The Intel Level Up was a series of annual video game competitions organised by Intel to support independent video game development, with winning games receiving monetary rewards in addition to the award. [1] The first competition, titled the Intel Game Demo Contest, was held in 2006. [2] [3] It was restarted in 2009 as the Intel Level Up Game Developer Contest. [4] The competition has not been held after 2017. [5]
A distinctive feature of the contest was the participation of game-industry luminaries as judges. [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] At different times, the judges were Sid Meier, Will Wright, Chris Avellone, Todd Howard, Tim Schafer, Chris Taylor, etc.
Winners
2017 [5]
Judges: Chris Avellone, Kate Edwards, Wolfgang Engel, Rami Ismail, Tim Schafer, Gary Rowe, Tyrone Rodriguez, Laila Shabir. [6]
- Game of the Year: Resynth, Polyphonic LP
- Best Puzzle/Physics Game: Resynth, Polyphonic LP
- Best Adventure/Role Playing: Cat Quest, The Gentelbros
- Best Platformer Game: Pepper Grinder, Riv Hester
- Best Action Game: Megaton Rainfall, Pentadimensional Games
- Best Open-Genre Game: Paperbark, Paperhouse Games
Skill and Craft Winners
- Best Art Design: Cat Quest, The Gentelbros
- Best 3D Graphics: Stardrop, Joure Visser
- Best Character Design: The Adventure Pals, Massive Monster
- Best Game Physics: Pepper Grinder, Riv Hester
- Best Sound: Yankai’s Peak, Kenny Sun
2016 [5]
Judges: Chris Avellone, Kate Edwards, Wolfgang Engel, Rami Ismail, Tim Schafer, Tyrone Rodriguez, Anne Toole. [13] [14]
- Game of the Year: Ellipsis, Salmi Games
- Best Action Game: Ellipsis, Salmi Games
- Best Adventure/Role Playing: Elsinore, Golden Glitch Studios
- Best Platformer Game: Little Bug, Buddy System
- Best Puzzle Game: She Remembered Caterpillars, Jumpsuit Entertainment Ug (haftungsbeschränkt)
- Best “Other” Game: Duskers, Misfits Attic
Skill and Craft Winners
- Best Art Design: Overland, Finji
- Best 3D Graphics: Guns Of Icarus Alliance, Muse Games
- Best Character Design: Tooth and Tail, Pocketwatch Games
- Best Game Physics: Goatpunks, Studio Canvas
- Best Sound: Animated Puzzles Star, Mexond Games
2015 [15] [5]
Judges: Chris Avellone, Kate Edwards, Wolfgang Engel, Rami Ismail, Tim Schafer, Chris Taylor, Tyrone Rodriguez. [7]
- Game of the Year: The Franz Kafka Videogame, Denis Galanin
- Best Adventure/Role Playing: The Franz Kafka Videogame, Denis Galanin
- Best Action Game: Synchrom, Morphiks
- Best Linux Game: Spacejacked, Rotten Mage
- Best Platformer Game: Bean Dreams, Kumobius
- Best Puzzle Game: Tumblestone, The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild
- Best “Other” Game: Galactic Missile Defense, Blacksheep Games
Skill and Craft Winners
- Best Art Design: Karma, Incarnation 1, AuraLab
- Best Sound: Karma, Incarnation 1, AuraLab
- Best 3D Graphics: Steamfarer, Igor Rashkuev
- Best Character Design: Bulb Boy, Bulb Boy Team
- Best Game Physics: Super Adventure Pals 2, Massive Monster
2014 [5]
Judges: Chris Avellone, Wolfgang Engel, Rami Ismail, Marc Saltzman, Tim Schafer, Chris Taylor, Nathan Vella, Tyrone Rodriguez. [8]
- Game of the Year: Duet, Kumobius and Tim Shiel
- Best Action Game: Duet, Kumobius and Tim Shiel
- Best Adventure/Role Playing: Bravada, Interbellum Team
