While RIM has already taken to
directly rewarding developers who write for
BlackBerry 10 in order to stock up its app catalog, it's about to offer a slightly stronger incentive for the gaming crowd. An upcoming Got Game Port-a-Thon starting November 16th will give producers $100 for every game successfully ported to the upcoming platform, with the perks climbing the more titles make the leap. Three or more ports net a
BlackBerry PlayBook, and the first handful who port five or more get a
Dev Alpha device to test their creations in a truly native environment; particularly avid developers porting 10 or more games will even score a trip to the
Game Developers Conference this March. The catch, as you'd imagine from the telethon-inspired label, comes from the fixed timeframe. There's just 36 hours open for submissions once the event starts, which will have most developers scrambling to get their code ready in advance. If RIM gets all its developer ducks in a row, however, we'll have no shortage of fun (or distractions from work) when the
first BlackBerry 10 devices hit the shelves.
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