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2008 IGF Main Competition: Viewing Entries 1 - 50 of 173 Next Page

3D Logic
none

Fascinating logical game. Try it to test your IQ level!
The purpose of games: To connect cells of identical colour.

Ablation X
16x16

Vertical scrolling shooter with abstract vector graphics

Ad Astra
Private Individual

Ad Astra is an open-ended space exploration game which has attempted to model a Galaxy of over 110,000 real stars based on the 1997 Hipparcos Star Catalogue. The application supports fractal planets, procedural flora and fauna with uninterrupted game play whilst within a particular solar system.

Ancient Galaxy
Composite Studios, LLC

Using a spaceship as a home base, you will explore many sites on several worlds ranging from underground cities, ancient temple ruins, robot-run junkyards, to slaver outposts. As a well-equipped adventurer, you will be able to craft an arsenal of weapons and magical crystals. You will use a powerful PDA to translate languages, mine minerals, and harvest DNA from your encounters in order to make then use clones of the creatures you encounter.

Features:
** 15 Levels, providing 20+ hours of gameplay
** Flexible yet simple skill management allowing a lot of re-playability
** Fight many enemies sporting natural AI
** Advanced lighting effects
** Custom game engine
** Editor to create your own worlds

Differentiators:
** Cloning: play as 9 different races relying on unique traits to complete quests.
** Crystallography: mine and create magical crystals.
** Scan: ancient texts in search of vital clues

Arctic Stud Poker Run
Game Refuge Inc

ARCTIC STUD POKER RUN is an outrageous, action-packed
Full-Contact Poker Tournament that uses heavily-armed, high-speed vehicles in a revolutionary
MultiPlayer LAN Battle experience that must be seen to be believed!

Not Only is the game a madcap arcade-style Free-for-all that combines armed combat
and off-road racing with the risk of high-stakes Poker, a single play reveals an
intensely addictive, mentally stimulating thrill
ride full of limitless strategy, nuance, and depth.

Players use machine guns, heat-seeking-missiles, TNT, trickery, intimidation, bravado, deceit, speed, stealth and brute force to bankrupt their opponents and win the $100,000
EvilBrau Tournament!

In addition to over a 125 detailed levels, dozens of unique characters,
and a hilarious backstory ripped from the pages of the dread Velcronomicon,
Arctic Stud has a gameplay mechanic thats so unique, its patented!

Arm Wrestling League
Enigma Games

Enigma Games brings the classic sport of Arm Wrestling back to the gaming limelight where it belongs. Destined to be an instant classic, this game brings the light hearted fun and strategy as only Enigma Games can do it. Create your wrestler and take notes because you are going to be up against macho men from all walks of life. We have the biker, the cop, the bouncer, the lumberjack, the bodybuilder, the sumo wrestler, the thug, and the professional wrestler. To claim victory against any of these opponents, you are going to need to build your character. Master the hook, press, or toproll and work on your stamina. You'll need it all if you are going to be a match for the undisputed undefeated Grand Champion Master X!

Artisan
DracoSoftware, LLC

Artisan is a new kind of drawing game, designed to be playble by just about anyone. Instead of focusing on drawing stick-figures, Artisan focuses on (and helps you) draw pictures with more complexity and realism.

The main story takes the player through 30 levels in a tour of ancient drawings and artifacts from around the world.

Players are also able to load their own images in Practice mode, allowing you to create drawings of your favorite pictures.

Along with being a fun and casual game, Artisan is also designed to teach people drawing skills in a fun and non-confrontational way. The more you play the game, the better your real-world drawing skills will get!

Astraea
Celisphere Interactive

For eons, mortalkind has looked to the stars of the universe for inspiration. The light of the stars has been a beacon of hope to all those touched by it. All of that changed, however, when the Star Maiden, creator of stars throughout the universe, disappeared. Without her, darkness began to spread...

