Nominations for the Independent Games Festival Awards 2009 have been announced today and one of our favorite PSN titles, PixelJunk Eden, has been nominated for three categories. The categories are: Excellence in Visual Art, Excellence in Audio and Technical Excellence. Eden is one of few console games to be nominated in this year's awards, and the only PlayStation Network title to get recognition.
The winners will be revealed at the Independent Games Festival which takes place in San Francisco between March 23rd and 27th. If you want to learn more about all the games on the list be sure to check out Joystiq's IGF nominee run-down. Good luck to PixelJunk Eden, there's some strong competition there.
Reader Comments (5)
Posted: Jan 7th 2009 6:34PM iamnotkira said
Admittedly the art is nice but for me I wasted my money buying this game. The game is extremely unforgiving and although the music was relaxing it is definitely not award winning. That's just my opinion though. Never heard of any of the other nominees.
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Posted: Jan 7th 2009 6:47PM Meximanly said
There is a patch that comes out soon that is supposed to make the game more "forgiving" like making big crystals refill a whole half of your timer bar instead of just a third of it and what seems to be a retry option for when you fail.
It's been out in Europe for like a month now but it's taken a while to get here in the US. Supposedly it was out for a day but then the Pixel Junk team took it off. :( I want to finish the game badly but I can't seem to get passed Garden Seven!
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It's been out in Europe for like a month now but it's taken a while to get here in the US. Supposedly it was out for a day but then the Pixel Junk team took it off. :( I want to finish the game badly but I can't seem to get passed Garden Seven!
Posted: Jan 7th 2009 9:25PM SuperGayParade said
Lol... this game is not hard. Mario is harder.
Anyways, I'm excited about future DLC. They hinted that they'd use the engine's controls and physics in a fun way to make new gameplay experiences.
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Anyways, I'm excited about future DLC. They hinted that they'd use the engine's controls and physics in a fun way to make new gameplay experiences.
Posted: Jan 8th 2009 2:30PM (Unverified) said
This game is fantastic. It is difficult. I have been playing it off and on for 5 months. I will admit, I played like level 7, kept losing on this level, prob played 30 min in that one level just to get the next spectra, lost the level and then I just deleted the game. Month later I came back to it. The game has a simple concept but excellent level design, music, and the trophies are hard to pull off. All I can say, play the free demo of level 1. If you like it that much afterwards, buy it!
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