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	ANNOUNCEMENTS 11.05.10: You can now browse all entries in IGF 2011's Main Competition as well as its Student Competition! 11.02.10: Submissions are now closed for the IGF 2011 Main and Student Competition! Congratulations and good luck to all who entered! 06.28.10: Read all about how we've expanded and modified the new festival (including the addition of mobile games)! Subscribe to the IGF News RSS feed for regular competition updates.


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	SUCCESS STORIES 2010 - The team behind 2009 Student Showcase finalist Tag: The Power of Paint are hired by Valve to implement new paint gun mechanics into Portal 2. 2009 - The Behemoth's follow-up to Alien Hominid, the IGF-winning Castle Crashers, tops XBLA charts to critical acclaim. 2009 - IGF multi-award winner World Of Goo launches as one of the best-selling, best-reviewed WiiWare titles of all time, alongside a popular PC version. 2009 - Petri Purho's Crayon Physics Deluxe spawns an iPhone version courtesy of Hudson, plus a popular PC downloadable version. 2008 - The team behind IGF Student Showcase finalist Narbacular Drop is hired by Valve. The game is reworked into Portal and goes on to win the coveted Game Developer's Choice "Best Game" award for 2008, as well as numerous game of the year accolades. 2008 - Design Innovation winner Braid debuts on Xbox Live Arcade to significant success. 2008 - Excellence in Audio winner Audiosurf launches on Valve's Steam distribution service and goes on to become the highest selling game of February, outselling even Valve's own Orange box (including Team Fortress 2 and Game Developer's Choice "Best Game" winner Portal.) 2007 - Design Innovation winner Everyday Shooter is signed by Sony for distribution on the PlayStation 3's PlayStation Network, after Sony's John Hight plays the game at the IGF Pavilion during GDC 2007 - Everyday Shooter's Jon Mak also appears at the inaugural Independent Games Summit. 2006 - Grand prize winner Darwinia gets both digital distribution via Valve's Steam system and U.S. retail distribution from new indie label Cinemaware Marquee. 2005 - Multi award-winner Alien Hominid receives publishing deals in the U.S. (via O3 Publishing) and Europe(via Zoo Digital), much critical acclaim, and even spawns a mobile version. 2005 - Fan favorite N wins the audience award, and, as N+, releases as a hit XBLA title, as well as notable Nintendo DS and Sony PSP versions. 2004 - Innovative casual strategy game Oasis wins the web/downloadable grand prize, going on to launch on major online portals the following year. 2003 - Super X Studios' Wild Earth, a photographic game based around a worldwide safari, takes multiple prizes and subsequently becomes a motion simulator ride and eventually (in adapted form) a Wii title. 2000 - Tread Marks, created by the late Seumas McNally, which the IGF's grand prize is now named after, wins 3 major awards. 1999 - Vicarious Visions, now a major handheld / console developer, honored for Terminus.


	2003 IGF Pictures

	An onlooker checks out IGF Competition finalist Strange Adventures In Infinite Space, by Digital Eel. The IGF booth at the 2003 Game Developers Conference got significant traffic during the three days of the show.

	Students from DigiPen show off their IGF Student Showcase game, Crazy Cross.

	A view from on high of the IGF Competition booth. The 10 competition entrants each had a display pod.

	The IGF Student Showcase Pavilion, also on the IGF booth.

	More of the IGF Competition.

	A GDC attendee tries out Terraformers. The developer, Pin Interactive (they changed their name after this photo was taken) hails from Sweden, and their game won the "Innovation in Audio" award.

	A GDC attendee tries out Wild Earth. The developer, Super X Studios, won the "Innovation in Visual Art", "Innovation in Game Design" and the "Seumas McNally Grand Prize" for this game -- $17,000 in cash, total.

	Mr. Bigshot and Furcadia, IGF Competition finalists.

	Josiah Pisciotta of Chronic Logic, showing off his IGF Competition finalist entry, Pontifex 2.

	The IGF Pavilion.

	Another DigiPen entry in the IGF Student Showcase, Vector Space.

	A Cogswell College entry in the IGF Student Showcase, Gates of Temlaha.

	The awards ceremony. The guys from Chronic Logic accepting the "Audience Award" for Pontifex 2, as determined by popular ballot on the IGF booth during the show.

	David Adams holds the Intel workstation that Klear Games won. Their game, Reiner Knizia's Samurai, won the "Technical Excellence" award.

	James Thrush of Super X Studios, accepting one of his three awards for Wild Earth.

	The team from Pin Interactive, accepting their award for "Innovation In Audio". Their game, Terraformers, is an adventure game designed to allow blind people to play, using various audio cues.

	IGF Chairman Alex Dunne.

	James Thrush of Super X Studios pumps his fist in the air, accepting the grand prize award for Wild Earth.


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