Toblo Honored at GDC

[CSN NewsBot]

Toblo. GDC 2007. Award winner. Those three, short statements basically sum up the entire news post I'm about to make. Alright, so I had completely forgotten that Toblo was up for an award at this year's GDC. Subsequently, when I shot an email to rizzuh earlier about a small site tweak I had in mind, I failed to realize he was rubbing elbows with some of the big dogs in the gaming industry. It took a quick jaunt to Kotaku to remember that Toblo was up for an award, and guess what?



The Toblo team won the Independent Games Festival award for Best Student Game in the IGF Student Showcase!

In addition, the IGF Student Showcase recognized ten student-designed games and, for the first time ever, awarded a $2,500 Best Student Game prize. The award went to DigiPen Institute of Technology's fast-paced capture the flag game, Toblo.

Congratulations to the entire Toblo team for the achievement, and additional congratulations to Toblo team member Steve Chiavelli for the little matter of receiving a "yes" when he popped the question during his acceptance speech.

[FLeK0]

congrats!

[acidsnow]

gg in both senses of the expresion ;p

[ph03nix(k)]

rizzuh rapes all.

[omgomgz]

What's this? 'Extremely High Voltage'? Well, I don't need safety gloves, because I'm Homer Simpson!"



I don't need to post my own news on CSNation because i'm John Jensen!



p.s. Come back to me Rizzuh.

[-:Nighthawk:-]

I still haven't played it against another human, but it is definitely an entertaining distraction when you're looking for something a little different from the norm. Contgrats to the whole Toblo team--even you, fatty.

[meowmeow]

Teehee, you called him fatty cause he's fat, teehee.

[Gpig]

I'm curious if the team got to keep the money they made from the intel mobile (GO?) competition or not. They made 25k from that award. I guess I'll try toblo tonight.



edit: and congrats. I forgot to mention that. That's really cool, and I feel bad for having not tried the game when you asked us to.