Unity Technologies Announces Award Winners of Its Third Annual ‘Best of’ Contest
Posted by: Drew Sikora at November 2, 2009 4:50:51 PM
Today at the Unite conference, Unity Technologies, the leading provider of the multi-platform game development platform for Web, PC, Mac, WiiÔ and iPhone, announced the award winners of its third annual contest. This year, there were 129 submissions, twice the number of submissions last year, spanning four categories: Best Overall, Best iPhone Game, Best Visual Design and Best Technical Achievement; prizes totaled $9,500.
"We're continuing to see professional console-quality content as well as entries that are a little more experimental, a little more edgy and arty," said Nicholas Francis, Chief Creative Officer at Unity Technologies. "It's great that people are pushing this envelope a bit more, and for us that's an exciting part of making a tool. There is this box that we think people are going to play in, and people just keep breaking out of that to make content that completely takes us by surprise."
The award winners in each category are:
Best Overall:
Winner: Max & the Magic Marker, developed by Press Play
Runner Up: Lego Star Wars: Quest for R2-D2, developed by Three Melons
Finalist: Paper Moon, developed by Infinite Ammo
Finalist: Monospace, developed by Nonverbal (Daniel Lutz)
Finalist: EnerCities, developed by Paladin Studios
Best iPhone Game:
Winner: Monospace, developed by Nonverbal (Daniel Lutz)
Runner Up: Samurai: Way of the Warrior, developed by Mad Finger Games
Finalist: Snake Galaxy, developed by DigDog
Finalist: Battle Bears, developed by SkyVu Pictures & Blackish
Finalist: Touch KO, developed by Adam and Matt Mechtley
Best Visual Design:
Winner: Doppelscope, developed by Tobias Baumann
Runner Up: Blush, developed by Flashbang Studios
Finalist: Choma, developed by Knife Media
Finalist: Max & the Magic Marker, developed by Press Play
Finalist: Paper Moon, developed by Infinite Ammo
Best Technical Achievement:
Winner: Blush, developed by Flashbang Studios
Runner Up: Max & the Magic Marker, developed by Press Play
Finalist: Time Donkey, developed by Flashbang Studios
Finalist: Touch KO, developed by Adam and Matt Mechtley
Finalist: Super Volei Brasil 2, developed by Aquiris
For more information about the awards, visit http://unity3d.com/contest/.
About Unite, Unity Technologies’ Developer Conference
This year, the Unite conference featured a keynote by Richard Hilleman, Chief Creative Officer at Electronic Arts, and a special free to attend 1-day boot camp for Flash users to learn about transitioning to Unity in addition to a packed program of tutorials, technical sessions and hands on lab time.
Following Unity tradition, Unite has proven to be an event for making new business contacts, showing projects, making friends, and learning how to do stuff better.
Unite 2009 took place on October 27-30, 2009 at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, California. For more information about Unite, visit http://unity3d.com/unite/.
About Unity Technologies
Headquartered in San Francisco, Unity Technologies enables game developers of all sizes to get their game made faster and more efficiently across a variety of platforms. The Unity engine is platform agnostic and significantly expands the reach for developers. As a fully supported deployment platform, developers can now use Unity to drive development of the best games on iPhone, Mac and PC as well as the Wii console. For more information about Unity technologies, visit http://unity3d.com/.
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