2009 IGF Entrants Announced!

By: Derek Yu

On: November 27th, 2008

IGF 2009

Whoo, it’s good to be back! The 226 entries for the 2009 Independent Games Festival are now up, along with the 145 Student Showcase entries. That’s another big jump from last year, which saw 173 Main Competition entries and 125 Student entries.

As to be expected, there are a lot of surprises on the list. It’s nice to see Barkley, Shut up and Jam: Gaiden on there, as well as Amanita Design’s long-awaited Machinarium. I’m also excited to check out Nifflas’ Night Game, which until now has only been whispered about in the dark corners of the Earth. And Retro Theftendo! Where did that come from? Honestly, it looks like a stellar round-up – I could keep going on like this for more paragraphs, but I’ll spare you.

Is there a “Most Fucked Up Trailer” award for Quite Soulless?

Happy Thanksgiving in America, everyone!

Posted in Community, Competitions, Developers, IGF / GDC

Pnx

IGF grows every year along with the rest of the independent games scene…

In accordance with the prophecy.
http://www.auntiepixelante.com auntie

rero theftendo was under development for the nes years ago as grand theftendo. i didn’t expect to hear about it again.
Eric

Is Retro Theftendo still being developed for NES, or has it shifted to computer-only?
Guy

Flash news: Some muslims got angry at the game muslims massacare, so they decided to commit a real massacre.
Shows who commit massacare on video games, and who commits them on real life.
http://pietepiet.happysadness.net Paul Veer

I suggest everyone to check out Grapplon. Game was made by a few classmates of mine, and it’s really damn fun.
http://studioeres.com/games/blog Paul Eres

Happy thanksgiving.

I kind of doubt the real massacre had anything to do with that game.

My subjective impression is that this IGF has a lot of “good” games but very few “great” ones, whereas the previous IGF’s I remember had a few great games among a bunch of average ones. So it’ll probably be a closer race this year.
Cas

Droid Assault FTW!
Craig Stern

Happy Thanksgiving to you as well. This year, we should all be thankful for a blossoming indie games scene. :)
Kovski

The must have mixed up something on the page of Nifflas entry.. there’s a link to the nicalis blog instead of his website…

Oh, and yeah, good to have you back Tigsource!
http://lumberingdream.com/ !CE-9

that’s real cool.

this, is hilarious:
http://www.igf.com/php-bin/entry2009.php?id=722
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odUs4hYwb08 for the impatient)
OrR

Oh my god!!! Brian Provinciano lives! :’)
Where did that come from? Are you serious?! I’ve been waiting for Grandtheftendo (now renamed I guess) for years! Actually, the announcement was more than four years ago. Check out his site: http://bripro.com/
http://lumberingdream.com/ !CE-9

Kovski: might not – Nicalis is referring to him on their site. (check the 19th November 2008 entry — I’m not sure whether my previous post was moderated out because there was an URL in it)
Guy

Paul Eres, I may have sound a bit terse.
My point was, muslim massacare is a game that try to convey something which is actually the other way around in reality.
That muslims are the ones who hate everybody else, and not everybody hate muslim.
Sparky

I think I’m going to have to start a list- there are too many interesting games coming out to keep track of!
Syril

Is Barkley: Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden really a Part 1 in a series, or is the description just messing with everyone? The whole description felt really tongue-in-cheek, so it was hard to tell how much of it was serious.
http://studioeres.com/games/blog Paul Eres

I don’t think that’s true. Sure, that’s true of a few Muslims, but saying that all Muslims hate everyone else is ridiculous. I had plenty of Muslim roommates in college, and my best friend in primary school was a Muslim, my sister’s best friend is a Muslim, and none of them hate others.
BobTheSlub

There are just as many (or more)Christians with an unrational hatred towards their fellow man as there are Muslims that’d like to kill us all. Relgion is one of the worst holdovers from ancient times that we still cling to. For as much good as it does, it does equal harm.
Guy

I sayed muslims, I didn’t say all muslims. But I understand it might have sounded like that.
I agree that there are “good muslims” lol.
I just don’t agree to always portray them(or some of them) as a victim of the western world or being unjustly persecuted, when some muslims cause so much chaos in the world.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbcmPe0z3Sc Paul Eres

I do think most Muslims who live in the first world are unjustly persecuted over terrorism. See the video link (in my name’s link) for a nice video about it.
Guy

