2003 IGF Results

The games are listed in alphabetical order, and the game descriptions were provided by the developers themselves (some slight editing may have occurred). Click on the game name to get more information about each game and its developer.

2003 Competition Entrants:

3 on 3 Showdown
Role-playing basketball title. Creates custom moves w/the innovative X-Over Editor, create players & compete against 144 unique streetball personalities.

Adventures of Rex the Red
Adventures of Rex the Red is a fantasy action adventure role-playing game developed in JAVA.

Alexis - The Last Fighter
You are Alexis, your kingdom has been taken over by evil assasins & the ancient powers stolen , defeat assasins, claim powers & free kingdom.

Alien Hominid
You are an alien and you've crash landed, and you eat skulls, shoot faces and split bodies for your own freedeom like William Wallace.

Arteroids
Arteroids is a literary game for the Web, that makes poetry suffer in new ways. It's a shoot-em-up.

Augmented Reality Game Suite
When the real world co-exists with the virtual one, Augmented Reality is revolutionizing the gaming world, as we know it. AR is the technique of merging reality and virtual worlds. Explore the endless possibilities of this technology with a suite of games that features the different aspects of AR. Starting with dancing game with your virtual partner boogieing in front of you, to a maze ball like game that uses physical props to manipulate virtual objects, also a arcade classic 'Frogger' like title in which you can literally walk around virtual 3D 'Frogger' to get the best perspective and more!

Bad Medicine
This game is a political cartoon about the sorry state of healthcare in the United States.

Balls Up: Episode 1
Balls Up is an action puzzle 3D game. It uses the Havok physics engine to create innovative levels. The player must get their ship to the exit on all 18 levels.

BaseGolf (FINALIST)
What do you get when you mix Baseball and Golf? Play BaseGolf and find out! BaseGolf takes the batter and pitcher from baseball, and places them in different golf course-like scenarios. The rules are the union of logically extending of both sports, with a cartoon-like theme.

Best Friends
Petey & Patty are best friends who are always becoming seperated. Help reunite them through 50 bouncy, twisty, slidey boards.

Blastorama
A 2D puzzle/logic game. Use your limited supply of bombs to destroy the colored blocks, create groups of same colored blocks and bomb the whole thing.

Brixout XP
A fast-action block-smashing 3D game with outstanding graphics, original soundtrack, over 80 unique levels, 20+ power-ups and a multiplayer mode.

Buboids
Buboids is a 3D puzzle game. The object of the game is to remove or move the buboids off of the 3D network.

Chain Reaction
A Rube Goldberg construction set for making amazing contraptions using parts like conveyor belt, basketball and connect them w/parts like pipes or boxes.

Comchess
A new type of board game w/simple rules and few limitations. A minute to learn, a lifetime to master.

Cosmic Encounter Online
You become an alien w/a special power. Goal is to establish a colony on 4 planets outside your home system.

Cuboingo
Rotate a 3D cube and fill its empty sides with matching color patterns. Simple, fun & addictive.

Cybernetic Dawn
Cybernetic Dawn is a 3D fighting game that uses robots and not humans as fighters.

Defection
A single-player RPG game for the PC. You are an android named Mark 1 who, with no directives and a haunting vision of an attempt on your life, set out to uncover your origins.

Devil Whiskey
Devil Whiskey is fantasy roleplaying game, featuring a hybrid of 3D and 2D game styles. Inspired by old 80s and 90s classics such as 'Wasteland' and the 'Wizardry' games, The Devil Whiskey offers a similar game feel, wrapped in modern graphics and real Wav based audio. To start, you build a party of up to 8 adventurers, choosing from 9 exotic races and 11 magical and fighting classes. Gameplay can be linear, but offers many twists and turns, making it very hard to play the same game twice. From the very first encounter, you learn that not is all as it seems in the dark seaside town of Rennibister. Several denizens and wanderers accost you for service, promising secret knowledge of what is leaching citizen's souls away. Like the dense fog that pervades the whole Isle of Orkney, a nefarious plot, festering many 100s of years, begins to quicken and unfold.

