IGF 2008 Entrants Announced!

By: Derek Yu

On: October 9th, 2007

You can stop speculating, because the list of entrants for the upcoming IGF has been unveiled! And whoo boy, the competition is going to be fierce this year, guys and gals. There are a whopping 173 games battling for the 5 main prizes, which is around 30 or so more than this year’s. A cursory glance tells me that the quality of the games is generally very high. It’s a diverse group, too.

Many of the titles I had expected to see, many of them I recognize but didn’t realize were being entered, and many of them are comin’ straight outta left field. A good portion of the games entered this year are from TIGSource regulars, too. That’s great! I can’t wait to get my happy little digits on them and start playing.

Being able to participate in IGF is an amazing experience. I wish you all the best of luck!

(Source: GameSetWatch)

Posted in Competitions, Developers, IGF / GDC

fish

i wonder, how does the judging process work?

do all the judges get to play all the 173 games right now? or do only some judges get to vote on those, and then everybody votes on the finalists?

because there’s a lot of judges and a lot of games. must be a logistic hell.
fish

also, who’s that cowboy dude that they use everywhere?
Derek

I guess the IGF’s not ready for an asian person next to their logo. Or a Canadian.

*slinks away*
Tim

Didn’t you win his prize last year?
fish

i want a name!
and a game!
Tim

Anyone who cannot name this person is not eligible for the main prize next year lol
Derek

“i want a name! and a game!”

Benjamin Franklin, and The Adventures of Willy Beamish!
Petri Purho

I think I know who that cowboy dude is. It’s the same mysterious cowboy that was in Lynch’s Mulhollan Dr.
Andy

I believe it’s one of the Three Rings guys who accepted an award for Bang! Howdy last year.
http://www.shotbeakgames.za.net/niche Tr00jg

Congrats to all who entered. I’m looking forward to this one.
disappointed

i think it’s time to invest in mainstream games again.
http://www.tscreative.net BMcC

I am stoked. SO stoked.

What struck me at first glance:

>Ablation X

>Clean Asia

>Cortex Command

>Crayon Physics Deluxe

>FEZ

>Gish 2

>Goo

>Immortal Defense

>Masq

>Noitu Love 2: Devolution

>Penumbra: Overture

>Point of Sale

>Samurai Soul Hunters

>Tri-achnid

>World of Goo

Lawls:

>Arctic Stud Poker Run

>Bloodshed Tournament

>Candy Mountain Massacre

>Freakin’ Frogs

>The Zoo Race

>Wheel of Fortune Tarot

???:

>Blue Rabbit’s Climate Chaos
http://www.tscreative.net BMcC

Also: Konjak, you sly dog. I want to play Noitu! :D
Nikica

Love to se CC and the cute little Fez, and nice to see some games that i herad of did it to IGF, like Goo, oh and go Fish go !!!
Nikica

Heh Edmund with company is enetering with three games, Gish 2, Tri-Achnid and HOST
robolee

yeah cortex command was a surprise as the official website is down atm :(
and the dev log didn’t get updated, however if you click on the igf link a new picture is up… new build?
Nikica

Lol, i am a port of the bad community there was an anouncment call Crunchtime Update, where he said that he maid the final,lol here read yourself:”Just a quick update on whatâ€™s going on in DRL HQ. Weâ€™re crunching both to make the IGF submission, and the first commercial version of CC. The full in-game Scene Editor is now feature complete and weâ€™re using it ourselves to build the real story scenarios that will make up the meat of of the Cortex Command experience. After six years in the making, we can finally say that weâ€™ve transitioned from pre-production into actual production on this project. ;D
So, if you already enjoy the rickety skirmish mode of the test builds, youâ€™re in for a treat. We are adding many times more content than youâ€™ve seen so far. Environments, ships, guys, weapons, tools, game modes, cut scenesâ€¦ oh my!
The Scene Editor will be included with the full game, and since weâ€™re using it ourselves to build the game (aka â€œeating our own dog foodâ€), it is shaping up to be quite powerful and user friendly.
Good things come to those who wait. Image to the left is purely fictitious fun.”

So we knew it, the site will be back up, I knew it I just said it because you would than pay attention to this wonderful game !!! LOL
http://www.tscreative.net BMcC

robolee: Yeah, they were crunching pretty hard for the deadline!
colorFool

BMcC, those are pretty much exactly the games that stroke me too – I guess it’s the TIGS influence that does it.. ;)
But you definitely forgot Crayon Physics! Very cool to see it on IGF! Good luck Petri… and everyone else on that note!
http://www.tscreative.net BMcC

Haha, cool.

What do you mean I forgot Crayon Physics! Petri is the man. 8)
Karzon

Hooray, now I know of even more games I want!
moi

Wow anything goes, There is a bit of everything there, from casual match3s to XBLA games to B-games to game maker ones.
I only tried one game: Ironduke and it’s actually very nice,but the game bugged and froze the browser :(
I’m going to try noitu love 2 after.
PHeMoX

From the more unknown games (at least to me) the one that struck me the most was Undertow. Seems really cool, great atmosphere and story too. At least that’s what the movies show so far.

Apart from that I pretty much already know that I like the games mentioned in BMcC’s list there. Cortex Command and Gish2 probably being my favorites at the moment.
http://www.madhousegame.com/ Paul

Ah… So this is why I had so many hits on my website today!
Nikica

Yeah, Madhouse is really good !!!
edenb

Adds Glum Buster to BMcC’s list.
colorFool

Oops, my bad, completely overlooked it..
And now that I look again, Masq doesn’t ring a bell either… gotta check it out..
http://www.madhousegame.com/ Paul

Thanks Nikica! I hope the judges like it, too :) Looks like there’s some really good entries! Best of luck to all!
colorFool

Arr, that perfidious Data! I bet their server move is done already and they’re waiting with the next newspost for the IGF to blast out all the cool features they have implemented. That makes me so bilious!