- Best Platformer Game: Biglands: A Game Made By Kids, Diego Acevedo
- Best Puzzle Game: Framed, Loveshack
- Best “Other” Game: OTTTD, Smg Studio
Skill and Craft Winners
- Best Art Design: Toast Time, Force Of Habit
- Best Use Of Game Physics: Airscape: The Fall Of Gravity, Cross-product
- Best Sound: Duet, Kumobius and Tim Shiel
- Best Character Design: A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build, Alan Hazelden, Benjamin Davis and Ryan Roth
- Best 3D Graphics: Forced 2: The Rush!, BetaDwarf Entertainment
2013 [5]
Judges: Andy Schatz, Wolfgang Engel, Rami Ismail, Jordan Weisman. [9]
- Game of the Year: Perfection., Dumb and Fat Games
- Best Puzzle/Physics Game: Perfection., Dumb and Fat Games
- Best Adventure/Role Playing: Lilly Looking Through, Geeta Games
- Best Action Game: Assault Android Cactus, Witch Beam
- Best Platformer Game: Protocell, Team Primordia
- Best “Other” Game: Cube & Star: A Love Story, Doppler Interactive
Skill and Craft Winners
- Best Game Physics: Torquel, FullPowerSlideAttack.com
- Best Sound: Beatblasters III, Chainsawesome Games
- Best Character Design: Life Goes On, Infinite Monkeys
- Best 3D Graphics: Forced, BetaDwarf Entertainment
2011 [5]
Judges: Andy Schatz, Jeff Vogel, Wolfgang Engel, Chris Taylor, Jim Rossignol. [10]
- Game of the Year: Blackwell's Asylum, Blackpipe
- Best Adventure/Role Playing: Blackwell's Asylum, Blackpipe
- Student Game Of The Year and Best Strategy Game (tie): The White Laboratory, Tao Xin
- Best Casual Game: Divo, Logic Droids
- Best Educational Game: Atooms To Moolecules, Bitsits Games
- Best Puzzle Game: Splice, Cipher Prime Studios
- Best Shooter Game: MilitAnt, Xibalba Studios
- Best Shooter Game: MilitAnt, Xibalba Studios
- Best Simulation Game: Imagine Earth, Serious Brothers
- Best Strategy Game (tie): Plutonic Repulse: A Tale Of Limerence, Blackcow Studios
Judges Choice Winners
- Best 3D: Thunderwheels, G-Boot Games
- Best Physics: Thunderwheels, G-Boot Games
- Best Art: Beatbuddy, Threaks
- Best Sound: Beatbuddy, Threaks
- Best Character: Trash TV, Lawrence Russell
2010 [5]
Judges: Chris Avellone, Vic Davis, Todd Hollenshead, Todd Howard, Rod Humble, Raph Koster, Rick Raymo, Bill Roper, Tim Schafer, Adam Sessler, Jeff Vogel. [16] [11]
Best Game on a Laptop
- 1st Place: Purple
- 2nd Place: Icebreakers
- 3rd Place: Car Washer: Summer Of The Ninja
- Honorable Mention: Billichess
- Honorable Mention: Gladius
Best Game on a Desktop
- Have Time Will Travel
Best Game On A Netbook
- 1st Place: Cycle
- 2nd Place: Mechanism III
- 3rd Place: Karttoon Rally
- Honorable Mention: Bullzeye
- Honorable Mention: Heliride
- Honorable Mention: Spellbinder
Judges Choice Winners
- Best Art Design: Mechanism III
- Best Character Design: Icebreakers
- Best Graphics Performance: Purple
- Best Sound Design: Have Time Will Travel
2009 [5]
Judges: Sid Meier, Will Wright, Rick Raymo, Brad Wardell, Christophe Canon, Mathieu Mazerolle, Mary Beth Haggerty, Dmitry Oganezov, Gina Bovara, Jeff LaFlam, Brad Werth, Steve Winburn. [12]
Judges' Choice
- Rise of Flight: The First Great Air War, Albert Zhiltsov
Best Game Optimized For Intel Graphics
- 1st Place: I Know Your Deeds, Yakov Sumygin
- 2nd Place: Spin Tires, Pavel Zagrebelnyy
- 3rd Place: Infersus, Infersus
