Year 8 (2010)
Year 8 ran from December 1, 2009 to February 28, 2010. The number of games was down to half the previous year's, at 34. Following problems with Webstart in 2009, the 2010 contest was applets-only, but it did introduce the option of using pack200 compression.
The games were reviewed by three judges: Arni Arent, Eli Delventhal, and Kevin Glass. They gave only an overall score, which was normalised before averaging. Separately there was a community voting system in which each voter had 25 points to allocate between the games, with a limit of 5 points to any one game.
The judges and the community vote coincided on the top three games:
- Burning Man by SquashMonster
- GTA4K by Simon
- FortressFall4k by soothsayer
- The judges' scoring results
- The community voting results
- The judges' reviews of the games
- List of games
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