Goo is a unique genre-boundary destroying arcade strategy game. Inspired by Sun Tzu’s Art of War, Bruce Lee’s Jeet Kun Do, and the board game “Go”, players do battle with their own amorphous liquid armies; charging, throwing, flanking, slicing, blocking and enveloping with their amoeba-like goo.

Nominations:
Technical Excellence

Gumboy Tournament is the follow-up to the critically acclaimed and popular arcade game Gumboy - Crazy Adventures. However this time extra features have been added: finally you can compete against your friends over the net or even just on a computer without internet. It's exactly the high amount of environment interaction, fast paced action and physical simulation that makes the game so fun when up to nine gumboys meet on one level.

Nominations:
Technical Excellence

Iron Dukes takes place in a fictionalized version of late 19th century America in which Teddy Roosevelt rides a steam-powered horse and Thomas Edison is the leader of a band of roving warlocks. You play as Professor Thurlow Magoon, renowned scientist and greedy treasure hunter.

Nominations:
Best Web Browser Game

Fret Nice is a charming platformer designed for guitar controllers, giving the player the unique feeling of not only controlling the main character's every movement, but actually playing the game as if it was a rock song.

Nominations:
Design Innovation Award
Excellence In Audio

Synaesthete is a music-driven arcade-style shooter which seeks to engage the senses with a synergy of light, color, and sound. Synaesthete creates a harmony between player actions and in-game music, in a way that each influences the other. The rhythm and flow of the music is expressed in every detail of the game so that the visual and audio are not two experiences, but one.

Nominations:
Excellence In Visual Arts

Clean Asia! is a stylish vertical shooter with innovative gameplay elements and a unique presentation.

Nominations:
Excellence In Visual Arts
Excellence In Audio

Audiosurf allows you to experience the intensity and emotion of your songs in real time, in full color, and in 3D.

Nominations:
Seamas McNally Game Of The Year
Excellence In Audio
Technical Excellence

Globulos.com is a multiplayer multigames environment where the games share the same core game mechanic for arcade, fun and strategy. 20 games playable on 50 playing fields. Most of the games are 1 against 1. Some are 2 against 2.

Nominations:
Best Web Browser Game

Dismantle your enemies piece by piece in this intense Tactical RTS game. Build your fleet from 18 playable ships or construct your own battles in the Sandbox, you can even design your own ships with the ShipMaker tool that is included.

Nominations:
Design Innovation Award

Snapshot Adventures: Secret of Bird Island is a bird photography game in which the player travels the country, unraveling the mystery of their grandfather's disappearance and collecting photos of both real and fantastical birds. Special camera attachments are collected along the way, and can be used to influence the birds in order to capture the best possible photos.

Nominations:
Design Innovation Award

Tri-achnid is an experimental flash game that focuses on the bond between the player and the creature you control. In Tri-achnid you take control over an endangered species of three-legged spider known as a Tri-achnid. Having total control over the creature's body, the player must lift and drag each of the spiders limbs to, climb, spin web, attack and care for its egg sack.

Nominations:
Best Web Browser Game