Intel has released the results of its 2008 Game Demo Contest, with winners in four categories receiving cash prizes of $12,500 as well as passes to Game Developers Conference 2009. Runners up received smaller cash prizes. All finalists were helpfully given a suite of developer tools as well as International Game Developers Association memberships.

Top honors for best overall threaded game went to Tommy Refenes of PillowFort for his Goo! demo, which also placed in the graphics category. You can see some of the evolution of Refenes' multithreading techniques in his recent feature article.

Other top honorees include Добряк's Magic Worlds, Tandem Games' Pixel & Vega in: Crunch Time, and Яков Сумыгин's Deadly Light. The winners were narrowed down from 329 entries. All demos that placed up to fifth in their categories are available for download from Intel's site.