Spanning four different star systems, Astraea combines elements of strategy, puzzle, and rhythm-based gameplay with a dynamic soundtrack and rich, immersive story. You must guide Astraea, daughter of the Star Maiden and newly appointed as such, as she travels throughout the universe. She seeks not only to spread the light of hope and inspiration, but to solve the mystery of her mother's disappearance. Can she overcome not only those poised against her, but the chaos of the very universe itself? As you step into her role, that task lies with you.

Audiosurf
Invisible Handlebar, LLC

Audiosurf allows you to experience the intensity and emotion of your songs in real time, in full color, and in 3D. Songs that give you an adrenaline rush are converted into wild roller coaster rides full of color and motion. Songs that calm you down appear as cool colors against a relaxing sky. Audiosurf enhances the experience of your music collection by synchronizing its environment to the events in your songs—the beats, the intense sections, the long pauses followed by a burst of sound, all take on a more vivid meaning.

In Audiosurf, you race down a futuristic and colorful highway. The highway, the traffic patterns, and the scenery are all synchronized to the music you have chosen from your own collection. You earn points for clustering together cars of the same color on the highway, and can compete with others on the internet for the high score on your favorite songs. Audiosurf builds a highway for any music CD, MP3, iTunes M4A, WMA, or OGG song you choose, so the experie...

Axiom: Overdrive
Reflexive Entertainment

Deep within a ravaged asteroid mine there is work to be done. Equipped with an OTF, players grapple with unique physics-based game-play as they explore the mine's dark corridors and discover...
...they are not alone!

Balance
Kampo Interactive

Balance is reminiscent of the wooden board game Labyrinth where players steer a ball through a maze to a target. Simple to learn yet difficult to master, Balance, requires players to tilt a playfield to guide one or more balls simultaneously to multiple targets through increasingly difficult 3D obstacle courses. Players can post and share their times over the internet along with a recording that can be replayed by other players to see how they managed to do it.

Battle For Independence
Lastfrog

Battle for Independence is a futuristic, multiplayer, RTS game where each human player controls a single battle unit.

The game is played exclusively over the Internet in groups of up to 12 players simultaneously (6 vs. 6) but should your game time be limited, the duration of each match can be set beforehand.

Battle for Independence also features an advanced global ranking system to allow for balanced games, and a complete friend system to help players to keep contact with each other across matches.

Battleships Forever
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Dismantle your enemies piece by piece in this intense Tactical RTS game. Build your fleet from 18 playable ships or construct your own battles in the Sandbox, you can even design your own ships with the ShipMaker tool that is included.

Ships are extremely detailed, each turret is individually articulated and part of the ship's hull can be destroyed individually. There are no arbitrary "to-hit" values in Battleships Forever, everything really occurs on the playing field.

Annihilate your enemies with innovative weapons such as the Teller Torpedo that launches a missile that follows a path that you draw out and fires a laser beam at the enemy. Another weapon is the Flux Projector that creates a defensive shield in any shape you choose!

Ships are also equipped with active point defences such as Flak and Particle Guns that shoot down incoming projectiles. Deploying your fleet to maximize defensive fire and minimize exposure to vulnerable sections is paramount!

Compete f...

Birth of Shadows
Precision Games, LLC

Learn the dark arts of a Shadow Knight to rescue your fiancee. Discover the cause of a plague that is ravaging the local towns. Slay enemies and destroy strongholds using an innovative combat system. Advance your character without the usual tedium associated with role-playing games. Create new boards using a variety of content, including the option to add your own quests. Play these boards alone, with friends over the Internet, and share them with others.

Black Star Saga
Relatively Cool Studios

Black Star Saga is a web-based multiplayer collectible card game with a focus on quick strategic matches. Implemented in Adobe Flash, Black Star Saga allows players to immediately log on and enjoy competing against other players from around the world without download, installation, or registration.

