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One is a zen-like game about creating a tree. One is a beautiful, abstract fencing game. Another sees its players fighting physically to win. In another of 2011′s Independent Game Festival Nuovo Award nominees, you play as a dictator’s cat.
We’ve spent the past month or so talking about the Independent Games Festival finalists, but we haven’t really touched on the mobile category.
Indie games are important. No, not because they’re sometimes “art“, but because of the innovations, the stirring of the pot they sometimes lead to.
I have for a number of years now been fortunate enough to help judge entries for the annual Independent Games Festival.
The annual Independent Games Festival is now taking submissions for the 12th annual festival which takes place duing the 2010 Game Developers Conference.
The Independent Games Festival is underway, giving the indie game developers of the world a chance to accept awards in t-shirts, possibly recently washed. Let’s list the winners!
