5th Flash Game Design Competition

( http://designawards4us.com/index.php/design-awards/5th-flash-game-design-competition.html ) Here we go again: you, casual gamer / game designer / Flash whiz, design a game in Flash (any version) that incorporates our theme (see below). It doesn't have to be complex nor large in scope, in fact since you will have only 8 weeks to complete your design, simple ideas are probably the way to go.
For the 5th Casual Gameplay Design Competition, we are asking for entries that incorporate this theme: UPGRADE.

Submission deadline: 3th March 2008.
Entry fee: Free design competition
Who can enter: No restrictions
Awards: $3,500 + Adobe Flash CS3 Professional license

For the 5th Casual Gameplay Design Competition, we are asking for entries that incorporate this theme: UPGRADE. You are free to interpret that any way you choose; however, the extent to which your game addresses the theme is left up to the competition judges to decide. Use your imagination and be creative. We will select the best entries submitted to represent the competition just like we have done before. Impress us with your game design and production skills and you will score fame, recognition, prizes, as well as a proper review of your work by the JIG Casual Gameplay review team.

The prizes

* 1st place:
o $3,500
o (1) Adobe Flash CS3 Professional license
* 2nd place:
o $1,750
o (1) Adobe Flash CS3 Professional license
* 3rd place:
o $1,000
o (1) Adobe Flash CS3 Professional license
* Best use of competition theme:
o $1,000
* Viral award:
o $1,000 - most game views as determined by Mochi Media's MochiBot statistics for the 3-week competition judging period.
* Audience award:
o $500 - determined by JIG community popular vote.

We are very excited to be partnering with Gimme5games and with Mochi Media this time around, as both companies bring something new and unique to the competitions:

In addition to the above prizes, your entry could be selected for a development opportunity to appear on other platforms: Gimme5games.com is proud to be part of the Eidos Interactive group of companies, the people that bought you the Tomb Raider and Hitman series of games. Eidos is constantly on the lookout for original and great game ideas not only for Flash deployment, but also for conversion and release on a host of other computer and console formats — because of this, all the entries to the competition will be given a once over for potential conversion to other formats with the top three placed games automatically entered into the evaluation process for potential release on other formats. There will be no commitment of either side to actually proceed to another format but it's nice to have the option! :)

Facilitated by Mochi Media technology with its MochiBot product, we are excited to announce a new and special prize, the Viral Award, that will go to the competition entry that receives the most views during the 3-week judging period .

For more info please visit: Flash Game Design Competition ( http://jayisgames.com/archives/2008/01/game_design_competition_5.php ) website.