Welcome To The Dobbs Challenge

Things have been quiet (perhaps a little too quiet) here at The Dobbs Challenge and particularly in the forums, which makes us pretty sure that you're all too busy beavering away at your entries to talk! However, we'll still like to remind you all that time is now of the essence, with the contest to close in less than one month's time on June 13th. Categories still open for entry include Best Windows Game, with a $4,000 prize, and Best Windows Mobile Game, with a $2,000 prize, so there's still some serious scratch on offer!

It is with great honor that we can announce to you the winner of the first prize on offer as part of The Dobbs Challenge – The Dobbs First Month Challenge. The $1000 prize was on offer for the best game entered within a month of the contest opening, and we were (as we said in the previous post) absolutely blown away by the quality of the entries after such a short amount of time. So without further ado, the winner is:

It would be an absolute understatement to say we've been blown away by the quality of the entrants to the Dobbs First Month Challenge. We thought that even with $1000 on the line to the best entrant with a mere month to develop a serviceable work-in progress it was just going to be too much work.

We were, happily, proven wrong and there's a strong crop of games now available up on the Critic's Choice download section for you to check out -- including a one button fighting game from Alexkr; Badly Drawn Robots, which can be best described as "Robotron Meets Castle Wolfenstien Meets Dr. Dobbs" and Dobbs Derby, possibly the most ambitious total conversion we've seen yet, which turns Dr Dobbs Challenge into a racing game!