The 2006 Slamdance Guerilla Gamemaker Competition Winners Announced

Grand Jury Sparky
Facade
FACADE
by Procedural Arts

Audience Sparky
N
N
by Metanet Software Inc

Student Physics Award (Technological Achievement)
Rumble Box
RUMBLE BOX
by Insert Coin (DigiPen Institute of Technology)

Student Philosophy Award (Artistic Achievement)
Cloud
CLOUD
by Cloud (USC Interactive Media Division)

PopCap Casual Game Award
Odyssey
THE ODYSSEY
by Liquid Dragon Studios

The 2006 Slamdance Guerilla Gamemaker Competition Finalists

CLOUD
Cloud
www.thatcloudgame.com

Have you ever wanted to fly among the clouds? Welcome to a dream of what could be. Welcome to Cloud.

DISAFFECTED!
Persuasive Games
www.persuasivegames.com

Disaffected! is a videogame parody of the KinkoÕs copy store. The game puts the player in the role of employees forced to take on the often frustrating behavior of workers at such a store. Disaffected! is the first in a series of persuasive games we call anti-advergames: games that challenge players to rethink their relationship with consumption and encourage corporate critique.

EPOCH STAR
Rick Battagline
www.epochstar.com

Prepare yourself for an epic space adventure. Blast apart enemy ships in real-time combat at the helm of your own customizable warship. Complete missions to gain wealth and experience as you explore a distant galaxy filled with exotic alien races to save the universe from the ominous Epoch Star.

FACADE
Procedural Arts
www.interactivestory.net

Facade is an AI-based interactive drama in which you, using your own name and gender, play the character of a longtime friend of a married couple, Grace and Trip. During an evening get-together at their apartment that quickly turns ugly, you become entangled in the high-conflict dissolution of their marriage.

GAURDIANS OF KELTHAS
Battlement Studios
www.kelthas.com

Guardians of Kelthas is a unique fantasy collectible card game that explores the potential of an all-digital CCG. As the new director of a Hero Company, the player must organize a team capable of defending the Empire and besting their competition in a variety of gameplay modes.

JOBOO'S GEMS
Gem Jocks

Adventure through a strange and mysterious jungle to recover sacred gems, but watch out for Joboo! He's got more than a few tricks up his sleeve to stop you from taking his treasure!

N
Metanet Software Inc
www.harveycartel.org/metanet

N is a unique 2D puzzle / platformer which adds modern physics simulation to classical gameplay; the addictiveness of Tetris, the simplicity of Pacman, and the intangible hilarity of ninja dismemberment.

NARBACULAR DROP
DigiPen Institute of Technology: Nuclear Monkey Software
www.nuclearmonkeysoftware.com

In Narbacular Drop, wind your way through a labyrinth of halls, but never forget that you can escape through the power of the portals. It will challenge your ability to know up from down, or from left, or from right, or from behind...Leave reality behind you, enter the world of Narbacular Drop.

OCULAR INK
Pistachio Productions
www.pistachioproductions.com

In a strange and twisted land where evil dismembered body parts roam the countryside, you play the role of a young paintbrush-wielding eyeball determined to free his home town from the fearsome clutches of the evil eye-pirate known far and wide as Patches Deadlights.

THE ODYSSEY
Liquid Dragon Studios
www.liquiddragon.com

As the Goddess Athena, help guide Ulysses fleet back to Ithaca. You control water currents and wind and must protect the boats from the many dangers along the way.

RUMBLE BOX
DigiPen Institute of Technology: Insert Coin
www.phackett.com/rumblebox

Fight your way through a barrage of thugs, ninjas, and bombs to escape the box! Defeat enemies quickly for high scores and the chance to play one of many bonus stages!

WILDLIFE TYCOON: VENTURE AFRICA
Pocketwatch Games
www.wildlifetycoon.com

Build ecosystems of lions, elephants, and more in this unique Tycoon game. Take control over any animal, from a devious hyena hunting for zebra meat to the leader of a herd of wildebeests migrating across crocodile-infested waters.

WHOM THE TELLING CHANGED
Aaron A. Reed
aaronareed.net

In this interactive short story, author/programmer Aaron A. Reed explores what storytelling meant to the earliest civilizations and what it will mean in the 21st century. As the people gather round the fire to hear the storyteller, the player must inspire the crowd to action using rhetoric, flattery, and the logic of the story.