Congratulations to Jacob W who is our winner of the Raspberry Pi for his clever game 'Rock and Ruler'. We were very impressed with Jacob's skills as a game writer. The game is a simple concept executed very well. The aim sounds easy enough; get a rock and a ruler from one side of the screen to the other, but after the first simple screens you realise that the two must work together to complete the goal (and the game allows two separate players to play the rock and the ruler) which also summed up the collaborative nature of The Arcade project nicely. Jacob also submitted another game 'Dots' and collaborated on the game 'Stick Dude' with Louis and Chris. We look forward to seeing what Jacob comes up with next.

Congratulations also to the four runners up, Liam Curran (Ninja Runner), Will I (U can Haz Cheezburger), Lachlan Bell (Yeti Young) and Samuel (Zombie Defense) who received Arduino Unos.

Special mention should also go to Never Ending Platform Game and Jeff the Penguin goes to School, both of which we thought showed potential.

Again, thank you to everybody that entered a game - we hope you all continue designing, coding and learning.

We've (finally) put together our shortlist of five games. It really has been a very tough decision getting it down to just five (there has been lots of emails and txt going back and forth). So here they are, our picks for the top games:

• Ninja Runner by Liam Curran
• U can Haz Cheezburger by Will I
• Rock and Ruler by Jacob W
• Zombie Defense by Snakeyes2004
• Yeti Young by Lachlan Bell

We've been really impressed by the skill, imagination and effort that's gone into creating all of the games. This competition was about having a go and hopefully learning new skills along the way, and of course having some fun. We've definitely had fun playing the games so thank you to everybody that entered.

We'll announce the winner and runner up on Friday. It's going to be a tough decision !

All the games entered into the competition can be viewed here. Feel free to have a play and if you enyoyed them, please let the coders know.

The prizes for the top game writers of our game competition are currently sitting here on the desk ! We have a Raspberry Pi 2 complete with 8GB NOOBS card for the top game writer and 4 runners up of Arduino Unos which we're confident they will put to good use.

We will have a special opening tonight at 6pm for those that have been involved in The Arcade project including those that submitted a game. If your game was featured on the Competition page of our website please feel free to come down this evening (with your family). We will present the prizes to the winners and also have have some fun on the machines (and possibly a LAN party later).

A very big thank you to all the volunteers who have helped put together The Arcade project and of course for Neon for playing at the opening. Thanks also to all the 'early adopters' who bought tickets for the preview night - you have helped make it possible to put on this free event for the benefit of the Nelson community.

A big thank you also to The Arts Council for providing the opportunity to put this event on and for all the support they have provided (in particular Ann Braunsteiner).

The Arcade project is not a static exhibition; it will evolve throughout the next two weeks and projects will continue to develop. The exhibition will be on during normal opening Refinery hours this week (11-2 on Saturday, closed Sunday and 10-5 during the week) but keep an eye out on our page for special openings, workshops and other activities.

Also from Monday, a number of games produced by children in our region will be available to play via our website and at The Arcade so also look out for those.