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Title: Indie Games Festival Post by: divit on November 09, 2009, 09:55:10 pm The Indie Games Festival entries have been announced and can be seen at http://www.igf.com/php-bin/entries2010.php
Some of them have playable demos and all have descriptions (of varying lengths - Limbo, the game I am looking forward to most, has one line). There are 305 contestants so some of them must be good. Title: Re: IGF Entries Post by: HeadHunter on November 10, 2009, 03:33:16 am LIMBO (http://www.igf.com/php-bin/entry2010.php?id=202) really caught my eye, it looks interesting. About a Blob and Minor Battle also look really cool.
Title: Re: IGF Entries Post by: divit on November 10, 2009, 10:01:56 pm Limbo's appearance surprised me - its site was put up about it in 2006, and nothing else had been heard about it until now.
Title: Re: IGF Entries Post by: divit on November 18, 2009, 08:27:10 pm And now the student entries are in: http://www.igf.com/php-bin/entries2010_student.php
Title: Re: IGF Entries Post by: divit on January 05, 2010, 04:38:28 pm And now the finalists ;D
http://www.igf.com/02finalists.html 305 games whittled down to just 20, some of them must be good. And Limbo is nominated for two prizes! Title: Re: IGF Entries Post by: divit on March 12, 2010, 11:29:34 pm And the winners are:
Seumas McNally Grand Prize: Monaco, by Pocketwatch Games IGF Nuovo Award: Tuning, by Cactus Excellence in Visual Art: Limbo, by PlayDead Excellence in Audio: Closure, by Closure Team Technical Excellence: Limbo, by PlayDead Excellence in Design: Monaco, by Pocketwatch Games Student Showcase Award: Continuity, by Ragtime Games IGF Mobile Best Game: Spider: The Secret Of Bryce Manor, by Tiger Style Audience Award: Heroes Of Newerth, by S2 Games D2D Vision Award: Max & The Magic Marker, by Press Play Title: Re: IGF Entries Post by: Frost82 on March 12, 2010, 11:53:25 pm That Limbo game looked really nice!
But it soo reminded me of another game with VERY similar graphic/style called Feist. http://www.playfeist.net/ Title: Re: IGF Entries Post by: divit on March 13, 2010, 11:10:08 am I've been waiting for FEIST too.
It was nominated for "Exellence in Visual Art" last year, but was beaten by Machinarium ;D Title: Re: IGF Entries Post by: jst65 on March 13, 2010, 03:08:55 pm That Limbo game looked really nice! Hmm, true.But it soo reminded me of another game with VERY similar graphic/style called Feist. http://www.playfeist.net/ Sure Limbo is kind of creepy. No music at all... Title: Re: Indie Games Festival Post by: divit on March 15, 2010, 01:30:04 pm A video of Limbo in action is here: http://www.indiegames.com/blog/2010/03/preview_limbo_playdead.html
There's a lot of background noise but it does sound like there is music in the game. Unsettling ambient music. |