IGIA10 Competition Rules

IGIA10 Rules

IGIA10 is the name of the Icelandic Gaming Industry Awards 2009 and the competition associated with those awards.

Anyone is eligible to take part in IGIA10. Although group participation is encouraged, especially to enable a wider skillset to produce a higher quality entry, individual participants will not be judged differently based on their groupsize alone. IGIA10 is intended for individuals and groups, not companies. Any individual is free to take part in more than one submission.

In order to submit a valid entry into IGIA10 participants (including all members of a group) must be registered on www.igi.is and have joined the IGIA10 group thereunder. Registration is free of charge. Final submissions of entries will take place in March 2010, exact dates advertised later, via the IGIA10 group on www.igi.is/group/igia10 which serves as the main source of all information for IGIA10.

All submitted material should be in electronic format. This includes game demos which should then be recorded into the appropriate medium and submitted alongside the code/graphics/etc. The exact details of submitted material are not pre-determined, but rather decided by the participants. This can be anything from a rough game idea, to a prototype or even a fully playable game. As further detailed here, the level of submitted material is likely to have a direct effect on the evaluation of the entry by the judges, as they will evaluate the submitted entry in its entirety. Participants are therefore encouraged to form groups around submissions, increasing not only the number of people working on it, but also having a greater distribution of skills. A game or game idea submitted, may not have been already published or announced for publication prior to the submission deadline.

As part of the submission, entries must be accompanied by information about all participants in that entry. All material submitted should be created fully by the participants with no other copyright holders. Exceptions to this rule are for submissions where participants are allowed to use copyrighted material in their work, such as for mods or games created using specific copyrighted games engines and related software and libraries orgame creation/prototyping tools (Gamemaker, Alice, etc). This can also include use of open source – or other publicly and openly available for use – code, where the copyright notice clearly and specifically allows such usage. In such cases the submission must include a specific section highlighting clearly which material is copyrighted (and how) by others than the participants, who the copyright holders are and in what way the copyrighted material is used, as well as explaining clearly where the intersection between such material and the participants work lies.

In evaluating submitted material judges will consider each entry as a whole, but can at their discretion award a specific mention to any part of any entry, should that part excel to such an extent as to merit a special mention. This can be any aspect and is not limited to (e.g.) programming, graphics, sound/music, storyline or innovativeness of the idea. Any implementation or plans of implementing an interface with a community, as well as plans for creating, supporting and strenghtening that community, can strengthen your submission considerably. As an example, this can be anything from an open path for users to submit ideas and thoughts, to an actively maintained forum or even a full connection to a social network. The winning entry will be the entry deemed, by the judges, to show the best overall quality and innovativeness.

The final evaluation of the entries lies completely in the hands of the judging panel and the judges decisions are final. Judges are allowed, but not expected, to request further information, should they feel the submitted information is insufficient. Insufficient information submitted will generally lead to an inferior entry submission and in some cases can lead to disqualification.

In case of participants with relevant connections to any of the judges, the judging panel will be informed of this and the judge(s) in question will excuse themselves from any discussions regarding that specific entry and not take any part in its evaluation.

IGI reserves the right to update the rules and Terms&Conditions of IGIA10 at any point during the competition, prior to the final submission deadline. Such changes shall be clearly communicated on the IGIA10 website.

Once the submission deadline has passed, IGI reserves the right to use material from submitted entries in promotion and marketing of IGI and IGI Awards only.

By participating in IGIA10, participants agree to be bound by the rules and Terms&Conditions that apply to IGIA10.