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com, the Platinum sponsor of the 8th Annual Independent Games Festival, announces a special new $5000 prize for this year's IGF. com will select the top IGF Main Competition finalists to meet during the GDC. We'll announce the winner at the Independent Games Festival Awards ceremony, Wednesday night, 3/22. Thanks again to the Adult Swim folks for this generous prize. To be clear, this prize is eligible to any IGF Main Competition finalist. They'll be getting in touch with their chosen companies as Game Developers Conference 2006 approaches.
com, this year's Platinum Sponsor, and collectively helping make the contest possible. These include Microsoft as a Gold Sponsor, Epic Games as a Mod Competition Sponsor, and Digipen as a Student Showcase Sponsor.
GDC 2006 in San Jose next March, where awards will be handed out. Please note - the other finalist announcements (Mod Competition finalists, Student Showcase winners) will occur on January 15, 2006.
full list of student entrants for those who want to check out the field. We had an excellent set of entries this year, and we're starting judging right now - we'll be contacting the entrants with more info in the near future.
updated judge list for the 2006 IGF competition, and we're delighted to have a great cross-section of game professionals, from developers from major studios (Nihilistic, Vicarious Visions, Shiny, Criterion/EA, Activision, Big Huge Games), through journalists from major indie game sites such as TIGSource, GameTunnel and DIYGames, all the way to indie developers behind former IGF-prizewinning titles such as Gish and N Thanks again to the judges for offering to help out.
IGF Mod Deadline Reached Thanks to all those who submitted for the inaugural IGF Modding Competition - we got some excellent, innovative mods for all 4 games (Half-Life 2, Doom 3, NeverWinter Nights, and Unreal Tournament 2004), and are really looking forward to judging them.
this Gamasutra article, but to quote: "The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) has announced that it is presenting a Melbourne, Australia-based exhibition named 'Best of the Independent Games Festival', a selection of the most innovative and exciting new computer games from San Franciscos 2005 IGF." The exhibition runs from October 12th to December 11th, and congratulations to all the games (including Alien Hominid, Gish, Wik, and Soccer Ref) that are included.
listing all 118 entries into the 2006 Independent Games Festival main competition - entrants and other interested parties, feel free to check out info on all the IGF combatants.
this Gamasutra news story explains, we had a record 118 entries to the main IGF this year - thanks to all that submitted! We will be verifying uploads (apologies to the few of you who had FTP woes) and doing initial judge contact and allocation over the next few days. If you'd like to patch your game, you can do so at any time - please upload a new version to the FTP with that day's date in the filename - you don't need to contact us.
frequently asked questions: you can re-enter your game this year if you've improved it from the version entered in IGF 2005. In addition, if you're concerned about the expense of getting to GDC 2006 as a finalist, remember that you can nominate a more local proxy representative to demonstrate and represent your game for you. Finally, if you're entering a web game, you can just provide us with its URL, and you don't have to submit the game via FTP as well.
read the Gamasutra news report to learn about all the changes for this year, but to briefly sum up: - The main IGF competition now has a biggest-ever $20,000 Grand Prize, and the other prizes have also increased in value with the shift back to one central category. Most importantly, the 2006 IGF submission process will make things much easier for you to submit your games, and will launch at the beginning of August- we will announce prominently when you're able to submit your titles for consideration.
Congratulations to grand prize winners Gish and Wik, as well as Alien Hominid, Steer Madness, N, Global Defense Network, RocketBowl, Digital Builders for winning the Cartoon Network Project Goldmaster Award, and all the other finalists and Student Showcase winners. If you're at GDC, come and check out the IGF area on the 2nd floor of the conference, and thanks again to all IGF judges, supporters, and sponsors for making the 2005 IGF Awards so much fun.
Attention IGF Entrants: Moondance Games, an IGF Silver Sponsor, will be publishing a compilation product featuring games submitted to CMP's Seventh Annual Independent Game Festival. If you submitted a game to the 2005 IGF Moondance Games would like to speak with you.
looking at the 2005 Student Showcase finalists in more detail, including screenshots and interviews with the 10 Student Showcase winners. As the piece says: "With the main IGF finalists continuing to get press... we thought it would be apropos to focus on a part of the IGF which sometimes doesn't get as much of a spotlight."
Visit the IGF Pavilion at GDC:06 March 20-24, 2006 San Jose, California Attend the IGF Awards Ceremony Wednesday, March 22, 6:30-8:30pm All GDC attendees are invited!
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