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.