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词条 Dream Build Play
释义

  1. Concept

  2. Notable entries

  3. Dream Build Play Challenges

     2007 Warm-Up Challenge  Winners  2007 Challenge  Winners  2008 Warm-Up Challenge  Winners  2008 Challenge  Winners  2009 Challenge  Winners  2010 Challenge  Standard Dream-Build-Play Challenge  Microsoft Old Spice Challenge  Winners  2011 Challenge  Winners  2012 Challenge  Xbox 360 Winners  Windows Phone Winners   2017 Challenge    PC/Windows 10 Category    Cloud/Azure Category    Console/Xbox One Category    Windows Mixed Reality/HoloLens Category  

  4. References

{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2014}}Dream Build Play (also known as Dream-Build-Play, Dream.Build.Play, and DreamBuildPlay) is an annual $75,000[1] Microsoft video game contest used to promote Microsoft XNA Game Studio and eventually Xbox LIVE Indie Games. It was announced in 2006,[2] started in 2007, and ran until 2012. It was restarted in 2017 as the Dream.Build.Play 2017 Challenge. Notable winners include An Elysian Tail[3] and Dead Samurai.[4]

Concept

Dream-Build-Play, as it was first called, is a game development contest designed to promote and encourage experienced game developers and enthusiasts to create innovative and fun-to-play indie games for Windows and Xbox 360 using Microsoft XNA Game Studio.[5] In 2017, the contest was relaunched to challenge indie game developers to create UWP games across four categories.

Notable entries

Many winners have gone on to be published on Xbox LIVE Arcade:

  • Extinction Agenda (Entered as A.R.E.S.)
  • Blazing Birds
  • Capsized
  • Cloudberry Kingdom
  • An Elysian Tail
  • Kung Fu Strike (Entered as HurricaneX, HurricaneX2, and HurricaneX2 Evolution in three separate Dream Build Play contests.)
  • The Adventures of Shuggy (Entered as Shuggy.)
  • The Bridge
  • Dead Samurai
  • Yo Ho Kablammo!
  • Zeit²

Dream Build Play Challenges

Here is a breakdown of all Dream Build Play Challenges, including lesser known Warm-Up Challenges:

2007 Warm-Up Challenge

Microsoft offered a Relatives of Spacewar Warm-Up Challenge precursor to the first Dream Build Play, awarding US$500 to the top five entries.[6] The entries had to create a game based on the Spacewar Starter Kit.[7]

Winners

Top 5:[8][9]

  • Earth vs. Mars (Minsk, Belarus)
  • Udder Assault (Bellevue, WA USA)
  • G, (Bologna, Italy)
  • Viduce (Lyon, France)
  • Cracklin Crackles (Chicago, IL USA)

2007 Challenge

Also known as Dream-Build-Play 1.0,[10] this is the first Dream Build Play Challenge. In it, Microsoft offered an Xbox LIVE Arcade publishing contract to the top four entries out of 4,500 participants, with the top two "1st Place" winning $10,000 each and the next two "2nd Place" winning $5,000 each.[11][12]

Winners

1st Place (tie):[13][14]

  • Blazing Birds (Burlington, Canada)
  • Dead Samurai (Remix) (Marcy, NY, United States)

2nd Place:

  • Gravitron Ultra (Stockholm, Sweden)
  • Yo Ho Kablammo! (Huddersfield, United Kingdom)

3rd Place:

  • Big Sky (Durban, South Africa)
  • Burning Angels (Beijing, China)
  • Chaos (San Diego, CA, United States)
  • Gunstyle (Montgomery, AL, United States)
  • Hasta la muerte (Angoulême, France)
  • Hippocrate's Dilemma (Guilderland, NY, United States)
  • HurricaneX (Shanghai, China)
  • Little Gamers (Brussels, Belgium)
  • Magic Crystals (Wyoming, MI, United States)
  • Proximity HD (Warrenville, IL, United States)
  • Ragu (Tyresö, Sweden)
  • Rocketball (San Diego, CA, United States)
  • Samurai Soul Hunters (latest) (Bothell, WA, United States)
  • Shuggy (Ely, United Kingdom)
  • Sprockets of Strife (College Station, TX, United States)
  • Viduce (Lyon, France)

Blazing Birds, Dead Samurai, Yo Ho Kablammo!, HurricaneX, and Shuggy all eventually were published on Xbox LIVE Arcade. HurricaneX was eventually released as Kung Fu Strike[15][16] and Shuggy as The Adventures of Shuggy.

