Student Showcase
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IGF's Student Showcase is a noncompetitive event recognizing the exceptional talents of high school and college student developers. GameSpot is proud to host the following top 10 entries as nominated by an IGF-appointed jury.
And Yet It Moves
Developer: Tu Wien
And Yet It Moves is an exciting mixture of a puzzle and jump-and-run game. Rotate the world, move objects, and avoid dangerous situations all while trying to make it through a collage of ripped paper.
The Ball of Bastards
Developer: Koln International School of Design
The Ball of Bastards is a collection of minigames and short scenes that mock the crazy antics of soccer fans and athletes. Sick of overpaid, decadent players? Let your aggressions reign with this hilarious Monty Python-style game.
Base Invaders
Developer: DigiPen Institute of Technology
Base Invaders is a cartoony, action-oriented strategy game that pits you against hordes of dimwitted invaders bent on destroying your tower. Get crafty and trap your enemies before they get you!
Euclidean Crisis
Developer: Stanford University
In Euclidean Crisis, a multiplayer real-time strategy game, players control diverse teams on a 2D battlefield set in a world full of colorful, psychedelic visuals synced to music. Your aim is to destroy your opponent's energy cores while protecting your own. Give your team orders using a touch-screen stylus, voice commands, or special gestures.
Gelatin Joe
Developer: DigiPen Institute of Technology
Gelatin Joe 2 is a 2D platform game where you control a blob of gelatin in your quest to save the world. Use your brains and blobs to solve puzzles and defeat the evil Billy Bob the Bionic Blob.
Invalid Tangram
Developer: Guildhall at SMU
Invalid Tangram takes the fast-paced arcade action of a 2D vertical shooter and adds in a falling-block puzzle-game twist, ultimately delivering an exciting game with a slick, stylized look.
Opera Slinger
Developer: Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy
In Opera Slinger you are Forte, an Opera Slinger extraordinaire, who must defend your fame and musical prowess against Aria, the Opera Queen. Part karaoke and part classic action platformer, Opera Slinger proves that opera is not for sissies anymore.
Rooms
Developer: SungKyunKwan University
In a mysterious mansion you must arrange the rooms, like a sliding puzzle, using only what lies inside the room. Pay close attention to the location of the rooms, and be sure to use the right object at the right time.
The Blob
Developer: Hogeschool van de Kunsten
The Dutch city of Utrecht has lost its colors and is desperate to bring them back. Set in the year 2020, the city is bleak after massive construction, and only you and Bob, a stranded alien, are able to do the job. Can you make Utrecht the colorful city it once was?
Toblo
Developer: DigiPen Institute of Technology
Toblo, a fast-paced capture-the-flag game, has two teams using the world as weaponry, throwing bombs, and generally destroying things. During capture-the-flag matches, structures in the topsy-turvy world of colorful blocks are constantly changing as you use the blocks for combat. Play with or against your friends in this wild game.
