07.01.10: We are pleased to reveal the finalists for the twelfth annual Independent Games Festival Main Competition! Congratulations to all of the winners, and thanks to all who have participated this year. Subscribe to the brand new IGF News RSS feed for regular competition updates.
2009 - The Behemoth's follow-up to Alien Hominid, the IGF-winning Castle Crashers, tops XBLA charts to critical acclaim.
2009 - IGF multi-award winner World Of Goo launches as one of the best-selling, best-reviewed WiiWare titles of all time, alongside a popular PC version.
2009 - Petri Purho's Crayon Physics Deluxe spawns an iPhone version courtesy of Hudson, plus a popular PC downloadable version.
2008 - The team behind IGF Student Showcase finalist Narbacular Drop is hired by Valve. The game is reworked into Portal and goes on to win the coveted Game Developer's Choice "Best Game" award for 2008, as well as numerous game of the year accolades.
2008 - Design Innovation winner Braid debuts on Xbox Live Arcade to significant success.
2008 - Excellence in Audio winner Audiosurf launches on Valve's Steam distribution service and goes on to become the highest selling game of February, outselling even Valve's own Orange box (including Team Fortress 2 and Game Developer's Choice "Best Game" winner Portal.)
2007 - Design Innovation winner Everyday Shooter is signed by Sony for distribution on the PlayStation 3's PlayStation Network, after Sony's John Hight plays the game at the IGF Pavilion during GDC 2007 - Everyday Shooter's Jon Mak also appears at the inaugural Independent Games Summit.
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.
2005 - Fan favorite N wins the audience award, and, as N+, releases as a hit XBLA title, as well as notable Nintendo DS and Sony PSP versions.
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 and eventually (in adapted form) a Wii title.
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.
IGF 2009 Main Competition Entrant
Forumwarz
Company: Forumwarz.com Inc. (Toronto, Ontario Canada)
Description: Forumwarz is a role-playing game that takes place on the Internet. In fact, think of Forumwarz as the Internet itself...in game form.
Forumwarz takes the gameplay principles of RPGs and applies them to today's ubiquitous cyber-culture, while mercilessly parodying both. You won't find yourself slaying dragons or hobnobbing with flax-hair'd elf lords here. In Forumwarz, the closest thing to a dungeon is your grandma's basement, where your character spends his days pwning forums, shopping for online goods, distributing suspect pieces of hacker code and instant-messaging a parade of increasingly bizarre and obnoxious characters.
Forumwarz lets you assume the role of one of five Internet personas: Hacker, Troll, Camwhore, Permanoob or Emo Kid. Each has their own special attacks, abilities, personalities and guilds. Playing though the story mode takes you through a dense world of mystery, intrigue and general Internet idiocy. Players can also test their skills against others in various player-versus-player challenges, all of which are closely tied into the rich meta-game of the Forumwarz universe.
Like the Internet it parodies, Forumwarz is not shy when it comes to offensive content. In fact, all new players must type in "I am not offended easily" before they can begin playing!
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