[This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Gamasutra and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource GamesPress.]
25 February 2013, Roswell, GA
Tripwire Interactive are happy to announce the results of
Breakout, the final phase of the Counterattack Mapping Contest for
Red Orchestra 2. With over $35,000 in total prizes, the competition
has been fierce. The first phase showed some serious skills from
the mapping community - this final phase has stepped it up even
further. Again, great fun to judge - and it looks like people have
had great fun playing the maps. Don't forget that the contest
versions of the maps are available on Steam Workshop - and we aim
to bring many of them into the fold as official RO2 maps in the
future.
Firstly, for the
Grand Prize, winning a further
$5,000 and a unique,
RO2-etched Origin Laptop (take a look
at
http://www.originpc.com/ to see just how
special these things are), is Danh Truong's Winterwald!
Next, the winners in the "Best Original Level" category
are:
1. Winterwald by Danh Truong, winning $5,000
2. Bridges of Druzhina by Kieran Tobin, winning $2,500
3. Coldsteel by Johan van Pelt - wins $1,000
The other category was for "Best Remake". Once again, it was
great to see some old classics being remodeled and
reimagined. The winners are:
1. Gumrak Station by Maik Doktor, winning $5,000
2. Stalingrad Kessel by Florian Montaut, winning $2,500
3. We actually had a tie for third place, so we doubled up the
prize:
- Arad 2 by John Cree, winning $1,000 AND
- Rakowice by Johan van Pelt, winning $1,000!
That is $10,000 and an amazing laptop for the Grand Prize
winner, with a total of $36,000 in cash given away!
We had Daniel Shannon contact the contest winners and get their
views, so there is an interview with all the winners available on
the RO2 website (
http://www.heroesofstalingrad.com/counterattack-map-making-competition/mapping-contest-interviews/).
A longer version, along with judges' comments will be posted on the
upcoming
Tripwire Ladder website, which will be open for
business soon!
RO2 is, of course, available on Steam (
http://store.steampowered.com/app/35450/), or as
part of the Tripwire Interactive Bundle (
http://store.steampowered.com/sub/16835/), as
well as in stores and all major digital outlets!
About Tripwire Interactive
Based in Roswell, Georgia, Tripwire Interactive is an
entertainment software developer and publisher founded in 2005 by
the award-winning mod team and winners of the 2004 edition of the
"$1,000,000 Make Something Unreal" competition. The team
released Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45, to both critical and
commercial success, garnering several awards including "Multiplayer
Game of the Year" and "FPS of the Year". This was followed by the
immensely popular Killing Floor, which went straight to the top of
the best-seller list on Steam and has now sold over 1.6m units,
making it one of the best-selling PC games of all time. Red
Orchestra 2 was released in September 2011, to high praise and PC
Gamer's award for "FPS of the Year (Multiplayer)". Along with
publishing other Indie titles, Tripwire Interactive continues
to build a reputation for strong support for all their titles
over a prolonged period of time. For more information visit
Tripwire Interactive's website at
www.tripwireinteractive.com.
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