IGF Mobile awards ceremony announces judge’s panel
And Pocket Gamer’s on it!
The Independent Games Festival Mobile, which has grown in popularity by a huge extent, especially since an iPhone section was included with its own Best Game award, has just announced the list of judges to sit on the panel at the event.
The panel consists of independent mobile game developers, previous IGF Mobile award winners and leading industry journalists. That means it includes our very own Stuart Dredge.
The IGF Mobile will have its own pavilion on the show floor at the Game Developers Conference 2009 next March, and all finalist games will be available to play. Winners are to be announced at a ceremony during the GDC Mobile conference and honoured during the main IGF Awards on March 25th 2009.
“It’s a great honour to be invited to sit at the table, as I’m told each judge is provided with their own box of wine and a copy of gentlemen's literature at these events,” says Stu. Only joking of course – he said nothing of the sort (not to me, anyway).
The panel is looking like this, with full bios available at the IGF Mobile official site:
- Kris Piotrowski, Creative Director, Capybara Games
- Paul Farley, CEO, Tag Games
- Tommy Palm, Research & Development Manager, Jadestone
- Brandon Boyer, Editor, Offworld
- Alan Yu, Vice President, ngmoco
- Stuart Dredge, Editor, PocketGamer.biz
- Neil Trevett, Vice President Mobile Content, NVIDIA
- Steve Palley, Editor, Slide To Play
- Blake Patterson, Editor, Touch Arcade
- Liz England, Designer, 5th Cell Entertainment
- Beth Marcus, Senior Vice President, Zeemote
- Tobin Lent, CEO, Punch Entertainment
