The uDevGames Mac Game Development Contest has begun. Sponsored by iDevGames and iDevApps, the contest is entering its fifth year of challenging developers to create an original game in 3 months. Game designers have a chance of winning prizes in a variety of categories.

From the website:

iDevGames is proud to announce the start of the fifth uDevGames Mac Game Development Contest! The contest challenges participants to create a Mac OS X game in three months time, which will then be subjected to public vote and peer vote, with the best in a variety of categories receiving prizes provided by our generous sponsors.

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.

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

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