Samsung announced the winners of its Galaxy Note S Pen App Challenge, in which developers used the Samsung S Pen SDK to integrate S Pen functionality into their apps. Without further ado, here are the winning submissions:
Best Overall App – Grand Prize – $100,000
“Monkey Write * Learn Chinese” by Chiu-ki Chan (Square Island LLC) – a game that makes it fun to learn to write Chinese. 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 – a simple maze inspired game where you draw a line from start to finish.
Best Overall App – Third Prize – $25,000
“Drawing Pad” by Christopher Lott and Daren Murtha (Murtha Design) – mobile art studio that provides 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 – capture user handwritten signature using pressure sensitivity of the S Pen.
Honorable Mentions – $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
And you can get additional information on the Challenge from here.