The Independent Games Festival organizers have announced the 20 finalists in the 2005 edition of their event honoring the independent games/developers.

Out of about 80 entries, the IGF award is split over two categories, Open Category and Web/Downloadable.

The finalists per category are :

Open Category Web/Downloadable
Creatrix / Ultrafish Games
Detective Brand Golf / Detective Brand Videogames with Chronic Logic
Gish / Chronic Logic LLC
Global Defense Network / Evertt.com, LLC
Hyperbol / Iocaine Studios
Lux / Sillysoft
Kisses / DigiPen Institute of Tech.
N / Metanet Software Inc.
Legion Arena / Slitherine Strategies
RocketBowl / Large Animal Games
Protöthea / Digital Builders
Rotation / Alter Ego Games Studio
Steer Madness / Veggie Games Inc.
Star Chamber / Nayantara Studios LLC
Supremacy: Four Paths To Power / Black Hammer Game
Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space / Digital Eel
War! Age of Imperialism / Donohoe Digital LLC
Wik and the Fable of Souls / Reflexive Entertainment


A panel of 37 judges, including industry veterans such as Brian Reynolds from Big Huge Games and Stardock's Brad Wardell, will announce the winners during the actual Game Developers Conference held in San Francisco on March 9-11, 2005.