The 2006 Independent Games Festival finalists have been announced. Among the finalists are a few games that run on Gnu/Linux, such as Darwinia, Tribal Trouble, and Professor Fizzwizzle.
I’ve played those three games, if only in demo form, so I know they’re good. I’m also in the middle of reviewing Weird Worlds, another finalist which is also really good.
I decided to check out a few of the other games. For instance, Glow Worm looked like a typical match-3 puzzle game, but it is a finalist for Innovation in Visual Art, so I had to check it out. It definitely deserves to be in the running, and it is a fun game to boot. I also tried Strange Attractors. Well, actually tried isn’t a good word. I got to level 25. I should have gone to sleep, but I couldn’t help it. And that giant head! I would have destroyed it if I hadn’t teleported and got stuck right into those damaging electric beams!
Suffice it to say that the 2006 IGF looks like it is full of quality games.
Strange Attractors, IMO, is pretty brilliant for a single button game. At level 50 there’s another creepy head guy… I died there.
So who takes the Grand Prize? Darwinia or Dofus?
Left by TimS on December 15th, 2005