Bloodshed Tournament
10th Dimension Games

Bloodshed Tournament is aimed at being a lan based First Person Shooter. My aim was to make it as fun and as competative as possible with a bit of uniqueness added to it. The game features fully detailed stats at the end of the rounds in order to inform the player of his or her preformance. For example, most headshots, best aim, biggest camper and so forth. The game also combines a range of methods to avoid being shot at such as crawling, crouching, jumping, side flips and tripple jumps. This game is meant to be fast paced but can be easily tuned up or down to the persons liking. Although this game was meant for lan play. It also currently supports internet play via P2P. Future updates may even include client/server play.

Blue Rabbit's Climate Chaos
The Super Flash Bros

Blue Rabbit and friends return in a lovingly crafted adventure into the third dimension! Set on a cluster of tropical islands, your holiday is suddenly interrupted by freak weather. It's up to you to discover the source of the problem and restore order. Then catch some sun!

Booster Logic
Strongbox Entertainment

Booster Logic is a pair of 2D games designed with the intent to recapture classic gameplay.

The side-view action platformer, Booster, features a quick and agile robot made for fast response and limited puzzle solving. Booster must test his abilities in the hostile setting of an old, abandoned factory. Each map is designed to take only a short time, though achieving 100% completion on every one of the 600+ levels will take considerably longer. Booster has an adjustable difficulty setting to accommodate all ages and levels of experience.

The top-view puzzle game, Logic, stars a robot possessing enhanced intellect but poor physical mobility. Logic has been assigned to an even more complex environment than Booster. Each of Logic’s 400+ levels presents a unique puzzle or series of puzzles. Every map is paired with a harder version of itself with enhanced puzzles.

Booster Logic includes the full map editor used by the developers, so you can continue playing on your own custom levels...

Bowmaster Prelude
LostVectors.com

Your kingdom is under attack! Defend against the incoming invading Trev'Gahr -- an evil medieval army attempting to eradicate your peaceful civilization. You are armed with a legendary bow and can use a variety of spells and different types of magical arrows to defeat your enemy. Use strategy to prioritize your targets and exploit their weaknesses. You'll even be able to summon allied units to help you in battle! The war has just begun and the odds are against you but once again the time has come for you to be The BowMaster...

Brain Sanity
Digital Kickers

You represent a rookie doctor in his first day of work in the great hospital of the city. After coming, you have to confront a complicated operation in which a patient has been infected by virus cerebral. You mission will be to save the life of the patient. GOOD LUCK!

BrainGrade - Enhance Your Mind
BrainGrade

BrainGrade's mission is to provide simulating games and useful advice for brain enhancement and longevity.

When you visit www.braingrade.com you will be able to play games that train memory and improve analytical skills. BrainGrade will record your daily progress, and you can monitor your improvement through generated reports. You will also get advice on how to improve your brain during your everyday life through communication, diet, exercise, physical activities, etc.

BrainGrade offers all of these features through the web, and you will be able to log in using any computer with Internet access. The site is designed to be easy to use and the learning curve is minimal so that people of all ages can enjoy our tools.

To learn more about BrainGrade simply go to the main page and register for a free account, or simply take the quick test.

Bubbins
Skalden Studio AS

The player controls the young bubbin Dundun as he
begins a hunt through a castle to free 9 fellow bubbins
captured by the green maboo Grubb. The gameplay is
based on the bubbin ability to spit bubbles that pushes
the target backwards. The player must use this ability
to make opponents and objects collide.

Candy Mountain Massacre
mockworld

Real-time first person shooter with a cute but creepy twist! A deadly plague is ravishing Candy Mountain, turning it's sweet innocent creatures into homicidal killers. Your name is Candy (no relation to the mountain) and as an employee of Acme Exterminators it is your job to clear the mountain of these rabid creatures. And oh yeah, save the uninfected cupcakes to earn extra points.

Carte Blanche
Absurdus

Raised in a small town bourgeois family, Edgar Delacroix has yet to discover what the big city has in store for him. After a fortuitous entry in the world of private investigation, he has to deal with twisted and suspicious individuals, solve sinister mysteries and risk his life in rather unpleasant circumstances.

