The Independent Games Festival (IGF) is an annual festival at the Game Developers Conference

Game Developers Conference

The Game Developers Conference is the largest annual gathering of professional video game developers, focusing on learning, inspiration, and networking...

, the largest annual gathering of the indie video game industry. It was founded in 1998 to assist and inspire innovation in video game development and to recognize the best independent video game developer

Video game developer

A video game developer is a software developer that creates video games. A developer may specialize in a certain video game console, such as Nintendo's Wii, Microsoft's Xbox 360, Sony's PlayStation 3, or may develop for a variety of systems, including personal computers.Most developers also...

s. IGF was founded to create for the independent game community the same benefit the Sundance Film Festival

Sundance Film Festival

The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new...

 has brought to the independent film community, and is produced by the CMP Game Group, producers of the Game Developers Conference

Game Developers Conference

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, Game Developer magazine, and Gamasutra.com.

The competition, now in its 10th year, awards a total of $50,000 in prizes to independent developers in Main Competition and Student Competition categories at the IGF Awards Ceremony, which is one of the highlights of the Game Developers Conference, and was held at the Moscone Center

Moscone Center

Moscone Center is the largest convention and exhibition complex in San Francisco, California. It comprises three main halls: Two underground halls underneath Yerba Buena Gardens, known as Moscone North and Moscone South, and a three-level Moscone West exhibition hall across 4th Street...

 in San Francisco on February 20th, 2008.

Competition Structure

The festival awards ceremony is split into two broad categories: the main IGF competition and the IGF Student Showcase. http://www.igf.com/01about.html.

The main Independent Games Festival, held on February of 2011 at San Francisco's GDC 2011, distributed nine major awards:

• Seumas McNally
  Seumas McNally
  Computer game programmer Seumas McNally , was the founder, president and lead programmer of independent game development company, Longbow Digital Arts...
  
   Grand Prize ($20,000)
• Excellence In Visual Art ($2,500)
• Excellence In Audio ($2,500)
• Excellence in Design ($2,500)
• Technical Excellence ($2,500)
• Nuovo Award ($2,500) (originally Innovation Award)
• Best Mobile Game ($2,500)
• Audience Award ($2,500)

In addition, the IGF's Student Showcase competition gives out the following awards each year:

• IGF Student Showcase Winner (eight winners, $500)
• Best Student Game ($2,500)

Seumas McNally

Seumas McNally

Computer game programmer Seumas McNally , was the founder, president and lead programmer of independent game development company, Longbow Digital Arts...

 Grand Prize ($20,000)

• 2011: Minecraft
  Minecraft
  Minecraft is a sandbox-building independent video game written in Java originally by Swedish creator Markus "Notch" Persson and now by his company, Mojang, formed from the proceeds of the game. It was released as an alpha on May 17, 2009, with a beta version on December 20, 2010...
  
  
• 2010: Monaco
  Monaco (video game)
  Monaco is an upcoming stealth action video game developed by Pocketwatch Games. The game provides a top-down view as players cooperate to perform a heist using a variety of specialized thief characters. Monaco won two awards at the 2010 GDC Independent Games Festival Awards: the Seumas McNally...
  
  
• 2009: Blueberry Garden
  Blueberry Garden
  Blueberry Garden is a puzzle platform video game about curiosity and exploration. You take on the role of a creature investigating a mysterious world to find out what is going on there. It was developed by Erik Svedäng and released on June 10, 2009 via the Steam platform. It is the winner of Seumas...
  
  
• 2008: Crayon Physics Deluxe
• 2007: Aquaria
• 2006: Darwinia
  Darwinia (computer game)
  Darwinia is the second game by Introversion Software.-Plot:Darwinia was created as a digital theme world for artificially intelligent polygons by Dr. Sepulveda. Housed in a massive network of surplus Protologic 68000 machines from the 1980s, Darwinia is a world where the single-poly Darwinians,...
  
  
• 2005: (Open Category) Gish and (Web/Downloadable) Wik and the Fable of Souls
  Wik and the Fable of Souls
  Wik and the Fable of Souls is a game developed by Reflexive Entertainment. The main character, Wik, who is a frog-man like character, uses a combination of jumping and his long, grapple-like tongue to navigate the world. Accompanying Wik on his journey is a mule-like creature named Slotham...
  
