October 15th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »
The IGF organizers have made available the list of judges for this new industry event that will judge mobile games as well as games for the Sony’s PSP and the Nintendo DS.
The event that will take place during the Game Developers Conference 2008 in San Francisco and the judges will be;
– Mike Yuen, Senior Director, Gaming Group, Qualcomm
– David Gosen, CEO, I-play
– Arjan Olsder, Writer, Mobilegamesblog.com
– Darryl Williams, Senior Director of Content, Playphone
– Justin Davis, Editor-in-chief, Modojo
– Demetri G. Detsaridis, Creative Director, Massively Mobile
– Stuart Dredge, Writer, Pocket Gamer
– Neil Trevett, Vice President Mobile Content, NVIDIA
– Monty Munford, Business Development Director, Player X
– Steve Wetherill, President, Uztek Games
– Matthew Hawkins, Writer, zedgeHeadz
– Michael Chang, CEO, Greystripe
– John Walker, Writer, Rock Paper Shotgun
At the Game Developers Conference, there will be a pavilion featuring all the finalists from the competition. Visitors can check out the quality of their games. The winners will be announced during the GDC Mobile conference. The main awards show will be Wednesday Feb. 20th 2008. Closing date for submissions to the event will be October 26th, 2007. More info on submitting your games here, and more info on the judges available here.