Brooklyn-based studio Eppy Games wins prize in Atari Developer Challenge

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Brooklyn based studio Eppy Games placed third out of nearly 90 entries in the Atari Pong Indie Developer Challenge with their entry 'Fong', earning a cool $15,000 and an iOS App Store publishing contract from Atari itself. 

 

The competition was a call for developers to reimagine Atari's classic Pong game and help bring it to the App Store.  The judges included Atari founder Nolan Bushnell and Tuaw editor Mike Schramm, who described Eppy Games' entry best as "a really crazy circular version of Pong, with some strange rotational controls and some really frantic action elements."  

 

Submission of a trailer video for the game fulfilled the "marketability" aspect of the judging process.  This resulted in creation of the entertaining little piece linked below:

 

 

The Eppy Games team for the 'Fong' submission was comprised of David Epstein, Kendall Noble, Alex Krasij, Michael Bartnett and Michael Marchisotto.  Additional contributions early in the design process were provided by Matthew Moss and Joseph Mauriello.  Congrats to Eppy Games, and we look forward to playing the game on our iPads!

 

 

Related articles: 

 

http://appadvice.com/appnn/2012/08/pong-indie-developer-challenge-winners-show-how-to-bring-a-legendary-classic-into-the-new-age

 

http://www.gamezebo.com/news/2012/08/02/atari-reveals-winners-pong-indie-developer-challenge

 

http://www.tuaw.com/2012/08/03/winners-revealed-for-ataris-pong-dev-challenge-pong-world-earn/

 

http://www.atari.com/pongdeveloperchallenge/finalists

 

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08/21/2012 by alexk

Awesome! Congrats guys. :-)

08/21/2012 by NYC_GI :: 9 months ago

Outstanding!

08/22/2012 by Adam :: 9 months ago

Conrats. Looks fun. I like the faces on the fongs

09/02/2012 by pigfarmergames :: 9 months ago