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Main Competition

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Check out the following 19 finalists in IGF's Main Competition category, then cast a vote for the one you think should win the Audience Award.


Glow Worm

Developer: Flashbang Studios
Thousands of harmless glow worms have been captured and caged. Together with Mr. Magellan, you can save the glow worms. Grab your wand and be a hero in this magical action puzzler.

Crazyball

Developer: Atomic Elbow
Steer the switchball past traps and puzzles in 24 increasingly challenging levels by morphing between balls with different properties and abilities. Use machines and elements like magnets, fans, cannons, wrecking balls, water, and more in a game that gives you the fun of old-school platformer gaming, with ultrarealistic physics and awesome 3D graphics.

Tommy and the Magical Words

Developer: Viquasoft Co., Ltd.
Tommy and the Magical Words is an innovative game in which words create paths to help Thomas reach the end of the book. Have endless fun with this game's refreshing and educational gameplay. Use the full dictionary to learn new words that appear in the game and in the guess-the-word sub game.

Putt Nutz

Developer: Black Mountain Games
A fast-paced, over-the-top 3D miniature golf game for one to four players, Putt Nutz features 72 stunning holes, which are rich with interactive course elements, collectible power balls with unique abilities, and fully animated characters to guide you. Embark on a wild putting adventure!

The Witch's Yarn

Developer: Mousechief
The Witch's Yarn is a brassy adventure about Wednesday, a witch, who foreswore magic for the love of a now-deceased mortal. Urged by her family to resume her natural talents, she instead opens a small yarn shop, intent on a quiet life. Life will be anything but quiet, however, until Wednesday discovers her true purpose in the mortal world. How much trouble can you cause with a spinning wheel and a pot of mushrooms?

Strange Attractors

Developer: Ominous Development
Strange Attractors is a single-switch game in which one button controls your fate. Use gravity to navigate the various 2D levels--avoid the hazards, sling helpless spacemen through the void, and gather points.

Professor Fizzwizzle

Developer: Grubby Games
This fun, mind-expanding puzzle game lets you take control of the diminutive genius, Professor Fizzwizzle. Help the professor use his brain and gadgets to solve each exciting level. Do you have what it takes to get past the Rage-bots and return to the lab?

Dad 'n Me

Developer: Tom Fulp and Dan Paladin
Bully your way across the playground and through town in this classic 2D brawler where YOU'RE the bad guy! Your evildoing arsenal includes everything from cars to lawnmowers. In Dad 'n Me, the world is yours for the taking!

Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa

Developer: Pocketwatch Games
Build diverse ecosystems and control animals in adventure-filled Africa. Become a devious hyena hunting for fresh zebra meat or a massive wildebeest navigating his herd across crocodile-infested waters. Hunt, fly, or flee--the adventure is all yours.

Tribal Trouble

Developer: Oddlabs
Pit yourself against the computer or online players in this fast-paced, real-time-strategy game. Lead your somewhat clueless kinsmen to new discoveries and to victories in tribal clashes, which rage across a group of tropical islands.

Rumble Box

Developer: DigiPen
A fast-paced 3D action beat-'em-up with a unique premise: Each enemy is made out of simple objects that remain in the level even after the character is defeated. The action takes place inside a giant box, and your ultimate goal is to pile up enough defeated enemies to escape the box.

TubeTwist

Developer: 21-6 Productions
Professor Jaymour, the renowned scientist working on Project TubeTwist, has gone missing! Reconstruct her experiments by building machines that will safely guide unstable macroton particles through a maze of tubes, spirals, switches, and more. Can you solve the mystery of the professor's disappearance before it's too late?

Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space

Developer: Digital Eel
Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space is a strategy game set in the plausibly implausible universe of Digital Eel's Strange Adventures in Infinite Space. Features include: intelligent, random-universe generation; a unique turn-based movement system; and real-time starship combat.

Dodge That Anvil

Developer: Rabidlab
Enter a unique cartoon world as the intrepid Harvester of Eastwarren. Collect enough carrots to survive the winter while avoiding the ever-increasing perils of the mysterious anvil storm. Employ an assortment of wacky tools, from umbrellas and dynamite to watches that stop time!

Saints & Sinners Bowling

Developer: Large Animal Games
Travel across America as a competitor on the Saints & Sinners Bowling circuit. Use not only your trusty bowling skills, but also your special good luck charms, which improve your average and help you beat your opponents. Be careful though, they'll be using charms against you as well.

Darwinia

Developer: Introversion Software
The world of Darwinia is a virtual theme park running inside a colossal computer network. The local inhabitants, the Darwinians, are under attack by a massive viral outbreak that threatens their very way of life. Save them from extinction and destroy the viral infection before time runs out.

Dofus

Developer: Ankama
Dofus is a 2D tactical MMORPG with turn-based fights. Search a humorous, cartoon universe to find six Dofus--magic dragon eggs that deliver absolute power to their owner. Dofus has hundreds of features, plus a large variety of quests, items, and original spells.

Braid

Developer: Number None Inc.
Braid is a platformer/puzzle game that deals with manipulating the flow of time. In each of the worlds you journey through, time behaves differently. Braid takes an unconventional stance on what is fun to play and what the player should spend time doing.

Moleculous

Developer: SMERC/Game Trust
Strap on your lab goggles and get your daily dose of science with Moleculous. Those messy fossil fuels that everyone depends on are running out, and now it's up to you to discover cold fusion before the world's energy supply disappears!