Best Threaded Game
- 1st Place: Infersus, Infersus
- 2nd Place: I Know Your Deeds, Yakov Sumygin
- 3rd Place: The Ray Tracing Game, Eugene Klyuchnikov
Best Game on the Go
- 1st Place: Spin Tires, Pavel Zagrebelnyy
- 2nd Place: Germination, Bradley Wesson
- 3rd Place: Rise Of Pirates, Stefans Keiss
2008 [17]
Best Threaded Game
- 1st Place: Goo!, Tommy Refenes (PillowFort Games)
- 2nd Place: Xenus II: White Gold, Sergey Zabaryansky (Deep Shadows)
- 3rd Place: Winding Trail, Elena Sagalaeva
- 4th Place: Predtechi, Sergey Zabaryansky (Deep Shadows)
- 5th Place: Deadly Light, Yakov Sumygin
Best Game on the Go
- 1st Place: Magic Worlds, Dmitry Dobryak
- 2nd Place: I’m Lulu King!, Cheng Chen
- 3rd Place: Sub0, Bradley Wesson
- 4th Place: Army of Earth, Tom Spencer-Smith
- 5th Place: Protozoa, Mauro Persano
Best Game on Intel Graphics
- 1st Place: Pixel and Vega in: Crunch Time!, Aaron Murray (Tandem Games)
- 2nd Place: Protozoa, Mauro Persano
- 3rd Place: Goo!, Tommy Refenes (PillowFort Games)
- 4th Place: Winding Trail, Elena Sagalaeva
- 5th Place: Army of Earth, Tom Spencer-Smith
Judge's Choice
- 1st Place: Deadly Light, Yakov Sumygin
- 2nd Place: Lens Flare Programming using 3D plains instead of sprites, Alip Kumar Saha
- 3rd Place: Army of Earth, Tom Spencer-Smith
2007 [18]
Best Threaded Game
- 1st Place: Harmotion, Erik Chan (Bottomless Pit Games)
- 2nd Place: Burning Tires, Rasmus Barringer
- 3rd Place: AntiPlanet, Lev Dymchenko
- 4th Place: Synaesthete, Zach Aikman, Andy Maneri, Will Towns and Joe Tkach ( DigiPen Institute of Technology)
- 5th Place: Red Assault, Andreas Papathanasis
Best Game on the Go
- 1st Place: Penguins Arena, Cristophe Canon (Frogames)
- 2nd Place: Empyreal Nocturne, Reed Gonsalves and Chad Taylor (Double Hawk Games)
- 3rd Place: Hexaxis XXI, Tim Hackett
- 4th Place: Othello³, Alain Labrie (Ware-Wolf Games)
- 5th Place: Helicomaster, Jean-Philippe Doiron and Simon Ampleman
2006 [19]
Best Threaded Game
- 1st Place: Command: Operation Winter Storm, Koios Works
- 2nd Place: Gun Dragon, AvocadoOverboard
- 3rd Place: Tiki Lounge Blackjack, The Jelly Filled Games
- Honorable Mention: Insanipaint
- Honorable Mention: El Condor Pasa, SweetMobility
Best Game on the Go
- 1st Place: Toblo, Steve Chiavelli, John Jensen, Brad Rasmussen, Ben Smith and Zach Peterson ( DigiPen Institute of Technology)
- 2nd Place: Insanipaint
See also
References
- ^ "Intel Level Up 2010 Game Demo Challenge". Rock, Paper, Shotgun.
- ^ "Intel Game Demo Contest". techpowerup.com.
- ^ "Intel Game Demo Creation Contest Official Rules".
- ^ "Intel Launches 2009 Level Up Game Dev Competition". Gamasutra.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Hall of Glory".
- ^ a b "Level Up 2017 Judges".
- ^ a b "Level Up 2015 Judges".
- ^ a b "Level Up 2014 Judges".
- ^ a b "Level Up 2013 Judges".
- ^ a b "Level Up 2011 Judges".
- ^ a b "Level Up 2010 Judges".
- ^ a b "Level Up 2009 Judges".
- ^ "Level Up 2016 Judges".
- ^ "Indie Game Developers IGD". Facebook.
- ^ "Intel Level Up contest winners feature Kafka, reincarnation". PC Gamer.
- ^ "Intel Level Up 2010: Shiny Judges!". Rock, Paper, Shotgun.
- ^ "2008 Intel Game Demo Contest Winners".
- ^ "2007 Intel Game Demo Contest Winners".
- ^ "2006 Intel Game Demo Contest Winners".
