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2006 - Grand prize winner Darwinia gets both digital distribution via Valve's Steam system and U.S. retail distribution from new indie label Cinemaware Marquee.
2005 - Multi award-winner Alien Hominid receives publishing deals in the U.S. (via O3 Publishing) and Europe(via Zoo Digital), much critical acclaim, and even spawns a mobile version.
2004 - Innovative casual strategy game Oasis wins the web/downloadable grand prize, going on to launch on major online portals the following year.
2003 - Super X Studios' Wild Earth, a photographic game based around a worldwide safari, takes multiple prizes and subsequently becomes a motion simulator ride.
2000 - Tread Marks, created by the late Seumas McNally, which the IGF's grand prize is now named after, wins 3 major awards.
1999 - Vicarious Visions, now a major handheld / console developer, honored for Terminus. |
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2008 Independent Games Festival Games:
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Main Competition Audience Award |
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Welcome to the Audience Award page for the the 2008 Independent Games Festival! These fantastic finalists have been picked out of 170 entries by our esteemed panel of industry judges. Now it's time for you, the gamer, to weigh in and pick your favorite.
Download each game you're interested in and when you're done place your vote here. Note that an email address is required in order to better track the votes. Have fun and thanks for playing!
Audience award game downloads are powered by FileShack.
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Audiosurf
Invisible Handlebar, LLC
Audiosurf allows you to experience the intensity and emotion of your songs in real time, in full color, and in 3D.
Nominations:
Seumas McNally Game Of The Year
Excellence In Audio
Technical Excellence
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Axiom: Overdrive
Reflexive Entertainment
Deep within a ravaged asteroid mine there is work to be done. Equipped with an OTF, players grapple with unique physics-based game-play as they explore the mine's dark corridors and discover...
...they are not alone!
Nominations:
Technical Excellence
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Battleships Forever
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
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Cinnamon Beats
Secret Exit
Cinnamon Beats is a game that combines rhythm with physics to create a new kind of puzzle game. It is not a rhythm game in the traditional sense - the players are not required to react to game events in any kind of rhythm as in Dance Dance Revolution or Guitar Hero. Instead it is a game where players create their own beats.
Nominations:
Excellence In Audio
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Clean Asia!
Cactus?
Clean Asia! is a stylish vertical shooter with innovative gameplay elements and a unique presentation.
Nominations:
Excellence In Visual Arts
Excellent In Audio
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Crayon Physics Deluxe
Kloonigames
Crayon Physics Deluxe is 2D physics puzzle game that lets you experience what it would be like your drawings were magically transformed into real physical objects.
Nominations:
Seumas McNally Game Of The Year
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Fez
KOKOROMI
Fez is a game about a 2D character exploring a 3D world.
In Fez you play as Gomez, a 2-dimensional being who finds out his world has an extra dimension and sets out to explore it.
Nominations:
Design Innovation Award
Excellence In Visual Arts
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Fret Nice
Bits & Pieces Interactive
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
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Globulos.com
GlobZ
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
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Goo!
PillowFort
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
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Gumboy Tournament
CINEMAX, s.r.o.
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
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Hammerfall
This is the story of the last emperor of the Auregzid dynsasty named Bharat-al-Maravi and a young warrior from the Gaiars tribe, that I was told by the honourable Humid-al-Rahim in the year fourteenth from the population of the world.
Nominations:
Seumas McNally Game Of The Year
Excellence In Visual Arts |
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Iron Dukes
One Ton Ghost
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
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Noitu Love 2: Devolution
Konjak
In "Noitu Love 2: Devolution" you're thrown into a classic action and beat-em-up scenario but with a twist to the gameplay that creates a new and fluent style of play using the mouse.
Nominations:
Seumas McNally Game Of The Year
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OokiBloks
Studio Work3 / Hermit games
OokiBloks is an innovative action puzzle game, filled with comical mischief, upbeat dance music and synchronized sound.
Take control of Ooki the monkey and leap around the colorful cartoon play areas, making music and changing blocks to their rightful color!
Nominations:
Excellence In Audio
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Snapshot Adventures: Secret of Bird Island
Large Animal Games
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
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Synaesthete
DigiPen Institute of Technology
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
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The Path
Tale of Tales
The Path is a short horror game inspired by Little Red Ridinghood. There is only one rule, and you must not follow it. There is only one goal, but if you attain it, you lose.
Nominations:
Excellence In Visual Arts
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Tri-Achnid
Triachnid inc
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
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World of Goo
2D Boy, LLC
World of Goo is a physics based puzzle / construction game. But the millions of Goo Balls that live in the beautiful World of Goo don't know that they are in a game, or that they are extremely delicious.
Nominations:
Seumas McNally Game Of The Year
Design Innovation Award
Technical Excellence
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