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Evening Reading: 2010 IGF Voting Complete

by Garnett Lee, Feb 15, 2010 6:00pm PST
Related Topics – Shatter

I spent most of this holiday Monday playing and judging the finalist games in the IGF main competition. When you have some time I highly recommend checking out the nominees. A number of them have free demos, some also have paid full versions that aren't particularly expensive, and at the very least you will find videos of the game in action.

Indie games get more exposure now than ever before but they're really something you need to experience. Whether a conventional design, such as the popular run of indie platformers of late, or something more abstract, the small -- at times one-person -- teams putting the games together put you as the player as close to the designer as possible. When they work the result is an unrivaled sense of pure connection with the game.

We figured on a fairly quiet day today but there were a few goings-on: