Pretend you are an IGF judge: Part 3
Here’s the third installment IGF games for you to try out. This section covers from from L to R. This list is a comprehensive compilation of the IGF nominees that are currently publicly available, either commercially, freeware, web, beta, or just as a demo.
Madballs in…Babo: Invasion
A twin stick shooter featuring the toy “Madballs” (which I hadn’t heard of before the game)
Comercial with a free demo (PC/XBLA)
Mean Kathleen & The Great Quack Machine
Puzzle platformer with puzzles based around gears.
Freeware
Melolune
Adventure RPG with puzzles using music.
IGF demo
Metal Drift
Multiplayer vehicular combat game, with a persistant leveling system.
Comercial with free demo.
Microbiotics
Aquatic puzzle shooter.
Beta
microsia – molecular tunes
Interactive sound game.
Comercial with free demo.
Mind Wall
Very cool looking 3D arcade puzzler
Freeware on PC/Mac and iPhone.
Monster Ball
Strategy game based on draughts.
Commercial with free demo.
Muck’n Around
Colour matching, tile flipping game.
Web.
My Tiny Planets
Online virtual world. You know, for kids.
Web.
Mystic Mine
Single button game, where you have to guide a mine cart.
Commercial with free demo.
Night of the Scarecrows
Match 3 game with a cartoony horror theme.
Commercial with free demo and web version.
node-def
Multiplayer tactical hacking simulation.
Beta.
Nothing
Exploration based 2D platformer.
Demo.
NotIZFun
Puzzle game using logic gates.
Freeware.
NUD Tower Defence
A tower defence game.
Freeware.
NyxQuest
Platformer with a pretty neat visual style.
Commercial (Wiiware)
Olu
I have looked at footage of this game, and I still don’t really know what is happening. It looks great though.
XNA demo
Onverse
3D social virtual world.
Web.
Orbz
Colourful action game.
Free demo.
Papermint
A social virtual world. Made out of paper.
Web.
Paranormal Puzzle Society
Tile matching puzzle game.
Web.
Pizza Morgana Episode 1 – Monsters and Manipulations in the Magical Forest
Comedy adventure game.
Freeware.
Planck v.0
Vertical shmup that lets you “play the music”.
IGF build.
Popnus Puzzle
Colour matching puzzle game.
Commercial with free demo.
Q-Lat3
Fast paced puzzle game, where you have to clear a stage of coloured balls.
Freeware.
QuantZ
Very flashy match 3 game.
Commercial with free demo.
rComplex
“a game about a man who’s only goal is to make it out alive.”
Freeware.
Red Remover
Very clever gravity based puzzle game.
Web.
Restraining Order
A black comedy action game.
Freeware.
Rocketbirds: Revolution!
Really nicely animated action puzzler.
Commercial with web demo.
Rosemary
Point and click adventure where the player has to rearange the memory of the titular character.
Freeware.
Rubber Ninjas
Crazy 3D ragdoll physics fighting game.
Commercial with free demo.
RunMan: Race around the world
Adorable platform game.
Freeware.
Stay tuned for the next, and final installment coming soon.
