Audiosurf is teh awesome

the_funny_thing_is

@Krondonian: You're right, I should probably cut the industry some slack, there is a lot of great stuff. But search free flash games? Do you want me to lose my sanity?

sarcasmOD

@nick.soapdish: Ah, Passage is great.

My personal favourite Indie game is Kyntt Stories: [nifflas.ni2.se] . The developer is working on a new, physics based game which I'm more hyped for than most commercial releases.

Krondonian

I'd love to attend a festival like this in the future, I believe there is one or two in Canuckistan every year, but I always seem to miss it.

There is something to be said about the amount of care that can go into an independent game that many big budget titles seem to miss. It's that element of fun, or a base concept that drives a game into popularity and not simply how well it is marketed.

I know even after playing Passage earlier this year that even something very simple can provoke more discussion than most existential, convoluted stories that get sewn onto the face of some games like window dressing. Looking forward to seeing some of the entries this year.

nick.soapdish

Wow. That's the banner image for the Independent Games Festival? We all look like the one assistant from Ugly Betty? We're all going to advise a heterosexual man on how to impress his wife with understanding and a newly discovered culinary sense? We're all male? Wouldn't an image, any image, that had something to do with games make a better banner?

wild homes is weathering cephalopod trouble!

@sarcasmOD: I wouldn't be so pessimistic, there's a lot of great original stuff out there too!

Also, there's a helluva lot of crap indie games. Search 'free flash games'...

The great thing about the IGF is that to stand out from the crowd and make it big the devs have to create something incredible. With more and more powerful tools, I can't wait to see what the entrants are.

Krondonian

Thank god for clever indie games helping to keep the game industry from turning into a generic brown FPS factory. Ok...we're kinda at that point already, but at least indie games give me a breath of fresh air.

sarcasmOD

@sarcasmOD: Heh, the abyss goes on for pages. If anyone says 2D platformers have died, then they'll prove it. I think every time I see someone on one a part of me dies a little.

Krondonian

Psst.. and Synaesthete!

P.S. The Synaesthete guys apparently formed their own studio named Fishbeat. Can't wait to see what comes out of that!

Yamen

My vote is Zero Ballistics

chip5541

@wild homes is weathering cephalopod trouble!: That's the face of Phil Fish, who collected Excellence in Visual Arts award winner Fez's award last year wearing that fez. So yeah, it has everything to do with the IGF.

randomnine

Yeah that Philippe Poisson's face, not "Fish". He's the creator of FEZ, which is a great game concept BTW, but since he presented himself as Shigeru Myamoto in a Gamasutra interview I just stopped to care. What an ass...

Beesh

Yeah that the face of Philippe Poisson (not Fish) creator of FEZ (great game concept BTW). He proclaimed himself as Shigeru Myamoto on Gamasutra... from then I think he's an ass. The fact that he won last years doesn't justify the mean to ruin a banner.

Beesh