Handango Champion Award Winners Announced

I haven't played it once.

Can I get an award for that?

Best Game - Bejeweled by Astraware
Best Lifestyle Application - SplashPhoto by SplashData

So how much did they pay Handango for this injustice? Quarter million a piece? AcidImage creams SplashPhoto. Bejeweled gets creamed by anything UNDRE FOUR YEARS OLD. Sure, it's a fun game, but God, there are loads of better ones. MT3D, TT3D, GTS Racing, Insaniquarium, Billiards, etc.

It makes me wonder if they even own a Palm. Maybe PIC should start a "Software of the Year" poll to rival these jokes. It might even be a way to boost site revenue from the bribes. ;)

-Bosco

Hmmm maybe they don't update their software ...pool, and just pick some of their non-updated list each year! lol

BTW, what is MT3D & TT3D?

Saxtus

MT3D is Master Theif 3D. Great FPS at a reasonable price.

http://www.mobilewizardry.com/palm/mt3d/

TT3D is TableTennis 3D. This one gets my vote for best software. It is hard to beat, hard to master, awesome graphics with full screen on a hi-res+ device, you can customize it to have your picture, say your name and the score, and you can customize, create, and add pictures to your opponents. And it's cheap at $10.

http://www.viex.org/?page=tabletennis3D&here

-Bosco

mt3d = master thief 3D, its a sweet game, check out cascatagames.com

tt3d = table tennis 3d, its also pretty good. I forget its homepage tho..

I'd of picked fantasy realms 2 over bejeweled..

The homepage of TT3D is http://www.viex.org/?page=tabletennis3D

Bejeweled??? Again? This is getting insane! Its like some strange parady of pda gaming. This is the game that most big, important (worn out) mags like PCWorld seem to think is the only game ever made for a PDA. Its like some PDA version of 'Groundhog Day' - completely nuts.

yeah that is some bullsh*t for real! bejeweled winning again is an insult to Palm OS and all the great games out there. they probably do it based on sales.

e740 and T|T

".....Each winner received a generous awards package including promotional opportunities and a $5,000 marketing stipend...."

Gotta keep the only people who pay to advertise on handango happy :P

this is outragous, or a conspiracy, your pick.

I agree. Bejeweled is cool, but it (and some of the other winners) have been out for a few years.

I think they ought to limit the nominations to software released in the previous 12 months. Otherwise it is pointless.

> Gotta keep the only people who pay to advertise on handango happy :P

you'll find, that if you dont list your software on handango for sale - they wont promote it. and, the awards are based on user feedback from memory. if your product is not promoted; you dont get much user feedback. unfortunately, the equation is:

- pay money to handango to market your app
- users see your app more, more chances to vote
- get awards based on user voting

see the pattern? i think these type of 'awards' are utter and total crap. it doesn't reflect the true 'good quality' software out there - its a marketing ploy, supported by someone who is trying to make money out of promoting software.

the best 'awards' normally come from handheld computing et al - where, they dont have a bias towards developers. they have nothing to gain from a specific developer due to the fact they pay marketing/advertising costs.

its sad. very sad. bejewelled winning for the last few years just clarifies the fact that this is how it works. as others have said, there are much better games out there - and, the awards should be for products released (not updated) in the last 12 months. keep the list new guys.

// az
aaron@ardiri.com
http://www.ardiri.com/
http://www.mobilewizardry.com/

Bejeweled is quite good but my vote goes for medieval heroes!

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Already a Tapwave's Helix fan.

Its very nice that so many people here (oops!) remember Bejeweled as having won this award before - but this is actually the first Handango award it has won! (Bejeweled has now been out for only just over 2 years, and the hi-res audio enhanced version was released in the last year.)

For everyone's interest and comparison, last years' results are at:
http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_story.asp?ID=3692
(Perhaps you could add this to the related stories, Ryan?)

I too agree that it would be nice for there to be awards to consider new products within the last 12 months as well. A suggestion for next year - I think "Best Newcomer" would be a great award to encourage new developers.

How about PIC awards that can represent the latest and most cutting edge hardware and software developments - because the PIC readership is a very different niche audience than Handango's!

Howard.

Ardiri - they list judges at the bottom of the page:

http://www.handango.com/Awards2003.htm

..so are u sure that user feedback even has anything to do with this crap? where do they list the 'rules'?

Can anybody think of many other annual awards that pull this kind of whorish crap? If u have an annual award - shouldn't you pick from titles that were actually released this year??? Can you imagin if...

"And the Academy award for best motion picture for 2003 goes to - for the 7th year in a row - Titanic!!!"

*shudder*!!

This is what they have done with Bejewelled - what a complete load. Oh - who cares if they updated the damned thing - that doesnt count.

This thread at least highlighted TableTennis 3D which I haven't tried before so I gave it a whirl - I am so impressed by that game! I'm not sure if there is another game that actually takes advantage of the PDA form factor and the input method (stylus) as much as this game. This game would not work on a PC at all, which makes it a great PDA game. The awards should help highlight games like these, not perpetuate market domination by a few.

Yes, wtf indeed. Splashphoto is a nice piece of software like all the Splashdata suite (I use SplashID daily), but it just doesn't stack up against AcidImage as viewing software.

With a tiny display like a PDA, you gotta have a zoom function for images, or it's just novelty value only.

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- Steve Smith
A physicist is the atoms' way of thinking about atoms.

> Patient Keeper 2.33

maybe when this:

http://www.drcompanion.com/

finally comes to the USA market (it is currently Sweden, UK released next month) we'll start seeing old software like this get its act together. patient keeper/epocrates just dont cut it for the real medical market - but, its all that is available; right now :)

// az
aaron@ardiri.com
http://www.ardiri.com/
http://www.mobilewizardry.com/

Okay, I guess RMN does have review info integrated also, but as a mapping app (especially when you consider rounting & navigation), there is no comparison.

I understand what you are saying, and I agree with your comments. My problem is with the criteria for software nominations.

If you are going to have an annual award, it should be for products released in the previous year. Otherwise, it's like if the Oscars picked from the entire list of movies ever made every year. Doesn't make sense, does it?

"And now, winning the award for the 27th time, Citizen Kane!"

>>"And now, winning the award for the 27th time, Citizen Kane!"

Oops! I just read yr post - funny enough - i thought the exact same thing (almost) and posted a similar thing about the movie 'Titanic' above. But i guess the analogy is obvious. How the hell can Handango claim this as an annual award. And to people to defending them - is this bit of obviousness to complex to grasp? Or do you just love the taste of corporate kak?