Sounds like it was fun:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20482960/
Wanna-be designers bring their best ideas to ‘just-for-fun’ panel at PAX [Penny Arcade eXpo]
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In the end, the winning game concept was as simple as “Pong.” Kairi Schotter, a 24 year-old programmer from Estonia, pitched an idea of a game that starts out with basic graphics that get more sophisticated as the gamer progresses.
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Schotter’s fellow finalists were Charles Simmons of Vancouver, B.C., who pitched a side-scrolling DS game called “Spud the Potato” and Eric Wahlquist of Bremerton, Wash., who came up with his “evil cooking game” on the way to the conference.
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In the end, the winning game concept was as simple as “Pong.” Kairi Schotter, a 24 year-old programmer from Estonia, pitched an idea of a game that starts out with basic graphics that get more sophisticated as the gamer progresses.
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Schotter’s fellow finalists were Charles Simmons of Vancouver, B.C., who pitched a side-scrolling DS game called “Spud the Potato” and Eric Wahlquist of Bremerton, Wash., who came up with his “evil cooking game” on the way to the conference.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20482960/