Comments on: 2008 IGF Entrants

By: Kua

Kua — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 06:12:37 +0000

Machinarium looks glorious – I’m glad I happened upon it.

By: roBurky

roBurky — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:52:59 +0000

I tried to play Between, but it couldn’t find another stranger to play with.

Metempsychosis is interesting. It’s like an FPS version of that cursorx10 flash game. It’s only got one very elaborate puzzle, though.
http://blogs.gscept.com/2008/sg5/

By: Pags

Pags — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:49:15 +0000

I’ll be interested to see what Machinarium wins, if anything. I was really fond of Samorost 1 & 2 and the art looks even more incredible than usual.

By: Dorsch

Dorsch — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:54:12 +0000

Can someone explain jason rohrer’s between to me? I grasp he game mechanics but why is it multiplayer? Is there an ending?

By: roBurky

roBurky — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:40:58 +0000

Half of the links to the websites of the individual games don’t work. Very frustrating, because it is usually the really interesting ones.

By: Muzman

Muzman — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:36:57 +0000

Always seems a little weird when biggish games show up. Zenoclash for instance seems a little not-indie, even though it qualifies.

By: Pod

Pod — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:50:24 +0000

“That’s a huge increase on last year’s event, and a colourful barometer of indie-gaming health.”

I suggest it’s an barometer of how much more chaff needs to be seperated from the wheat.

By: Ging

Ging — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:40:22 +0000

Matt: I’m not sure you can enter the year after you’ve won an IGF award with the same game. I suspect it’s still being worked on, as everything I’ve seen of it has been basically showing off how the game plays in it’s most basic form.

By: Tom Camfield

Tom Camfield — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:25:52 +0000

Can we expect a 2008 Advent calender this month? Pretty please?

By: Dan Lawrence

Dan Lawrence — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:36:47 +0000

I can’t wait to hear your testing report on ‘Dark Room Sex Game’.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:38:52 +0000

I’m dissapointed to not see Fez on the list this year, I was really looking foward to that title, does anyone know what might’ve become of this game?

http://www.igf.com/02finalists.html#Fez

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:34:56 +0000

I don’t search about for games, so for me I’ll have played the ones that RPS linked to.

If I’ve missed any masterpieces they haven’t linked it’s all their fault, not mine. :)