Year 7 (2009)
Year 7 launched in December 2008 and lasted until February 28, 2009 (extended from an original closing date of January 31). The number of games submitted returned to previous levels, with 67. This year introduced a requirement (later relaxed, but still followed by most games) to use JNLP deployment, and as a result had a mix of applications and applets.
Other technical first for this year were the submission of word games and a game which used the microphone. Word Twister used built-in levels, and Scr4mble used reflection to grab class names from the J2SE API and split them into words to build a dictionary. Frequent Flier was controlled by the pitch sung into the mic.
The games were reviewed by five judges: Arni Arent, Chris Melissinos, Matt Hicks, Eli Delventhal, and Mark DeLoura. As previously, they reviewed in the three categories of Overall, Technical, and Presentation.
There was minor controversy over the scoring because some judges were unable to play some games. Their scores for those games were initially 0 and counted against those games when the scores were first released on April 1, but the averages were changed to discount these 0 scores three hours later. After this change, the top three games in each category were
| Overall | Technical | Presentation | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Left 4k Dead by Markus Persson | Bridge4k by Måns Olson | Left 4k Dead by Markus Persson |
| 2. | Bridge4k by Måns Olson | Pixeloids4k by Måns Olson | Red Baron 4K by Marcin Kochanowski |
| 3. | Pixeloids4k by Måns Olson | Left 4k Dead by Markus Persson | NiGHTS 4k by Orangy Tang |
- The results of the competition
- The judges' reviews of the games
- List of games
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