A SNEAK PEEK ON D.B.P.'S PRIZES

Well yes, I couldn't find any official word and link (yet) detailing the prizes for the main DBP compo (other than what has been published in the OXM), but TehOne.com has posted the following:

"Dream-Build-Play’s main competition has gone live. Fame, fortune and a chance at global envy await you in our Dream-Build-Play competition. The grand prize is a $10,000, an awesome Alienware PC with a smokin’ fast AMD FX processor and ATI graphics card, 3D modeling software, Xbox 360, XNA Creators Club subscription tokens and an amazingly cool Xbox Live Arcade publishing contract for your chance to get your game published on Xbox Live Arcade. Do you have what it takes to win all that and more? Then get started on making your dream game using XNA Game Studio Express and head on over to http://www.dreambuildplay.com/ to enter it into the contest."

Quite interesting ... now we only have to wait for someone in the XNA Team to confirm whether "the cat is out of the bag" or not.

In the meantime, hands on our respective XNA projects!

XNA GAMES ARTICLE ON OFFICIAL XBOX MAGAZINE

According to this thread on the XNA GSE forum, this month's issue of the "Official XBOX Magazine" includes "write-ups" (with screenshots) of the following games: "iFactor", "Eternity's Child", "Racing Game", "Wildboarders", and "Last Alarm : The A.R.G.U.S Complex".

What is more, the issue give further detail about the next phase of the D.B.P. contest, like a list with the prizes!

For those of us not subscribed to this magazine (for whatever reason), there's a comment left by David Weller on the above-mentioned thread that will make us stay tuned for news: "Ask me again on Monday ...".

Ok, Monday ... now let's stay tuned for news!

DBP: WARM-UP ENTRIES?

XNAMatrix has published a list of entries to the "Warm-Up" phase, which so far amount to 20 games in two categories: 16 of them are 2D, and the remaining ... well, let me see ... hum, I think is ... 4! Yes 4; ... ahum! ... well, the remaining 4 are 3D ... (sorry for the delay but I had to open 'calc.exe').

The page provides links to creator's pages, download sections as well as screenshots.

If you want to submit a link to your entry just contact them.

See ya.