IGF Main Competition Entries Announced
I guess everyone and their cousin involved in the indie gaming scene has posted this, but allow me to do the same:

The Main Entries for the Independent Games Festival, 2008

Some points of note to me:

There are Indie RPGs here! Quite a few, actually, though some are unclear as to whether or not they are true RPGs, or just vaguely resemble a roleplaying game. Ancient Galaxy looks like it might be an RPG (it's unclear). Birth of Shadows appears to be another one. Dangerous High School Girls In Trouble! bills itself as an RPG, though it looks a little like a hybrid. Depths of Peril is just serious awesomeness. Esenthel is a new one I just heard about last week, and looks to have a sharp 3D engine. Kingdom Elemental Tactics looks like a hybrid game that borrows a little from RPGs. Regnum Online is an indie Massively Multiplayer Online RPG (MMORPG). And then there's "To the World Tree," described as a "single-player, party-based, computer role-playing game." Not exactly thrilling marketing-talk, but it may be sharp. And then there's Wanderlust: Rebirth, an online action-RPG.

On the adventure game front, it looks like we've got some intriguing possibilities as well. Hanako Games, the studio responsible for the award-winning RPG Cute Knight, has an entry called Fatal Hearts... rumored to be an adventure-game involving vampires. McLaren Adventures calls itself a "3D First-Person Adventure Game." Something Amiss is a graphic adventure where you play a girl who awakes from an MRI exam to find the world around her changed. The MRI machine created a portal to a new world, maybe?

And just for weird, experimental stuff... we've got that too. There's "Ramjets," a 3D multiplayer flight simulator in under a megabyte which involves... ramming aircraft together to dismount your opponent. Rigs of Rods is another simulator of sorts. SocioTown is "a MMO Social Game with a mix of Nintendo’s Animal Crossing and The Sims." Whatever the heck that means. The Night Journey looks to be a wild experimental title, as does The Path.

There are some other unsurprising entries. Like Desktop Tower Defense, and the most excellent Virtual Villagers 2.

Georgina of Hanako Games offers her own commentary on some of the front-runners on I Whine About Games.

(UPDATE: Thanks to Whiner for reminding me about Wanderlust. I missed that one.)

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