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Dick and Dom meet the winner of our amazing competition to design your own computer game.

After an exciting judging session in Buckingham Palace, the winning entry was decided and Dick and Dom met the judges to see why they chose the game design they did. Chaired by HRH the Duke of York, a champion of all things digital and patron of Code Club, the judging panel included Cheryl Taylor, Controller of CBBC Channel; Alice Taylor, founder of MakieLab; Divinia Knowles, COO and CFO of Mind Candy (creators of Moshi Monsters); Peter Vesterbacka from Rovio (creators of Angry Birds); Joseph Garrett, also known as Stampy, the Minecraft YouTube sensation; and Jake Manion, Creative Director at Aardman Animations.

The judges decided that the winner was Alex, 12 from Hampshire who won with his Escargot Escape Artistes game that the judges said was humorous, exciting and showed a great imagination. Set in Paris in the restaurant of the Eiffel Tower, where the chef is trying to catch escargot to cook and serve them, the escargot are trying to avoid being eaten in garlic butter. Parachutes, jet packs and helicopters are used as escape tools as the player moves the escargot to slime up the 2731 steps from the bottom of the tower to the top. If they reach the top they escape and slime the chef on the way down.

The programme follows Alex as he goes to Aardman Animations to see how his winning game idea is developed and made into a gaming app, plus viewers will be given details of how they can download the app at the end of the show.

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