First commercial D game, Mayhem Intergalactic, wins award: Finalist in IGF Student Competition

[janderson]

janderson wrote:
> Chris P. wrote:
>> Greetings again,
>>
>> Earlier this month I posted about my indie game, Mayhem Intergalactic
>> (http://www.inventivedingo.com/mayhemig ), which as far as we could tell
>> is the first ever released commercial game written in D.
>>
>> Well, now Mayhem Intergalactic has another claim to fame: It's been
>> awarded a place in the Student Showcase of the 10th Annual Independent
>> Games Festival Student Competition. This also puts it in the running for
>> the Best Student Game prize, to be announced at the 2008 Game Developers
>> Conference in San Francisco, February 18-22. See http://www.igf.com and
>> http://www.gdconf.com for details.
>>
>> I think it's pretty cool that the first commercial game written in D has
>> won an award like this. :-)
>>
>> I'll almost certainly be going to the GDC [1], so if anyone else is
>> going, feel free to drop by the IGF Pavilion and say hi.
>>
>> There'll be a lot of other developers at the conference (obviously), so
>> this is also a good opportunity to promote D, if anyone has any relevant
>> reading material or suggestions.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Chris Pelling
>> Inventive Dingo
>>
>> [1] GDC as in "Game Developers Conference", not "GNU D Compiler". ;-)  I
>> keep searching for one of them and turning up search results about the
>> other...
> 
> Well done! You deserve it.
> 
> I might be there.  Well see.
> -Joel

There's also this game developers meetup club in San Francisco 
http://gamedev.meetup.com/35/?gj=sj2 its held on the third Tuesday of 
every month.  You can signup on the website for details.   I'm not sure 
if you'll be there at that time however I thought I'd mention it.  Its 
basically a meet, greet and talk about games while eating/drinking. 
Anyone is free to come along.

-Joel