Level Up 2009 Winners Announced

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Last Modified On :   September 23, 2009 11:03 AM PDT
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The results of the Level Up 2009 Intel® Visual Adrenaline Game Demo Challenge are now official. Three winners in each of three categories have earned bragging rights and fabulous prizes like all-access passes to GDC, game feedback from Intel developers, development hardware and software, and marketing exposure. The categories are:

  • Best Game Optimized for Intel® Graphics
  • Best Game-on-the-Go
  • Best Threaded Game

Intel's fourth annual worldwide game demo challenge, with 91 entries from 19 countries, showcases game innovation that takes advantage of Intel hardware, tools, and development kits. A group of industry luminaries including Sid Meier, Will Wright, a team of experts from Intel, and many others judged this year’s games.

Many thanks to the contest's sponsors, including Adobe, Autodesk, Cakewalk, Frogames, and IGDA.

Best Game Optimized for Intel® Graphics
One set of prizes was awarded for games that are compatible and playable on Intel® Integrated Graphics chipsets. Here are the winners:

1st Place
2nd Place
3rd Place

>> I Know Your Deeds
challenges you to survive in a
city dominated by zombies

>> Spin Tires
is an off-road
racing game

>> Inferus
pits you against diabolical
underground puzzles


Best Game-on-the-Go
Another set of prizes was awarded based on how well games satisfied the special challenges and opportunities (power and connectivity monitoring, platform changes, peer-to-peer ad-hoc networking) for mobile gaming:

1st Place
2nd Place
3rd Place

>> Inferus
pits you against diabolical
underground puzzles

>> GermiNation
involves strategically placing
towers to defeat the enemy

>> Rise of Pirates
takes you to sea for naval
battle and adventure


Best Threaded Game
Finally, a set of prizes was awarded based on how the games performed on and scaled across multiple processor cores increasing performance and the experience of the games:

1st Place
2nd Place
3rd Place

>> Spin Tires
is an off-road
racing game

>> I Know Your Deeds
challenges you to survive in a
city dominated by zombies

>> Ray Tracing Game
is a puzzle where you must
direct a laser to its target


Judges' Choice Award
In addition, one special prize was awarded at the discretion of the judges:

Judges' Choice Award

>> Rise of Flight: The First Great Air War
takes you to the skies on the
Western Front of World War I


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Links
Level Up 2009: Intel® Visual Adrenaline Game Demo Challenge: www.intel.com/software/levelup2009

Short URL (for Twitter, etc.): http://bit.ly/levelup09

Intel® Visual Adrenaline: http://software.intel.com/sites/billboard/

Intel® Software Network: www.intel.com/software

Intel Software Network Visual Computing Developer Community: www.intel.com/software/graphics

Intel Software Network Parallel Programming and Multicore Community: http://www.intel.com/software/multicore

Intel Software Network Mobile Community: http://software.intel.com/en-us/mobility

Intel Software Network on Twitter: @intelsoftware

Intel Software Network on Facebook: http://facebook.com/intelsoftwarenetwork

Intel Software Network on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/intelswnetwork


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