Welcome To The Dobbs Challenge

It is with great honor that we can announce to you the winner of the first prize on offer as part of The Dobbs Challenge – The Dobbs First Month Challenge. The $1000 prize was on offer for the best game entered within a month of the contest opening, and we were (as we said in the previous post) absolutely blown away by the quality of the entries after such a short amount of time. So without further ado, the winner is:

It would be an absolute understatement to say we've been blown away by the quality of the entrants to the Dobbs First Month Challenge. We thought that even with $1000 on the line to the best entrant with a mere month to develop a serviceable work-in progress it was just going to be too much work.

We were, happily, proven wrong and there's a strong crop of games now available up on the Critic's Choice download section for you to check out -- including a one button fighting game from Alexkr; Badly Drawn Robots, which can be best described as "Robotron Meets Castle Wolfenstien Meets Dr. Dobbs" and Dobbs Derby, possibly the most ambitious total conversion we've seen yet, which turns Dr Dobbs Challenge into a racing game!

The Dobbs First Month Challenge ends on April 14^th at 11:59 p.m., so I hope you’ve been hard at work on your modification of Dr. Dobbs Challenge (either the Windows or the Windows Mobile version) to be in with a chance to win $1,000! If you haven’t had a chance to get started properly yet, however, remember that there’s still everything to play for -- submit your best attempt on April 14^th and feel free to continue development on the project for the final deadline (for all prizes) on June 13^th.