Diib's Dilemma
Diib's Dilemma is a fantasy themed action based puzzle/strategy game developed in JAVA

Dungeon: Gladiator
A first-person hand-to-hand combat game that combines a reactive dueling system w/an extensive set of character development & customization options.

Extreme 4x4
Extreme 4x4 is a racing game where players can choose missions or ordinary racing. Various maps to drive through and many adventures.

Eye of the Kraken
A classic 2D, point & click, 3rd person adventure game taking place entirely on a ship over 1 week.

Fable
A 3D RTS game w/RPG elements. Takes place in a fairy tale land w/armies such as the Gingerbread Men. Players fight to overthrow the corrupted Mother Goose.

Feet of Fury
Feet of Fury is an action puzzle game for the Dreamcast console. It draws upon Dance Dance Revolution, Puyo Puyo and Puzzle Fighter for its inspiration

Fighting Darts of Bellicode (FDOB)
Victorian-themed dart shooting balloon popping highly habit-forming videogame products

Fox Wolox - Hired Gun
Fox Wolox is a Hit Man who wants to join the Good Guys, but he was framed and is now on the run from both sides of the law.

Funny Ball 2
In this game you'll be taking the role of a pathmaker as you try to guide a constantly moving ball from its starting point to its goal in a maze. A hard task, since you have no control over the ball, just the reverse -- you have to control the maze.

Furcadia (FINALIST)
A massively multiplayer online social game in which you take the form of an animal-like character in a fantasy world, and roleplay with others. A level design toolset allows players to develop their own "dream" worlds, and let others visit them.

Future Boy
A cross-platform adventure game which builds on the heritage of classic games by adding graphics, animation, sound, music & an innovative user interface

Gates of Temlaha
The Gates of Temlaha is an unique adventure game where you play a half-man, half-cat creature who must guide himself through the spirit world of Native American lore. To do this you must possess the living to solve puzzles and battle the competing spirits that will try to disturb your godly ascent.

Hardwood Solitaire III
Forged infairytale lore, Hardwood Solitaire is designed to appeal to the broad audience that Solitaire games have & pull people away from the bland.

I, of the Enemy
Science fiction, real-time strategy game set in not-too-distant future.

Legacy: The Interactive Game That Helps You Plan Y
Informative, educational game designed to promote insurance policies of USBA. It is a stylized board game.

M.A.L.
MAL is the tale of a mystical realm on the brink of total destruction. Only 1 man can save the world. You'll be moved to tears by this groundbreaking game.

Mamba
Mamba is an abstract strategy game. Objective is that you can combine many actions in one turn.

Marble Blast
Roll your marble through 30 levels of ramps, loops & landscapes. Find power ups to increase speed, jumping or strength to collect the hidden gem.

Mercenaries of Dosbar
Mercenaries of Dosbar is a fantasy turn based role-playing strategy game developed in JAVA.

Miko & Molly
Miko & Molly is a non-violent logic/puzzle game for all ages. Use powerups & items in each level to find solutions. A cooperative mode allows for 2 players

Mookie's Quest
Adventure/Puzzle/Multiplayer shooter game. Solve puzzles in a labyrinth-type environment.

Mr. Bigshot (FINALIST)
Mr. Bigshot is an investment game where players flash back in time and invest in real stocks, using true historical information and pricing data. Experience the ups and downs of the stock market, and see if you can retire a millionaire!

Muridae Massacre: Open Season
Player must strategically place traps & explosives to prevent intelligent rodents from navigating across several 3-dimensional worlds.

Netrikulator
A fast-paced puzzle game where players attempt to position pieces on the game board so that the two matching network nodes will connect.

Open On
3D person fast action, twitch reflex, transforming, mecha missile launching shooter with online multiplayer arena fighting.

Pontifex 2 (FINALIST)
Pontifex 2 is a game in which you design and test bridges using given materials and a specified budget. Once built, your bridge is tested in a series of real-world stress tests.

