it's $20K which is about £8.5k, not to be sniffed at, but it isnt cash, it's Crap™
$1M AUS - about £425K - surely it'll be in-house devs so where exactly is that $1M being invested? It's on a piece of fucking paper so they can stick it in their tax return.
Meanwhile Mr Marketing is snorting coke out of a high class whores crack in the afternoon while some sorry fucker is writing the bloody code for fifteen bucks an hour and a bowl of noodles.
anyway, moot point, the winner see's nothing of the $1M so why is it being dangled?
"the next big idea in video games" - if i have that i aint giving it away for eight grand to a fucking ISP
sorry to sound so negative but this type of thing does really annoy me - bottom line is you dont have to be a designer or developer to enter this so the likelyhood is some kid has a bright idea, wins the package, feels good, so fair play - all the while being majorly raped in the ass by corporate swine.
C'est la vie