This year's crop of notable independent games have been announced by the Independent Games Festival, and once again the bounty proves that non-corporate publication generates some superb innovation. I'm very pleased to see the return of Samorost, an extrordinary and stunning interactive thingy. Samorost 2 has been nominated in the excellence in visual arts and best web browser game categories. Gongs will be distributed at a ceremony at next year's Game Developers Conference.
Big ups for the homegrown talent: Peter Stock and Slitherine Software (and any other from here who don't have their location listed on their webpages).
More information is over at Gamasutra, and the IGF site has links to all of the finalists, plus the other 130-or-so entrants.
