Cut the Rope has won the Apple Design Award!

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WWDC - it is not only the announcement of Apple's new developments, but also a lot of sessions for developers in which they can learn about new technologies and the API, apple offered by the company. It is also a time when Apple rewards the best design of the year.

Apple Design Award - the most respected and coveted award for developers. For a long time it was given to Mac-only developers, but with the advent of the iPhone and iPad, Apple rewards the authors of applications for these devices. The main criteria that govern Apple picking winners is innovation in design, user experience and technology.

ADA - this is the main reason why we have the Things, Coda and many other convenient and beautiful program, while Windows or Linux - no.

This year among the winners was named the game Cut the Rope, created by Moscow ZeptoLab team. We congratulate the authors of the "rope" - Seeds and Efim Voinov deserved victory :) This is the second time that a Russian company won the Apple Design Award. Previously received the award VITO Technology (Solar Walk, Star Walk).

And now the full list of winners:

Best Student Work

Grades 2 - Developer: Tapity. Grades - is a program for the iPhone, which helps American students to monitor their academic progress in school and college. The authors of the application, the Olson brothers - themselves still in college. Grades - their first application.

Pennant - Developer: Vargatron. About application Pennant few people in Russia know. And with good reason: the program offers to learn the history of American baseball teams. Pennant - an interactive application. The main merit of the authors - in an interesting form of content delivery. A big role in the success of the application, apparently played a flattering review Gruber, who reads every Apple employee.

Pennant Preview from steve Varga on Vimeo.

Pulse - Developer: Alphonso Labs. Pulse - This RSS-aggregator with a human face. Probably the first of its kind. The program was created by students at Stanford University as part of the course work. For some time authors sell applications. Soon, however, he drew attention to the Pulse American press, and behind her, and investors. Now Pusle presented not only on iOS platfore, but also Android, and the program itself is distributed free of charge.

The best program for iPhone

Cut the Rope - Developer: ZeptoLab. Moscow studio "Zeptolab" was founded by two brothers. Semyon and Efim already had many years of experience of game development. I wanted to create something of their own. Cut the Rope - it is not "success in one day." Before the game there were other projects. But it is Cut the Rope has become a high point for Zeptolab. The game is always on the list of the most popular and best-selling applications for iOS. It is not surprising that it soon appeared an army of clones and imitators, which, however, have not been able to achieve notable success.

Golfscape GPS Rangefinder - Developer Shotzoom Software. Golfscape GPS Rangefinder - an example of the proper use of augmented reality. The program calculates the distance to the hole, and, like, gives advice to the passage. The assets of the program - 35 000 courses.

Infinity Blade - Developer: Chair Entertainment. Infinity Blade - is the first game for iOS, which uses engine Unreal Engine 3 (BioShock, Army of Two, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Borderlands, Bulletstorm, Gears of War and others. - they are all built on the Unreal Engine 3). The game offers unprecedented graphics and gameplay hurricane. Not surprisingly, for the first 4 days it has sold nearly 300 thousand copies.

The best program for Mac

Capo - Developer: SuperMegaUltraGroovy. The app for the Mac. It helps to learn music. Many can not say about the program, as first I learned about it :-)

Pixelmator - Developer: Pixelmator. Pikselmator was created Dailide brothers from Lithuania. On the first day of sales back program brought to the founders of 60 thousand dollars. When I opened Mac App Store, and sales have been all fantastic - $ 1 million in the first month. Pixelmator has filled a niche of simple, easy to use graphical editor for home users. Three years have passed, and a viable alternative has not appeared (except Acorn). Congratulations Pixelmator team and look forward to the second version of graphic editor, which promised a lot of exciting new products.

Anomaly Warzone Earth - Developer: 11 bit studios. Authors Anomaly Warzone Earth combined action and strategy, mixing and without rattling mix with the genre of tower defense. The result was a game from which delighted and Windows-based users, fans and Mac. «I think I just jizzed my pants» - tells us one of YouTube users. Watch the trailer for the game with caution!

The best program for the iPad

Osmos - Developer: Hemisphere Games. Osmos - one of those games that must be in every iPad owner. It is not often developers offer original game concept, but with Osmos just this case. Excellent graphics, incredible music and charming atmosphere provided.

Our Choice - Developer: Push Pop Press

You are greatly mistaken if you think that the beautiful flipping electronic pages, shelves and cover - this is the future of digital books. Future - in an organic blending of text, interactive infographics, videos and audio commentary. It really is a book Our Choice.

djay - Developer: algoriddim

The program is designed for DJs and those who want to become one :) Available for the Mac, iPhone and iPad. The app is not cheap, but the reviews - a continuous delight.

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Interestingly, the winners receive Apple Design Award? MacBook Air, iPad 2 and iPod touch. But the main prize - a gray cube: