Intel Level Up

The Intel Level Up was a series of annual video game competitions organised by Intel to support independent video game development, with winning games receiving monetary rewards in addition to the award.^[1] The first competition, titled the Intel Game Demo Contest, was held in 2006.^[2][3] It was restarted in 2009 as the Intel Level Up Game Developer Contest.^[4] The competition has not been held after 2017.^[5]

A distinctive feature of the contest was the participation of game-industry luminaries as judges. At different times, the judges were Sid Meier, Will Wright, Chris Avellone, Todd Howard, Tim Schafer, Chris Taylor, etc.^{[6][7][8][9][10][11][12]}