Woongjin ThinkBig Opens Game Development Challenge... 'Team Prontus' Wins

Lee Jae-jin, CEO of Woongjin ThinkBig (from the left), and Lee Yoon-hwan and Lee Kang-san of Team Prontus, who won the grand prize, are posing for a photo.

Woongjin ThinkBig announced on the 26th that it has concluded the '3rd Woongjin ThinkBig Game Development Challenge,' a game application development contest.

The Game Development Challenge is a contest to develop customized learning games for children using artificial intelligence (AI) learning data from Woongjin ThinkBig's elementary and middle school arithmetic app, MathSpeed. Woongjin ThinkBig has been holding this contest annually since 2021 with the aim of discovering new development talent and excellent educational content.

The finals were held in a format where five outstanding teams among the 30 teams that advanced to the main round competed for the final awards through presentations (PT). The judging panel consisted of Lee Jung-hoon, Senior SA Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS), the event sponsor; Lee Wan-bok, professor at Kongju National University; Hong Young-gi, vice president of the Korea Indie Game Association; Chun Se-ok, secretary general of the Smart Education Society; and Jeong Hae-soo, head of business at the Korea Edutech Industry Association.

As a result of the judging, the Woongjin ThinkBig Grand Prize was awarded to Team Frontus for developing 'Help Me, Math Solver.' It is a growth-type story game where players solve math problems encountered in daily life alongside cute animal characters. The game received positive evaluations for its unique direction, high completeness, and the inclusion of various mini contents such as gacha, rankings, and quests. The Woongjin Prize (Excellence Award) was awarded to Team 302Lab for their learning defense game 'Math Quest.'

Lee Kang-san, who was in charge of content design at Team Frontus, said, "Thanks to the various programs Woongjin ThinkBig provided to support app development, we were able to present a good result," and added, "We will continue to strive to develop new educational content that makes studying enjoyable."

Woongjin ThinkBig will award a total of 54 million KRW in prize money and plaques to 10 winning teams, including 30 million KRW for the grand prize team and 10 million KRW for the excellence award team. Winning teams will also receive preferential hiring benefits at Woongjin ThinkBig or opportunities for joint development.

Lee Jae-jin, CEO of Woongjin ThinkBig, said, "With e-sports being officially adopted as an event at the Hangzhou Asian Games, games are now influencing many areas of our society," and added, "We will continue to discover excellent content so that games can be positively utilized to enhance students' learning engagement in the education industry."

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