Independent Games Festival Announces Student Showcase Winners

The Independent Games Festival has made this year's picks for the ten best student games. More detailed descriptions of each of the games are available at the IGF's website. These are games (and developers) to watch because, as Gamasutra points out, "Notable previous IGF honorees include many of today's breakthrough independent games, from Number None's Braid through 2D Boy's World Of Goo and Invisible Handlebar's Audiosurf. Previous Student Showcase winners have included Narbacular Drop — subsequently evolved into Game Developers Choice Game Of The Year winner Portal — and Cloud, from the student team who then created downloadable titles Flow and Flower."

Try 'The Color of Doom'

[gravos]

If you haven't tried any of them yet, give 'The Color of Doom' a shot. Not only do you get the Serious Sam-style hordes of enemies, but it's a source mod so it looks pretty good for the time. The humor ain't as great as Portal, but it's not bad.

Portal

[Thanshin]

Portal and World of Goo are trully fantastic games.

When I think what would happen if suddenly every large game company crashed for some mistical reason, I remember Goo and Portal and feel better.

Ok, and puzzle quest, too.

And Amorphous+ (stupid flash game. too many hours spent on it)