The Independent Games Festival has announced the ten winners in the Student Showcase portion of their annual competition. Each winner will receive a $500 prize from the CMP Game Group to help fund their trip to the Game Developers Conference where they can show off their wares and compete for the title of Best Student Game and a $2500 prize. The winners, taken from the IGF website, are as follows:

• TU Wien's paper cut-out 2D rotation-based title ...And Yet It Moves.
• Koln International School Of Design's extremely Gilliam-esque Flash soccer mini-game pastiche Ball Of Bastards.
• DigiPen's ingenious action-oriented cartoon strategy game Base Invaders.
• Stanford University's touchscreen and voice-controlled multiplayer abstract strategic romp Euclidean Crisis.
• DigiPen's 2D innovative color-absorbing platform action title Gelatin Joe.
• Guildhall at SMU's stylized vertical shooter meets puzzle game Invalid Tangram.
• Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy's interactive singing game vs. action title Opera Slinger.
• SungKyunKwan University's extremely original puzzle-sliding platform game Rooms.
• Hogeschool van de Kunsten, Utrecht's city color-painting roll-around extravaganza The Blob.
• DigiPen's clever 3D block-manipulating shooter Toblo. (pictured)

There are some really amazing looking games in there and I wouldn't be surprised if we see one or two of these in some form on the next gen consoles. Look what happened to Portal. Flynn De Marco

2007 IGF Student Competition Finalists Announced [Independent Games Festival]
[via: Gamasutra]