Two weeks ago, we announced the first "James Portnow's Game Design Challenge," in which you were asked to create a new class or set of classes for a fantasy MMORPG.

And the winner is...

Everyone! This was amazing. The response was overwhelming and every submission was pretty fantastic. I actually lost sleep (several days in fact -- there were so many submissions) deciding what to post. Here it goes:

First I want to give a shout out to all the schools that participated:

Colleges and Universities

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• Arizona State University
• Arkansas State College
• Art Institute of Tampa
• Auckland Uniniversity
• Binghamton University
• California State University
• California State University, Fullerton
• College of New Jersey
• Collins College
• Columbia College Chicago
• Concordia University
• Crafton Hills College
• Dundalk Institute of Technology
• Illinois Institute of Art
• Indiana University
• Lima University
• Metropolitan State College of Denver
• Monash University Australia
• New York University
• Oklahoma State University
• PUC-Minas
• Ringling College of Art and Design
• RMIT University
• San Francisco State University
• SUNY Institute of Technology
• University of Adelaide
• University of Advancing Technology
• University of Arkansas
• University of Calgary
• University of Koblenz
• University of Louisiana-Lafayette
• University of Maine
• University of Maryland
• University of Massachusetts
• University of Memphis
• University of Paris XI
• University of Salford
• University of Texas at Austin
• University of Wales
• University of Waterloo
• University of West Florida
• Virginia Commonwealth University
• Washington University
• Westwood College

High Schools

• North Branch High School
• Pueblo West High School
• Randall High School
• Rye Neck High School
• Shorewood High School

I received entries from students at every one of the above schools (and probably many more; not everyone told me what school they were from). I'm glad to see students interested in the future of game design.