Independent Game Festival Finalists Announced

Posted by Zonk on Monday December 12, 2005 @05:33AM from the big-fish-little-pond dept.

Via GameSetWatch, the announcement of the 2005 finalists for the Independent Games Festival to be held at the 2006 Game Developer's Conference. Gamasutra has a few more details. From that article: "Following a record total of 118 entries, competition was especially fierce, but the forty IGF judges, picked from mainstream and indie game creation and journalism circles, have singled out their pick of the outstanding indie titles. In particular, the finalists for this year's $20,000 Seumas McNally Grand Prize include Introversion's cult action-strategy title Darwinia, Ankama's French strategy-RPG MMO Dofus, Grubby Games' fiendish puzzle platform game Professor Fizzwizzle, Digital Eel's innovative 'short' space exploration title Weird Worlds: Return To Infinite Space, and Pocketwatch Games' ecosystem-building title Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa."

1 of 10 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

2nd time's a double charm! by Musenik · 2005-12-12 07:11 · Score: 4, Interesting

As one of the lucky finalists, I'd like to share our success story. Last year we submitted The Witch's Yarn as a beta and got totally snubbed. Fortunately we finished the game, shipped it, improved it several times and submitted it again. Yea us, but seriously, don't hesitate in your quest for fame, fortune, and whatever. Our double charm was, it's our second placing as a IGF finalist. Flagship Champion was picked in 1999.