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

[Chris P.]

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...