IGF 2008 Student Showcase Finalists

By: Brandon McCartin (BMcC)

On: December 30th, 2007

IGF 2008 Student Showcase Finalists:

Crayon Physics Deluxe
Empyreal Nocturne
Galaxy Scraper
Gesundheit!
Mayhem Intergalactic
Poesysteme
Polarity
Ruckblende
Synaesthete
The Misadventures Of P.B. Winterbottom
Flipside (Half-Life 2 Modification)
Foamzilla (UT2004 Modification)

Oh man, Crayon Physics is up for the Student Showcase Award and the Grand Prize? Impressive!

But I gotta say, I’m rooting for Gesundheit! on this one. That game is just so well put together. I’d love to see Hammill come away with a win. Not anything against Petri, of course! He can have the Grand Prize as a consolation. :)

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Stwelin

Empyreal Nocturne reminded me a lot of Shadow of the Colossus. I wish the controls had been a little more intuitive, it became hard to dodge enemy fire, and you could not really tell when you were being hit.

Other than that, I really want to play Flipside, it looks… interesting, to say the least.
rz.

i never found Gesundheit! to be much fun. at all. :(
nullerator

Flipside was awesome – for five minutes. Great idea, great presentation, awful gameplay.

My favourite so far is Synaesthete. Superb mix of two very different genres (rythm-action and arena-shooter). Really cool.
DrDerekDoctors

Yup, another vote for Matt Hammill’s Gesunheit! here, too. Showed it to a couple of friends last night and they loved it.
http://gnomeslair.blogspot.com/ gnome

I know it’s irrelevant, but happy 2008 everyone!
Tantan

D:
The forums are down!
RZ.

merry f-in new year, tigsource
DrDerekDoctors

Gah! The millenium bug has struck! 8 Years late!
http://www.tscreative.net BMcC

Happy New Year, ba-rothas (and sistas).
toastie

happy new year!!!!!!

(Is this the new forums then?)
DrDerekDoctors

No, it’s the old forums, remember? :P
Voodoo Master

Happy New Year, everybody.

This year the stars will be right!!
Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn!
Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn!
Zeno

I liked the concept behind Crayon Physics, but I didn’t like how it “interpreted” what you drew, and made a few basic shapes. So, since apparently CPDeluxe has fixed that, I’m behind it 100%.
Petri Purho

Matt wins the Student Showcase Award and I win the Grand Prize. Sounds like the best plan ever :)