Both a financial and industrial metropolis, a center of vice and alcohol smuggling, Montreal in the twenties has all the assets to cater to the needs of criminals with any amount of imagination. The seamiest intrigues will be Edgar’s daily bread and cold sweat his squalid, bitter butter.

Saving the world from the claws of abject individuals doesn't mean you can't have fun. In fact, it doesn't mean you can't have lots of fun! Although real life is at times crazy and absurd, Carte Blanche's universe brings these fields to new heights – more than the Eiffel tower, Himalayas and Shaquille O’Neil combined!

Since reality is often stranger than fiction, we give this point ...

Castlewars
I dont have a company

Castlewars is a clone of the game Ants by Miroslav Nemecek which is a turn based strategic card game where you and your opponent is racing to be the first to build a 100 story castle.

to build and defend your castle you use different cards that costs resources, some cards are stronger than the others but they also costs more resources, so you will have to chose your cards wisely. Castlewars has also multiplayer support so you can play with people from all around the world to test your skills.

CellBOT
Teracycle Games

Cell-bot is a cell sized robot, made to remove virus effectively and cure infected cells.
Players must use the Cell-bot to excuse the virus and protect the infected cells after treatment.
Cell-bot has a simple interface only using the mouse. It¡¯s an action puzzle game constituted by
various and particular level.

ChipWits II
Interactive Illusions/Zilch Spacecasting Network

Take a robot on skates, plug chips into its brain, and drop it into challenging worlds to rack up the highest scores! It’s ChipWits II — the game of bot-coding and puzzle-solving fun.
Players create ChipWits by plugging chips into their robot’s brain. Use the ZAP chip to fry an ELECTROCRAB. Plug in the PICKUP chip to gobble PIE and COFFEE for fuel. Use the SING chip to let your ChipWit sing its little heart out!
With ChipWits II anyone can teach robots to think for themselves.
Send your ChipWits off on Missions to solve challenging puzzles and survive entertaining obstacles. Each mission has a different goal: PICKUP the most CDs; ZAP the most BOUNCERS; avoid BOMBs and grab DISKs; memorize long twisty passages. Players compete to build the smartest ChipWit for each Mission.
ChipWits II updates the classic ChipWits with a host of graphic, sonic and geekish upgrades — breakpoints, comments, named subpanels, WOW! Players can even build their own Missions and share their creations, and...

Cinnamon Beats
Secret Exit

Cinnamon Beats is a game that combines rhythm with physics to create a new kind of puzzle game. It is not a rhythm game in the traditional sense - the players are not required to react to game events in any kind of rhythm as in Dance Dance Revolution or Guitar Hero. Instead it is a game where players create their own beats.

This is a game for a person who likes to tweak and tune. The feedback from the game is instantaneous, as tiny changes made by the player are reflected in the beat loop that he's building.

Clean Asia!
Cactus?

Clean Asia! is a stylish vertical shooter with innovative gameplay elements and a unique presentation.

CORPUS
Team Corpus

Stop the evil CORPUS Emperor and his army of tenacious robots from taking over the world! Prepare for cutting edge classic shoot'em up experience. Choose one of up to four members of The Gun Squad and take CORPUS head on with your friends!

Cortex Command
Data Realms, LLC

In Cortex Command, you play as a prospector and explorer in a time where complete cybernetics and whole-body amputations are common practice. Your severed brain is able to control many different types of bodies remotely from its underground bunker: clones, robots, spaceships, defensive turrets, and so on.

A typical scenario starts with a building phase where you get to construct your own bunker complex from scratch. Then you need to mine precious gold from the deformable pixel terrain in order to buy more and better ships, soldiers, weapons, digging tools, and deployable defenses. Use these assets to defend your disembodied brain and to destroy or bankrupt your opponent!

Control your team of remote bodies either directly or let the friendly AI do your bidding through real-time strategy elements built into the game. Play up to four players in split screen -- 2 vs. 2 players, or all four cooperatively against the computer. Eventually, play the campaign missions together with friend...

