Software:Intel Level Up

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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

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
  • 2rd 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

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Intel Level Up 2010 Game Demo Challenge". https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/intel-level-up-2010-game-demo-challenge. 
  2. ↑ "Intel Game Demo Contest". https://www.techpowerup.com/9945/intel-game-demo-contest. 
  3. ↑ "Intel Game Demo Creation Contest Official Rules". http://web.archive.org/web/20060409053402/http://www.intel.com/cd/ids/developer/asmo-na/eng/267273.htm. 
  4. ↑ "Intel Launches 2009 Level Up Game Dev Competition". https://www.gamedeveloper.com/game-platforms/intel-launches-2009-level-up-game-dev-competition. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 "Hall of Glory". http://web.archive.org/web/20180826123418/https://software.intel.com/sites/campaigns/levelup2017/hall-of-glory/. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Level Up 2017 Judges". https://web.archive.org/web/20170506161715/https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/level-up-2017-judges. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Level Up 2015 Judges". https://web.archive.org/web/20151127010032/https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/level-up-2015-judges. 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Level Up 2014 Judges". https://web.archive.org/web/20140410111256/http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/level-up-2014-judges. 
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Level Up 2013 Judges". https://web.archive.org/web/20130402192656/https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/level-up-2013-judges/. 
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Level Up 2011 Judges". https://web.archive.org/web/20111010202247/http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/level-up-2011-judges/. 
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 "Level Up 2010 Judges". https://web.archive.org/web/20121019181856/http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/level-up-2010-judges/. 
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Level Up 2009 Judges". https://web.archive.org/web/20090618055057/http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/levelup-judges/. 
  13. ↑ "Level Up 2016 Judges". https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/level-up-2016-judges. 
  14. ↑ "Indie Game Developers IGD". https://facebook.com/groups/IndieGameDevs/permalink/10153320516141573/. 
  15. ↑ "Intel Level Up contest winners feature Kafka, reincarnation". https://www.pcgamer.com/intel-level-up-contest-winners-feature-kafka-reincarnation/. 
  16. ↑ "Intel Level Up 2010: Shiny Judges!". https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/intel-level-up-2010-shiny-judges. 
  17. ↑ "2008 Intel Game Demo Contest Winners". http://web.archive.org/web/20080921131716/http://softwarecommunity.intel.com/articles/eng/3978.htm. 
  18. ↑ "2007 Intel Game Demo Contest Winners". https://web.archive.org/web/20071225040611/http://softwarecommunity.intel.com/articles/eng/1409.htm. 
  19. ↑ "2006 Intel Game Demo Contest Winners". https://web.archive.org/web/20061017004842/http://www3.intel.com/cd/ids/developer/asmo-na/eng/264351.htm. 



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