Independent Games Festival finalists announced
by Christopher Grant 
{ Dec 11th 2006 at 11:47AM }
Other finalists include the beautiful browser game Samorost 2 (play it now!), Xbox Live Arcade titles like RoboBlitz and Castle Crashers, episodic early-birds like Bone: The Great Cow Race (that's episode 2), student projects like DigiPen's Toblo, and more! The winners in each category will be announced at the IGF awards ceremony Wednesday, March 7th at the 2007 Game Developers Conference in San Fransisco.
As a judge in this year's Festival, the only game in my allotted roster was Samorost 2 which (perhaps unsurprisingly) was the only game that I had previously played. Check out the full list of finalists (congratulations everyone!) after the break.
Seumas McNally Grand Prize:
- Aquaria - Bit Blot
- Armadillo Run - Peter Stock
- Bang! Howdy - Three Rings Design
- RoboBlitz - Naked Sky Entertainment
- Everyday Shooter - Queasy Games.
- Bubble Islands - dot-invasion
- Gamma Bros - Pixeljam
- Samorost 2 - Amanita Design.
- Armadillo Run - Peter Stock
- Aquaria - Bit Blot
- Everyday Shooter - Queasy Games
- Toblo - Digipen Institute of Technology
- Toribash - NABI Software
- Castle Crashers - The Behemoth
- Golf? - Luke Hetherington, Alex Austin, Josiah Pisciotta, and Andrew Laing
- Aquaria - Bit Blot
- RoboBlitz - Naked Sky Entertainment
- Samorost 2 - Amanita Design.
- Bone: The Great Cow Race - Telltale Games
- Everyday Shooter - Queasy Games
- FizzBall - Grubby Games
- Aquaria - Bit Blot
- Racing Pitch - Skinflake
- Arcane Legions: The Rising Shadow - Slitherine Software
- Armada Online - EvStream
- Bang! Howdy - Three Rings Design
- Blast Miner - Cryptic Sea
- Bugs Of War - NinjaBee
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
LunarDuality @ Dec 11th 2006 12:17PM
I'm glad to see NinjaBee up there with Bugs of War which we know very little about, but should be interesting. (I'm already a huge fan of Outpost Kaloki and Cloning Clyde.) Maybe the judging process will lead to some information leaks about it finally? Here's hoping!
Cristopher Boyer @ Dec 11th 2006 3:45PM
I haven't always kept up with the IGF, so I have to ask -- is it common for games that haven't even been released or announced to be nominated for this award? I know that as of this posting, neither Aquarius, Castle Crashers nor Bugs of War have been released, and while the first two look great (I can't find anything on the third) I'd always thought a game had to have been released and played by the public to be nominated.
Galo @ Dec 11th 2006 2:58PM
By the way, it's not San FranSisco, it's FranCisco...
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That's all ^^
WarpedEye @ Dec 11th 2006 3:07PM
I love the IGF, and the competition, glad to see so many fine games being nominated.
One question: How come Aquaria is nominated, when it hasn't been released yet?
FSK405K @ Dec 11th 2006 5:48PM
You're awesome for using the guys at Introversion (Uplink, Darwinia, DEFCON) for your picture on this category, Joystiq.
FSK405K @ Dec 11th 2006 6:23PM
Wow, the only thing I've seen there be a larger pool of judges for deciding is for President of the United States.
Ashley Bennett @ Dec 11th 2006 7:04PM
What did you think of Urban Annihilation? ;)
Ashley Bennett @ Dec 11th 2006 7:04PM
@ FSK405K :
Thats the IGF's graphic. They have been using it since they re-opened after last years awards.
rom @ Dec 31st 2006 1:48PM
That Aquaria game looks amazing. That's what I always pictured Nex-Gen Castlevania games would look like. Until they went all 3D on us...Damnit it all.