#IGF annual Student Showcase winners The Independent Games Festival organizers have announced the winners of the 9th annual Student Showcase. This years competition took in over 350 entries across a variety of platforms colleges and game programs around the world, which makes the IGF one of the larges student showcases for gaming in the world. Winning teams receive $1,000, as well as all access passes to #GDC 2015. Winners are also finalists for Best Student Game at the Independent Games Festival Awards on March 4th. Many popular games we all know and love have also been winners before, including #RiskOfRain and #TheUnfinishedSwan. Maybe the biggest of these is #NarbacularDrop which with #Valve became the #Portal series. Anyway, here are the winners of this years Independent Games Festival: - a•part•ment (Team a•part•ment, University of Southern California) - Downwell (Ojiro Fumoto - Tokyo University of the Arts) - Close Your (GoodbyeWorld Games - University of Southern California) - Even the Stars (Pol Clarissou - Supinfogame & Nicholas Gavan - University of Bialystok) - Gemini (Echostone Games - Tisch School of the Arts, New York University) - Interloper (Monogon Games - HKU Utrecht School of Art and Technology) - Rooftop Cop (Stephen Lawrence Clark - Tisch School of the Arts, New York University) - Stellar Smooch (Alec Thomson & Jenny Jiao Hsia - New York University) Honorable mentions that just got edged are: - A Story About My Uncle (Gone North Games - Södertörn University) - Ahoooj (Circus Atus - FAMU, University of West Bohemia, CVUT FEL, UMPRUM) - Circles (Jeroen Wimmers, University of the Arts Utrecht) - Drew and the Floating Labyrinth (Dust Scratch Games, University of Windsor) - Lisa (Rubna, Elzendaal College Boxmeer) - Mecha Trigger (Team Casserole, Michigan State University) Below is a reactions video of people playing Close Your, which reminds me a lot of the Citizen Abel series developed by Brendon Chungs #BlendoGames, and would not be surprised to hear there was some influence. As a fan of the style I will likely be checking it out. Is there any games here that you will be checking out? Let us know below!
Posted on: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 21:06:30 +0000
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