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X-Widgets Challenge WINNERS !!!

By Navjot Pawera. Monday, 15. December 2008, 18:13:07

Winners, x-widgets, competition, contest

So it's time to announce the MEGA PRIZE winners of our X-Widgets Challenge. After 3 fantastic weekly prize winners, we have now been able to select the 3 Mega Prize winners from all the entries that we received. Judging on various criteria, we spent a good amount of time checking these widgets (and getting addicted to some of them in the process !).

Lets have some drum rolls then !!

The Mega prize winners are:

1st Prize: Brainkrieg
Author: johnnysaucepn
Prize: $5000 !!!!

2nd Prize: Auctioneer
Author: ja002h
Prize: $2000

3rd Prize: Ninja Ropes
Author: Sark7
Prize: $1000

Congratulations to all of you !! We hope you enjoy the prizes as much as we enjoyed your widgets

Also, the first 20 qualified entries should soon receive the t-shirts and $50 Amazon gift cards we promised

I have to mention a few other widgets that gave us such a hard time while making our decision:

Sudoku-X
My.Cook.Book
NoteMessenger
Oulu bus timetables

A big CHEERS to all the winners & everyone who participated

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X-Widgets challenge: Third weekly winner

By Espen André Øverdahl. Tuesday, 2. December 2008, 10:37:04

x-widgets, weekly winner

The time has come to annouce our third weekly winner which is a cool funny physics-based game by Sark7!

Ninja Ropes Extreme is a physics-based action game where you should fight against gravity. The Ninja has two ropes available. Clicking on the game screen throws the rope. If the rope touches a gear it hooks on and moves the Ninja. Circular areas with arrows are gravity anomalies. Use them or avoid them to get the best score in the online rating.

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Enter the X-Widgets Challenge!

By Espen André Øverdahl. Monday, 20. October 2008, 08:00:00

challenge, opera widgets, contest, x-widgets

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Are you up to the challenge?

Opera is challenging developers to create cross-device widgets or “X-Widgets” that can be used on both mobile phones and PC/Mac computers.

An example of an X-Widget might be a shopping list you keep both on your computer and mobile phone. That way you can update it whenever and never lose track of what you need to pick up at the store. Another could be a simple game that you can play on your computer, then pause it, and continue on your mobile phone – perfect when you are going for a high score. One more could be an online auction widget, where you could follow an auction both at home and on the go, and bid right up to the last minute!

Cash prizes galore!

Opera is stepping up and awarding generous cash prizes for the best overall X-Widgets submitted.

1st prize: $5000
2nd prize $2000
3rd prize $1000

In addition you can win t-shirts and $50 Amazon gift cards if you're one of the first 20 qualified entrants. The best weekly widget will be rewarded with a $300 Amazon gift card.

If your X-Widget is among our top picks, we will promote it on widgets.opera.com and you might also find it bundled in our next widget product release!

Yes! How do I get started?

Check out our Opera Widget SDK which has an emulator and access to the Opera Widget manager on Windows Mobile and Symbian phones to help you test and play with your creation.

Rules

Have a read through these rules before you roll up your sleeves:

X-Widget submissions must be able to run on both the widget emulator included in the SDK and on your desktop.
On the emulator, the submission must support QVGA (portrait and landscape) and desktop.
You can upload newer versions of your widget, but remember, only the latest approved version will be judged (be careful when adding or removing features).
You are allowed to submit a maximum of 3 widgets, and are encouraged to focus on quality over quantity.
Coding standards are to use a separate markup for styling and scripting.