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The Independent Games Festival has revealed the 306 contenders vying for the 2010 crown.

Each has a chance at the Seumas McNally Grand Prize ($20,000), named as such to honour the creator of Tread Marks, who died of Hodgkin's lymphoma after claiming IGF top honours in 2000.

More recent winners are Darwinia (2006), Aquaria (2007), Crayon Physics Deluxe (2008) and Blueberry Garden (2009).

Other categories are Excellence In Visual Art, Excellence In Audio, Innovation Award, Technical Excellence, Best Web Browser Game and Audience Award. Each awards $2500 to the winner.

Winners are announced at the San Francisco Game Developers Conference in March.

Head over to the IGF website for a full list of entries. Try a few.

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coolbeans #1 2 years ago

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Whoop! Joe Danger for the win! Crayon Physics smells.

He who lolz first, lolz longest.

Edited by 12 at 03/11/09 @ 21:27
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Tomo #2 2 years ago

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Ok, awesome. That's tomorrow sorted!
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persus-9 #3 2 years ago

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Looking at the list I've tried a few of them already. 'AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! -- A Reckless Disregard for Gravity' will take some beating as my personal favourite. 'Gratuitous Space Battles' and 'Plain Sight' are also really really good but 'AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! -- A Reckless Disregard for Gravity' is rather special and may yet end up being my game of the year.

Also you guys might want to know that LewieP of SavyGamer is going through the list systematically and publishing a list of which games are available to the public and where so you don't have to check each developers site just to find out if you can actually have a go at it. The first part is here: http://sa vygamer.co.uk/2009/11/03/preten...
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Eraysor #4 2 years ago

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Gratuitous Space Battles is lovely.
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the_mtfr #5 2 years ago

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http://ww w.somethingawful.com/d/news/ind...
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