Android news website AndroidandMe launched awhile back an interesting contest: they set some parameters for developers to go and make some applications for Android, sometimes they were challenging to create, sometimes not has much so.

In return they would pay a developer $90 if they did the job and were the very first to do so. We like it so far; money for effort, and it expands the Android software universe. The first contest went well, but the came along what was thought to be a pretty impossible task: Port Quake II to the Android platform. Even the site itself forgot about it and admitted that it was more or less an impossible feat.

Fast forward awhile, and developers, being the hard-working bunch they are, kept plugging away at it. Apparently, some developer finally produced a fully working port of Quake II for Android. At first, ID software had issues with the port, considering it a violation of their IP, but according to reports, an open-source version of the game was used as the code base, so they had no standing to contest the adaptation.

Fascinating stuff and big news for those who feel like Android has no future in gaming; feel free to read more about it here: http://androidandme.com/2010/02/news/android-bounty-fully-working-quake-2-and-3-ported-to-droid/

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