Dream-Build-Play contest finalists announced
by Dustin Burg 
{ Aug 4th 2007 at 3:00PM }
The XNA Creator's Club sponsored Dream-Build-Play contest, a contest in which XNA developers create a game in hopes of getting it published to the XBLA, just announced the twenty finalists moving onto the next round. Among the top twenty are some beautiful games (HurricaneX PC and Burning Angels), some that are quirky (Viduce) and some that are very jolly (Big Sky). And soon the top three winning XNA games will be announced on August 13th during Gamefest 2007 when we'll get to see which game will be making its way to the XBLA. Long live XNA, huzzah!
[Thanks, Cryovat]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Yay @ Aug 4th 2007 3:13PM
Why don't they just let us have all the runners-up for free?
DPFinch @ Aug 4th 2007 4:07PM
This is great they doing this to high light the common Joe. Yet i still would like to see them do what they promised years ago. Have a pulic selection on the MP with a rateing system so every x360 owner can try them out. If it sucks or if its great we should be allowed to put them up and try. As for the rateing system if it falls below a point it gets removed from the MP. If it remains high enough it stays on the MP for DL.
Slvrgun @ Aug 4th 2007 4:07PM
Why do XNA games take so damn long to come out on XBLA?
Pyrobi @ Aug 4th 2007 5:57PM
Surely if the games are good enough to become finalists, they deserve to be published to the arcade? What hope does this give people trying to get their own game onto the XBLA?
ArseOnToast @ Aug 4th 2007 6:31PM
That's great, my friend's game is a finalist.
Tony @ Aug 4th 2007 10:10PM
"What hope does this give people trying to get their own game onto the XBLA?"
Well, it even kind of implies that if they win this competition that the game will receive a larger budget to be fully realized... so I mean, I have to imagine it's like any other contest in that sense. Your hope is that you'll reach the top and get it made. That's certainly more than anyone would otherwise get.
MYPS3KilledMy360 @ Aug 5th 2007 1:15AM
great way to build content for years this is a great idea even after they have winner they will still have some great titles sitting in somedark room awaiting there release.
terrax @ Aug 5th 2007 2:39AM
poster 1 (Yay), Microsoft do not even give WALLPAPERS away for free to its loyal customers so they are not going to give games, even homebrew games to us without charging us
(probably to pay for their unprecedented repair bill.)
Remember this is the company who tried to charge 800points for .....solitaire
Leif Dehmelt @ Aug 6th 2007 5:23PM
You can play some of the finalists for free:
http://swampthingtom.blogspot.com/2007_08_01_archive.html
In order to play the Xbox360 versions you need a membership for the creators club, which costs some money - but you can install the windows versions without any membership.
The XNA tools are:
crossplatform to develop on both windows and Xbox360 at the same time.
free to use - for both commercial (on windows platform) and freeware games (Xbox360 and windows)
no licence fees or royalties need to be payed even for commercial games...
I want to applaud to microsoft for the opportunity they gave me to develop one of the finalists!
-Hellborg