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Independent Game Festival Finalists Announced
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."
This is a pity comment, for a story that will never get any. I just felt sorry fot it.
The days of the digital watch are numbered.
Not exactly a revelation, but Mario Kart: Double Dash and Mario Power Tennis offer co-op play modes. The Chronicles of Narnia game (released with the new movie) also has a co-op mode, where two people control 2 of the 4 characters. From what I've read, the game is pretty hard when played solo; it almost seems like it requires two people to play.
I've played the first two with my wife and we had a blast. Maybe someone else can list some other games.