After three weeks of incredibly difficult deliberations, we are proud to announce the winners of the CREATE Game Jam! We were so impressed with the depth of quality and variety of submissions, and hope that this is a preview of great things to come for the OUYA. For those of you who haven’t checked them all out, here’s the play-by-play of the contest winners.  – – – The CREATE Grand Prize: Strange Happenings on Murder Island From the moment we saw the character selection screen (which takes place on a crashing plane), it was clear that we had something special…

In case you haven’t been following along, we hosted a 10-day online game jam in January, inviting game designers from all over the world to build their best prototypes for the upcoming OUYA game console.  Exceeding our wildest expectations, we received 165 phenomenal submissions, spanning every genre of game imaginable.  Puzzlers, 3D shooters, RPGs, casual games, an MMO (in 10 days!), real-time strategy—you name it.   It was our team’s impossible job to review all of these excellent submissions and select finalists in each category, passing along the Grand Prize finalists to our esteemed judges, including Felicia Day (The Guild),…