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
