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Independent Games Festival 2005 Finalists

Posted by Zonk on from the gentlemen-choose-your-games dept.

frood writes "In a follow-up to slashdot's previous mention of the 2005 Independent Games Festival they have gone ahead and announced the finalists. There are 20 different games all produced without any outside publisher funding. Budgets range from 1.3 million dollars down to $0.00, with the majority coming in under 10k. There are at least 3 that can be run on Linux (Gish, Lux and N)."

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  1. War! Age of Imperiaslim - another Linux supporter by donohoedigital · · Score: 2, Informative

    War! Age of Imperialism, a finalist also runs on Linux (as well as Mac OS X and Windows). It's written in Java.

  2. Re:N - by Errabes · · Score: 2, Informative

    Too bad there is a sound pb on Linux, that freeze the whole thing for a short time quite often. It's unplayable like that.
    There is some workaround in their forum, but it still need to be fixed. http://metanet.2.forumer.com/index.php?showtopic=4 86&st=0

  3. GISH is kinda cool by Kesha · · Score: 2, Informative

    You play a little black ameba-like creature, crawling through tunnels, squeezing through narrow places, climbing the walls, jumping, swimming, etc... You can make the skin sticky and pick up bricks and toss them at baddies. The ameba feels very squishy, good physics simulation.

    My only suggestion to the developers would be to re-link against the OpenAL static libraries, because not everybody has the dynamic libraries installed - I had to go dig out my SuSE 9.1 cds to install them just to try the demo.

    Paul.