Galaxy Note S-Pen App Challenge winners announced!

Recently I told you about the S-Pen App Challenge, an endeavour by Samsung to proliferate the market with apps specifically for the S-Pen.  Clever idea.

Well, yesterday Samsung (with the help of judges and voting) announced the winners.

• Best Overall App – Grand Prize – $100,000 “Monkey Write * Learn Chinese” by Chiu-ki Chan (Square Island LLC): Learn to write Chinese with Monkey Write – a game that makes it fun to learn. Chinese characters are written in a specific order to give them structure. Follow the stroke numbers to learn to write each character.
• Best Overall App – Second Prize – $50,000 “Maze Racer” by Roger Peters (SmartyPantsGaming) and David McCanless: Maze Racer is a simple maze inspired game where you draw a line from start to finish. In Maze Racer, you get rewarded stars based on how quickly you reach the finish. Maze Racer is optimized for precision from the S-Pen over traditional finger input.
• Best Overall App – Third Prize – $25,000 “Drawing Pad” by Christopher Lott and Daren Murtha (Murtha Design): Drawing Pad is a mobile art studio with a beautiful user interface that puts the fun into creating art. Drawing Pad provides amazing realistic textured brushes with the pressure sensitivity data of the S Pen.
• Popular Choice – $2,000 and a Galaxy Note – “SignDoc Mobile” by Softpro North America: Professionally capture user handwritten signature using pressure sensitivity of the S Pen

Honorable Mention – $2,000 and a Galaxy Note

• Games – “Speed Draw” by Ferdouse Khaleque and Kabir Khaleque
• Productivity – “Papyrus” by Andrew Hughes (Steadfast Innovation)
• Media – “FlipaClip” by Visual Blasters team members Jonathan Meson and Tim Meson
• Sports – “Playcall” by Sargon Benjamin
• Entertainment – “Colors! For Galaxy Note” by Jens Andersson (Collecting Smiles)
• Travel – “Map Note” by Base 2 Applications, LLC
• Social – “Authorgraph” by Evan Jacobs (To the Reader, Inc)
• Lifestyle – “Makeup Paint” Modiface Inc.
• Education – “iAnatomy” by Anouk Stein, M.D.
• Other – “bConnected @ Ball State for Galaxy Note” by Ball State University team members Kyle Parker, Valerie Morris, Ryan Bitzegaio, Brandon Smith, Ian Gibson and Brice Brenneman

Any of you with a Galaxy Note (which according to our survey was about 5% of you) try these apps out?

Source:  http://galaxynotespenchallenge.com/updates/297