  
• 2004: (Open Category) Savage: The Battle for Newerth
  Savage: The Battle for Newerth
  Savage: The Battle for Newerth is a science fantasy computer game that combines aspects of the real-time strategy and first-person shooter genres. It takes place in the distant future when humankind has rebuilt society following an apocalypse, but is threatened by intelligent beasts...
  
  and (Web/Downloadable) Oasis
• 2003: Wild Earth
• 2002: Bad Milk
• 2001: Shattered Galaxy
  Shattered Galaxy
  Shattered Galaxy is a massively multiplayer online real-time strategy that was released in 2001 by Nexon Inc., now known as KRU Interactive, after an extensive open beta period. In Usa itt was published by TriSynergy. It combines the attributes of a massive multiplayer online role-playing game...
  
  
• 2000: Tread Marks
  Tread Marks
  Tread Marks is a 3D, third-person perspective, multiplayer-focused tank combat and racing computer game developed by Longbow Digital Arts. The game won the 2000 Independent Games Festival grand prize, later renamed to the Seumas McNally award in honor of the game's lead programmer who died on 21...
  
  
• 1999: Fire And Darkness

Excellence In Visual Art ($2,500)

• 2011: BIT.TRIP RUNNER
  Bit.Trip Runner
  Bit.Trip Runner, marketed as BIT.TRIP RUNNER, is an arcade-style 'rhythm game' developed by Gaijin Games and published by Aksys Games for the Wii's WiiWare download service...
  
  
• 2010: Limbo
  Limbo (video game)
  Limbo is a puzzle-platform video game and the premiere title of independent Danish game developer Playdead. The game was released in July 2010 as a platform exclusive title on Xbox Live Arcade, and was later re-released as part of a retail game pack along with Trials HD and Splosion Man in April...
  
  
• 2009: Machinarium
  Machinarium
  Machinarium is a puzzle point-and-click adventure game developed by Amanita Design. It was released on October 16, 2009 for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, on September 8, 2011 for iPad 2 on App Store and on November 21, 2011 for BlackBerry PlayBook. Demos were made available on September 30,...
  
  
• 2008: Fez
  Fez (video game)
  Fez is a forthcoming platform game developed by independent software developers Polytron. It was initially announced that the game will come to Xbox Live Arcade in early 2010, but has since then been pushed back to 2011 and eventually 2012. More platforms are being considered.Fez features 2D/3D...
  
  
• 2007: Castle Crashers
  Castle Crashers
  Castle Crashers is a beat 'em up console video game independently developed by The Behemoth and published by Microsoft Game Studios. It features music created by members of Newgrounds. The Xbox 360 version was released on August 27, 2008 via Xbox Live Arcade as part of the Xbox Live Summer of Arcade...
  
  
• 2006: Darwinia
  Darwinia (computer game)
  Darwinia is the second game by Introversion Software.-Plot:Darwinia was created as a digital theme world for artificially intelligent polygons by Dr. Sepulveda. Housed in a massive network of surplus Protologic 68000 machines from the 1980s, Darwinia is a world where the single-poly Darwinians,...
  
  
• 2005: (Open Category) Alien Hominid
  Alien Hominid
  Alien Hominid is an independently developed console video game released for Sony PlayStation 2 and Nintendo GameCube in 2004 through publisher O~3 Entertainment. A PAL version was later released during May 2005 for PlayStation 2 and Microsoft's Xbox through ZOO Digital Publishing...
  
  and (Web/Downloadable) Wik and the Fable of Souls
  Wik and the Fable of Souls
  Wik and the Fable of Souls is a game developed by Reflexive Entertainment. The main character, Wik, who is a frog-man like character, uses a combination of jumping and his long, grapple-like tongue to navigate the world. Accompanying Wik on his journey is a mule-like creature named Slotham...
  
  
• 2004: (Open Category) Spartan
  Spartan (game)
  Spartan is a computer game developed by Slitherine Strategies in 2004. Based in ancient Greece and Asia Minor, it is a turn-based strategy game, although when armies encounter each other in the battles the game is in real time, reminiscent of the Total War series split...
  
  and (Web/Downloadable) Dr. Blob's Organism
• 2003: Wild Earth
• 2002: Banja Taiyo
• 2001: Hardwood Spades
• 2000: King of Dragon Pass
  King of Dragon Pass
  King of Dragon Pass is a 1999 computer game published by A Sharp. Set in the fictional world of Glorantha, it depicts the lives and fortunes of one of several barbarian clans, settling the untamed lands of Dragon Pass over the course of several decades...
  
