There is a new heading in the Community Games section below 'New Arrivals',  called 'Contest Finalists'

The games in the cascade are

Artoon
BIOLOGY BATTLE
Bloc
Blow
Colosseum
Galax-e-mail
Melvin's Meltdown
SMASHELL
Weapon of Choice

DarthCheesiest:

There is a new heading in the Community Games section below 'New Arrivals',  called 'Contest Finalists'

I don't understand what do you mean. Where is this, on the Xbox 360 menu? What's the contest you are talking about?

Yes thats what he means... when you go into communtiy games in NXE you now see:

All, Most popular, New Arrivals, Contest Finalists

And what contest are we talking about? Any? Dream-Build-Play? Anyway, I think it's a good idea to distinguish games which achieved such a goal.

Edit: changed content by contest

In this case its DBP 2008... which contest is important to us developers but remember this is a consumer interface... just knowing these games were part of a competition is enough for a gamer especially in a UI which is limited by making a good 10 ft experience. Plus its some good marketing for those games.

That is odd.  3 of those games do not match the top 20 on dream build play website.

I think thy are games that were entries not just top 20....

I need to email creators and get Easy Golf put on there if that is the case.

Edit:  ZMan, I just checked on the Xbox Marketplace on the 360 and it is labeled as "Contest Finalist".

I escalated this - hopefully we will hear back soon.

Hi,

do you noticed that there are nine (out of 20) games in the finalist section on NXE? (looking at the games I guess is the DBP2008)

The games are: Artoon, Biology Battle, Bloc, Blow, Colosseum, Galex-e-mail, Melvins's Meltdown, Smashell, WoP


The weird thing is that Bloc and Melvins's Meltdown are not in the twenty finalist list.

3 actually.  Colosseum was also not a finalist.  Zman is aware of the issue and has escalated.

The ZMan:

I escalated this - hopefully we will hear back soon.

Petank Party is one of the DBP contest finalist as well and not on the list either.

The ZMan:

I think thy are games that were entries not just top 20....

Nope, "In the Pit" was also a DBP entry but not a finalist.

The new Contest Finalists slot is a great avenue to highlight games and creators that made it to the finals. The slot not only features those games that made it to the top 20 of Dream.Build.Play but also showcases other contest finalists from the Swedish Game Awards and later this year will highlight games from Imagine Cup.
My apology for the confusion this may have caused.
Thanks
Stephanie

luvcraft:

Nope, "In the Pit" was also a DBP entry but not  a finalist.

Well hopefully being one of the top selling community games is a nice consolation prize.. ;-)

Reality Shift:

luvcraft:

Nope, "In the Pit" was also a DBP entry but not  a finalist.

Well hopefully being one of the top selling community games is a nice consolation prize.. ;-)

And how! :)

Like I've said in numerous interviews, I was expecting the DBP judges to "get it" more than everyday players, but I'm much happier that it's the other way around.

Whoot:

The new Contest Finalists slot is a great avenue to highlight games and creators that made it to the finals.

Yes indeed it is. That's why we would appreciate as a DPB finalist to appear in that list.

http://www.dreambuildplay.com/main/Top20.aspx

Thanks,
The Petank Party team.

If you think you should be on the list email creators@xna.com the MS guys don't always track the forum threads

I've read this whole thread, and I'm still confused.  What is the criteria to make it into the contest finalist category?  Why are games that have not placed in the top 20 in DBP2008 listed in there?  I just want to understand.

Maybe there should be a "Community's Picks" category where we all vote our top games in.  Games that did not make the finalists, but still deserve recognition.

Errors?

From Stephanies post:
1. top 20 of Dream.Build.Play 
2. Contest finalists from the Swedish Game Awards - Warm up winner (Gravitex and Disco Fever??) [Full list of entries]
3. later this year will highlight games from Imagine Cup.
4. ?????

Which games are missing, which are there that shouldn't be? If someone can go through the list and post them I will get the list to Stephanie.

The ZMan:

Errors?

From Stephanies post:
1. top 20 of Dream.Build.Play

...

Which games are missing, which are there that shouldn't be? If someone can go through the list and post them I will get the list to Stephanie.

Not sure about the entire list but at least to this day Petank Party (a dbp top20) is still missing from the list.
Thanks for you help Mr Zman.

Matthew Doucette:

Why are games that have not placed in the top 20 in DBP2008 listed in there?

You have to remember there is a level of criteria here:

1. You must have a game that was in DBP
2. You must live in a supported developer country
3. You must have submitted your game to XBLCG

Since DBP was an international competition where many of the games were not submitted to XBLCG afterwards, perhaps they simply filled in the list with other high-ranking DBP games that are on the system. I'm aware they missed Petank Party (and others), but perhaps that was just an error. For all we know Bloc took 21st so that might be how we got in. Or maybe they wanted to add the category primarily for future use and just picked the games that they recognized from DBP.

Just don't complain too much; I like that Bloc is getting some extra attention. ;-)

Thank you to everyone for keeping me honest! Petank Party has now been added and sadly for Nick Bloc has been removed as was Melvin's Meltdown.
CarneyVale was added as they just came online last night.

Nick is once again correct in that not all games that submitted to DBP and made the top 20 were from countries that were able to submit to XBLCG's or as of yet they have not choosen to submit their games!

The channel was just updated to reflect the changes mentioned above so please be patient. Give it about 24 hours and it should show correctly.

Thanks again and to Petank Party- my apology you were overlooked.

Stephanie

Whoot:

Petank Party has now been added and sadly for Nick Bloc has been removed as was Melvin's Meltdown.

:-(

Whoot:

Thank you to everyone for keeping me honest! Petank Party has now been added and sadly for Nick Bloc has been removed as was Melvin's Meltdown.
CarneyVale was added as they just came online last night.

Nick is once again correct in that not all games that submitted to DBP and made the top 20 were from countries that were able to submit to XBLCG's or as of yet they have not choosen to submit their games!

Hey Steph, just checking whether the DBP 2009 top 20 that have now been released can be added to the competition finalists?

AFAIK this would include Square Off, Creed Arena, Sol Survivor and probably some others I haven't noticed yet.

Thanks!