Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
"There's something about the pressure of the deadline and tangling with scores of other talented developers that gets the brain juice flowing, and motivates me to create things that may otherwise have never existed," he added
Ficarrotta works as an iPod game designer/programmer at Freeverse in New York. He broke into the games industry with his entry in uDevGames 2004 which was subsequently commercialised by Freeverse as "Kill Monty".
Other games that were honoured in at least two categories were Constellation by Matthew Woods (second overall and for gameplay and presentation), Maneuv'it by 'DGuy' (third for gameplay, second for audio and third for presentation), Ben Mildren's ChasmBowling (third for graphics and audio, and second for originality), Simoebic Dysentery by Joe Flores (first for originality and equal third for audio) and Stephen Johnson's Gw0rp (second places for story and originality).
Winners share a prize pool valued at $US20,000 - mainly in the form of software (including development tools and commercial games), plus books, magazines, services, arcade style game controllers, some cash and an iPod touch.
"With the success of the Apple iPhone and iTouch, there's never been a better time to be a game developer for Apple's platforms," said Carlos Camacho, editor-in-chief at iDevGames.
"This year's best overall game, Laserface Jones vs Doomsday Odious by Justin Ficarrotta, highlights the increadible talent that is within our community," he added.
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