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2011 Indie Game Festival entries now available!
It’s time to start salivating! You can now view the 391 competition entries for the 13th annual Independent Games Festival.
What does that mean? It means that 391 new and fresh independent games have been compiled onto a single list for you to browse over, poke them, watch videos and, with a little more work and some help from Google, even play demos. Oh the joy!
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Here are some of our favourites:
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40 Stories
Description:
40 Stories is a puzzle game where you must create duplicates of yourself to escape 40 challenging floors. In 40 Stories, you play as Anita Hent, a disgruntled technical support employee who is on a mission to leave her office. In Anita’s haste, she runs into the Megalomaniacal Professor Darius McDoogle, who zaps her with his reality altering Quantum Stabilizer, which then gives Anita the power to clone herself using copy machines. Anita must now traverse her ever changing building with the help of her very own Fanboy and escape McDoogle’s grasp.
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Duality ZF
Description:
Duality ZF is an award-winning 1-4 player shmup.
It has 6 game modes, 4 control modes, and shmup innovations including dual play (control two fighters at once), G-Mode, 8 independent fighters at once (4 player dual play or G-Mode), duality weapons, and more...
It is a semi-finalist in the 3rd Independent Game Developer's Competition for technical excellence.
It is a two-time Dream Build Play finalist, placing 5th in 2010.
Enjoy!
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Explosionade
Description:
All your friends are storming the Horronym Fortress but Colonel Bouche left you to guard the supply depot. Disregarding orders you open the depot to find a gigantic, prototype mech. Take it for a spin and see if you can help the invasion after all!
* INFILTRATE subterranean strongholds manned by cunning bipedal aliens and their mind-blasting hellions!
* Dozens of CHALLENGE-ROOM-style gameplay with a zoom function that let's you in close or zooms out to see all the action!
* 2 PLAYER COOP and ONLINE Highscores!
Explosionade--it's just like lemonade, but with EXPLOSIONS.
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Frozen Synapse
Description:
Frozen Synapse is a thrilling PC and Mac strategy game. It brings the simultaneous turn-based strategy genre bang up-to-date and lets you give detailed, accurate orders to your squad.
Plan your moves, test them out, then hit the 'Execute' button: both you and your enemy's turns are executed simultaneously.
Each match immediately places you in an intense tactical situation: there's no waiting around for the fun part.
Blast a hole in a wall with a rocket and then send in your close-range units, or take a stealthy approach and set up cover with a sniper: your approach is entirely down to your own creativity.
If you can predict your opponent's moves, you can win the match: this game has been crafted so that superior tactics will triumph!
Once you've outwitted your opponent with a series of perfect turns, watch your Global Ranking climb and export the results to YouTube instantly.
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Hohokum
Description:
Hohokum is a 2D action adventure game for one player. The aim is to provide that player with a wide range of experiences, from arcade-action, to ambient, toy-like puzzles. Along the way, the player will explore an initially alien world with in an interesting control mechanism, gradually learning to navigate it effectively.
The elevator pitch for Hohokum would be Nokia Snake meets Oskar Schindler.
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Jolly Rover
Description:
Jolly Rover is a comedic 2D point and click adventure game where players follow the short and stubby tail of canine protagonist Gaius James Rover across three wild and untamed tropical islands, as he attempts to fulfil his dream of starting a circus, hampered only by pirates, villains, voodoo, love and considerable lack of loot.
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Minecraft
Description:
Minecraft is a sandbox game which allows players to build constructions with textured cubes in a 3D world. The game has two variants: Alpha and Classic, both with single- and multiplayer options. Classic includes only the building aspects of the game with unlimited blocks, while Alpha includes monsters and a much greater variety of crafting available, as well as requiring players to mine their own blocks.
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Purify Puzzle
Description:
Purify Puzzle is an old-school arcade-style matching puzzle game, with a unique, hand-painted style of art, competitive local and online multiplayer, and several single player game modes.
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Pirates of New Horizons
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Pirates of New Horizons is a single-player action adventure game, in which the player takes control of the young space pirate Annha, who travels the void on her search for hidden treasures. The game mixes platformer elements with puzzles and skill-based combat, then puts everything into a fascinating world of pirates and science-fiction.
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Q.U.B.E.
Description:
Q.U.B.E, an acronym for 'Quick Understanding of Block Extrusion' is a single-player game where the player must complete challenging puzzles to advance through each level.
To finish puzzles the player must manipulate coloured cubes in the environment by controlling them with their special gloves. The player is able to extrude (drag out) red cubes, launch themselves using blue cubes, pull out multiple sets of yellow cubes and strategically use timed cubes.
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Specter Spelunker Shrinks
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Wanna grow so big you can jump to the moon? Just hold the Up button to grow! Too big to fit in a pipe? Hold Down to shrink! Specter Spelunker Shrinks is about a platforming hero who will jump, grow, shrink, and whatever else it takes to make it back to his home on the moon.
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Vizati
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Julie and Ben have discovered a strange and magical cube. Together and with the help of other friends they try to discover it’s mysteries.
Vizati is a puzzle game in which you need to connect the little vizati stones by color. There are two different modes of playing it. One of them is story mode where the stone Vizati is discovered by Julie and Ben and they try to find out what it is and you have to solve each level with a limited amount of moves. The other one, Arcade mode is a more traditional way to play with unlimited moves and special stones.
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Source: igf.com
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