  
• 1999: Crime Cities
  Crime Cities
  Crime Cities is a computer game for Microsoft Windows compatible PCs. Developed by Techland and published in 2000 by EON Digital Entertainment , Crime Cities is primarily an action game that also incorporates some elements of auto racing. Crime Cities is rated "Teen" by the ESRB.-External links:* *...
  
  

Excellence In Audio ($2,500)

• 2011: Amnesia: The Dark Descent
  Amnesia: The Dark Descent
  Amnesia: The Dark Descent is a survival horror video game by Frictional Games, who previously developed the Penumbra series. Released for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux platforms, the game features an unarmed protagonist exploring a dark and foreboding castle, while avoiding monsters and other...
  
  
• 2010: Closure
  Closure (video game)
  Closure is an independent video game currently being developed by programmer Tyler Glaiel and artist Jon Schubbe with music and sound by Chris Rhyne...
  
  
• 2009: BrainPipe
  BrainPipe
  BrainPipe is an action video game developed by Digital Eel and released on October 1, 2009. The game received "Excellence in Audio" award at Independent Games Festival 2009.- References :* * * * *...
  
  
• 2008: Audiosurf
  Audiosurf
  Audiosurf is a puzzle/rhythm hybrid game created by Invisible Handlebar, a personal company created by Dylan Fitterer. Its track-like stages visually mimic the music the player chooses, while the player races across several lanes collecting colored blocks that appear in sync with the music...
  
  
• 2007: Everyday Shooter
  Everyday Shooter
  Everyday Shooter is an independent video game developed by Canadian programmer and artist Jonathan Mak. It was released on the U.S...
  
  
• 2006: Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space
  Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space
  Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space, the sequel to Strange Adventures in Infinite Space, is a hybrid strategy/adventure computer game created by the independent game development group, Digital Eel...
  
  
• 2005: (Open Category) Steer Madness
  Steer Madness
  Steer Madness is an animal rights inspired adventure video game developed and published by Veggie Games Inc. The game was released in December 2004 on CD-ROM for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh.-Gameplay:...
  
  and (Web/Downloadable) Global Defense Network
• 2004: (Open Category) Anito: Defend a Land Enraged
  Anito: Defend a Land Enraged
  Anito: Defend a Land Enraged is a role-playing game by Anino Entertainment, an independent video game company based in the Manila, Philippines. It was released on November 22, 2003 for Microsoft Windows....
  
  and (Web/Downloadable) Dr. Blob's Organism
• 2003: Terraformers
• 2002: Bad Milk
• 2001: Chase Ace 2
• 2000: Blix
• 1999: Terminus
  Terminus (computer game)
  Terminus is a space-flight role-playing/action computer game by Vicarious Visions. It was released in 2000 for Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Apple Macintosh...
  
  

Excellence in Design ($2,500)

• 2011: Desktop Dungeons
  Desktop Dungeons
  Desktop Dungeons is a single-player adventure video game developed and published by QCF Design. As of August 2011, the game is still being developed, but the publisher is making a beta available to customers that pre-order the game. In the game, players navigate a dungeon filled with monsters...
  
  
• 2010: Monaco
  Monaco (video game)
  Monaco is an upcoming stealth action video game developed by Pocketwatch Games. The game provides a top-down view as players cooperate to perform a heist using a variety of specialized thief characters. Monaco won two awards at the 2010 GDC Independent Games Festival Awards: the Seumas McNally...
  
  
• 2009: Musaic Box

Nuovo (Innovation) Award ($2,500)

• 2011: Nidhogg
• 2010: Tuning
• 2009: Between
• 2008: World of Goo
  World of Goo
  World of Goo is a physics-based puzzle game by 2D Boy, an independent game developer consisting of Kyle Gabler and Ron Carmel, both former Electronic Arts employees, released for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, iOS, Android and WiiWare...
  
  
• 2007: Everyday Shooter
  Everyday Shooter
  Everyday Shooter is an independent video game developed by Canadian programmer and artist Jonathan Mak. It was released on the U.S...
  
  
• 2006: Braid
• 2005: (Open Category) Gish and (Web/Downloadable) Wik and the Fable of Souls
  Wik and the Fable of Souls
  Wik and the Fable of Souls is a game developed by Reflexive Entertainment. The main character, Wik, who is a frog-man like character, uses a combination of jumping and his long, grapple-like tongue to navigate the world. Accompanying Wik on his journey is a mule-like creature named Slotham...
  
  
• 2004: (Open Category) Bontãgo and (Web/Downloadable) Oasis
• 2003: Wild Earth
• 2002: Insaniquarium
  Insaniquarium
  Insaniquarium is a computer game created by Flying Bear Entertainment and PopCap Games. The title is a portmanteau of the words insanity and aquarium....
  
  
• 2001: Shattered Galaxy
  Shattered Galaxy
  Shattered Galaxy is a massively multiplayer online real-time strategy that was released in 2001 by Nexon Inc., now known as KRU Interactive, after an extensive open beta period. In Usa itt was published by TriSynergy. It combines the attributes of a massive multiplayer online role-playing game...
  
  
• 2000: Tread Marks
  Tread Marks
  Tread Marks is a 3D, third-person perspective, multiplayer-focused tank combat and racing computer game developed by Longbow Digital Arts. The game won the 2000 Independent Games Festival grand prize, later renamed to the Seumas McNally award in honor of the game's lead programmer who died on 21...
  
  
• 1999: Resurrection

Technical Excellence ($2,500)

• 2011: Amnesia: The Dark Descent
  Amnesia: The Dark Descent
  Amnesia: The Dark Descent is a survival horror video game by Frictional Games, who previously developed the Penumbra series. Released for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux platforms, the game features an unarmed protagonist exploring a dark and foreboding castle, while avoiding monsters and other...
  
  
• 2010: Limbo
  Limbo (video game)
  Limbo is a puzzle-platform video game and the premiere title of independent Danish game developer Playdead. The game was released in July 2010 as a platform exclusive title on Xbox Live Arcade, and was later re-released as part of a retail game pack along with Trials HD and Splosion Man in April...
  
  
• 2009: Cortex Command
  Cortex Command
  Cortex Command is a 2-dimensional side-scrolling action game developed by Data Realms. In the game, the player takes the role of a disembodied brain, who controls various clones and robots to achieve his aims. There is no campaign as of yet, so there is no main objective the player works towards...
  
  
• 2008: World of Goo
  World of Goo
  World of Goo is a physics-based puzzle game by 2D Boy, an independent game developer consisting of Kyle Gabler and Ron Carmel, both former Electronic Arts employees, released for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, iOS, Android and WiiWare...
  
  
• 2007: Bang! Howdy
  Bang! Howdy
  Bang! Howdy is an online strategy game with a "Wild West" theme. It is made by Three Rings Design, the makers of Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates. Public beta testing ended on December 1, 2006 and the game is now "live". There is no cost to download the game and start playing...
  
  
• 2006: Darwinia
  Darwinia (computer game)
  Darwinia is the second game by Introversion Software.-Plot:Darwinia was created as a digital theme world for artificially intelligent polygons by Dr. Sepulveda. Housed in a massive network of surplus Protologic 68000 machines from the 1980s, Darwinia is a world where the single-poly Darwinians,...
  
  
• 2005: (Open Category) Alien Hominid
  Alien Hominid
  Alien Hominid is an independently developed console video game released for Sony PlayStation 2 and Nintendo GameCube in 2004 through publisher O~3 Entertainment. A PAL version was later released during May 2005 for PlayStation 2 and Microsoft's Xbox through ZOO Digital Publishing...
  
  and (Web/Downloadable) RocketBowl
  RocketBowl
  RocketBowl is a sports game developed by LargeAnimal and published by GarageGames, released November 4, 2004 for Windows. The game features a retro-futuristic 1950's theme...
  
  
• 2004: (Open Category) Savage: The Battle for Newerth
  Savage: The Battle for Newerth
  Savage: The Battle for Newerth is a science fantasy computer game that combines aspects of the real-time strategy and first-person shooter genres. It takes place in the distant future when humankind has rebuilt society following an apocalypse, but is threatened by intelligent beasts...
  
  and (Web/Downloadable) Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates
  Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates
  Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Three Rings Design. The player takes the role of a pirate, adventuring on the high seas and pillaging money from roaming enemy ships . The mechanics of Puzzle Pirates are driven by puzzles...
  
  
• 2003: Reiner Knizia's Samurai
• 2002: Ace Of Angels
• 2001: Shattered Galaxy
  Shattered Galaxy
  Shattered Galaxy is a massively multiplayer online real-time strategy that was released in 2001 by Nexon Inc., now known as KRU Interactive, after an extensive open beta period. In Usa itt was published by TriSynergy. It combines the attributes of a massive multiplayer online role-playing game...
  
  
• 2000: Tread Marks
  Tread Marks
  Tread Marks is a 3D, third-person perspective, multiplayer-focused tank combat and racing computer game developed by Longbow Digital Arts. The game won the 2000 Independent Games Festival grand prize, later renamed to the Seumas McNally award in honor of the game's lead programmer who died on 21...
  
  
• 1999: Terminus
  Terminus (computer game)
  Terminus is a space-flight role-playing/action computer game by Vicarious Visions. It was released in 2000 for Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Apple Macintosh...
  
  

Best Web Browser Game ($2,500)

• 2008: Iron Dukes
• 2007: Samorost 2
  Samorost 2
  Samorost 2 is a puzzle point-and-click adventure game developed by Amanita Design. Released for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux on December 8, 2005, the game is the second video game title in the Samorost series and the sequel to Samorost....
  
  
• 2006: Dad 'N Me
• This category replaced the separate prizes for Web/Downloadable games awarded in 2004 & 2005.

Audience Award ($2,500)

• 2011: Minecraft
  Minecraft
  Minecraft is a sandbox-building independent video game written in Java originally by Swedish creator Markus "Notch" Persson and now by his company, Mojang, formed from the proceeds of the game. It was released as an alpha on May 17, 2009, with a beta version on December 20, 2010...
  
  
• 2010: Heroes of Newerth
  Heroes of Newerth
  Heroes of Newerth is a free-to-play science fantasy, action real-time strategy game developed by S2 Games for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. The game was heavily inspired by the Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne custom map, Defense of the Ancients and is S2 Games' first game title in the...
  
  
• 2009: Cortex Command
  Cortex Command
  Cortex Command is a 2-dimensional side-scrolling action game developed by Data Realms. In the game, the player takes the role of a disembodied brain, who controls various clones and robots to achieve his aims. There is no campaign as of yet, so there is no main objective the player works towards...
  
  
• 2008: Audiosurf
  Audiosurf
  Audiosurf is a puzzle/rhythm hybrid game created by Invisible Handlebar, a personal company created by Dylan Fitterer. Its track-like stages visually mimic the music the player chooses, while the player races across several lanes collecting colored blocks that appear in sync with the music...
  
  
• 2007: Castle Crashers
  Castle Crashers
  Castle Crashers is a beat 'em up console video game independently developed by The Behemoth and published by Microsoft Game Studios. It features music created by members of Newgrounds. The Xbox 360 version was released on August 27, 2008 via Xbox Live Arcade as part of the Xbox Live Summer of Arcade...
  
  
• 2006: Dofus
  Dofus
  Dofus is a Flash based massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed and published by Ankama Games, a French computer game manufacturer. Originally released solely in French, it has since been translated into many other languages. It is primarily a Pay to Play game, though it still...
  
  
• 2005: (Open Category) Alien Hominid
  Alien Hominid
  Alien Hominid is an independently developed console video game released for Sony PlayStation 2 and Nintendo GameCube in 2004 through publisher O~3 Entertainment. A PAL version was later released during May 2005 for PlayStation 2 and Microsoft's Xbox through ZOO Digital Publishing...
  
  and (Web/Downloadable) N
  N (game)
  N is a freeware video game developed by Metanet Software. It was inspired in part by Lode Runner, Soldat, and other side-scrolling games. A console version of the game has been released for the Xbox Live Arcade under the title N+...
  
  
• 2004: (Open Category) Savage: The Battle for Newerth
  Savage: The Battle for Newerth
  Savage: The Battle for Newerth is a science fantasy computer game that combines aspects of the real-time strategy and first-person shooter genres. It takes place in the distant future when humankind has rebuilt society following an apocalypse, but is threatened by intelligent beasts...
  
  and (Web/Downloadable) Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates
  Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates
  Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Three Rings Design. The player takes the role of a pirate, adventuring on the high seas and pillaging money from roaming enemy ships . The mechanics of Puzzle Pirates are driven by puzzles...
  
  
• 2003: Pontifex II
• 2002: Kung Fu Chess
• 2001: Shattered Galaxy
  Shattered Galaxy
  Shattered Galaxy is a massively multiplayer online real-time strategy that was released in 2001 by Nexon Inc., now known as KRU Interactive, after an extensive open beta period. In Usa itt was published by TriSynergy. It combines the attributes of a massive multiplayer online role-playing game...
  
  
• 2000: The Rift (Far Gate)
  Far Gate
  Far Gate is a 2001 video game released for personal computers. It was developed by Super X Studios and published by Microïds. The gameplay consists of 3D space-based real time strategy, and allows players to play as any of three distinct factions employing different units and structures...
  
  
• 1999: Fire And Darkness

Sponsor Awards

• 2011 Direct2Drive
  Direct2Drive
  Direct2Drive is an online game store offering PC videogames via direct download. On May 25, 2011, Gamefly acquired Direct2Drive from IGN Entertainment Group .- Competition with Steam :...
  
   Vision Award: Amnesia: The Dark Descent
  Amnesia: The Dark Descent
  Amnesia: The Dark Descent is a survival horror video game by Frictional Games, who previously developed the Penumbra series. Released for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux platforms, the game features an unarmed protagonist exploring a dark and foreboding castle, while avoiding monsters and other...
  
  
• 2010 Direct2Drive
  Direct2Drive
  Direct2Drive is an online game store offering PC videogames via direct download. On May 25, 2011, Gamefly acquired Direct2Drive from IGN Entertainment Group .- Competition with Steam :...
  
   Vision Award: Max and the Magic Marker
• 2009 Direct2Drive
  Direct2Drive
  Direct2Drive is an online game store offering PC videogames via direct download. On May 25, 2011, Gamefly acquired Direct2Drive from IGN Entertainment Group .- Competition with Steam :...
  
   Vision Award: Osmos
  Osmos
  Osmos is a puzzle video game developed by Canadian developer Hemisphere Games for different systems as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. The game was made available on Steam on 17 August 2009. The Android port was also hinted to be in development...
  
  
• 2008 Gleemie
  Gleemax
  Gleemax was a website whose alpha phase was released by Wizards of the Coast on October 10th 2007. Functionality was limited to basic blogging features and personal profiles. Wizards had plans to make it "the home for gamers" at some point in the future, with major functionality to be revealed...
  
   Awards (1x $5,000, 1x $3,000, 1x $2,000): Desktop Tower Defense
  Desktop Tower Defense
  Desktop Tower Defense is a Flash-based browser game of the tower defense game genre created by first-time game designer Paul Preece in March 2007. The game had been played over 15.7 million times as of July 2007, and was one of Webware 100's top ten entertainment web applications of 2007. DTD is...
  
  , Skyrates
  Skyrates
  Skyrates is a browser based massively multiplayer online game with a focus on sporadic play in a persistent world. It is currently in open beta. The development team was initially composed of students from the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University...
  
  , Quadradius
• 2007 GameTap
  GameTap
  GameTap is an American online video game service established by Turner Broadcasting System . Dubbed by TBS as a "first of its kind broadband gaming network", the service provides users with classic arcade video games and game-related video content...
  
   Awards (1x $10,000, 2 x $5,000): Everyday Shooter
  Everyday Shooter
  Everyday Shooter is an independent video game developed by Canadian programmer and artist Jonathan Mak. It was released on the U.S...
  
  , Blast Miner, Roboblitz
  RoboBlitz
  Since its release, RoboBlitz has garnered much critical acclaim and has been recognized with several awards and honors. The game was nominated for the 2007 Independent Games Festival for both the Seumas McNally Grand Prize and Excellence in Visual Art awards...
  
  
• 2006 Adultswim.com
  Adult Swim
  Adult Swim is an adult-oriented Cable network that shares channel space with Cartoon Network from 9:00 pm until 6:00 am ET/PT in the United States, and broadcasts in countries such as Australia and New Zealand...
  
   Award ($5,000): Dodge That Anvil
• 2005 Cartoon Network
  Cartoon Network (United States)
  Cartoon Network is an American cable television network owned by Turner Broadcasting which primarily airs animated programming. The channel was launched on October 1, 1992 after Turner purchased the animation studio Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1991...
  
