Nullarbor 2008 Prizes

It was a great pleasure last night to hand out the prizes to this year’s Nullarbor winners. The standard of the games this year was outstanding and it is a credit to everyone involved that due to the incredibly high quality, we had the closest results ever.

This year we also decided to have a judges prize, which we awarded to Jack Casey (aka Beetlefeet) for his outstanding game “LadyBug” (video, game). I’m sure his prize — a copy of Maya Unlimited from Autodesk — will be very helpful in crafting next year’s entry!

The music prize was also very close, with fewer entries but all of them very nigh quality. Congratulations and $250 narrowly went to Simon Whitber (Nxus7) for his winning entry, beating out the competition by just 1 point. The final results were:

Nullarbor Music Prize Results
Position Title/Artist Points Links
1 RunningPsychoman
Nxus7
49 MP3
2 ULTIM8 REMIX
cTrix
48 MP3
3 Neurotically Ill
One_Volt_Sun / SyNtHaCY
42 MP3
4 Genetic Disorder
One_Volt_Sun / SyNtHaCY
29 MP3
5 Elan in Hawaii
Game Pride
26 MP3

As I mentioned, the people’s choice voting was the closest it has ever been, with only 3 points (potentially just one vote) separating the top 3 games.

Nullarbor Game Prize Results
Position Screenshot Title/Developer Points Links
1 Buttons’ Grand Adventures
ECU ML Red Team ‘08
43 Game
Video
2 The War of Art The War of Art
AH,MD,SM
42 Game
Video
3 Morning Star Morning Star
Peter Alexander
40 Game
Video
4 Ladybug Ladybug
Beetlefeet
38 Game
Video
5 Thrust Harder Thrust Harder
Kransky Bros
24 Game

6 The Things The Things
NoTime
20 Game
Video
7 Super Jesus Super Jesus
Twelve Productions
19 Game
Video
8 Space Pirates Space Pirates
First Empire
19 Game
Video
9 Retrovector Retrovector
Brad Power
18 Game

10 Column Breaker Column Breaker
OneTwentyThree
11 Video