2007 IGF Entries Announced

GameSetWatch has the announcement that entrants for the 2007 Independent Games Festival have been announced. The complete list of entrants is available on the IGF site. There's a breakdown on some of the best entrants at Indiegamer.com, if all you care about is "What should I play?" From that post: "Bang! Howdy! -- The follow up to Puzzle Pirates by Three Rings took years and a big team. It's also innovative and fun. And it pushes a microcurrency system. Lookout IGF. Perplex City -- This real-world/online crossover game gives riddles to players in which they have to solve problems in the real world, on the internet, and in the game. Definitely Oscar... uh I mean... IGF bait. Plus they appear to have crazy funding and just announced a deal to distribute in Gamestop. These guys mean business."

And the winner is

[neonprimetime]

Bone: The Great Cow Race [igf.com] -- Yes, that Bone. NO! Not THAT bone! The other one. THe one in the comic books. With the little white guy. Oh, never mind.

At least for best name.

Bang Howdy was... not so good

[ShinSugoi]

I tried the game originally when it was linked on Penny Arcade, but found it to be both incredibly buggy (I had to resort to manually editing the config keys in the registry to adjust the resolution and the tutorials routinely locked up) and with overly simplistic gameplay that frankly wasn't very interesting. There was also the fact that the matches routinely timed out for seemingly no reason.

Ultimately, I find myself incapable of really recommending it to anyone. That's a shame too, since I really wanted to like it.

armadillo run

[angrymilkman]

I can definately recommend ArmadilloRun. A physics based game created by only 1 person in 9 months. They should have different categories based on team size I guess because some of these games are almost semi commercial.