2005 Independent Games Festival Winners

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday March 9, 2005 @09:46PM from the little-yellow-different dept.

The Independent Games Festival is the opportunity during the GDC to recognize game developers from smaller efforts that don't have the big budgets and long development cycles of more commercial titles. All the nominees this year were top notch ideas, and the winners deserved every moment in the spot light. Read on for this year's winners. Web/Download:

Innovation in Audio - Global Defense Network (Evertt.com)
Innovation in Visual Art - Wik and the Fable of Souls (Reflexive Entertainment)
Innovation in Technical Excellence - RocketBowl (Large Animal Games)
Innovation in Game Design - Wik and the Fable of Souls (Reflexive Entertainment)
Audience Choice Award - N (Metanet Software)
Seumas McNally Award - Wik and the Fable of Souls (Reflexive Entertainment)

Open Category:

Innovation in Audio - Steer Madness (Veggie Games)
Innovation in Visual Art - Alien Hominid (The Behemoth)
Innovation in Technical Excellence - Alien Hominid (The Behemoth)
Innovation in Game Design - Gish (Chronic Logic)
Audience Choice Award - Alien Hominid (The Behemoth)
Seumas McNally Award - Gish (Chronic Logic)

Cartoon Network Project Goldmaster Award -
Protothea (Digital Builders)

Commentary and images from the ceremony will be available later today. Something too nice not to share, though, came when one of the developers who stood up to receive the Seumas McNally Award for Gish asked his girlfriend to marry him on-stage. She said yes, of course.

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Re:Darwinia is really good... by Ford+Prefect · 2005-03-10 02:02 · Score: 2, Informative

Heh. Anyone would reckon we were astroturfing, but we're not!

At least I'm not, anyway... ;-)

As for different platforms, the Linux binary will apparently be a free download compatible with the Windows data files, and there's also a full, commercial port to the Mac being done by Ambrosia Software.

Sadly, no news of any port of the game to a stand-alone Protologic 68000, assuming anyone still has one of those peculiar machines in working order...

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Links to the games: by mindaktiviti · 2005-03-10 02:54 · Score: 3, Informative

Global Defense Network

Wik and the Fable of Souls

Rocketbowl

N

http://www.steermadness.com/
Alien Hominid

Gish

Protothea