PAX: DUST TOPS MICROSOFT’S DREAM BUILD PLAY XNA COMPETITION

As predicted, Dean Dodrill has taken home the $40,000 grand prize in Microsoft’s XNA/IndieGames competition Dream Build Play for his previously mentioned beat-em-up Dust: An Elysian Tail.

The oft blogged CoinApp and their tiny-planet shooter Max Blastronaut has come in at second place, for a $20,000 prize.

The third place $10,000 prize went to Nivel21’s Rotor’scope:

And finally, ‘kong fu’ action game HurricaneX2 Evolution took home the $5,000 fourth place prize:

This year’s winners, according to the press release, will again be supported with the “opportunity to publish their games on the Xbox LIVE Indie Games Channel” and the extra promotional push the contest will give them — as with last year, there doesn’t seem to be a channel to promote the winner to a full Live Arcade release as Microsoft did with 2007’s Ska Studios winner The Dishwasher.