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2007 IGF Entries Announced
GameSetWatch has the announcement that entrants for the 2007 Independent Games Festival have been announced. The complete list of entrants is available on the IGF site. There's a breakdown on some of the best entrants at Indiegamer.com, if all you care about is "What should I play?" From that post: "Bang! Howdy! -- The follow up to Puzzle Pirates by Three Rings took years and a big team. It's also innovative and fun. And it pushes a microcurrency system. Lookout IGF. Perplex City -- This real-world/online crossover game gives riddles to players in which they have to solve problems in the real world, on the internet, and in the game. Definitely Oscar... uh I mean... IGF bait. Plus they appear to have crazy funding and just announced a deal to distribute in Gamestop. These guys mean business."
Bone: The Great Cow Race -- Yes, that Bone. NO! Not THAT bone! The other one. THe one in the comic books. With the little white guy. Oh, never mind.
At least for best name.
It may be a great game, I'm not going to comment on that since I know nothing about it... however that is probably the 2nd worst video game title EVER. The first, of course, being Big Mutha Truckers.
I tried the game originally when it was linked on Penny Arcade, but found it to be both incredibly buggy (I had to resort to manually editing the config keys in the registry to adjust the resolution and the tutorials routinely locked up) and with overly simplistic gameplay that frankly wasn't very interesting. There was also the fact that the matches routinely timed out for seemingly no reason.
Ultimately, I find myself incapable of really recommending it to anyone. That's a shame too, since I really wanted to like it.
I can definately recommend ArmadilloRun. A physics based game created by only 1 person in 9 months. They should have different categories based on team size I guess because some of these games are almost semi commercial.
...what matters is what you like, not what you are like...
I have played Perplex City on and off... I'm not a hardcore player, but it's definitely down my alley as a writer for ARGN.com.
But honestly, it's a tightly done game. The puzzles are just right, if not downright difficult (well, anything above green), the online stuff is of excellent quality, and the story is fun and intriguing.
If you haven't checked it out yet, do so. Don't be discouraged that Season one is about to end, as there is a definite season two in the works!
(And for the record, NO, I do not work for Perplex City, Mind Candy, or any of the other folks behind the project... just a fan of the genre.)