Another neat get-together that we completely missed was the Games 4 Girls student game competition held by the University of Illinois, in which "eight [all-female] teams (27 college students) participated" to create the best female-friendly game using GameMaker.

The overall winner was Green, Eggs, and Pan from a Cornell University group, in which "two players must work together to help Pan and Greeny save the dragon eggs that have been stolen by the evil lizard king! This game is a cooperative 2-D sidescrolling platform adventure game."

The game's screenshots seem kinda fun, and there are a host of other entries to check through = our favorite description: "Honorable Mention: University of Buffalo created a game called 'Fluff'. This game designed to motivate the player to protect the fluffs and give a feeling of remorse when a situation forces them to eliminate a few for the greater good." Remorse-based gameplay! [Semi-via GTA.]