2008 Warm-Up Challenge

Also known as the Silicon Minds Warm-Up Challenge,[17] it was a precursor to the main 2008 Dream Build Play Challenge, announced in late 2007[18] this one centered on artificial intelligence and promised an opportunity to interview for at an internship with Microsoft Research, Rare, or Lionhead Studios.[19]

Winners

Top 5:[20][21]

  • Conquerator (Nicholas Barratt & Gillian Allen, Dollar Short Games)
  • Hive (Nancy McCourt)
  • iSheep (Markus Jost & Remo Zehnder)
  • Orblast (John Montemorano, What About Gameplay?)
  • Specimen (Brent Strandy)

2008 Challenge

The 2008 Dream Build Play Challenge marks the first time the contest offered $75,000 worth of prizes. First place won $40,000, second place won $20,000, third place won $10,000, and fourth place won $5,000.[22]

Winners

Top 4 Prize Winners:[23]

  • Showtime
  • Battle Tennis
  • Weapon of Choice
  • HurricaneX2

Top 20 (in alphabetic order):[24]

  • An Awesome Game (United States)
  • Artoon (United Kingdom)
  • AUTO (Denmark)
  • Battle Tennis (Venezuela)
  • Bennu (Portugal)
  • Biology Battle (Thailand)
  • Blow (Canada)
  • Showtime'' (Singapore)
  • Galex-e-mail (United States)
  • HurricaneX2 (China)
  • Petank Party (France)
  • Project X- Trino (United States)
  • Pyramid Camel Boy (United Kingdom)
  • Save Jack (South Africa)
  • Smashell (Italy)
  • Spacehack (South Africa)
  • Streets of Fury (France)
  • Tropos (South Korea)
  • Weapon of Choice (United States)
  • Zeit 2 (Germany)

HurricaneX2 and Zeit 2 were eventually released on Xbox LIVE Arcade.

Weapon of Choice made it into the Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition.[25] HurricaneX2 was eventually released as Kung Fu Strike.[26][27]

2009 Challenge

Winners

Top 4:[28]

  • An Elysian Tail, Humble Hearts
  • Max Blastronaut, Coin App
  • Rotor'scope, Nolver Apps
  • HurricaneX2 Evolution, YouYun Tech

Top 20 (alphabetic order):[29]

  • Avatar Golf, Barkers Crest Studio (United States)
  • BAMBOONO, TAKENOKO (Japan)
  • Band of Bears, Cellar Door Games (Canada)
  • Cloudberry Kingdom, Zealous Studios (United States)
  • Creed Arena, Reedake (Australia)
  • Duality ZF, Xona Games (Canada)
  • An Elysian Tail, Humble Hearts (United States)
  • Echoes, binary zoo (Australia)
  • Guru-Guru, Gasp! (Venezuela)
  • HurricaneX2 Evolution, YouYun Tech (China)
  • Kaleidoscope, Morsel (Canada)
  • Magnetic Mind, laXarIS (Germany)
  • Masters of Belial, Brain Seal (United Kingdom)
  • Max Blastronaut, Coin App (United States)
  • Mirror, Silver Dollar Games (Canada)
  • Powa Volley, Kydos Studio (France)
  • Rotorscope, Nolver Apps (Spain)
  • Sol Survivor, Cadenza Interactive (United States)
  • Square Off, Team Chaos (Australia)
  • What The?!, Social Loner Studios (United States)

Cloudberry Kingdom, An Elysian Tail and HurricaneX2 Evolution were eventually released on Xbox LIVE Arcade. Score Rush Extended a spiritual prequel to Duality ZF was eventually released on PS4.

