The 7th annualIndependent Games Festival(IGF ) happened this week as part of the Game Developers Conference ( GDC ) in San Jose , Calif. The winners have been announced , including Mac games .
The Independent Game Festival agnize innovation in plot development among sovereign game creators . Several of this year ’s winners are playable on the Macintosh — in fact , Mac - compatible biz finalists made it to every one of the six categories in the main competition .
This year ’s achiever of the $ 20,000 Seamus McNally Grand Prize die to Introversion Software for its action - strategy game Darwinia , write for the Macintoshby Ambrosia Software .
The Flash - based game Dad ‘ n Me , make byNewgrounds.com Inc. , won for best web web browser app game . It ’s a 2D brawler that makes you the playground bully .
The massively multiplayer on-line strategy gameDofus , created by French developer Ankama Studio , was recognized with the Audience Award .
RabidLabwon the $ 5,000 AdultSwim.com accolade for its game “ put off That Anvil , ” an far-out game involving hare and anvil violent storm , is playable online as a Shockwave secret plan . Dodge That Anvil will also be usable as a Mac OS X and Windows download .
finalist in this year ’s IGF competition include a all-encompassing belt of Mac - compatible form of address , too : Grubby Games2D mystifier game Professor Fizzwizzle , was a finalist for the grand prize . Pocketwatch Games ’ title Wildlife Tycoon : Venture Africa also made the grand swag finalist list . This Torque Game Engine - based simulation strategy game has just been published for the Mac byMumboJumbo . ( MumboJumbo ’s World Wide Web site did n’t indicate that asMacworldposted this article . )
The Witch ’s Yarnfrom Mousechief was a finalist in the “ Innovation In Game Design ” awarding . It ’s a “ CineProse ” risky venture in which you are the director of a virtual gaming , calling away a plaster cast of characters and props to interact with .
Oddlabs ApS ’s realtime scheme gameTribal Troublewas a finalist in the Technical Excellence family ; it pits Viking raiders against Natives . Also a finalist in that family was 21 - 6 Productions for its kinetic teaser gameTubeTwist , published by GarageGames . ( Check out the Macworld follow-up for more details . )