   "Project Goldmaster" Award (making a game for Cartoon Network): Digital Builders
• 2004 AOL
  AOL
  AOL Inc. is an American global Internet services and media company. AOL is headquartered at 770 Broadway in New York. Founded in 1983 as Control Video Corporation, it has franchised its services to companies in several nations around the world or set up international versions of its services...
  
  /Cartoon Network "Project Goldmaster" Award (making a game for Cartoon Network): Flashbang Studios

2007 Mod Awards

Best Mod ($5,000 Overall): Weekday Warrior

Weekday Warrior

Weekday Warrior is a mod for the video game Half-Life 2. It was developed by students at The Guildhall at SMU and released in its final state on 7 June 2006....

(Half-Life 2)

Best Singleplayer FPS Mod ($500): Weekday Warrior

Weekday Warrior

Weekday Warrior is a mod for the video game Half-Life 2. It was developed by students at The Guildhall at SMU and released in its final state on 7 June 2006....

(Half-Life 2)

Best Multiplayer FPS Mod ($500): Eternal Silence

Eternal Silence

Eternal Silence is a Half-Life 2 modification blending FPS and space combat genres in a team based multiplayer game. The first public release, beta 1.0, was released on September 23, 2006. It was originally developed as a mod of Battlefield 1942, then converted to the Source engine. The latest...

(Half-Life 2)

Best RPG Mod ($500): Darkness over Daggerford

Darkness over Daggerford

Darkness over Daggerford is an expansion pack for BioWare's Neverwinter Nights computer role-playing game. It was released for digital distribution on August 16, 2006...

(Neverwinter Nights)

Best 'Other' Mod ($500): Spawns Of Deflebub (Unreal Tournament 2004)

2006 Mod Awards

Best Mod – Doom 3 ($2,500): Last Man Standing Coop

Last Man Standing Coop

The Last Man Standing Coop Mod is a Doom 3 single player and multiplayer modification. It blends elements from Doom, Doom II, and Doom 3 together into an "LMS Mod" gametype to create a classic Doom experience in a modern environment. The "LMS Mod" gametype is survival in nature, where the player...

Best Mod – Half-Life 2 ($2,500): Dystopia

Dystopia (computer game)

Dystopia is a team-based, objective-driven, first-person shooter video game, developed as a total conversion modification on the Valve Corporation's proprietary Source engine. It is based on the cyberpunk literary genre; somewhat based on popular role-playing game Shadowrun, created by an amateur...

Best Mod – Neverwinter Nights ($2,500): Rose Of Eternity: Chapter 1

Best Mod – Unreal Tournament 2004 ($2,500): Path Of Vengeance

IGF Student Showcase Winner

• 2011: Fract
• 2010: Continuity Dreamside Maroon Gear Igneous
• 2009: Tag: The Power of Paint
  Tag: The Power of Paint
  Tag: The Power of Paint is a first-person action and puzzle hybrid video game. The game was developed in 2009 for Microsoft Windows by Tag Team, a group of students from the DigiPen Institute of Technology. The game's core mechanic is the use of a special paint sprayed from the player's paint gun...
  
  
• 2008: Synaesthete
  Synaesthete (game)
  - Rolling Without Slipping :Listed below are the developers of Synaesthete, and their primary role:Zach Aikman - ProducerJoseph Tkach - DesignerWilliam Towns - Technical Director & MusicianAndy Maneri - Product Manager-External links:*...
  
  
• 2007: Toblo
• 2006: Ballistic Cloud Colormental Narbacular Drop
  Narbacular Drop
  Narbacular Drop is an environmental puzzle video game developed by Nuclear Monkey Software. It was released free online in 2005 on PC . It was the senior game project of students attending DigiPen. The gameplay consists of navigating a dungeon using an innovative portal system...
  
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• 2005: Dyadin Intergalactic Shopping Maniacs Mutton Mayhem Rock Station Scavenger Hunt Soccer Ref Squirrel Squabble Stars and Stripes Team Robot War, Siege & Conquest: Battle for Gaia
• 2004: Dark Archon 2 Fatal Traction Growbot Hexvex Hyperbol Ice Wars Kube Kombat Scrapped Treefort Wars Xazzon

External links

• Official site
• IGF's complete listing of finalists and winners (most recent year)
• IGF's complete listing of entrants for 2006