HurricaneX2 Evolution was eventually released as Kung Fu Strike.[30][31]

2010 Challenge

This year, in addition to the $75,000 in prizes for the top 4 entries, there was an additional $60,000 Old Spice prize. This allowed a single team to potentially win $100,000 in prizes.[32]

Standard Dream-Build-Play Challenge

The standard prize money split, labelled a bit differently: $40,000 grand prize, $20,000 first prize, $10,000 second prize, and $5,000 third prize.[33]

Microsoft Old Spice Challenge

In 2010, Old Spice launched four scents inspired by Matterhorn, Fiji, Denali, and Cyprus. The contest asked indie game studios to use these same places as inspiration for a funny and entertaining Xbox 360 game, the winner to be used to produce the products.[34]

Winners

Top 6[35][36]

  • Lumi, Nicolas D. (France)
  • ARES, Extend Studio (Thailand)
  • Prismatic Solid, YO1KOMORI (Japan)
  • Beat Hazard, Cold Beam Games (United Kingdom)
  • Duality ZF, Xona Games (Canada – excluding Quebec)
  • JoyJoy, Radiangames (United States)

Top 20 (alphabetical order)[37]

  • ARES, Extend Studio (Thailand)
  • Abaddon, Team Cornflake (United States)
  • Abducted!, Photonic Games (United States)
  • Alien Jelly, Collective Mass (Australia)
  • Armor Valley, Protege Production (Singapore)
  • Beat Hazard, Cold Beam Games (United Kingdom)
  • Capsized, Alientrap (Canada, excluding Quebec)
  • Creed Arena, reedake (Australia)
  • Duality ZF, Xona Games (Canada – excluding Quebec)
  • Dysnomia, Team Mango (United Kingdom)
  • JoyJoy, Radiangames (United States)
  • King Spray, electronicshed (Australia)
  • Lumi, Nicolas D. (France)
  • Mind Over Metal, Murudai (Australia)
  • Ninja Garden, Kablammo Games (Ireland)
  • Prismatic Solid, YO1KOMORI (Japan)
  • Shape Shooter, Super Jai (United States)
  • Shoot 1UP, Mommy's Best Games (United States)
  • Soul, Kydos Studio (France)
  • The Shadows in the Underworld, Polaris (Canada, excluding Quebec)

ARES and Capsized eventually were published on Xbox LIVE Arcade. Prismatic Solid will be published to PS4.[38] Score Rush Extended a spiritual prequel to Duality ZF was eventually released on PS4.

2011 Challenge

Winners

Top 4:[39][40]

  • Blocks That Matter
  • Solar 2
  • TIC: Part 1
  • Sequence

Honorable Mentions:[41][42]

  • Production Quality: Alien Jelly
  • Innovation: The Bridge
  • Fun Factor: Ninja Crash

The Bridge was published to Xbox LIVE Arcade.

2012 Challenge

Xbox 360 Winners

Top 4:[43]

  • One Finger Death Punch, Silver Dollar Games
  • Dead Pixels, CantStrafeRight
  • Ninja Crash, Team Devil
  • Gateways, Smudged Cat Games

Windows Phone Winners

Top 4:[44]

  • Smirkers, Kenneth Bugeja
  • Pixel Blocked!, Daniel Truong
  • Alter Ego, Denis Grachev
  • Cradle to the Grave, COLTRAN Studios

2017 Challenge

PC/Windows 10 Category

Finalists:

  • The Forbidden Arts
  • Goscurry
  • Imperatum - WINNER - US$50,000

Cloud/Azure Category

Finalists:

  • Stellar Conquest - Winner - US$100,000
  • Clash of Camelot
  • The Hadron Effect

Console/Xbox One Category

Finalists:

  • Fighties - WINNER - US$25,000
  • King's Guard TD
  • Train Bandit

Windows Mixed Reality/HoloLens Category

Finalists:

