Independent Games Festival 2005 Entries Announced

simoniker writes "The Independent Games Festival has just announced its list of entrants for 2005, the seventh annual contest. The awards, to be given out at next year's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, are all about 'Rewarding Innovation In Independent Games,' and there's a total of $40,000 in prizes, including a $15,000 grand prize for both the 'Open' and 'Web/Downloadable' categories. Notable entries this year include Nayantara's online CCG Star Chamber, Chronic Logic's ball-o'-tar platformer Gish, and Digital Eel's forthcoming Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space, the sequel to Strange Adventures In Infinite Space."

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I nominate

[Anonymous Coward]

emacs.

M-x tetris

The obvious choice

[djdavetrouble]

This contest is so much BS there are only 2 real indy games worth playing: Nethack and BZFlag.

and Nethack is the obvious winner.

Re:Gish rocks!

[American AC in Paris]

You can only do five things - move, jump, get sticky, get slippery, and get dense - but it's how well you can control all that and what you do with it that makes it interesting. Momentum is everything.

Dude, that game is as old as life itself.

Re:Gish rocks!

[cryptochrome]

Ahem. That was why I specifically said "get dense" instead of the equivalent (I think preferred also) "get hard".

A game where you are moving and jumping deep inside a cave while getting hard, slippery, and sticky just wouldn't be appropriate for all ages.

Not that I wouldn't download such a game in a heartbeat.