Luxtoberfest II Contest A Huge Success

The second annual Luxtoberfest contest and celebration has come to an end. Sillysoft Games congratulates the winners and all players of the downloadable strategy game Lux.

(PRWEB) November 7, 2005 -- The second annual Luxtoberfest contest and celebration has now come to an end. It was a great success, with all ten special events having huge turnouts.

Thanks to everyone who participated. A full re-cap of the events, the results, forum dialogue, and the closing ceremonies chat log can be found on the Sillysoft contest page: http://sillysoft.net/contests/

Congratulations to Magpie for collecting a total of 10 different honors during Luxtoberfest, the most of any player. The full list of the 78 different people who received awards can be seen here:

http://sillysoft.net/contests/2005awards.php

The winners of the voted awards are as follows:

Best Map:

Castle Lux-The Battle for Bamburgh by Mark Bauer

Best AI:

Nefarious by Preacherman

Best Host:

BarStar

Most Entertaining Player:

Sidhe

Most Sportsmanlike Player:

pale kate

Rookie of the Year:

magpie

Most Strategic Player (Lifetime Achievement):

SET

Second and third place winners are displayed here:

http://sillysoft.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5075

Thanks to everyone who came out to Luxtoberfest II. It was a blast! We hope to have regular tournaments starting soon, including some of the popular Luxtoberfest variants. Luxtober also marked an expansion of the Map of the Week. Weekly awards are now distributed for the most online wins using the Map of the Week. Starting monday the featured map is the newly released Castle Lux-Merchants, created by best map winner Mark Bauer.

http://sillysoft.net/lux/rankings/motw/

Thanks again to everyone who played, and to all our generous sponsors. Winners get to choose from the following list of prizes:

Audio Hijack

Record any audio playing on your computer into a file for future use. Available for Mac OS X.

http://www.rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/

BBEdit

The leading professional HTML and text editor for Mac OS X. It doesn't suck.

http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/index.shtml

Blaze Media Pro

A powerhouse all-in-one multimedia software offering conversion, ripping, editing, recording, burning, playback, and much more. Available for Windows.

http://www.mystikmedia.com/blazemediapro.asp

Delicious Library

Catalog, browse, and share all your books, movies, music, and video games with Delicious Library. Available for Mac OS X.

http://www.delicious-monster.com/

Democracy

A detailed political simulation game: try your hand as the president (or prime-minister) of a modern country. Available for Windows.

http://www.democracygame.com/

Desperate Space

Experience huge battles in this asteroids style space shooter game. Available for Windows.

http://www.jaggedbladesoft.com/desperate/

DROD: Journey to Rooted Hold

Swordplay and puzzles combine in this thinking man's dungeon crawl game. Available for Windows and Linux (a Mac OS X version is coming soon).

http://www.caravelgames.com/Articles/Games_2/JtRH.html

Gish

Award winning platformer game where you control a ball of tar on his quest to rescue his girlfriend. Available for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.

http://www.chroniclogic.com/index.htm?gish.htm

IconWorkshop

A professional quality icon editor. Available for Windows.

http://axialis.com/iconworkshop/

Lux

The strategy game you know and love. Get a friend hooked today. Available for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux.

http://sillysoft.net/lux/

Pax Galaxia

Simple and fun real-time strategy game. Available for Mac OS X and Windows.

http://sillysoft.net/pax/

Sillysoft Swag

Get your very own Lux shirt, hat or beer stein. Available for your real life.

http://www.cafepress.com/sillysoft

Trash

A 3D real-time strategy game based in a post-apocalyptic future. The surviving humans and mutants battle for control of the primary resource: trash. Available for Windows.

http://www.inhumangames.com/

ABOUT SILLYSOFT GAMES

Sillysoft Games in an independent developer of downloadable computer strategy games. Their flagship game Lux was one of the 2005 Independent Games Festival finalists. For more info see http://sillysoft.net

Dustin Sacks

President

Sillysoft Games

http://sillysoft.net

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