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Independent Games Festival 2008

Posted by peterbayliss on 13th February 2008

IGF 2008 is on next week and if like me, you’re not going to be in San Francisco, you can still peruse the 173 entries, as well as the 125 student entries .

I’m Intrigued by one entry simply called Sumo, a two player game played on a single keyboard, where the aim is to get your opponent to stop pressing three keys on the keyboard by whatever means necessary. So its basically a computer game where the real action is taking place off-screen in the physical interaction between the two players.

CMP, publishers of Gamasutra, have also established a independent games focused site, the cleverly named Indiegames.

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