Contest Highlights

The uDevGames contest is iDevGames' unique grass-roots initiative to highlight our community to gamers, as well as a development platform capable of producing the most innovative cross-platform titles in the industry. Here's why uDevGames has become the Mac gaming event of the year:

• Source code from all entries is released back into the community.
• Fantastic prizes are awarded to motivate developers to do their best.
• Anyone can enter using any development tool that produces double-clickable, native Mac OS X applications.
• The Best Overall Game is demonstrated at MacWorld's Mac OS X Arcade.
• The contest produces a wide range of free games for players to enjoy.
• Gamer participation is encouraged through feedback and play testing.

Entering uDevGames 2008

• Read the Rules of the contest.
• Visit the developer registration page and Register.
• Login to your account and fully complete your profile developer profile.
• Upon approval of your registration, you will receive instructions concerning payment of the contest entry fee.
• Once your profile is complete and your entry fee has been received, your account will be upgraded from 'Member' to 'Developer'. (See the Developers List for confirmation.)
• To submit your entry, please follow the instructions contained in the 'Entry Submission' e-mail.

Whether you're a newbie coder or veteran programmer, the community of iDevGames wishes you the best of luck during the uDevGames 2008 Contest, Carlos Camacho, Editor-in-Chief, iDevGames.

Schedule

Official Start: December 2, 2008, 12:01AM
Registration Deadline: January 18, 2009 11:59PM
Entry Fee Required: January 19, 2009 11:59PM
Game & Source Code Required: March 2, 2009 11:59PM
Voting Begins: March 3, 2009 12:01AM
Voting Ends: March 10, 2009 11:59PM
Announcement of Winners: March 12, 2009
Postmortems Required: March 25, 2009 11:59PM
Prize Reviews Required: May 31, 2009

Note: All deadlines are GMT.