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iDevGames Kicks off uDevGame 2003 Mac Game Development Contest
Takamatsu City, Japan, August 4, 2003 - iDevGames, the leading website for Macintosh game development, announced the start of uDevGame 2003, the 3rd annual Macintosh game development contest today. The uDevGame Contest gives programmers, designers, artists, and musicians the chance to both improve the state of gaming on the Macintosh platform, and to contribute to the independent development community. More than $16,000 of prizes are offered as incentives this year!
"iDevGames has received an immense amount of support in our efforts to make a difference at the grassroots level through the uDevGame Contest, and we are dedicated to highlighting the tremendous talent of independent game developers," said Carlos Camacho, Editor-in-Chief of iDevGames. "The uDevGame Contest provides developers with a unique opportunity to utilize their skills as well as improve Mac gaming."
iDevGames established the uDevGame Contest in 2001 to energize game development on the Apple Macintosh platform, encourage innovation in Mac games, and to garner recognition for the best Mac independent game developers. The uDevGame 2003 Contest is based on three fundemental principles: Creation of original Macintosh games, Education of the Macintosh development community, and Success of talented Macintosh programmers, artists, musicians, and designers.
The contest challenges entrants to create an original Mac OS X game in only three months. The games are then subjected to a period of public voting and rated in five categories: Game Play, Originality, Polish, Graphics, and Sound & Music. Prizes are awarded to the developers of the top three ranking games in each category, as well as the top three Best Overall Games. A complete list of prizes with descriptions can be found at: (url="http://"http://www.idevgames.com/content/contest.php?id=10&prizes;=1")http://www.idevgames...?id=10&prizes=1(/url)
"uDevGame is the best thing to happen to Mac game development in a very long time," said Colin Lynch Smith, Vice President of Freeverse Software, "The encouragement and resources it provides to independent developers make titles like Rocco Bowling's 'Solace' possible. Freeverse is proud to be publishing such a terrific Mac-developed game."
Entries are limited to one per person or team, and must run natively in Mac OS X. Entries may be created with any Mac OS tool, but must be less than 10MB when compressed. The source code, or source files, for all entries must be submitted to iDevGames. The uDevGame Contest is open to all developers in any country.
More information about the competition and how to enter can be found at uDevGame 2003's official home page. (url="http://"http://www.idevgames.com/content/contest.php?id=10")http://www.idevgames...ntest.php?id=10(/url)
The generous support of the following businesses and organizations have made uDevGame 2003 possible: Aladdin Systems, Inc.; Ambrosia Software, Inc.; ATI Technologies, Inc.; Bare Bones Software; Belkin Corporation; Big Nerd Ranch, Inc.; Codenautics; Curious Labs; Danlab Games; dot software; e-on software; Eovia; Flamin' Ghost Software; Freeverse; GarageGames; Harman Multimedia; Inside Mac Games; International Game Developers Association (IGDA); Inventive, Inc.; Mac-Yun-Soft; MacRadio.com; MacTech Magazine; Manning Publications Co.; MAXON Computer, Inc.; McWare USA; Metrowerks; Monte Boyd Interactive; Nathalie Poitiers Design; New Riders Games; Paraglyph Press; Pixels Digital, Inc.; Pixologic, Inc.; Premier Press; REAL Software, Inc.; REALbasic Developer; Sagan Technology; STAZ Software, Inc.; Stone Design; Strange Flavour; Strata Software; The Omni Group; The Sound Guy, Inc.; TNT Software; Tribeworks; Wbws Inc.; Westlake Interactive; Wordware Publishing, Inc.; Xgaming, Inc; Xtreme Game Developers Xpo. Sponsor list: (url="http://"http://www.idevgames.com/content/contest.php?id=10&sponsors;=1")http://www.idevgames...d=10&sponsors=1(/url)
Companies wishing to become official sponsors are still welcomed. Please read the editorial titled "uDevGame 2003: Calling Mac Software and Hardware Vendors" (url="http://"http://www.idevgames.com/content/article.php?id=133")http://www.idevgames...icle.php?id=133(/url) to learn what the benefits of sponsorship entail, and for information on signing up.
About iDevGames
Established in 1998, iDevGames' mission is to educate, support, and enhance the Macintosh Game Developer community. We also hope to facilitate the exchange between developers and designers so that the Macintosh game market can expand and improve. iDevGames features articles, the latest industry news, tutorials, an active forum, downloads, and much more for Macintosh Game Developers.
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