Last Friday, “Closure,” by Jon Schubbe, Tyler Glaiel, and Chris Rhyne won the “Excellence in Audio” award at the 2010 Independent Games Festival, the most prestigious video game awards show in the world.
Mr. Schubbe is a Sophomore (Visual Arts) at UMBC.
"Closure" was also a finalist in the “Technical Excellence” and “Nuovo Award” categories.
There is a "Student" game category at IGF; "Closure" won in the regular category.
Play the game: the project's web site is:
http://www.closuregame.com/
You can watch the whole awards ceremony at this site:
http://gdc.gamespot.com/video/6253471/?tag=topslot;watchlink;1
175 judges chose "Closure" from over 300 entries.
Hearty congratulations to the Closure team for this amazing achievement!