The Independent Games Festival has announced the eight Student Showcase winners for the thirteenth annual presentation of its prestigious awards, celebrating the brightest and most innovative creations to come out of universities and games programs from around the world in the past year.
This year’s showcase of top student talent include slapstick physical comedy adventure Octodad, from DePaul University’s Team DGE2, University of Montreal student Richard E. Flanagan’s boldly styled Myst-like adventure Fract, and Tiny and Big, an ambitious, comic-book styled 3D action platformer from Germany’s School of Arts and Design Kassel.
The eight showcase winners will go on to compete for the Best Student Game Prize, which will be announced on stage at the Independent Games Festival Awards, held on Wednesday, March 2, 2011, in San Francisco at the Game Developers Conference 2011.
The full list of this year’s winners is as follows:
e7 (Gymnasium Koniz Lerbermatt)
Fract (University of Montreal)
GLiD (Bournemouth University)
Octodad (DePaul University)
PaperPlane (ENJMIN)
Solace (DigiPen Institute of Technology)
Tiny and Big (School of Arts and Design Kassel)
Toys (Future Games Academy)
Honorable mentions: About Love Hate and the other ones (School of Arts and Design Kassel); EXP (NHTV); Paul and Percy (IT University Copenhagen); Senseless (University of Advancing Technology); StarTwine (Carleton University); Ute (School of Arts and Design Kassel).
Chosen from more than 280 IGF Student Showcase entries, these Student Showcase-winning games each win US$500 and GDC 2011 show passes, and will go on to compete for an overall Best Student Game prize, which includes a special trophy and a US$2,500 cash prize.
This year’s Student IGF entries were distributed to an opt-in subset of the main competition judging body, consisting of more than 60 leading independent and mainstream developers, academics and journalists.
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