Hmm, no they are not.
Fact is, people who commited the latest terror attack in the US were muslims.
So are you gonna say its prejudice to check muslims on airport and its embarrasing for them?
“Oh we are sorry, we don’t want to embarress you, we would rather have another 9/11 than to embarass innocent muslims”
Get over it, it is most likely that the next terror attack will be commited by a muslim.
So its very reasonable to check more muslims in security sensetive places.
If those muslims truly care for the US, why do they make such a big deal about it?
There are some night clubs that won’t let me in, do I make a big deal out of it?
Do I act like an antagonist?
There is a good reason to be suspecious of muslims as terrorists, even if they are not.
Get over it.
Do you want to sacrifice security for the sake of those people’s pride?

Muslims in the US are not victims, period.
http://studioeres.com/games/blog Paul Eres

No, I think checking them on airports is fine. By persecution I mean stuff like hate crimes, killing innocent ones over it in riots and such, which happens.
Phasma Felis

Ahh, now this is what I was missing from TIGsource: good old-fashioned racism.
Guy

Yea, I forgot anything that doesn’t praise muslims is racism.
I forgot that in a democratic country(well this isn’t a country really), you are free to express your opinion as long as its not criticising muslims.
In other words, you are free to mention what was racist about what I said, instead of shouting like a daft person “racist!”.

Paul Eres, I completly agree that hate crimes are wrong.
Anything against the law is wrong.
Guy

Sorry about saying daft, lol.
I thought I am not the kind of person who curse.
Hooker with a BeViS

“Flash news: Some muslims got angry at the game muslims massacare, so they decided to commit a real massacre. Shows who commit massacare on video games, and who commits them on real life.”

It’s a bit hard to not take that as a direct swipe at musilms when the tone is like: “Ha! Those muslims really showed their true colours this time!”, but since you spent such a valuable time digging yourself out of that, I’ll let it slide..

..No sir, nothing you said wasn’t racist or could’ve been interpented a such.. Damn those foreigners for always interpenting everything as racist.. krhm krhm.. ahem.. lol ;)
Guy

I just wanted to point out the irony of the game muslim massacare, which had the purpose to present muslims as victims.
To show that hate crimes are committed against muslim. Even though hate crimes are committed against almost any population.
Wasn’t the sep 11 a hate crime?
Why does some people try to over protect muslims, when they don’t deserve such protection.
Why people continue to criticise the western world of how it treats muslims, because of some radicals committing hate crimes against muslims.
But muslims are not criticised for terror attacks on the western world, committed by some radical muslims.

If terror attacks are no reason to criticise muslims, then hate crimes are no reason to criticise the western world.
They just happen, and there is nothing to do against them, according to some people.
Hooker with a BeViS

I agree to what you said later on. But I fail to find out the “great irony” in the situation. Christians killed muslims in the old days and religous fundamentalism causes acts of violence everyday regardless of faith or colour.

I find it much more ironic that when someone draws a picture of muhammed as a terrorist, as means to critisize the hostile group of believers – causing flags to burn and bomb threats to fly.

Kinda like telling someone “I think you’re too violent” and then getting your ass kicked.
Hooker with a BeViS

“If terror attacks are no reason to criticise muslims, then hate crimes are no reason to criticise the western world. They just happen, and there is nothing to do against them, according to some people.”

Let me fix that for you:

“If terror attacks are no reason to criticise TERRORISTS, then hate crimes are no reason to criticise the CRIMINALS. They just happen, and there is nothing to do against them, according to some people.”

..notice the difference..
bateleur

Meanwhile, back at the topic…

Was anyone besides me surprised to see Pixeljunk games there? I’ll be interested to see if they make the finals.
Guy

Hooker, you are a confusing person.
Hooker with a BeViS

Guy, same goes for you ;)
http://studioeres.com/games/blog Paul Eres

Guy: nobody mentioned racism until you did, nobody was accusing you of it. Muslim isn’t even a race, it’s a religion, there are Muslims of every race.

I think the problem people are having what what you are saying is pretty simple: you are associating terrorism with Muslims, when that’s a bad syllogism. Most Muslims are not terrorists, and associating Muslims with terrorists is a bit weird. That’s kind of like saying that some guy on TIGSource made a bad game, and blaming everyone who uses TIGSource for that bad game. *Individuals* are responsible for their actions, you can’t hold a group accountable for the actions of individuals within that group.