2005 IGF Student Showcase Winners Announced

Alef writes "The winners of the 2005 Independent Game Festival Student Showcase have been announced. However, at least one entry appears to have been ignored by the judges. This makes me wonder whether the elaborate description of their judging process merely is empty words." Update: 01/28 22:45 GMT by Z : Goodman simoniker wrote in with an update to this story in the comments. Basically, miscommunication reigns.

Comments

Re:All I can say about Velox

[Stary]

That's not the download link. The download link was given to them in the entry submission, and was a separate page that noone except the IGF knew about. There were no hits to that page.

And they had our number. No missed calls, no emails, nothing.

And yeah, the game is not publicly released.

Re:All I can say about Velox

[simoniker]

Long-time reader, first-time poster! Or something like that.

I'm not directly involved in the IGF, although I do also work at CMP, which organizes the Festival, and I can assure everyone that the IGF tries its hardest to accommodate everybody on what is a major task for all concerned.

I went and found someone at the IGF, and he showed me a copy of an email sent to the Velox creators at limebird.com on November 16th 2004, because their website was apparently down. They never replied to this email, and so it was presumed that they were not entering the competition any more.

I appreciate that things like this are very upsetting, but I also find it upsetting that it has to be escalated to such a public forum before it's found out that there has been at least somewhat of a mix-up. There _has_ been some changing personnel on the IGF, which may have exarcebated matters, but nonetheless, this is a bit of a shame.

Re:All I can say about Velox

[Stary]

We've sent several emails to CMP, from different domains, and none have been replied to. The most recent one was sent about this issue a week ago. Have you actually checked your servers and connection? www.mozilla.se and a few other sites run off that very same box - if it'd been down i'd have known.

Still, very interesting that someone actually reacted somehow at all, that's the first time. If something blocks our communication (and since the IGF forums are broken, that's the only channel for communication), that really needs to be fixed.