Microsoft Sweden has been signed as Award Partner during the competition of Swedish Game Awards 2007 (SGA).
As a partner, Microsoft will hold a prize for games developed in the XNA Framework. They will also host a Game Developers’ Evening and be a part of the upcoming Game Developers’ Workshop. Also, a representative from Microsoft will join the jury.
“With the XNA Framework and XNA Game Studio Express technologies we are giving the game development community what they have asked for, a easy to use, yet extremely powerful framework for building games for the PC and the Xbox 360. With the SGA partnership I hope to motivate the Swedish developers to examine and start developing on the new platform and see the endless possibilities.”
- Johan Lindfors, Senior Developer Evangelist, Microsoft
“Microsoft was one of our founding partners when we started as KTH Game Awards in 2002 and together we held the big Xbox event Game Xtravaganza. We're thrilled to work with them once more and are happy to expand the competition with an award aimed at smaller teams. We hope that more teams will follow the steps of our former participants Atomic Elbow and Hive Swarm and use Xbox Live Arcade as yet another source to spread their games.”
- John-Philip Johansson, Project Manager, Swedish Game Awards
For further information, please contact:
Dominic Holmboe, Information Officer, Swedish Game Awards
Phone: +46 (0) 37 78 38 46
Email: dominic@excitera.nu
Or contact:
Johan Lindfors, Senior Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Sweden
Phone: +46 (0) 8 752 27 80
Email: johan.lindfors@microsoft.com
ABOUT THE BEST XNA GAME AWARD
The Best XNA Game Award is created to promote the use of the XNA Framework in game development. By using XNA the PC games created in the competition can easily be ported to the Xbox 360. Microsoft Xbox Live Arcade is a potential market place for the level of independent games that participate in SGA.
ABOUT SWEDISH GAME AWARDS AND EXCITERA
Swedish Game Awards (SGA) is Sweden's largest video game development competition aimed directly at students from different universities and game educations in Sweden. It has been held annually since 2002 and is organized by university students throughout the country and holds several events during the competition which follows the Swedish academic year.
SGA is a competition organized by Excitera: the entrepreneurship association at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. Excitera also organizes the Excitera Innovation Challenge, Excitera Charon, Excitera Enterprise Forum among other activities.
