It looks like the Imagine Cup finals in Paris, France have wrapped up and the list of winners have been announced. Here are the results for the Game Development category:
Game Development
- First place: Brazil - Team Mother Gaia Studio
Team Members: Guilherme Campos, Helena Van Kampen, Rafael F. Costa, Túlio Sória
- Second place: Belgium - Team Drunk Puppy Productions
Team Members: Kenny Deriemaeker, Filip Van Bouwel, Timothy Vanherberghen, Jeroen van Raevels
- Third place: Korea - Team GOMZ
Team Members: Kim Dong Hoon, Kim Ki Hwan, Park Min Kyu
Taking first place was Team Mother Gaia Studio with their game City Rain. If you haven't taken a look at the game check out this video! You can also download the game from their site. You can also check out some screenshots for Future Flow from Team Drunk Puppy Productions and Clean Up from Team GOMZ from the links above.
Be sure to check out all the finalists and congratulations to everyone that participated in the Imagine Cup this year, these entries were simply awesome!
The Independent Games Festival has opened up it's call for submissions for 2009, so in addition to Dream Build Play you have another great reason to continue devloping the great games your currently working on with XNA Game Studio. The open call for submissions doesn't close till November so that lines up with Dream Build Play pretty well. Last year we saw a few great submissions of games based on the XNA Framework, this year I'm hoping that we'll see even more!
Here are some of the key IGF dates:
July 1st, 2008 - Submissions are Open
November 1st, 2008 - Submission Deadline, Main Competition
November 15th, 2008 - Submission Deadline, Student Competition
January 5th, 2009 - Finalists Announced, Main Competition
January 19th, 2009 - Finalists Announced, Student Competition
March 23rd-27th, 2009 - Game Developer’s Conference 2009
March 25th-27th, 2009 - IGF Pavilion @ GDC
March 25th, 2009 - IGF 2009 Awards Ceremony
If you haven't started your game for this year, now would be the time! It sounds like they'll also have some information for the kickoff of IGF Mobile so if you've been working on a Zune game start getting it ready!