Crashblock
Cerebral Bicycle Company

Jenny is trapped in a Tetris arena, she has to collect the required number of stars which are released by completing rows and calling the crane to drop the blocks into place.

Crayon Physics Deluxe
Kloonigames

Crayon Physics Deluxe is 2D physics puzzle game that lets you experience what it would be like your drawings were magically transformed into real physical objects.

Croquet!
Smarter Than You Software

Welcome to the world of Croquet!. Play American Nine Wicket or American Six Wicket Croquet with real motion input using the ActionXL Motion Controller. Play in exotic locations all around the world such as in awe of the Pyramids of Giza, next to the torre di Pisa, under a glorious Seattle summer sun, in a beautiful Lake Sheboygan winter, or just at the Tour Eiffel. Croquet! uses Smarter Than You Software's game and physics engine, Soma. And yes, you can knock the crap out of the other team's balls. You know what we are talking about.

Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble!
Mousechief Co.

- More farce than Fallout 2.
- More tail than The Bard's Tale.
- With entrances grander than Baldur's Gate.

You will finalize your fantasy when you play...
DANGEROUS HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS in TROUBLE!

Mousechief's K. Nemitz presents the 1920s in a small town of epic intolerance.
Introducing... daring young women inspired by the stars of Mae West, Clara Bow, and Marlena Dietrich. They will burn a torch up the town's behind and reveal its sickness from within.

Never before has an RPG resolved confrontations with the talents of teenaged girls. Taunt, Fib, Flirt, and Expose secrets to vanquish belligerent peers and oppressive adults. You'll even learn the game adults play in private, and use it against them.

It's the bizarre story of what happens when girls are allowed out after curfew. Win boyfriends and other disposable tools. Discredit mail-order catalogs. Defend the rights of pogo-stick abusers.
Sabotage a hypochondriac's medication, and inflict romance on the unsuspecting....

Depths of Peril
Soldak Entertainment, Inc.

Depths of Peril is a single player action role-playing game (RPG) with strong strategy elements. You play as a faction leader protecting the barbarian city, Jorvik, by destroying threatening monsters and completing quests. At the same time, you compete with rival factions to see who will rule the city. Barbarians choose their leaders by fighting to the death!

As a faction leader, you must deal with rival factions through diplomacy, trade, and in time, war. Between battles and raids against other barbarian factions, you build the most powerful faction possible, to withstand your enemies. Building the power of a faction involves exploring a fantasy world, slaying dangerous monsters, solving quests for the city, avoiding deadly traps, and plundering loot to share within your faction.

But in this world, actions actually have consequences, so take care. Annoying the powerful and aggressive Legion of Fear faction will cause them to declare war and destroy you. Ignored orc uprisings in ...

Desktop Tower Defense
Hand Drawn Games

Desktop TD is a puzzle / strategy game where you have to protect your desktop from waves of cute, but relentless invaders. By building attacking 'towers' the player can shoot the invaders as they travel across, but the towers can also be used to force the invaders through fiendish player created mazes thereby prolonging their ordeal.
A strangely addictive yet stress relieving game. How many waves can you survive?

Devastation Net
Mandible Games

Devastation Net is a top-down tank game designed for up to sixteen players on a single machine. It takes only a few minutes to learn the basics, but has huge variety in weapons and tactics.

Dino-Run
Pixeljam Games

Help a lone raptor escape fate in this fast paced racing game. Run, jump and claw your way to survival!

Dino-run is a free web-based game from Pixeljam. Full version to be released end of 2007.

Discs of Mayhem
None yet

"Discs of Mayhem" is an arcade sports game that pitches the player against the computer or other human players in a bladed flying disc throwing match. Combines old school gameplay with state of the art technology.

Domino Match
Virtual Kreation, Inc.

Domino Match is an interactive character-based version of the table game of dominoes. Domino Match is addictive, fun and fully interactive.

This videogame has diverse set of characters, appealing environment and engaging gameplay! Domino Match is a truly unique casual game, enjoyable by a people of all ages.

