GDC: IGF Mobile award winners as they happen!

By Dave LeClair, USA
for www.touchgen.com

Published: March 24, 2009

So, here I sit at the IGF Mobile awards which are about to start, so I figure while I’m here I may as well bring you all the winners live as they happen. So, keep hitting refresh, because as soon as the show starts I will be keeping you current on everything that goes down here.

While you wait here is the list of all the finalists: (courtesy of the IGF mobile website.)



	IGF Mobile Best Game: Cubic Republic (IKS Mobile) – Flash Lite Smiles (Sykhronics Entertainment) – iPhone/iPod touch Fieldrunners (Subatomic Studios) – iPhone/iPod touch Edge (Mobigame) – iPhone/iPod touch Wardive (And-or) – Nintendo DS

	Innovation in Mobile Game Design: Wardive (And-or) – Nintendo DS Galcon (Hassey Enterprises) – iPhone/iPod touch Eliss (Steph Thirion) – iPhone/iPod touch

	Achievement in Art: Fieldrunners (Subatomic Studios) – iPhone/iPod touch Dizzy Bee (Igloo Games) – iPhone/iPod touch Ruben & Lullaby (Song New Creative) – iPhone/iPod touch

	Technical Achievement: Football Tycoon (Dynamo Games) – Java Real Racing (Firemint) – iPhone/iPod touch Wardive (And-or) – Nintendo DS

	Audio Achievement: Radio Flare (Studio Radiolaris) – iPhone/iPod touch Zen Bound (Secret Exit) – iPhone/iPod touch Edge (Mobigame) – iPhone/iPod touch

	Best iPhone Game — Presented by ngmoco: Edge (Mobigame) – iPhone/iPod touch Dizzy Bee (Igloo Games) – iPhone/iPod touch Fieldrunners (Subatomic Studios) – iPhone/iPod touch Zen Bound (Secret Exit) – iPhone/iPod touch Frenzic (The Iconfactory) – iPhone/iPod touch

	Next Great Mobile Game — Presented by NVIDIA: Depict (VillaVanilla) – iPhone FastFoot Challenge (Urban Team) – J2ME Picopoke (Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab) – Photo/Internet-capable Mobile Handsets Rhythm of War (KranX Productions / SME Dynamic Systems) – Sony PSP Reflection (Team Reflection – University of Southern California) – Nintendo DS

They are starting with the next great mobile game, it is games that do not exist yet, or are eraly in development, the winner will be chosen by the crowd response.
Depict - VileVanilla - The game is played by taking pictures of certain colors like pink on a black background. It looks very cool, good use of the iPhone camera and functions.
FastFoot Challenge - Urban Team - A GPS based game. It is a jump and run game played with the GPS on your cell phone. It is a competitive and cooperative game at the same time. It’s all about imagination. It’s a very immersive experience. It’s all community based.
PicoPoke - MIT Gambit Gamelab - Game play revolves around photo challenges. Take photos based on the three challenges that are released every week. It’s all based on user voting to determine who wins.
Rythm of War - SME Dynamic systems - A PSP game that is rhythm based and kind of hard to make out exactly what it is all about. Looks like you have to shoot things in tune with the beat of the song.
Reflection - Team Reflection - Nintendo DS game that is a 2d puzzle platformer. There is a mirror of each screen with different obstacles. You can use platforms on the on the other screen to navigate the levels.
And the winner is…. Team Reflection’s Ds game Reflection

The next award is the audio award achievement award. The winner is…. Zen Bound by Secret Exit.

Next is Technical achievement and the winner is…. Real Racing by FireMint.

The next award is for art design. And the winner is… Field Runners by Subatomic games.

The next award is innovation in mobile game design. And the winner is… Galcon by Hasset Enterprises.

The next award is the best iPhone game. And the winner is… (Alan Yu from ngmoco is presenting this one.) Zen Bound by Secret Exit.

And the final award is the best game of the year for mobile. (Presented by last years winners Capibara.) And the winner is… FieldRunners by Subatomic Studios.

If anyone is keeping score, that’s every award at the show being won by and iPhone game. (With the excpetion of the next best thing award, which was a Ds game, but since that games not an existing game that doesn’t count.)

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