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	ANNOUNCEMENTS 11.02.10: Submissions are now closed for the IGF 2011 Student Competition! Congratulations and good luck to everyone who entered! 10.21.10: We are pleased to reveal the entrants for the thirteenth annual Independent Games Festival Main Competition! 10.19.10: Submissions are now closed for the IGF 2011 Main Competition! 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.


	2004 IGF Pictures

	An onlooker checks out IGF Competition finalist Bontago, by Circular Logic. This game was developed by a team of students from DigiPen, and won the "Innovation in Game Design" award in the Open category.

	The 2004 IGF Pavilion on the expo floor of the Game Developers Conference, showing the Web/Downloadable category entries on the left, the Open category entries on the right, and the IGF Student Showcase entries in the center distance.

	Iain McNeil of Slitherine Software demonstrates Spartan for an onlooker.

	One of the pirates from Three Rings Designs showing off Puzzle Pirates.

	Some big boxing gloves, hyping up IGF finalist Billiard Boxing by Shizmoo Games.

	Students from Iowa State showing off their IGF Student Showcase entry, Treefort Wars.

	Puzzle Pirates won two awards, "Technical Excellence" and the "Audience Award".

	Slitherine Software accepts the "Innovation In Visual Art" award for Spartan.

	The developers at Digital Eel celebrate the second of their two awards during the evening. This time, the "Innovation in Visual Art" award for Dr. Blob's Organism.

	Gabby Dizon accepts the "Innovation in Game Audio" award for Anito: Defend a Land Enraged.

	Carter Lipscomb from America Online, introducing the "Project Goldmaster" award.

	The team from Flashbang Studios accepting the AOL/Cartoon Network "Project Goldmaster" award.

	Jesse Hayes from S2 Games accepts the Seumas McNally Grand Prize (Open Category) for Savage: The Battle for Newerth.

	Andrew Leker and Marc LeBlanc accepting the Seumas McNally Grand Prize (Web/Downloadable Category) for Oasis.


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