Let the games begin

With the blazing sun it’s but natural to stay back home and at home there’s no better companion than the computer. Probably that’s the reason companies roll out umpteen contests to keep everybody busy. CodeChef Gamers Challenge,for starters invites students,programmers and technology enthusiasts to design online browser games and win exciting prizes. A multi-platform online coding competition,it provides you with an excellent opportunity to be creative. To participate you have to just submit entries on http://www.codechef.com till June 15. “In this the participants can work in teams of three where they are entitled to submit multiple entries and update their program as many times as they want. The games can be submitted on their client side browser game (in JavaScript/Flash/Silverlight/JavaFX),” one of the organisers tells us that the winners will be chosen based on how fun and engaging their games are. As for the prizes,graphics card,gaming keyboard,gaming mouse,joystick and PC games are yours for the taking.

Elsewhere,Dream11.com introduces ‘Graphical Fantasy Cricket’ that has cricket enthusiasts selecting their favourite cricketers from across the world,in a graphically rich user interface and earning points depending on how those cricketers perform in real life matches. “While Dream11 users compete with each other for the top spot on the leaderboard,features like Live Scores,News Updates,Player Profiles,Statistics and Standings assist them in managing their virtual teams,” Harsh Jain,Founder & CMD,tells us that the users can challenge competitors and also connect with friends over cricket using the Dream11 Web Messenger,Scraps and other community features. “For more discerning consumers,the widget-based Web 2.0 portal will soon offer personalization tools which will enable them to customize content on their home pages,” adds Jain,who brings to you fully paid international trips,bikes,laptops,digital cameras and MP3 payers as prizes.

Even the mobile companies are not far behind. Nokia begins ‘Search for the new NSeries Flagship Device’,in which 10 lucky winners will get the ultimate converged device ‘N97’ even before it hits the stores. “The ‘Search for N’ will run from June 15 to19 and will invite technology enthusiasts to solve cryptic clues shared online on popular technology websites and blogs. Five hidden clues,posted one a day,on the sites could relate to news that week or features of the new Nokia N97,” tells Vineet Taneja,Director Marketing,Nokia India,as he shows us the contest website http://www.searchforn.com. Log on!