It’s time to announce the winning applications for MSNR Messenger’s Worlds Best App Contest, which MSN ran from September through December 31st, 2005.
There were a lot of great entries, hard work and interesting new ideas for building new applications and games within Messenger. Submitted applications were judged based on the official rules and judging criteria which included creativity, launches during the contest, suitability for the medium and best use of other MSN services. The following identified winning applications still subject to verification and acceptance of their winning prizes:
Grand Prize: Pool—It’s cool.
1st prize Games: Hide and Seek
1st prize non-game: Noteasic
2nd Prize Games:
* note: the author of Tankwars also wrote the very popular Messenger Quest. While multiple submissions were allowed each person is eligible for 1 prize. Tankwars edged out Messenger Quest.
2nd Prize Non-Games:
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3rd Prize Games:
GO Game Battleships 3D Tic-Tac-Toe Sudoku Sniper Cartoon Memory Game of the Generals Dactis Let's Play Chess Maverick V-Pool Hangman Memory Buzzword Bingo Survival Tournament Scissor Stone Paper Chingo Ahorcado for MSN Messenger 9 Ball Boter kaas en Eieren 8 ball world cup 4x4 Finar
3rd Prize non-Games:
Web Sharing
t4im (translator for instant messenger)
CodeTalk
Free Job Boards
Whisper
Abu-Hilal Arabic Keyboard
eBay Search
EmoPic
ShoppingTogether
UTA
Math Pastebin
Subject Suggestion
Congratulations to all of the winners, and from everyone on the Messenger team thank you all for your hard work, creative ideas, and participation in Messenger’s 1st development contest.
Winners will be contacted in writing by Gage, the agency coordinating the contest to verify the winners and their acceptance of the prizes. Please contact me with any questions.
Todd
Worlds Best App Contest Winners
SusanBaroody
akinbahri
Hey!
Do you get notified by email too
Thanks anyway,
Greetings Glenn
skip0464
Good job to everyone who entered, i'm definatley pleased about getting second place. Congrats to Juzzi though, you made an awsome game and you definatley deserved to win the grand prize!
Hopefully there will be other contests like this, it was a good experience and pretty fun too
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RemiRenshai
Thanks Todd and the team for awarding my little Connect 4 game second place, you've put a smile on my face on this dreary, damp london monday morning!
JohnDurant
arashikage
PDHB
Thierry Lam
SomeshChandra
Congratulations to everyone!!!! :D I'm a happy 3rd place winner, but hey, the experience is what counts!!! Not bad for an electronic guy that never took a programming course ;)
(Just between us, my game gets more traffic than my employer's web site)
Thank you Microsoft for providing cool platforms to develop with!!!! Keep the good work!!!
Say... Maybe we all should put our projects together and build an amusment e-park or something... just a though ;)
Ned Ryerson
I was just wondering if anyone else has received their notice yet Because I have yet to see anything in my email inbox or my real mailbox.
Congrats again!
Dan
curwiler
Ah yes, and congrats!
Zagen
Of course also congratulations to all the other developers who won a price! I'm very happy to see I've also won (3rd place but well, I won something!!) and I would like to thank the whole MSN Messenger Activity team for organizing such a contest and making it available for us all to develop such nice applications. Thanks!
pc-coholic
Wau
The competition was awesome and surprising!
Where can we look for updates if the MSN Team has more contests
After hearing some of the complaints, suggestions, and seeing what features of the Activity API were most used... can the MSN Team mention any changes to the Activity API that we can expect to see