Despite what the majority of the Internet may want you to believe, Activision isn't a giant evil empire looking to conquer the galaxy through fear and annual releases. As part of an effort to prove this to the rage filled masses Bobby Kotick set up the Activision Independent Games Competition. Today they announced the winners of the first annual competition and handed out $250,000 in cash prizes. First place and $175,000 went to Peter Angstadt for his game "Dstroyd" with the second place prize of $75,000 going to Engient for his game "Rigonauts: Broadside".
Above: A guided tour of the latest version of Dstroyed.
The competition was open to all U.S. based indie developers, be they an individual or a team, and submissions were for completed or in-development games (including game concepts/proposals). Activision plans to use this competition to hand out a total of $500,000 to help support indie game development. This was only phase one of the competition and they plan to hand out another $250,000 in phase two (more details to come).
The best part about the Activision Independent Games Competition is that despite awarding these talented indie developers all that cash Activision holds no ownership or publishing rights over their games or companies. Activision's simply providing them with funds to help them make their games and access to all the resources at Activisions disposal if they want it.
So do you think this is all on the up and up or does Activision maybe have sinister motives for doing all these great things? Let me know in the comments.
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