QU4TRO
A puzzle game utilizing falling 3D tetraminoes. May seem familiar, but it plays very differently!

Rebel Dawn
In Rebel Dawn, a massively multiplayer online game, you play a trader/smuggler trying to make a living during a galactic civil war.

Reiner Knizia's Samurai (FINALIST)
A turn-based strategy game of balance & conquest. The objective is to secure your influence within the three feudal casts.

Rogue Wave
A strategy racing game set on the high seas. You pilot futuristic jet powered ships, plan your route & lead your way through check points.

Sabotage
A first-person action/strategy game based on a multitude of scenarios dealing w/the art of infiltration, as well as other elements of adventure.

SCSIcide
Task as hard drive controller is to read the data bits in the correct color order. Prevent hard drive crash by reading the bits before latency buffer underflows.

ShadowFire
ShadowFire is a space-simulation role-playing game.

Silent Frontier
Silent Frontier is a sci-fi real time strategy game developed in JAVA.

Sound Killer
A 3D Music Arcade experience. Guide your ship against the music spectrum and become the Ultimate Sound Killer.

SpaceWibbles
You assume the role of Wibble, take command of intergalactic starship to explore other planets, interact w/other Wibbles & participate in politics or battles.

Strange Adventures In Infinite Space (FINALIST)
A game of space exploration and adventure, in which you take the role of starship commander. Find trading partners and fend of hostile aliens before time's up and you have to return to your home planet with your booty. Features turn-based movement and a real-time combat interface.

Strength & Honour
A strategic war-game, w/the aim of giving the player a turn-based, character driven strategy game, integrated w/a real-time battlefield simulation

Super Bubbles
Clear levels by moving bubbles around to match patterns that appear on the screen in this puzzle game

Teenage Lawnmower (FINALIST)
You're a 17-year-old kid, and your alcoholic mother and her abusive boyfriend are making your life hell. Try to save your family by raising money through your lawn mowing business.

Terraformers (FINALIST)
A 3D, first-person adventure game that features a special audio feedback interface that lets sight disabled players navigate through the world.

TFOTG
A mission-based game of car/hovercraft dogfighting. Player works for a mercenary team that goes where the money is, but various factions offer extra, conflicting goals.

The Legend Of The Five Suns
A fully 3D Real Time Strategy game. Based on a belief that the world had been destroyed 4 times by its patron deities, players will lead civilizations through these worlds towards the 5th and final sun.

The Past: Escape From Terra Prime
"The Past" is an action/RPG and the goal is to finish each space mission.

The Sydney Mystery
A first-person adventure game photographed & filmed in Sydney, Australia. It features interactive conversations, inventory & task-based puzzles that integrate with the plot.

Trash
Trash is a Real Time Strategy game set in a post-nuclear war wasteland and focuses on multiplayer strategy and encourages coordination w/teammates.

Treasure Keeper
Treasure Keeper is a fantasy turn based role-playing strategy game developed in JAVA.

True-Vol
Techno-Martial Artists battle each other w/huge guns & special techniques. Now replace the cool anime characters w/humorous metallic meatballs dressed in hats and sunglasses.

Unipong
Unipong is a single-player paddle and ball game with a trick and power up system.

Wild Earth (FINALIST)
As a photo journalist for one of the world's biggest nature magazines, your job is to stalk big game on the plains of Africa, explore the wild, and take photos of animals in their natural habitats. When you're done, your photos are woven into an article mock up.

Word Ninja (FINALIST)
This game takes traditional crossword games and flips them on their head. Play against others online, as you frantically try to create words and score points. But watch out, because this is a free-for-all without turns, and the faster you can create words, the more points you can score.

WordStalk
A Jack & the Beanstalk themed word-creation game for ages 8 and up. Object to creat 3-6 letter words that make Jack climb to the Giant's Kingdom.

Xibalba
Archeologist, adventurer discovers the truth about aliens beneath a mayan temple.