The Intel Level Up was a series of annual video game competitions organised by Intel to support independent video game development, with winning games receiving monetary rewards in addition to the award. [1] The first competition, titled the Intel Game Demo Contest, was held in 2006. [2] [3] It was restarted in 2009 as the Intel Level Up Game Developer Contest. [4] The competition has not been held after 2017. [5]
A distinctive feature of the contest was the participation of game-industry luminaries as judges. [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] At different times, the judges were Sid Meier, Will Wright, Chris Avellone, Todd Howard, Tim Schafer, Chris Taylor, etc.
Winners
2017 [5]
Judges: Chris Avellone, Kate Edwards, Wolfgang Engel, Rami Ismail, Tim Schafer, Gary Rowe, Tyrone Rodriguez, Laila Shabir. [6]
- Game of the Year: Resynth, Polyphonic LP
- Best Puzzle/Physics Game: Resynth, Polyphonic LP
- Best Adventure/Role Playing: Cat Quest, The Gentelbros
- Best Platformer Game: Pepper Grinder, Riv Hester
- Best Action Game: Megaton Rainfall, Pentadimensional Games
- Best Open-Genre Game: Paperbark, Paperhouse Games
Skill and Craft Winners
- Best Art Design: Cat Quest, The Gentelbros
- Best 3D Graphics: Stardrop, Joure Visser
- Best Character Design: The Adventure Pals, Massive Monster
- Best Game Physics: Pepper Grinder, Riv Hester
- Best Sound: Yankai’s Peak, Kenny Sun
2016 [5]
Judges: Chris Avellone, Kate Edwards, Wolfgang Engel, Rami Ismail, Tim Schafer, Tyrone Rodriguez, Anne Toole. [13] [14]
- Game of the Year: Ellipsis, Salmi Games
- Best Action Game: Ellipsis, Salmi Games
- Best Adventure/Role Playing: Elsinore, Golden Glitch Studios
- Best Platformer Game: Little Bug, Buddy System
- Best Puzzle Game: She Remembered Caterpillars, Jumpsuit Entertainment Ug (haftungsbeschränkt)
- Best “Other” Game: Duskers, Misfits Attic
Skill and Craft Winners
- Best Art Design: Overland, Finji
- Best 3D Graphics: Guns Of Icarus Alliance, Muse Games
- Best Character Design: Tooth and Tail, Pocketwatch Games
- Best Game Physics: Goatpunks, Studio Canvas
- Best Sound: Animated Puzzles Star, Mexond Games
2015 [15] [5]
Judges: Chris Avellone, Kate Edwards, Wolfgang Engel, Rami Ismail, Tim Schafer, Chris Taylor, Tyrone Rodriguez. [7]
- Game of the Year: The Franz Kafka Videogame, Denis Galanin
- Best Adventure/Role Playing: The Franz Kafka Videogame, Denis Galanin
- Best Action Game: Synchrom, Morphiks
- Best Linux Game: Spacejacked, Rotten Mage
- Best Platformer Game: Bean Dreams, Kumobius
- Best Puzzle Game: Tumblestone, The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild
- Best “Other” Game: Galactic Missile Defense, Blacksheep Games
Skill and Craft Winners
- Best Art Design: Karma, Incarnation 1, AuraLab
- Best Sound: Karma, Incarnation 1, AuraLab
- Best 3D Graphics: Steamfarer, Igor Rashkuev
- Best Character Design: Bulb Boy, Bulb Boy Team
- Best Game Physics: Super Adventure Pals 2, Massive Monster
2014 [5]
Judges: Chris Avellone, Wolfgang Engel, Rami Ismail, Marc Saltzman, Tim Schafer, Chris Taylor, Nathan Vella, Tyrone Rodriguez. [8]
- Game of the Year: Duet, Kumobius and Tim Shiel
- Best Action Game: Duet, Kumobius and Tim Shiel
- Best Adventure/Role Playing: Bravada, Interbellum Team
