Stunt Squirrels, a physics-based puzzle game where the player must blast daredevil squirrels across the map and around obstacles to land safely on a goal, is the official winner of the Macworld 2010 GameSalad Challenge!
Judges Michael Agustin (Gendai Games), Jakob Wilkenson (Aurora Feint), Omaha Sternberg (iGame Radio), Zachary Waibel (Tricky Software), and Sean Vanaman (Telltale Games) first whittled down the field of 36 game entries to five Finalists. Then, on the final day of Macworld, the judges took over the GameSalad stage to showcase and critique their selections and to cast their final votes. The judges’ votes were combined with public Twitter voting, and the results were:
- Grand Prize: Stunt Squirrels by Fire Maple Games.
- Audience Favorite: Stunt Squirrels by Fire Maple Games
- Judges’ Favorite: Bork’s Adventure by Elie Hang, Justin Knapich, and Ben Knapp
Peter Cohen (The Loop) also stepped in to critique the top five International Exhibitors, and his pick for Best International Submission was Stairs by Strobanik.
Left: Michael Agustin, judge and Gendai Games CEO. Right: Joe Kauffman, creator of Stunt Squirrels.
“Being involved with the MacWorld 2010 GameSalad Challenge has been a truly great experience, and I am honored that I was able to take home the Grand Prize,” said Joe Kauffman of Fire Maple Games. “GameSalad is hands-down my favorite new software! I have been able to create two popular iPhone apps in less than four weeks. This would have been absolutely impossible without GameSalad.”
Stunt Squirrels and two other Finalists, Kill the King and Traffic Ninja, are now available on the iPhone App Store.
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