The Independent Games Festival has announced the winners of the 2010 IGF Student Showcase, which aims to recognize outstanding indie game development that takes place on school and university campuses.
This year's set of ten Student Showcase winners will now go on to compete for the Best Student Game Prize, which will be announced on stage at the Independent Games Festival Awards, held on March 11 at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
Winning games will be playable at the IGF Pavilion on the GDC 2010 show floor and were chosen by an “opt-in subset of the more than 150 notable game industry figures”.
The full list of this year's winners is:
Boryokudan Rue (UCLA)
Continuity (Chalmers University of Technology / University of Gothenburg)
Devil's Tuning Fork (DePaul University)
Dreamside Maroon (DigiPen Institute Of Technology)
Igneous (DigiPen Institute Of Technology)
Paper Cakes (Utrecht School of the Arts & USC)
Puddle (ENJMIN, France)
Puzzle Bloom (DADIU, Denmark)
Spectre (USC Interactive Media)
Ulitsa Dimitrova (Kunsthochschule Kassel, Germany)
"We're delighted to see the IGF Student Showcase continuing to highlight some outstanding student-created titles from all over the world," said Simon Carless, IGF chairman. "Congratulations to all the winners, and we're very much looking forward to showing them to the public at Game Developers Conference this March."