- Best Platformer Game: Biglands: A Game Made By Kids, Diego Acevedo
- Best Puzzle Game: Framed, Loveshack
- Best “Other” Game: OTTTD, Smg Studio
Skill and Craft Winners
- Best Art Design: Toast Time, Force Of Habit
- Best Use Of Game Physics: Airscape: The Fall Of Gravity, Cross-product
- Best Sound: Duet, Kumobius and Tim Shiel
- Best Character Design: A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build, Alan Hazelden, Benjamin Davis and Ryan Roth
- Best 3D Graphics: Forced 2: The Rush!, BetaDwarf Entertainment
2013 [5]
Judges: Andy Schatz, Wolfgang Engel, Rami Ismail, Jordan Weisman. [9]
- Game of the Year: Perfection., Dumb and Fat Games
- Best Puzzle/Physics Game: Perfection., Dumb and Fat Games
- Best Adventure/Role Playing: Lilly Looking Through, Geeta Games
- Best Action Game: Assault Android Cactus, Witch Beam
- Best Platformer Game: Protocell, Team Primordia
- Best “Other” Game: Cube & Star: A Love Story, Doppler Interactive
Skill and Craft Winners
- Best Game Physics: Torquel, FullPowerSlideAttack.com
- Best Sound: Beatblasters III, Chainsawesome Games
- Best Character Design: Life Goes On, Infinite Monkeys
- Best 3D Graphics: Forced, BetaDwarf Entertainment
2011 [5]
Judges: Andy Schatz, Jeff Vogel, Wolfgang Engel, Chris Taylor, Jim Rossignol. [10]
- Game of the Year: Blackwell's Asylum, Blackpipe
- Best Adventure/Role Playing: Blackwell's Asylum, Blackpipe
- Student Game Of The Year and Best Strategy Game (tie): The White Laboratory, Tao Xin
- Best Casual Game: Divo, Logic Droids
- Best Educational Game: Atooms To Moolecules, Bitsits Games
- Best Puzzle Game: Splice, Cipher Prime Studios
- Best Shooter Game: MilitAnt, Xibalba Studios
- Best Shooter Game: MilitAnt, Xibalba Studios
- Best Simulation Game: Imagine Earth, Serious Brothers
- Best Strategy Game (tie): Plutonic Repulse: A Tale Of Limerence, Blackcow Studios
Judges Choice Winners
- Best 3D: Thunderwheels, G-Boot Games
- Best Physics: Thunderwheels, G-Boot Games
- Best Art: Beatbuddy, Threaks
- Best Sound: Beatbuddy, Threaks
- Best Character: Trash TV, Lawrence Russell
2010 [5]
Judges: Chris Avellone, Vic Davis, Todd Hollenshead, Todd Howard, Rod Humble, Raph Koster, Rick Raymo, Bill Roper, Tim Schafer, Adam Sessler, Jeff Vogel. [16] [11]
Best Game on a Laptop
- 1st Place: Purple
- 2nd Place: Icebreakers
- 3rd Place: Car Washer: Summer Of The Ninja
- Honorable Mention: Billichess
- Honorable Mention: Gladius
Best Game on a Desktop
- Have Time Will Travel
Best Game On A Netbook
- 1st Place: Cycle
- 2nd Place: Mechanism III
- 3rd Place: Karttoon Rally
- Honorable Mention: Bullzeye
- Honorable Mention: Heliride
- Honorable Mention: Spellbinder
Judges Choice Winners
- Best Art Design: Mechanism III
- Best Character Design: Icebreakers
- Best Graphics Performance: Purple
- Best Sound Design: Have Time Will Travel
2009 [5]
Judges: Sid Meier, Will Wright, Rick Raymo, Brad Wardell, Christophe Canon, Mathieu Mazerolle, Mary Beth Haggerty, Dmitry Oganezov, Gina Bovara, Jeff LaFlam, Brad Werth, Steve Winburn. [12]
Judges' Choice
- Rise of Flight: The First Great Air War, Albert Zhiltsov
Best Game Optimized For Intel Graphics
- 1st Place: I Know Your Deeds, Yakov Sumygin
- 2nd Place: Spin Tires, Pavel Zagrebelnyy
- 3rd Place: Infersus, Infersus
