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:

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 AH,MD,SM	42	Game Video
3		Morning Star Peter Alexander	40	Game Video
4		Ladybug Beetlefeet	38	Game Video
5		Thrust Harder Kransky Bros	24	Game
6		The Things NoTime	20	Game Video
7		Super Jesus Twelve Productions	19	Game Video
8		Space Pirates First Empire	19	Game Video
9		Retrovector Brad Power	18	Game
10		Column Breaker OneTwentyThree	11	Video

Jason Della Rocca Coming to Perth

Jason Della Rocca, Executive Director of the IGDA, is coming to Perth on the 13th of November. We’ll be announcing at least one more event for while he’s here but for the moment, why don’t you plan on coming over the the next IGDA Perth Meeting at the Velvet Lounge (Flying Scotsman Pub, cnr Beaufort and Walcott St, Mt Lawley) starting at 7pm. Jason will present “At Least 10 Reasons Why the Game Industry Doesn’t Suck”.

In addition, you can win prizes (including an Xbox 360, latest release games, speaker kits and more) from our generous sponsors - Anyware Computers, Crumpler Bags, Epic Games, Game traders, Microsoft, One Stop Entertainment and GO3 Electronic Entertainment Expo – and meet your new Perth chapter of IGDA committee members!