March 18, 2009
Freeverse's Justin Ficarrotta Wins uDevGames Mac Game Development Contest
NEW YORK, New York - March 18th, 2009 - Freeverse is proud to announce that a member of its development team, Game Designer Justin Ficarrotta, has won the UDevGames Mac Game Development Contest with his independently developed space shooter, Laserface Jones vs Doomsday Odious.
Besides winning the title of "Best Overall Game" for this year's uDevGames contest, Laserface Jones also received the following awards:
*Best Gameplay - 1st Place
*Best Graphics - 1st Place
*Best Audio - 1st Place
*Best Story - 3rd Place
*Best Presentation - 1st Place
Laserface Jones was Inspired by the classic space shooters from the 8-bit and 16-bit era, including Gradius, R-Type, and Life Force. It took over 3 months of development, as Justin was working on it while also working full-time at Freeverse.
"Laserface Jones was a labor of love for me," says Justin Ficarrotta. "I gave every spare moment I had to make a tribute to all the timeless shoot-em-ups I grew up with. I'm so stoked that people are loving the game as much as I do."
The uDevGames contest is iDevGames' unique grass-roots initiative to highlight the iDevGames community to gamers, as well as a development platform capable of producing the most innovative cross-platform titles in the industry. Source code from all entries is released back into the community. The contest produces a wide range of free games for players to enjoy, and gamer participation is encouraged through feedback and play testing.
Laserface Jones, along with the other UDevGames entries are available for free at http://udevgames.com.
Contact Info:
Brian Akaka
Marketing Director, Freeverse
212-929-3549