{"id":59070,"date":"2014-01-23T17:50:14","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T15:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=59070"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:55:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:55:45","slug":"independent-games-festival-student-showcase-winners-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/independent-games-festival-student-showcase-winners-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent Games Festival Student Showcase winners announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>IGF (Indie Game Festival) awards<\/strong> are coming this Spring, and the organization has announced the 8 winners of their Student Showcase. Most of the games are free and playable, which is great news for <a href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/b\/indie-games\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">indie game<\/a> fans!<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a broad range of games, from the strange, like Farsh, a game about rolling and unrolling carpets, to the speedy like Zenith, a game about speed, movement and Twitter!<\/p>\n<p>Here are the winners, and their homepages.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/atumgame.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ATUM<\/a> (NHTV IGAD) (playable)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/backtobed.dadiugames.dk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Back to Bed<\/a> (Danish Academy of Digital Interactive Entertainment) (playable)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackwellgame.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blackwell&#8217;s Asylum<\/a> (Danish Academy of Digital Interactive Entertainment) (playable)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/marsigames.blogspot.com.es\/2012\/09\/farsh.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Farsh<\/a> (NHTV IGAD) (playable)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/beholdstudios.com.br\/knights-of-pen-paper\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Knights of Pen &amp; Paper<\/a> (IESB &#8211; Instituto de Ensino Superior de Brasilia &amp; UnB &#8211; Universidade de Brasilia) (playable, premium)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.etc.cmu.edu\/projects\/mindful-xp\/games\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the mindfulxp volume<\/a> (Carnegie Mellon University Entertainment Technology Center) (playable)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teampixelpi.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pulse<\/a> (Vancouver Film School) (playable)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/zinethgame.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zineth<\/a> (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) (playable)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The main finalists were announced in the first week of January, and include The Stanley Parable, Paper&#8217;s Please and The Banner Saga.<\/p>\n<h4>RELATED STORIES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/igf-winners-announced\">IGF winners announced 2010<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/igf-unveils-student-games-winners\">IGF unveils student games winners<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/an-indie-game-feast\">http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/an-indie-game-feast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IGF (Indie Game Festival) awards are coming this Spring, and the organization has announced the 8 winners of their Student Showcase. Most of the games are free and playable, which is great news for indie game fans! There&#8217;s a broad range of games, from the strange, like Farsh, a game about rolling and unrolling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/independent-games-festival-student-showcase-winners-announced\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Independent Games Festival Student Showcase winners announced&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-59070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331488,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59070\/revisions\/331488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59070"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=59070"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=59070"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=59070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}