Domino Match is truly the best domino videogame on the internet!

DROD: The City Beneath
Caravel Games

Caravel's third major release in the DROD series will take you further inside a world of puzzles and adventures than any game you've played before! Beethro makes startling discoveries in the underground territories of the Rooted Empire. He is even forced at times to put away his Really Big Sword and act "civilized". Puzzle afficionados will wallow joyfully within a plethora of exciting new game elements that have never appeared in any other game.

Eduardo The Samurai Toaster
Semnat Studios, LLC

Jump and fight your way through diverse worlds in this action platformer. Toast your enemies and shoot them out as a variety of different projectile attacks or battle them with your pole fighter skills.

Empyreal Nocturne
DigiPen Institute of Technology

Empyreal Nocturne is a third-person aerial action game in which you combat enormous flying monsters by commanding a legion of birds. The monsters are comprised of connected orbs, which are fiercely defended by birds of its own. All of a monster’s weak points must be destroyed in order for it to be defeated. You play as a god bird with the power to convert birds to your flock, and then command them to attack, defend, or sacrifice themselves for you.

Energy Crisis
Open Box Software

A scientific experiment has gone awry, and the universe faces potential distruction at the slighest chemical spill. In this casual puzzle action game, the hero must bounce colored blobs off his own colored platform to safety. If his platform is set to the wrong color, or if one of the blobs hits the ground, the whole world might explode -- or maybe it will just melt away...

Esenthel
Esenthel Team

Esenthel is an action based 3d rpg game, built on our own engine with full number of extra features like newest graphic effects, physics system and unique combination of fighting and completing quests.

Explodemon!
Curve Studios

Combining Half-Life 2’s gravity gun and Halo’s sticky grenade with Mario-quality 2D platforming, Explodemon uses its unique explosion-based gameplay to create an action title like no other. Defeat the evil Vortex in this galaxy-spanning parody of Japanese action games.

Fairy Treasure
GAMEON

Behold the legend of the Fairy Treasure - about an evil, greedy troll that stole the great treasure from the Kingdom of Trollandia and has carefully guarded it in his cave ever since.

In your quest to recapture the treasure you travel along the Fairy River on your magic raft, and in more than 120 levels you will struggle against hags, goblins and other evil wills that guard the river paths.

Gather magic scroll parts to find hidden treasures, solve puzzles to unlock secret areas and collect ancient keys to unleash the mighty chain ball! In this gorgeous brick-busting game you will discover lots of new fun bricks and amazing power ups never seen before!

May the fairies be with you as your quest for the Fairy Treasure begins!

Fatal Hearts
Hanako Games

Dreams... ice-blue eyes calling to you in the night...

The howls of wolves echo across empty streets.

Young women found dead, violently murdered.

Love and loneliness.

In Fatal Hearts you play the role of Christina Robinson and help her to uncover the secrets behind her dreams. As the story unfolds you will be forced to make choices of who to believe, who to trust, and who to declare an enemy. Solve puzzles and conquer challenges, but be careful, or Christina may become another victim...

This is a replayable adventure game with a branching plot and fourteen unique endings. Choose to side with one group and you will see their side of the story - make a different choice and you will encounter different friends, different puzzles, and different aspects of the mystery.

What is the truth behind your dreams?

Feelin' It: Sports Pack
Novint Technologies

Feelin’ It: Sports Pack
The Feelin’ It™: Sports Pack takes gaming to a whole new level. Designed with realistic 3D touch sensations and force feedback for use with the Novint Falcon game controller, this amazing collection of games lets you hone your skills and feel your actions in golf, table tennis, basketball, baseball and bowling. No more meters or mouse clicks. Feel the swing of your virtual golf club and the impact as it hits the ball. Put some English on the ball as you hit the lanes. And feel the weight of a basketball as you shoot it towards the hoop. Feelin’ It™: Sports Pack is sports gaming the way it should be played – with the same touch and finesse you use in real life.

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