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Road to the IGF: Broken Rules' Old Man's Journey
by Joel Couture [02.08.17]
Old Man's Journeyfollows a senior citizen on his travels across green hills, seaside towns, and sun-drenched shores, with the player guiding him through puzzling environments as he seeks a long lost home.
Indie, Art, Design, Production, Video, IGF
Road to the IGF: Carl Burton's Islands: Non-Places
by Joel Couture [02.07.17]
Carl Burton takes the player to ordinary places, showing them offices, parking lots, and hotel lobbies through a surreal lens in Islands: Non-Places.
Console/PC, Indie, Design, IGF
Road to IGF: Ink Stories' 1979 Revolution: Black Friday
by Joel Couture [02.06.17]
"I have always been interested with those moments in time where we have seen the greatest kindness in humanity combined with the most atrocious acts of hatred. How can I capture that in a game?"
Console/PC, Indie, Art, Design, Production, Video, IGF
Road to the IGF: TeamCrew's Frog Climbers
by Joel Couture [02.03.17]
Four players must climb a mountain in Frog Climbers, each scrambling for handholds on the rocks and vines (and each other) as they rush to the top.
Console/PC, Indie, Design, IGF
Road to the IGF: Kinmoku's One Night Stand
by Chris Kerr [02.02.17]
One Night Stand's humanistic approach to storytelling earned developer Lucy Bundell an IGF nomination for Excellent in Narrative. Here's how it was made.
Console/PC, Design, Production, Video, IGF
Road to the IGF: Florian Veltman's Lieve Oma
by Joel Couture [02.01.17]
Lieve Oma takes players on a quiet journey through the forest, steering around a child strolling with their aging grandmother as they gather mushrooms together.
Console/PC, Indie, Design, Video, IGF
Road to the IGF: Variable State's Virginia
by Chris Kerr [01.31.17]
Variable State's game was nominated for several Independent Games Festival awards, including Best Audio, Excellence in Narrative, Excellence in Visual Art and The Nuovo Award for innovation.Â
Console/PC, Programming, Art, Design, Production, Video, IGF
Road to the IGF: Jumpsuit Entertainment's She Remembered Caterpillars
by Joel Couture [01.30.17]
She Remembered Caterpillars fills a woodland with tiny, colorful creatures that can only advance if they're the correct color. Combining these creatures (and creating new colors) helps them pass.
Console/PC, Art, Video, IGF
Road to the IGF: Clever Endeavour Games' Ultimate Chicken Horse
by Joel Couture [01.27.17]
Ultimate Chicken Horse is a multiplayer racing game. It doesn't just ask players to race, but to build the track, giving them an array of platforms and traps to lay out.
Console/PC, Indie, Art, Design, Production, Video, IGF
Road to the IGF: Titouan Millet's Mu Cartographer
1 by Joel Couture [01.26.17]
A vast landscape is open for the player to explore, shape, and document in Mu Cartographer, a game where players manipulate an alien device to look over and alter the lands they see.
Console/PC, Indie, Art, Design, Production, Video, IGF
Road to the IGF: David O'Reilly's Everything
by Joel Couture [01.25.17]
In Everything, you can become a car, driving idly around a city. You can stop and become one of the buildings you pass by, ot its cinder blocks or pylons. If you can see it, you can become it.
Console/PC, Indie, Art, Design, Video, IGF
Road to the IGF: Osmotic Studios' Orwell
1 by Joel Couture [01.24.17]
Orwell, nominated for Excellence in Narrative in the IGF, is a game of suspicion and guilt, giving players access to the texts, social media, bank accounts, and personal files of strangers.
Console/PC, Indie, Design, Video, IGF
Road to the IGF 2017: Get to know the finalists and their games!
by Staff [01.23.17]
Our annual series of Road to the IGF Q&As is back to introduce you to the finalists of the Independent Games Festival and their games, from Heart Machine's Hyper Light Drifter to Ocelot Society's Event[0].
Indie, IGF
Cast your votes for the 2017 IGF and Game Developers Choice Audience Awards!
by Staff [01.23.17]
Cast your votes now for both the Game Developers Choice Audience Award and the Independent Games Festival Audience Award -- you have until voting closes next Tuesday, January 31st at 11:59 PM PT!
Console/PC, Indie, GDC, IGF
Road to the IGF: Sokpop Collective's Bamboo Heart
by Joel Couture [01.23.17]
A swordsman loses his heart. Fearing that this will turn him into a cold blooded killer, he takes to the forest and kills everyone in his way to find the missing organ.
Console/PC, Indie, Art, Design, Video, IGF
Road to the IGF: Raw Fury's GoNNER
by Joel Couture [01.20.17]
GoNNERÂ is a challenging sidescrolling roguelike shooter that emits whistles, pops, clicks, and other silly noises as the player moves along. It's been nominated for IGF Excellence in Audio award.
Console/PC, Indie, Art, Design, Video, IGF
Road to the IGF: Michael Brough's Imbroglio
by Chris Baker [01.20.17]
Gamasutra catches up with indie game developer Michael Brough to chew the game design fat and chat about his IGF-nominated roguelike, Imbroglio.
Smartphone/Tablet, Indie, Programming, Art, Design, IGF
Road to the IGF: Heart Machine's Hyper Light Drifter
by Alex Wawro [01.19.17]
Gamasutra catches up with Heart Machine's Alex Preston to chat about the state of indie games and the design of Hyper Light Drifter, Heart Machine's debut game that's up for 3 IGF awards this year.
Indie, Programming, Art, Design, Production, IGF
Road to the IGF: Student project Lily - Colors of Santa Luz
by Joel Couture [01.18.17]
Lily - Colors of Santa Luz is a game about a civilian trying to sneak away from soldiers that have overtaken his city, and shield a little girl from seeing the horrors of war.
Console/PC, Indie, Art, Design, Video, IGF
2017 Independent Games Festival announces Main Competition finalists!
by Staff [01.09.17]
The 2017 Independent Games Festival juries have announced finalists for the world's leading indie games showcase, including games like Inside, Hyper Light Drifter, Event[0] and more.
Indie, IGF
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