I'm surprised by Desktop Dungeons being a grand prize finalist, since i didn't think so much of it, but will go check it out soon.
Also found it quite an achievement for Nidhogg to be nominated for both Grand Prize and Nuovo, as they seem to be almost opposites.

Otherwise I'm still looking forward to playing Miegakure and Nidhogg myself.

What about you guys and girls?

[Seumas McNally Grand Prize:]

 

http://igf.com/2011/01/2011_independent_games_festiva_11.html#more

Seumas McNally Grand Prize:
Amnesia: The Dark Descent (Frictional Games)
SpyParty (Chris Hecker)
Desktop Dungeons (QCF Design)
Minecraft (Mojang)
Nidhogg (Messhof)

Excellence In Visual Art
Bastion (Supergiant Games)
The Dream Machine (Cockroach)
Cave Story (2010 Edition) (Nicalis)
Bit.Trip Runner (Gaijin Games)
Hohokum (Honeyslug & Richard Hogg)

Technical Excellence
Minecraft (Mojang)
Confetti Carnival (SpikySnail Games)
Amnesia: The Dark Descent (Frictional Games)
Neverdaunt:8Bit (Robot Loves Kitty)
Miegakure (Marc Ten Bosch)

Excellence In Design
Desktop Dungeons (QCF Design)
Super Crate Box (Vlambeer)
Nidhogg (Messhof)
Faraway (Steph Thirion)
Minecraft (Mojang)

Excellence In Audio
Bastion (Supergiant Games)
Retro City Rampage (Vblank Entertainment)
Amnesia: The Dark Descent (Frictional Games)
Bit.Trip Beat (Gaijin Games)
Cobalt (Oxeye Game Studio)

Best Mobile Game
Shot Shot Shoot (Erik Svedang)
Colorbind (Nonverbal)
Helsing's Fire (Ratloop)
Solipskier (Mikengreg)
Halcyon (Stfj)

Nuovo

- Bohm, created by Monobanda - ("Gives you control over the life of a tree. It's a game based on slow gameplay and the act of creation.")

- A House in California, created by Cardboard Computer - ("A surreal, narrative game about four characters who bring a house to life... with environments and activities drawn from a combination of memory, research, poetry, and fantasy.")

- Nidhogg, created by Messhof - ("A 2 player fencing game with football & platforming elements".)

- Dinner Date, created by Stout Games - ("You play as the subconsciousness of Julian Luxemburg, waiting for his date to arrive. You listen in on his thoughts while tapping the table, looking at the clock and eventually reluctantly starting to eat...")

- Loop Raccord, created by Nicolai Troshinsky - ("Manipulate a series of video clips in order to create... continuous movement.")

- The Cat and the Coup, created by Peter Brinson and Kurosh ValaNejad - ("A documentary game in which you play the cat of Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh, the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran.")

- Brutally Unfair Tactics Totally OK Now (B.U.T.T.O.N.), created by Copenhagen Game Collective - ("A one-button party game for 2-8 players. ... rather than let the computer carry out all the rules, the players are themselves responsible for enforcing (or not enforcing) the rules.")

- Hazard: The Journey Of Life, created by Demruth - ("A philosophical first person single player environmental puzzle game. The game presents no goals directly to the player, but they create goals for themselves based on what they know of the world.")
Halcyon (Stfj)

got a xbox 360 for christmas. now, i wait.

+1

Though I also played Limbo on it.

I don't care that this is an old topic. I just bought the game because it was only 5 euros. Played plenty of just the demo, which is fully featured, just limited to 1 map and 2 modes, and you're able to play online.

Go try or buy it, on my recommendation.

it's footage.
like the last one.
the one before that was the only trailer.

I count 2 trailers in total

what's that icon for this thread?

I like have you turned in theory a quite easy concept into a really cool game.
Defenetly a buy once it arrives.

definitely
de-finite-ly
there you go.

It took me 5 minutes to get the hang of the basic mechanics.
I then spend 10-15 minutes figuring out what the actual goal was, or at least what got me some progress, (so the soul bit). Then my computer came to a crawl as I started guiding the neurons around the rest of the brain, I did finally beat it, but it took me a very long time. (or it was just very hard for me)

I love the aesthetic of the game. And on a conceptual level it's quite neat.
I was only a bit disappointed with the conclusion, after guiding the glowy neurons through all sections of the brain and finally into the stem.

It's really cool in that it's confusing as hell, like any brain would be.
I don't have any suggestions on what you could've done with it otherwise, but I wished there were more substance.

Thanks anyway!

silly me, I got bits and pieces of gametrailers, but apparently the full thing is here: http://bit.ly/eOH5y6

first video:

La La Land is now available for mac apparently, which is nice http://dessgeega.com/MacLaLaLands.zip

Saw this http://maiconmcn.tumblr.com/post/1669091480/alphabeticalposter on kotaku, so I made this:



larger (1.5mb) version: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/599805/ABC.png

Criteria were which games were most interesting, not most polished. I also left out some of the most popular games, like cave story and minecraft in favor of highlighting more obscure ones.

yes.

Updated the first post a bit to include some handy information.

I added Student entries to the original post.

http://www.igf.com/php-bin/entries2011_student.php

The wiki is currently suspended I suppose, with the new datadump at least Paul is figuring out how tricky it is to get it working at the same level as the original.

We've got a datadump today surprisingly! http://tig.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Statistics

[150 entries for mobile hardware like the iPhone, iPad, DS, PSP and Android devices]

interesting that there were / are only 300 folders but 391 entrants, but perhaps not all entrants are pc download (some might be mobile phone games / iphone games / etc.)

In total, this year's Main Competition took in just under 400 game entries -- many of them new titles from leading indie developers -- across all platforms.

This includes 150 entries for mobile hardware like the iPhone, iPad, DS, PSP and Android devices, with all mobile entries now eligible for all IGF 2011 prizes, including a unique Best Mobile Game award.

source

It's hard to listen to something that's been silent for 8 weeks, now isn't it?

goodness, a lot of purple lately, i think i like it.