Gaming professionals in Iceland
IGI Awards
The Icelandic Gaming Industry Awards 2010 (IGIA10)
IGIA10 was officially launched on the 7th IGI meet-up, Thursday November 5th 2009 with great success, which formed the official start date of the competition running up to the actual awards ceremony, to be held in April 2010. The first monthly IGIA10 workshop takes place Saturday November 7th 2009. If you have ever wanted to create your own computer game, have a good idea for a game, or just want to learn a bit more about how computer games are made, IGIA10 is definitely for you.
The process
The process includes free monthly workshops by industry experts on various parts of the game design/creation process, intended to teach you a bit about how we do things and at the same time lead you along the path of working on your own game idea. The competition is open for anyone, absolutely anyone, to take part and is in every way FREE. If you don't know the first thing about making games, then this is the perfect opportunity for you to learn about it and apply those skills towards your entry in the competition.
This is also a great opportunity to showcase your skills and participants are encouraged to form groups, so that a greater mix of skills can work together towards an even better end result. That way you might also learn more about working together in interdisciplinery projects and pick up something interesting from your group members.
You can win !
In addition to all this, the winning entry will receive a fantastic HP Touchsmart IQ522sc multimedia computer and touchscreen, generously donated by Opin Kerfi (www.ok.is) and will get accepted into the first term of Vidskiptasmidjan* and get that fall term of 2010 for free as well as of course some support from IGI. All of this should greatly increase your odds of being able to create a great game, which could result in your very own brand new startup or alternatively an impressive portfolio piece when applying for work in the industry. Oh, and a great chance to meet all of us of course ;)
To register, just sign up here at IGI and join the IGIA10 group.
IGIA10 Group Page:
http://www.igi.is/group/igia10
Find some more answers at the IGIA10 FAQ:
http://www.igi.is/group/igia10/forum/topics/3257927:Topic:5649
And the detailed rules are here:
http://www.igi.is/group/igia10/forum/topics/igia10-competition-rules
*subject to acceptance of the candidate by a representative of Vidskiptasmidjan
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