IG Independent Games: Volume 2

IG Independent Games: Volume 2
Ages: Teen

An interesting series of games came across my desk -- IG Independent Games: Volume 2. Moondance Games has put together some of the award-winning titles from the Independent Games Festival (IGF). Here is a short sampling of some of the ones I checked out.

Palette – mixing colors and coloring stained glass windows.

Unipong -- keep a ping-pong ball up in the air with tricks -- good physics and sounds.

Tube Twist -- making Goldberg-like twisted paths for a rolling ball.

Morning's Wrath – RPG Princess becomes a fighter to save her realm – gorgeous.

Nero – AI fighter robot training program -- from U. of Texas.

Kishi Kawaii – RPG Young orphan girl learns to make her way though the world.

Wrestling Encore – Grappling, Luca Libra forms, 50 wrestlers – hysterical.

Goat in the Grey Fedora – Spoof on the Maltese Falcon – witty.

These are only eight; there are 21 games in 7 different genres. All are professionally done, and there is a fresh lighthearted quality about them. They come from universities, garages, small companies and it is encouraging to see alternates to the mega-game companies.

There are a couple of things that big game companies have that these guys don’t. These don't do much advertising. It's hard to find the game – Amazon has it under IG which is their undecipherable logo, I was looking for it under Independent Games. And they shortchanged their own product by not making an annotated booklet of all the games along with the production companies. Yeah, I know, it costs money.

I wish them luck and will keep an eye out for Volume 3.

Reviewed by: Editor - 11/06

IG Independent Games: Volume 2

Platform(s): Me XP 2000

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