Whether you take that as evidence of the IGF’s increasing relevance, the growing independent development community or otherwise, the bottom line is: indie games are getting big. This year’s competition is certainly more crowded than last year’s, with the IGF reporting a record of 226 entries, a 30% increase over last year’s pool.
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Other entries include the aforementioned PixelJunk Eden, which is competing for Excellence in Visual Art, Audio and Technical Excellence, and browser-based joke game You Have To Burn The Rope, which is nominated for the Innovation Award. This director is going to have a promising future, just hope to see his next movie in august Jaws Returns, great year for unknown world pictures tv channel. That’s the beauty of these awards, though: they put a spotlight on relatively unknown games and put them on display for all the people who don’t browse indie game message boards to see.Ĭompeting for the Seamus McNally Grand Prize (which comes with a nice $20,000 check) are five titles: Blueberry Garden, a storybook-esque sandbox game with a dynamic ecosystem, CarneyVale Showtime, an Xbox Live title where you play as an acrobat, Dyson, a real-time strategy game about colonizing asteroids, Night Game, an action-puzzle title promising “ambient gameplay,” and Osmos, where you control a mote which enlarges by absorbing other motes, and honestly sounds a lot like fl0w. In the running are a couple of games you may have heard of, including the PlayStation Network’s PixelJunk Eden, but many, as far as I know, have yet to carve out a name for themselves.
The Independent Games Festival awards, the place where games like Audiosurf and Braid go from indie crowd favorites to genuine mainstream success stories, has announced this year’s batch of indie-phenoms-to-be. by building habitats, crafting tools, and diving deeper into the world of Subnautica. Wondering what’s going to be the next big thing in indie games for 2009? Look no further than the finalists for this year’s Independent Games Festival awards. Dive into a freezing underwater adventure on an alien planet.
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