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Students Rewarded for Destroying Productivity

Navelgazer — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 14:08:33 -0800

The Winners of the 10th Annual Independent Games Festival were announced Wednesday night at this year's GDC. Finalists in the Student Showcase included Crayon Physics Deluxe (previously), Flip Side and Empyreal Nocturne, as well as a 2-D platformer named Polarity, developed by the same team behind Bandology and Skyrates.

By: Space Coyote

Space Coyote — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 14:16:51 -0800

Watching the trailer for Polarity I noticed that the scrolling is very rigid somehow, reminds me of the original Duke Nukem games. Funny how PC platform games just don't quite feel right even today.

By: lumensimus

lumensimus — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 14:55:20 -0800

When (now award-winning) Battleships Forever is finished, it's going to be incredible. As it stands, it's awesome.

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 15:16:05 -0800

Fez looks amazing. It's like you got your paper mario in my cave story no you got your cave story in my paper mario. That misadventures of p. b. winterbottom looks like some good stuff too.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 15:20:31 -0800

When I was in school, some friends of mine were working on a game that I think they were going to enter in a contest like this. It was an RTS based on the concept of kids fighting with water balloons and stuff, called "Treefort wars" I saw them working on the visuals and they were amazing. When they finished, and I tried playing the game, I found it was basically impossible. The UI didn't work at all. It was very pretty, though.

By: tomplus2

tomplus2 — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 15:23:43 -0800

I've played polarity, it's quite fun.

By: agentofselection

agentofselection — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 15:33:22 -0800

Polarity was great, but someone needs to make about 100 more levels for it.

By: suckerpunch

suckerpunch — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:13:04 -0800

Don't ignore the nominees that didn't win - Iron Dukes is a decent little lark of a game, and there's a neat little community growing around Battleships Forever. (I'm still playing through them. ALL OF THEM. I doubt I'll leave my chair for the next week.)

By: gnutron

gnutron — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:15:58 -0800

Audiosurf is really really cool. Well worth the $10 for download.

By: mecran01

mecran01 — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:18:24 -0800

These look really great. I have already scored cool dad points with my son for suggesting a couple of these.

By: JDHarper

JDHarper — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:29:09 -0800

I really, really want to try Polarity, but it won't let me. It plays the little intro song and shows me the logo, and just when I'm ready to try playing it, it disappears, as if to say "Ha, ha! I've got this awesome game in here and you don't get to have *any* of it. *tbbbbspt*."

By: Stunt

Stunt — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:33:22 -0800

Looking forward to trying out more of these, and YES, Audiosurf is goddamned amazing. Bugs and all.

By: TheOnlyCoolTim

TheOnlyCoolTim — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:24:18 -0800

I like grabbing the top scores in Audiosurf on songs that like five people have played. The secret is to hold onto the red paint and fill the whole board with crap, then drop the paint. Next I need to start holding onto the red paint and then the multiplier to get the over 17000 points at once achievement.

By: Malor

Malor — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:32:34 -0800

I don't think they should give prizes to games that aren't out yet.