Congratulations to all the fantastic entries for the 2008 Game Demo Contest. 329 entries were received from 42 countries around the world. Take a look at this year’s winning demos below!

Thank you to our sponsors!

First place winners: USD $12,500, 2008 Austin game developers conference pass, an all access pass to Game Developers Conference 2009
Second place winners: USD $7,500
Third place winners: USD $3,000
Fourth and Fifth place winners: USD $1,000
All winners receive: Single user licenses of Intel® Thread Checker, Intel® Thread Profiler, Intel® VTune™ Performance Analyzer and Intel® Threading Building Blocks, One-year memberships to the Independent Game Developers Association Judge’s Choice Awards: see additional spotlight below

Best Threaded Game Winners

The winning game demos in this category use multiple threads to take advantage of the parallel processing available in computers with the Intel® Core™ 2 Duo family of processors.

Best Game on the Go Winners

The winning game demos in this category demonstrate unique gameplay opportunities available on today’s laptop computers using Intel’s low power mobile processors.

Best Game on Intel® Graphics Winners

The winning game demos in this category show great games that can be played with today’s integrated graphics included in products like the Intel® 4 Series chipsets.

Judge’s Choice Award – Best Tips and Tricks on Intel® Graphics sponsored by Intel® Software Network

These entries were chosen based on coding or game design tips and tricks to improve compatibility and playability on Intel® Integrated Graphics.

First Place: "Deadly Light" by Яков Сумыгин
Prize: Dell Alienware* High-end Gaming Laptop

Second Place: "Lens Flare Programming using 3D plains instead of sprites" by Alip Kumar Saha
Prize: Intel® Core 2™ 45 nm Quad-Co re Extreme Edition processor

Judge's Choice Award – sponsored by Dell

Per Winnie Wong, Director of Marketing Communications, Alienware – "This is hands-down one of the best games we've ever seen developed for a contest like this, and certainly one of the most fun. An impressive amount of detail in the terrain, smooth animation, cool music and a full install let you know right away that the developer wasn't cutting any corners in delivering an engaging game environment……We rate this game "Highly Addictive"."

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September 15, 2008 9:03 AM PDT Mauro

There's an updated Protozoa demo at the following link: http://fuse.superglue.se/protozoa-intel-20080912.zip - the new version fixes many bugs and performs a lot better. Thank you! :-)

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