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Nanocrafter Up for Award

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November 12, 2015

by Saira Mortier

Nanocrafter has been chosen as one of the top 10 in the Interactives category in the 2016 Visualization Challenge (The ‎Vizzies‬). In addition to standard judging, there’s also a public voting element this year – you can help us get to the top. The top vote-getter will be designated the People’s Choice. Voting starts today, November 12 and closes November 17 at 11:59 p.m. (PST). Tell everyone you know to vote for Nanocrafter and please share this post far and wide!

Good job on the top 10 ranking, Nanocrafter team!

Foldit wins honorable mention at IGF 2013

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March 28, 2013

by Saira Mortier

Foldit received an honorable mention in the category of Technical Excellence at the 15th annual IGF Awards which recognizes outstanding independent game titles. We are honored to have been considered alongside titles such as StarForge (CodeHatch), Perspective (DigiPen Widdershins), Little Inferno (Tomorrow Corporation), Intrusion 2 (Aleksey Abramenko), and LiquidSketch (Tobias Neukom).

Congratulations to our fellow honorable mentions: Mobiloid (Monty Melby); Skulls Of The Shogun (17-BIT); 140 (Jeppe Carlsen); Gateways (Smudged Cat Games).

Don’t forget to check out Rock, Paper, Shotgun’s list of overlooked IGF entries, where Foldit wins “The Horace Award For Actually Advancing Science”!

The Center for Game Science at the University of Washington focuses on solving hard problems facing humanity today in a game based environment. Our focus is on scientific discovery games, games that discover optimal learning pathways for STEM education, cognitive skill training games, games that promote human creativity, games that explore collective over individual intelligence, and many more.