[game_edu] IGF Student Competition/GDC

[Darren Torpey]

  Students might also like to know that their entry would be judged by
an all-star cast:

  From the announcement: "[IGF '09 will include] a number of new IGF
judges, including Spore designer Chaim Gingold, World Of Goo
co-creator Kyle Gabler, The Sims Studio head Rod Humble, Civilization
IV co-creator Soren Johnson, Rock Paper Shotgun co-founder Jim
Rossignol, and Crayon Physics author Petri Purho."

  That's a seriously power-packed panel of awesome and down-to-earth
guys with great "street cred".

-Darren

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 8:22 PM, S. Gold <goldfile at gmail.com> wrote:

> Independent Games Festival (IGF) Announces Call For Submissions has been

> announced.

> http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=19234

>

> I am not sure if everyone knows, but last year the Seumas McNally Grand

> Prize went to the student who developed Crayon Physics Deluxe.

>

> http://www.igf.com/

>

> I highly recommend pointing your students and their games to the website. I

> know students must submit their games by November 15, 2008 – but I heard

> they don't need to be PERFECT until show time – March 23rd (I can not vouch

> for this, it is just something I overheard at the post-mortem). Also, I

> recommend having all students check out the games that are submitted for

> IGF. They can see what other students have submitted in the past, it is a

> great sample of rather ingenious games.

>

> Student Competition Finalist are invited to attend the Games Developer

> Conference (GDC) and receive a complimentary pass and get to show off their

> games to everyone at the conference. It is my hope that we will have another

> IGF student post-mortem as well as game design workshops for educators as a

> part of our conference plans. Last year our post-mortem had a lot of head

> hunters and recruiters in the audience. This is an incredible opportunity

> for your students to get recognition, great networking and hopefully

> opportunities.

>

> Hope everyone is having a great summer,

>

> Susan

> --

> Prof. Susan Gold

> Chair, IGDA Education SIG

>

>

>

>

>

> --

> Susan Gold

> goldfile at gmail.com

>

> "In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!" - J. G. Ballard

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