On Monday, the Independent Games Festival (for which both Chris and I are judges) announced the finalists for this year's competition.
Over three hundred entries were submitted this year. Judges whittled down the competitors to five competitors in each of six categories, including best audio, design, visual art and technical excellence.
The big category is the Seumas McNally Grand Prize – which nets gamemakers $20,000 in cash. This year's nominees for the top award are Joe Danger, Monaco, Rocketbirds: Revolution!, Trauma and Super Meat Boy.
Take special note of the Nuovo Award, where off-the-wall, experimental art games are celebrated. Among this year's excellent and completely out there Nuovo nominees are Daniel Benmergui's Today I Die, A Slow Year by Ian Bogost (pictured above), Tuning from Cactus, Closure and Justin Smith's nutty Enviro-Bear 2000.
The full list of nominees can be found at the IGF's website.
The Seumas McNally Grand Prize and other IGF awards will be handed out at the awards ceremony on March 11, 2010, during the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
Image courtesy Ian Bogost
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