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Competition Results!

Right then, here we go :

Category 1a - Concept Art

Winner : Ian McCaughrean - "OrcaSub"
Honourable mentions : Alistair Aitcheson, Jenny Rathbone (bunnyjen), Paul Rayment (Paolo_ray)

Category 1b - Title Screen & Box Art

Winner : Scott Johnston (whatwhat)

Category 2a - Title Screen Attract / In-Game Music

Winner : Chris Green (Greeny) - in-game mood pieces

Category 2b - Sound Effects

Winner : JP Sweeney (Jipster)

Category 3a - Best Overall Game

Winner : Daniel Jeffery, Gareth Clarke, Dave Faulkner, Robert Faulkner - "Herriman - Under Pressure"
Honourable mentions : "Jam", "Kraken"

Category 3b - Best Use of Category 1 & 2 Materials

Winner : Richard Clifford, Nicholas McCrea - "Abyss"
Honourable mention : "Jam"

Very well done to all of you - we'll be in touch at the beginning of next week to sort out your loot.

The games themselves are almost ready for public consumption. I'm afraid it's actually going to take us till the end of the weekend to get everything uploaded and ready, so please bear with us for a wee bit. Needless to say, the results are worth waiting for.

By the end of the weekend we'll also have written a bit about why the judges picked the winners.

I'd just like to say a final 'thanks a million' from myself and Leaf. In total we got 31 entries over all the categories, representing an enormous amount of time and effort on your part. Quality all round was incredibly high, and I think everyone really got into the spirit of the competition. The upshot of course is that we now have a great bank of music, sounds, game designs and concept art to play with, and some great examples of ways to use them.

Let's do it again soon : )

Comments

 

Khei said:

oh man 2 honourable mentions.. im not sure if thats good or kinda painfull xD

June 29, 2007 6:33 PM
 

Bunnyjen said:

Thanks a lot to yourself and Leaf for setting this all up, i really enjoyed it.....Congrats to all the winners and everyone who entered!!! Awesome collection of work!!! I have to say Ian, i loved your concept :D Do you have a website?

June 29, 2007 6:39 PM
 

sheng said:

hum... just wondering.... is there anyway to find out how to make better concepts? I mean art and concepts are not about how good it looks right? I was wondering if any experts will be give some tips on the site ^_^

June 29, 2007 10:37 PM
 

Greeny said:

Thanks to everyone involved and everyone who set up the competition.

Also well done to all the people who entered!

:-)

June 30, 2007 12:41 AM
 

zygote said:

Congradulations! I can't wait to see the entries :)

June 30, 2007 1:06 AM
 

cubed2d said:

Congratulations to all the winners! better luck next time to everyone who didnt place, and thanks to everyone who mad this possible! i didnt win anything, but takeing part was a damn good way to spend two complete days!

June 30, 2007 1:14 AM
 

F4T C4T said:

Congrats to all the people that took part and the especially the organisers. Can't wait to check out all the other cool games!

June 30, 2007 9:21 AM
 

F4T C4T said:

Congrats to all the people that took part and the especially the organisers. Can't wait to check out all the other cool games!

June 30, 2007 9:21 AM
 

leaf said:

Many thanks for all of the wonderful entries. We wanted you all to win but rules is rules and we didn't have enough prizes. Judging this competition was really hard (but fun), we spent a whole day playing, listening, looking and agonizing over the entries.

July 1, 2007 3:12 PM
 

Jipster said:

Woohoo! What a great competition - I'm so glad I entered. ;-) Well done to everyone, great work!

July 2, 2007 12:53 PM
 

whatwhat said:

thank you and well done to everybody.

enjoyed doing this  ; )

July 2, 2007 12:55 PM
 

Mykres Space said:

Paul Foster, one of the judges on the XNA UK User groups competition gives us a quick roundup on the

July 6, 2007 10:31 PM
 

XNA UK News said:

Our chum, Nick Burton has an interesting article up at Gamasutra talking about why and how Rare goes

February 6, 2008 6:17 PM
 

Virtual Realm said:

Paul Foster, one of the judges on the XNA UK User groups competition gives us a quick roundup on the game entries as well as introduces us to the other judges. For those who have not found them yet, the UK User group has posted the games on their site

May 10, 2008 7:01 AM