We’ve been covering Atari’s Pong® Indie Developer Challenge for utterly a little time now, as well as we’re happy to inform a princely diversion growth as well as edition association has right away voiced a winners. The winning eccentric developers were selected by a judging row as well as a village of online electorate after competing opposite any alternative for a possibility to reconstitute Atari’s iconic Pong.
The last formula (with links to video trailers of their winning entries) are:
- 1st place ($ 50,000): zGames
- 2nd place ($ 37,500): MadRuse Games
- 3rd place ($ 15,000): Eppy Games
In further to a esteem money, a 3 winners additionally win a three-year revenue-sharing agreement, that includes carrying their subordinate diversion published upon a App Store by Atari with selling as well as promotional support.
In a initial proviso of a contest, Atari perceived scarcely 90 submissions from eccentric developers seeking to remake Pong. After a extensive review, 7 finalists were selected for care by a luminary judging row done up of Nolan Bushnell, a single of a strange founders of Atari, Dave Castelnuovo of Bolt Creative (Pocket God), David Whatley of Critical Thought Games (geoDefense), as well as Mike Schramm of TUAW. In addition, a Atari village weighed in upon a last ranking, with over 200,000 sum votes logged for a assorted finalists. Ultimately, a winners voiced currently paint a tip choices from Atari, a Atari village as well as a judging panel.
You can sense some-more about a finalists and the Pong Indie Developer Challenge at Atari’s website.
