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GAMBIT game “The Snowfield” is winner in Independent Games Festival student showcase

The Snowfield

“The Snowfield”, a game developed at our Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab last summer to explore making narrative games without complex artificial intelligence, has been announced as one of eight winners of the student showcase at the Independent Games Festival.

In total, this year’s Student Competition took in nearly 300 game entries across all platforms—PC, console and mobile—from a wide diversity of the world’s most prestigious universities and games programs making the Student IGF one of the world’s largest showcases of student talent.>

All of the Student Showcase winners announced today will be playable on the Expo show floor at the 26th Game Developers Conference, to be held in San Francisco starting March 5th, 2012. Each team will receive a $500 prize for being selected into the Showcase, and are finalists for an additional $3,000 prize for Best Student Game, to be revealed during the Independent Games Festival Awards on March 7th.

The full list of Student Showcase winners for the 2012 Independent Games Festival, along with ‘honorable mentions’ to those top-quality games that didn’t quite make it to finalist status, are as follows:

  • The Bridge (Case Western Reserve University)
  • Dust (Art Institute of Phoenix)
  • The Floor Is Jelly (Kansas City Art Institute)
  • Nous (DigiPen Institute of Technology)
  • One and One Story (Liceo Scientifico G.B. Morgagni)
  • Pixi (DigiPen Institute of Technology – Singapore)
  • The Snowfield (Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab)
  • Way (Carnegie Mellon University, Entertainment Technology Center)

“2012 Independent Games Festival Announces Student Showcase Winners”—IGF.com

About Andrew Whitacre

Andrew directs the communications efforts for CMS/W and its research groups. A native of Washington, D.C., he holds a degree in communication from Wake Forest University, with a minor in humanities, as well as an M.F.A. in creative writing from Emerson College.

His work includes drawing up and executing strategic communications plans, with projects including website design, social media management and training, press outreach, product launches, fundraising campaign support, and event promotions.