Design a Game: Competition

We’ve teamed up with our games department 4DX games to offer one very lucky child the prize of a lifetime, turning their game idea into an app for Android & iOS devices. They will also win a Tesco Hudle 2 to play it on, becoming the envy of their friends at school. How cool is that?

The game can be about whatever – bogies, trumping, burping, jumping, flying – what we can’t do however is create the next Call of Duty, Minecraft or GTA V, so think along the lines of the next Crossy Road, Fruit Ninja, Mr Jump, Candy Crush or Angry Birds. Remember we’re looking for creativity and a simple idea that is suitable to play on a tablet or smartphone.

Inspiration

Ok so to get your creative juices flowing here are some examples of the kind of games you could use for inspiration. (written in my best 10 year old way of describing things). You can of course draw us some pictures on the worksheet to illustrate your ideas.

Flappy Bird , tap a falling bird and make him fly through as many gaps in pipes as you can without him bumping into anything.

, tap a falling bird and make him fly through as many gaps in pipes as you can without him bumping into anything. Fruit Ninja , fruit falls down the screen you have to chop it up with your finger as it falls avoiding bombs that will blow you up.

, fruit falls down the screen you have to chop it up with your finger as it falls avoiding bombs that will blow you up. Candy Crush , match 3 sweets to eat them and try to clear the screen.

, match 3 sweets to eat them and try to clear the screen. Mr Jump, tap the screen to make Mr Jump jump over spikes, holes and lava.

The team at 4DX games will turn the best idea into a fully functioning free game*, with a game artist and developer bringing the winners game to life, keeping our winner in the loop at every stage.

The competition is open to all Schoolchildren aged 5 years to 16 years old (Infant School through to High School) until 30th November 2015 (extended) with the winning game being available to download in Q1 2016.

This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for our lucky winner.

How to Enter

To get started simply download our PDF worksheet, making sure you get an adult to fill in their details too. Entries can be mailed to us or scanned (on a scanner or photographed on a phone) and emailed to us via the electronic form below. Full competition terms & conditions are available here. Good luck.

Online entry form:

Parents Name

Your Email

Contact Telephone number

Child's Name

Child's Age

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Check here to accept competition terms & conditions.

Or post your entries to:-

Design a Game Competition,

4DX Media Ltd.,

Carlton Court,

147-153 Lord Street,

Fleetwood,

Lancashire,

FY7 6LY

*Game will be made available on Google Play and the iOS App Store for free, there will be a ‘more free games’ button to additional 4DX games titles and also branding from NetVoucherCodes.co.uk as we are sponsoring the development costs of the game. We will also support the launch and winners game with a full PR campaign to help with downloads and getting the game and it’s designer full recognition.