Writing free or nearly free games is often a thankless task, and it is very difficult to guage the game's success - often a programmer will never know just how loved their game turned out to be.
 
In the interests of this important hotbed of talent, and to provide readers with an easy way to get at the very best in PD and Shareware games, Acorn Arcade have started a PD Awards Scheme.
 
Any games released will enter our league below (its position will be voted on by the members of the Acorn Arcade team and the general public), and particular recognition will go to those games that make it to the top five at any time.
 

• The Acorn Arcade Gold PD Award will go to the authors of any game to hit the No. 1 spot. They may display the award graphic wherever they wish.
• The Acorn Arcade Silver and Bronze awards will go to games that are placed 2nd or 3rd.
• The Acorn Arcade PD Excellence Award will go to 4th or 5th placed games.

Aside from the accolade, we are considering the possibility of some form of prize for Award winners, to attempt to inject some competitiveness into the world of PD games programming and raise the standards.
 
   

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The League

	Position	Name	Author	Status
	1.	Super Foul Egg	Owain Cole	Freeware
	2.	Abuse	Lee Noar	Freeware
	3.	ArcQuake	Peter Teichmann	Freeware
	4.	Plig	Skullsoft	Freeware
	5.	Marsquake	Paul Taylor	Freeware
	6.	PushyII	RFredW	Freeware
	7.	Spots	Moving Pixels	Shareware
	8.	Nuclear Holocaust	Graham Crockford	Shareware
	9.	RailPro	Jos Keizers	Freeware
	10.	Bloxed	Steven Singer	Freeware