2008 Student Showcase Finalists Announced
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The IGF Organizers have announced the 12 receipients of the 2008 Independent Games Festival Student Showcase awards, from a field of over 125 entries, including USC Interactive Media Program’s quirky The Misadventures of PB Winterbottom, Sheridan Institute’s stylish booger-busting Gesundheit!, and The National Academy of Digital Interactive Entertainment’s dual-perspective Half-Life 2 modification Flipside.
The Independent Games Festival Student Showcase website now features a complete list of all the showcase winners, including screenshots and links to videos and demonstration versions where available. Each winner will receive a $500 travel stipend to help aid their trip to GDC 2008.
In addition to PT Winterbottom, Gesundheit, and Flipside, other student showcase finalists nominated for the $2,500 Best Student Game prize to be given out at GDC include DigiPen Institute of Technology’s surreal flocking shooter Empyreal Nocturne, Helsinki Polytechnic Stadia’s playfully kinesthetic Crayon Physics, and Australian National University’s tactical space attrition game, Mayhem Intergalactic.
The full list of winners for the IGF Student Showcase, all of whom will be showing their games at the IGF Pavilion during Game Developers Conference in February 2008, are available here.
