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This is a reminder, and an encouragement, to submit papers to Siggraph 09. This year's Sandbox papers will be integrated into the main conference and will be published as the Sandbox 2009: ACM SIGGRAPH Video Game Proceedings. Topics include: analysis of player experience, ethics and values in game design, cinematography in games, game AI, procedural art, and more.
For complete submission info go here. Deadline for paper submissions is February 18.
The student showcase winners for the IGF were announced last week -- big congratulations to the two IMD projects that were chosen: second year Ian Dallas' The Unfinished Swan and Kid the World Saver by first years Michael Silverman, Hua Chen and Daniel Ponce.
I also want to send out congratulations to all the other IMD teams who worked so hard to submit games this year -- some amazing games were made and are now in various states of production. Keep going because there are a lot of other festivals and opportunities out there!
Some games I particularly like from the student line-up are FEIST, a beautiful little scroller and Where is my Heart, a clever, mind-boggling visual puzzle. More info and the list of all the games here.
IMD graduate Justin Hall and his company GameLayers have been nominated by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences for Massively Multiplayer Game of the Year for PMOG. Congrats to Justin, Merci, Duncan and all at GameLayers!! Pretty incredible for a start-up to be nominated next to Warhammer and Wrath of the Lich King :)
