IGF 2008 Audience Award Voting Opens

By: Derek Yu

On: January 21st, 2008

Simon Carless wanted me to let you guys know that online voting for the IGF Audience Award is now open, and will continue through ’til the day of the award show. The winner of this award will receive a $2,500 prize.

The games you can vote for are:

Audiosurf
Battleships Forever
Clean Asia!
Fret Nice
Globulos.com
Goo!
Gumboy Tournament
Iron Dukes
Snapshot Adventures: Secret Of Bird Island
Synaesthete
Tri-Achnid

Good luck, guys!

Posted in Competitions, Developers, IGF / GDC

frosty

Why isn’t Ron Paul on the list? This is a scandalous travesty of democracy!
Derek

HAX!
Tommunism

*cough* VOTE FOR GOO *cough*
xerus

I gave my vote to goo! ;p
pooper

I gave my vote to GOO.. just kidding!

Battleships Forever!
rndll

I probably enjoyed Audiosurf most.
Bob

I voted for Audiosurf, and you should, too.
Zeno

None of these have really wowed me so far, though I haven’t really looked in depth at all of them.

Played Audiosurf, and it’s good, but I can’t help but wish that it were more along the lines of a rhythm game instead of a match-3.
Zeno

Also, I can’t bring myself to vote for Goo! on the grounds that it’s basically the same as Liquid War, which has been around for almost 10 years.
wormguy

Audiosurf is 10 times more impressive than the second best game on that list.
DragonSix

No doubt, last year was better, nothing shine this time.
Bob

^Zeno

Match-3 is a secondary mode – the main mode, Mono, is a rhythm game.
http://www.oxeyegames.com jeb

“Snapshot Adventures: Secret Of Bird Island” is not really my kind of game, but it IS very polished. I think it has the largest fan base, but not the kind of fans that know what IGF is.

I haven’t decided what to vote on yet… there are still some games on the list that I haven’t tried.
Victo

I’ll try Goo
but so far, AudioSurf has my vote
http://www.shotbeakgames.za.net/niche Tr00jg

Aquaria! Definitely! oh wait…

I’m going with Audiosurf.
Pepperidge

^Zeno
by your logic, World of Goo is basically the same as Bridge Builder, Aquaria is basically the same as Ecco, Fez is basically the same as Paper Mario, Crayon Physics is basically the same as Mario Paint, and Audiosurf is basically the same as guitar hero. should all those be discounted because they are similar to previous titles? show me something 100% original.
Stwelin

Nobody liked fret nice? I liked fret nice…
raelz

Ok, gonna check those games I didn’t play tomorrow, so far Ive played like half of them, haven’t played Clean Asia (shame on me, and I call myself a fan of cactus pfff), Goo! and few more. I wouldn’t vote for Aquaria if it was there, that game was just so big disappoitment for me, sorry. But thats offtopic. I think I would vote for Battleships from the games I played, but I really hate the learning curve, it’s like easy-peasy (on normal difficulty) one mission and then super-hard second one. Gonna write more tomorrow
Bob

^Pepperidge

No, Audiosurf is like Deathchase, but that’s beside the point.
Pepperidge

haha yea…still damn cool game though. it got my vote, it was between goo and audiosurf for me.
raelz

The server where the files are on sucks. I repuloaded the downlodeable games to rapidshare:
* Audiosurf demo;
* Battleships Forever;
* Clean Asia;
* Fret Nice demo;
* Goo demo;
* Gumboy Tournament demo;
* Snapshot Adventures;
* Synaesthete;
Catchall

What about Guitar Rising? A guitar hero where you plug in a real electric guitar as a controller? Yes please!
raelz

Ok I wrote a pretty big article about IGF (few thousand words), although not in english. I decided to vote for audiosurf, which got 90% in my review. If I couldnt vote for it, I would probably vote for snapshot or battleships

I couldn’t play all the games though – fret nice needs guitar and goo doesn’t star on my pc from mysterious reasons
Tommunism

Raelz,

Goo probably didn’t run on account of system specs or Vista (if you are running vista) The game requires pretty high specs…but that’s on purpose, it was never intended for PC.
raelz

Athlon 3500+, 1gb ram, 7600gs, its not the best but definetely not the case
Tommunism

Yea…won’t run on that because it isn’t a dual core. If it did run it would be incredibly slow.
http://www.oxeyegames.com jeb

Not that my two cents are worth two cents, but I ended up voting for Snapshot. It was either that or Gumboy. The other games just wasn’t very fun… Audiosurf was cool, but it only allowed me to try one song before it asked me to buy the game, so I didn’t get any useful experience out of it.