XBLA: PAX '09 - Dust Wins Dream-Build-Play 2009 Competition
Microsoft have revealed the winners of this years Dream-Build-Play competition, in which Dust: An Elysian Tail came first place.
For winning the competition developer Dean Dodrill got the grand prize of $40,000. Second prize went to Max Blastronaut with $20,000 in winnings, third prize of $10,000 went to Rotor’scope, and 4th place prize of $5,000 went to HurricaneX2 Evolution.
Unlike the first DBP '09 competition the winners were not awarded with contracts for the Xbox Live Arcade - but now "could have the opportunity to publish their games on Xbox LIVE Arcade".
Continue reading for trailers of each of the winners - it was a fierce competition, and each of these are definitely something to look forward to.
Dust: An Elysian Tail
Max Blastronaut
Rotor’scope – The Secret of the Endless Energy
HurricaneX2 Evolution
Comments
Congratulations Dean, wow! And congratulations to all the winners.
Posted by: Matthew Doucette | September 7, 2009 1:11 AM
Dust: An Elysian Tail may have won, but Dean Dodrill was not at PAX to represent his game. Great game though. I got to give this game a try and it isn't hard to see why it won.
Posted by: VanIslePimp | September 7, 2009 4:19 AM
not realy a big fan of any of the winners tbh
Posted by: Anonymous | September 7, 2009 7:31 PM
Not especially a fan of Dust, beautiful, no doubt about it, but the overall experience is a little boring. Anyway there is plenty of time for his creator to pump up the gameplay!
Ps : Hurricane wins again Oo. Maybe they will release it someday then, with the cash prize they have now :p
Good job y'all !
Posted by: Robin | September 8, 2009 1:51 PM
@Robin
He was one of the dudes behind Jazz Jackrabbit 2 and Jazz Jackrabbit 3D.
I Don't see any future problem of ''boring ness''
Posted by: Ins0mnia | September 16, 2009 8:04 PM