  • Racket: Nx
  • Windlands
  • Prison Boss VR - WINNER - US$50,000

References

1. ^MS offers $75,000 prize money for Dream.Build.Play 2011 Challenge, vg247.com
2. ^[https://web.archive.org/web/20061217171742/http://www.dreambuildplay.com/index.html Dream Build Play], dreambuildplay.com archive (2006-Dec-17)
3. ^2009 Dream-Build-Play winners announced, Dust takes top honor, joystiq.com
4. ^developer spotlight, xbox.create.msdn.com
5. ^[https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2007/aug07/08-13gamefestpr.aspx Microsoft Makes Game Development Dreams a Reality], microsoft.com
6. ^[https://web.archive.org/web/20070216040604/http://www.dreambuildplay.com/main/default.aspx Dream Build Play], dreambuildplay.com, archive (2007-FEB-16)
7. ^[https://web.archive.org/web/20070219222538/http://www.dreambuildplay.com/main/HowToPlay.aspx How to Play], dreambuildplay.com, archive (2007-FEB-19)
8. ^dream-build-play warm up challenge winners!, xboxforums.create.msdn.com
9. ^[https://web.archive.org/web/20070307153648/http://www.dreambuildplay.com/main/Default.aspx Congrats to our Relatives of Spacewar Warm-Up Challenge Winners!], dreambuildplay.com, archive (2007-MAR-07)
10. ^[https://web.archive.org/web/20071205225104/http://www.dreambuildplay.com/main/default.aspx Dream Build Play], dreambuildplay.com, archive 2007-DEC-05
11. ^Microsoft Announces Dream-Build-Play Contest Winners, gamasutra.com
12. ^Microsoft Offers Publishing Contract to Four Indie Game Developers, extremetech.com
13. ^[https://web.archive.org/web/20070510222458/http://www.dreambuildplay.com/main/Default.aspx Dream Build Play], dreambuildplay.com, archive (2007-MAY-13)
14. ^Microsoft Announces Dream-Build-Play Contest Winners, gamasutra.com
15. ^About Qooc Soft, qoocsoft.com
16. ^KungFu Strike Out to Xbox Live today, qoocsoft.com
17. ^[https://web.archive.org/web/20080131234526/http://www.dreambuildplay.com/main/default.aspx Dream Build Play], dreambuildplay.com, archive 2008-JAN-31
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19. ^[https://web.archive.org/web/20071209103703/http://www.dreambuildplay.com/main/default.aspx Dream Build Play], dreambuildplay.com, archive 2007-DEC-09
20. ^[https://web.archive.org/web/20080225205818/http://www.dreambuildplay.com/main/winners.aspx Winners], dreambuildplay.com, archive 2008-FEB-25
21. ^Silicon Minds: Encouraging Intelligent Game Design, research.microsoft.com
22. ^Winners in Indie Dev Contest, with Video, kotaku.com
23. ^[https://web.archive.org/web/20081104063533/http://www.dreambuildplay.com/main/default.aspx Dream Build Play], dreambuildplay.com, archive 2008-NOV-04
24. ^[https://web.archive.org/web/20081219084452/http://www.dreambuildplay.com/main/Top20.aspx Winners], dreambuildplay.com, archive 2008-DEC-19
25. ^Weapon of Choice in Guinness World Records 2010, mommysbest.blogspot.ca
26. ^About Qooc Soft, qoocsoft.com
27. ^KungFu Strike Out to Xbox Live today, qoocsoft.com
28. ^2009 Dream-Build-Play winners announced, Dust takes top honor, joystiq.com
29. ^[https://web.archive.org/web/20090913114235/http://www.dreambuildplay.com/main/top20.aspx Winners], dreambuildplay.com, archive 2009-SEP-13
30. ^About Qooc Soft, qoocsoft.com
31. ^KungFu Strike Out to Xbox Live today, qoocsoft.com
32. ^[https://web.archive.org/web/20100127185626/http://www.dreambuildplay.com/main/default.aspx Dream Build Play], dreambuildplay.com, archive 2010-JAN-27
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35. ^[https://web.archive.org/web/20101203062133/http://dreambuildplay.com/Main/Winners.aspx Winners], dreambuildplay.com, archive 2010-DEC-20
36. ^[https://web.archive.org/web/20110303090027/http://www.dreambuildplay.com/Main/Default.aspx Dream Build Play], dreambuildplay.com, archive 2011-MAR-03
37. ^[https://web.archive.org/web/20100412081621/http://dreambuildplay.com/main/Top20.aspx top 20 submissions], dreambuildplay.com, archive 2010-APR-12
38. ^Indie Shooters Revolver360 Re:Actor And Prismatic Solid Headed To PS4, spawnfirst.com
39. ^[https://web.archive.org/web/20110903033759/http://www.dreambuildplay.com/Main/Winners.aspx Winners], dreambuildplay.com, archive 2011-SEP-03
40. ^Congratulations to the 2011 Dream Build Play winners!, joystiq.com
41. ^[https://web.archive.org/web/20110903033759/http://www.dreambuildplay.com/Main/Winners.aspx Winners], dreambuildplay.com, archive 2011-SEP-03
42. ^Congratulations to the 2011 Dream Build Play winners!, joystiq.com
43. ^Dream Build Play, dreambuildplay.com
44. ^Dream Build Play, dreambuildplay.com

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