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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Keith Stuart

Experimental games at GDC: probably the future of XBLA and PlayStation Network

The always interesting Tigsource.com has posted about Jonathan Blow's experimental gameplay sessions at GDC - an annual look at offbeat indie projects.

Tigsource has a list of the titles featured at this year's sessions and it's well worth clicking through all the links to discover a bit more about games like Cursor*10 (isometric vector graphics-style puzzler), Line Golf (design your own Line Rider-esque golf courses) and Braid, an as-yet-unfinished action puzzler (pictured).

It's all fascinating stuff and given the interest being shown in the indie sector by Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony, many of these could be appearing on a console download service near you one day. Get in there now, then, so you can appear knowledgeable and super geeky (in a good way) when your mates are paying a fiver each for these titles in 2009...

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