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Play The Independent Games Festival
The Seventh Annual Independent Games Festival doesn't start until tomorrow (indeed, the kiosks at the Moscone Center aren't even set up yet), but if you're interested in the contenders you can play many of them at Gamespot. While not all of the games have demos, the ones that do are definitely worth checking out.
Some really great independent games are made because a lot of times the programmers are more worried about making a sweet game than making money. It's festivals like these that give these games what they deserve: recognition. Kudos to the people that run it.
Personally, I think the open category is between Alien Hominid and Gish.
Alien Hommid is the only non-PC (PS2 and Gamecube) game in competition, and has a very solid following via Newgrounds since the game started as a flash-based game.
Gish wins out in both looks and physics. Epically the physics. It also shares a fan base from Newgrounds as they advertised heavily on NG and post NG content.
Personally, I hope Alien Hommid wins. I have no real reason that it beats out the other. Both are very good games.
Now next year, I'm hoping Antidote sweeps the awards!
* Poster is the creator of Antidote.
AnamanFan - Trying to find the Truth, one post at a time.
There's a fantastic game from the London Games Festival you absolutely must play, it's unbelievable. It's pretty difficult to describe without having played it, but I'll take a shot.
Ok, it's a text based multiplayer online game played by people around world, but mainly US based players. You register your details, choose a nick and start playing. The gamesmaster, Charles, posts the most outrageously biased and nonsensical daily talking points he possibly can multiple times every day. The aim of the game is to respond with the absolutely most extreme, fascistic and downright frightening rightwing opinion you can, judged against the contributions of other players. The winner is patted on the back by the other players, socially féted, and if you persevere, given an endorsement by Charles himself.
It's difficult to pick up to begin with, they have their own set of strange jargon that the most successful posters use, but you soon get the hang of it and it's loads of fun to be mean spirited, distasteful and horrid about the deaths of just about any victim of US soldiers or the Israel Army, the death of foreign kids, old people, Iraqis, and so on.
Anyway, to play the game just go to the website of the London Games Festival. The Register link is on the left hand side. Enjoy!
Meine Schwester ist sehr, sehr reizvoll - Nietzsche