas]: ../article/Texts.md#threnody-for-abraxas
[Vanish Like: The Novel]: ../article/Texts.md#vanish-like-the-novel