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07-27-2011, 12:00 PM
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2011/07/dstroyd727.jpg Remember the Activision Independent Games Competition (http://www.joystiq.com/2010/06/02/activision-indie-games-competition-detailed/)? First announced (http://www.joystiq.com/2010/02/18/kotick-announces-activisions-half-million-dollar-indie-games-co/) in February of last year, the contest offered cash prizes and potential Activision publishing deals to indie devs in the US. After almost a year of deliberation (submissions ended on August 31, 2010!), Activision has announced the winners of the first phase.
Dstroyd (http://dstroyd-game.tumblr.com/) by Peter Angstadt, a side-scrolling ballistics game (like Worms) with real-time strategy elements, is the first-place winner, receiving $175,000. Engient's Rigonauts: Broadside (http://engient.com/?tag=rigonauts), a game about assembling rickety battleships out of assortments of parts in real time, and then fighting with said ships, took the second-place spot, earning $75,000. Activision didn't say whether it was pursuing publishing contracts for either game, but a note in an interview (http://oneofswords.com/2011/07/dstroyd-wins-175000-in-activisions-independent-games-competition/) with Angstadt mentions that he retains the IP, with Activision claiming the first opportunity to publish the game.
Activision will hand out another $250,000 in the second phase of its indie contest, but no details have been announced. It might take a while.http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif (http://www.joystiq.com)'Dstroyd' and 'Rigonauts: Broadside' win Activision indie competition (http://www.joystiq.com/2011/07/27/dstroyd-and-rigonauts-broadside-win-activision-indie-compet/) originally appeared on Joystiq (http://www.joystiq.com) on Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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Dstroyd (http://dstroyd-game.tumblr.com/) by Peter Angstadt, a side-scrolling ballistics game (like Worms) with real-time strategy elements, is the first-place winner, receiving $175,000. Engient's Rigonauts: Broadside (http://engient.com/?tag=rigonauts), a game about assembling rickety battleships out of assortments of parts in real time, and then fighting with said ships, took the second-place spot, earning $75,000. Activision didn't say whether it was pursuing publishing contracts for either game, but a note in an interview (http://oneofswords.com/2011/07/dstroyd-wins-175000-in-activisions-independent-games-competition/) with Angstadt mentions that he retains the IP, with Activision claiming the first opportunity to publish the game.
Activision will hand out another $250,000 in the second phase of its indie contest, but no details have been announced. It might take a while.http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif (http://www.joystiq.com)'Dstroyd' and 'Rigonauts: Broadside' win Activision indie competition (http://www.joystiq.com/2011/07/27/dstroyd-and-rigonauts-broadside-win-activision-indie-compet/) originally appeared on Joystiq (http://www.joystiq.com) on Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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