Best Threaded Game
- 1st Place: Infersus, Infersus
- 2nd Place: I Know Your Deeds, Yakov Sumygin
- 3rd Place: The Ray Tracing Game, Eugene Klyuchnikov
Best Game on the Go
- 1st Place: Spin Tires, Pavel Zagrebelnyy
- 2nd Place: Germination, Bradley Wesson
- 3rd Place: Rise Of Pirates, Stefans Keiss
2008 [17]
Best Threaded Game
- 1st Place: Goo!, Tommy Refenes (PillowFort Games)
- 2nd Place: Xenus II: White Gold, Sergey Zabaryansky (Deep Shadows)
- 3rd Place: Winding Trail, Elena Sagalaeva
- 4th Place: Predtechi, Sergey Zabaryansky (Deep Shadows)
- 5th Place: Deadly Light, Yakov Sumygin
Best Game on the Go
- 1st Place: Magic Worlds, Dmitry Dobryak
- 2nd Place: I’m Lulu King!, Cheng Chen
- 3rd Place: Sub0, Bradley Wesson
- 4th Place: Army of Earth, Tom Spencer-Smith
- 5th Place: Protozoa, Mauro Persano
Best Game on Intel Graphics
- 1st Place: Pixel and Vega in: Crunch Time!, Aaron Murray (Tandem Games)
- 2nd Place: Protozoa, Mauro Persano
- 3rd Place: Goo!, Tommy Refenes (PillowFort Games)
- 4th Place: Winding Trail, Elena Sagalaeva
- 5th Place: Army of Earth, Tom Spencer-Smith
Judge's Choice
- 1st Place: Deadly Light, Yakov Sumygin
- 2nd Place: Lens Flare Programming using 3D plains instead of sprites, Alip Kumar Saha
- 3rd Place: Army of Earth, Tom Spencer-Smith
2007 [18]
Best Threaded Game
- 1st Place: Harmotion, Erik Chan (Bottomless Pit Games)
- 2nd Place: Burning Tires, Rasmus Barringer
- 3rd Place: AntiPlanet, Lev Dymchenko
- 4th Place: Synaesthete, Zach Aikman, Andy Maneri, Will Towns and Joe Tkach ( DigiPen Institute of Technology)
- 5th Place: Red Assault, Andreas Papathanasis
Best Game on the Go
- 1st Place: Penguins Arena, Cristophe Canon (Frogames)
- 2nd Place: Empyreal Nocturne, Reed Gonsalves and Chad Taylor (Double Hawk Games)
- 3rd Place: Hexaxis XXI, Tim Hackett
- 4th Place: Othello³, Alain Labrie (Ware-Wolf Games)
- 5th Place: Helicomaster, Jean-Philippe Doiron and Simon Ampleman
2006 [19]
Best Threaded Game
- 1st Place: Command: Operation Winter Storm, Koios Works
- 2nd Place: Gun Dragon, AvocadoOverboard
- 3rd Place: Tiki Lounge Blackjack, The Jelly Filled Games
- Honorable Mention: Insanipaint
- Honorable Mention: El Condor Pasa, SweetMobility
Best Game on the Go
- 1st Place: Toblo, Steve Chiavelli, John Jensen, Brad Rasmussen, Ben Smith and Zach Peterson ( DigiPen Institute of Technology)
- 2nd Place: Insanipaint
See also
References
- ^ "Intel Level Up 2010 Game Demo Challenge". Rock, Paper, Shotgun.
- ^ "Intel Game Demo Contest". techpowerup.com.
- ^ "Intel Game Demo Creation Contest Official Rules".
- ^ "Intel Launches 2009 Level Up Game Dev Competition". Gamasutra.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Hall of Glory".
- ^ a b "Level Up 2017 Judges".
- ^ a b "Level Up 2015 Judges".
- ^ a b "Level Up 2014 Judges".
- ^ a b "Level Up 2013 Judges".
- ^ a b "Level Up 2011 Judges".
- ^ a b "Level Up 2010 Judges".
- ^ a b "Level Up 2009 Judges".
- ^ "Level Up 2016 Judges".
- ^ "Indie Game Developers IGD". Facebook.
- ^ "Intel Level Up contest winners feature Kafka, reincarnation". PC Gamer.
- ^ "Intel Level Up 2010: Shiny Judges!". Rock, Paper, Shotgun.
- ^ "2008 Intel Game Demo Contest Winners".
- ^ "2007 Intel Game Demo Contest Winners".
- ^ "2006 Intel Game Demo Contest Winners".