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2005 IGF Student Showcase Winners Announced

Posted by Zonk on from the that's-a-big-oops dept.

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.

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  1. Re:All I can say about Velox by Jason+Scott · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I found a separate site which seems to provide a 0.2 beta for the game, possibly for the judges' use. This beta page has links to a ~limebird type account, which is what I assume they meant by a server they could see the logs of.

    If true, yes, it's troubling, since ostensibly anything that gets a successful entry in at least should be viewed, even if a few seconds of viewing reveal you've got a non-winner. You have to at least see it to dismiss it properly.

    Since LimeBird/Velox has a little bit of notoriety about this now, I would suggest moving on, and continuing to work on the game, since it's very easy to go from "That game made by those guys screwed over in the IGF" to "That game made by those guys who whine about how they get screwed over."