The Independent Games Festival 2005 Winners

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Okay, so the winners were announced a day or two ago and I thought I'd make a little post about it.

 

The Independent Games Festival is a yearly event where games from independent developers (and publishers) are entered into a competition. I think it's quite neat because you get a chance to see games you wouldn't see otherwise, and many of them are better than many mainstream games.

 

 

Seamus McNally Award

Gish and Wik and the Fable of Souls

 

Innovation in Game Design

Gish and Wik and the Fable of Souls

 

Innovation in Audio

Steer Madness and Global Defense Network

 

Innovation in Visual Art

Alien Hominid and Wik and the Fable of Souls

 

Technical Excellence

Alien Hominid and RocketBowl

 

Audience Award

Alien Hominid and N

 

 

I've played the demos for Gish, N and Wik & the fable of souls, I haven't gotten around to trying the other ones.

 

Gish seemed nice enough as a 2D side-scrolling platform, you play a ball of tar out to save his girlfriend. Both looked an played nice.

 

N mainly looked very nice, very sleek. It's definitely worth going to their website and downloading it.

 

Wik & the fable of souls may have won several awards, but I found it got pretty dull rather fast, but perhaps someone else might enjoy it.

 

 

Links to the winners:

Alien Hominid

Gish

Global Defense Network

N

RocketBowl

Steer Madness

Wik & the fable of souls

 

 

The IGF website has a list of all competition entrants, it's worth a look.