{"id":1838,"date":"2011-02-13T09:45:15","date_gmt":"2011-02-13T15:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/handyvandal.com\/?p=1838"},"modified":"2011-02-13T09:47:43","modified_gmt":"2011-02-13T15:47:43","slug":"team-hermes-wins-at-dice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/2011\/02\/team-hermes-wins-at-dice\/","title":{"rendered":"“Team Hermes” student developers win $100,000 grand prize at D.I.C.E."},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t know these guys, but I’m happy for their win:<\/p>\n

\"Team<\/p>\n

\nEight students from The Guildhall at SMU’s Master’s degree program in video game design won the grand prize Friday in the non-professional category at the second annual D.I.C.E. Indie Game Challenge in Las Vegas for their game, Inertia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The recognition comes with a $100,000 cash prize, and the Hermes crew also won a $15,000 EEDAR DesignMetrics prize, and a $2,500 prize for technical achievement, as well as another $2,500 prize for achievement in gameplay. <\/p>\n

Inertia features an innovative mechanic that allows players to suspend gravity and use inertia to bounce off walls, float through space, and move through the game’s environment – a decaying space station on the brink of collapse.<\/p>\n

— Victor Godinez<\/a> @ dallasnews.com\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Team Hermes had an idea.<\/p>\n

The team worked hard to make the idea real<\/p>\n

The effort paid off like a pair of Winged Sandals. Go team!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t know these guys, but I’m happy for their win: Eight students from The Guildhall at SMU’s Master’s degree program in video game design won the grand prize Friday in the non-professional category at the second annual D.I.C.E. Indie Game Challenge in Las Vegas for their game, Inertia. The recognition comes with a $100,000 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-competitions","category-game-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1838"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1847,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions\/1847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}