the game is up!
They're edgy and inspiring, and you can be among the first to play the latest games from the Independent Games Developers Conference - the 'Sundance Festival for games'.
In the lead up to the next Australian Games Developers Conference, ACMI is presenting Best of the Independent Games Festival, a selection of the most innovative and exciting new computer games from San Francisco's 2005 Independent Games Festival.
The Independent Games Festival was formed 8 years ago when organisers - noticing the valuable recognition and commercial exposure that the Sundance Film Festival provided to independent filmmakers - decided to create a similar event for independent games developers.
Among the eleven games on show in Best of Independent Games Festival is Alien Hominid. It scooped the prize pool at this year's festival, winning awards for Innovation in Visual Arts, Technical Excellence and as Audience Favourite in the open category.
Best of the Independent Games Festival is showing simultaneously with Point and Tilt which features the next generation of mobile phone games that are in development.
Created by the Australasian Cooperative Research Centre for Interaction Design (ACID), these new generation games transform the mobile phone camera into a movement sensitive game controller, enabling players to interact with objects in the real world and with other players.
Try your hand at ARTennis (a two person tennis game where your phone becomes the racquet), ARTBlock (virtual Lego) or the mobile maze. There's also Mega Marker and Colour Block, two new child friendly games that introduce a world of magical creatures - could they be the Pokemons of the future?
Published Tuesday, 18 October 2005
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