#dreambuildplay

Wie schon seit einigen Jahren üblich veranstaltet Microsoft auch 2012 wieder das hauseigene Dream.Build.Play. Wer mit seinem Xbox 360- oder Windows Phone 7-Projekt am Wettbewerb teilnehmen möchte, kann sich ab sofort dafür anmelden. Die beiden zentralen Deadlines:

Registrierung: 5. März bis 15. Mai

Projekteinreichung: 15. Mai bis 12. Juni

The DreamBuildPlay2011 submission deadline arrived a few days ago, and we've all taken a well-deserved break.  The final weeks saw us through the expected crunch period, where we were spending many hours a day ensuring SoL was of an acceptable quality.  We're quite pleased with the result, which is showcased in the game trailer:

Our actual submission to DBP can be found here.

We hope to have SoL qualify as a finalist, as this would make us rather happy and proud.  Being a finalist would mean the game ranked in the top 20 out of the almost-300 games submitted in the competition.  However, these results won't be revealed until late August.

The total development time, including design and prototyping, was just under 14 weeks; we started shortly after the competition began.  We created everything in the game -- no resources were developed externally (the only exception being some royalty-free sound effects, but even those were remixed and edited heavily).  The soundtrack took roughly five days to produce, and I think it came out quite nicely.  If you're a fan of the aural arts, you can listen to it here: