5th Annual Indie Games Festival

MonsieurEvil

<div class="IPBDescription">At the GDC, where Flay and Def are</div> The <a href='http://www.indiegames.com/' target='_blank'>5th Annual Indie Games Festival</a> is going right now at the GDC (where Flayra is for the next week with Def_One). All of these games are independently produced by developers (often students or hobbiests), and once a year the best 10 are chosen for a final showdown of games. They're typically very innovative and not the usual crap that the big publishers kick out (More pixels! Reflections! Curves! New version of the same gun from the last version! Bigger 'splosions!!!). They also often release for free or have interesting demos, so be sure to check 'em out and support your local indie developer (of which we are one as well - they don't allow mods in this competition though).

Some of the more interesting, cool, or weird ones I saw:

<a href='http://www.spartasoft.msu.edu/breakinbattle/' target='_blank'>Breakin' Battle - It's an electric boogaloo! </a>
<a href='http://www.vektorspace.com/' target='_blank'>Vektor Space - 3D multiplayer Tron lightcycles, kinda</a>
<a href='http://www.alitius.com/' target='_blank'>Basegolf - You got Randy Johnson in my Tiger Woods!</a>
<a href='http://www.mrbigshot.com/' target='_blank'>Mr. Big Shot - Buy low, sell high</a>
<a href='http://www.klear.com/samurai/' target='_blank'>Samurai - Boardgame style in medieval Nippon </a>
<a href='http://www.digital-eel.com/sais/' target='_blank'>Strange Adventures in Intergallactic Space - 4X Fun</a>
<a href='http://rtsoft.com/tlm/files.shtml' target='_blank'>Teenage Lawnmower - Exactly what it sounds like, and so much more</a>

Post your thoughts after you try out some of the demos. A lot of them are really short and fun. Some even have MP, if you feel like taking it up a notch...

Supernorn

interesting...Im a bit confused though...

CrystalSnake

There are already many 3D lightcycle games, some of them open-source, such as <a href='http://gltron.sourceforge.net/' target='_blank'>glTron</a> and <a href='http://armagetron.sourceforge.net/' target='_blank'>Armagetron</a>.
What sets Vektospace apart from these games is that you are not restricted to 90 degree turns, if I interpret the screenshots correctly.

Spooge

Teenage Lawnmower lands in the "Creepiest Games of All Time" bin.

Example: <a href='http://rtsoft.com/tlm/ss5.htm' target='_blank'>http://rtsoft.com/tlm/ss5.htm</a> <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif'><!--endemo-->

Dubers

OMG i'm addicted to teenage lawnmover!!! Cant't stop playing it

Narfwak

Does "indie games" include HL mods? If so, did flay enter NS?

DOOManiac

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Reading is fun!

Narfwak

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Heh.

Windelkron

who would imagine teenage lawnmower would be M <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif'><!--endemo-->

MonsieurEvil

Teenage Lawnmower is pretty doggone good. I need to find some time to try out Basegolf - after a quick demo play, it looked like a great party-style game. Make the Xbox version!