The winners of the Dream Build Play 2009 contest have been announced.
The winner is a title which was handled as the favorite by many, so no big surprise there:
First place (and $40,000) went to Dust: An Elysian Tail, developed by Dean Dodrill (U.S.) aka "Noogy". Dean is quite active in the XNA Creators Club community and seems to be a very nice guy. His game is great too (I was able to play a playtest version a few weeks ago) and looks very professional. On the art side, that's no wonder, with Dean being a professional animator. But on the programming side it is quite astonishing, as Dean says he only started with learning how to program back in December 2008! Kudos! You've probably all seen the Dust trailer by now, but still, I included it again below.
Second place (and $20,000) went to Max Blastronaut, developed by Panya Inversin and his team (U.S.). I don't know much about this game, other than that from the trailer it looks like a cool multi-player game (see below).
Third place (and $10,000) went to Rotor'scope, developed by Nivel21 Entertainment, led by Mauricio Garcia (Spain). Again, I don't know much about this game, other than that it's a puzzle game embedded into a story and professional art (judging from the trailer) and that it has a Facebook based high-score list (trailer below).
Fourth place (and $5,000) went to HurricaneX2 Evolution, developed by Hu Ling and his team (China). For this game I don't even have a trailer, but I think that this game has now entered Dream Build Play for the third time. If I remember correctly: In 2007 it entered as "Hurricane", in 2008 as "HurricanX2" and now in 2009 as "HurricaneX2 Evolution" and I assume that it was developed further in each iteration, to now finally be able to claim one of the winning spots. The game itself is an asia-styled figther game (screenshot below).
As incredibly cool as Rotor'scope looks, it irks me that they used the word "Mistery" in the trailer. It looks like there's polished game-play, polished story, polished animation, but they can't spell check their trailer?
Also, I'd love to see what Dust looks like now. I've only seen this initial trailer, but I've seen it so many times.
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Also, I'd love to see what Dust looks like now. I've only seen this initial trailer, but I've seen it so many times.