2011年1月27日星期四

tells Kotaku the games singled out by Nuovo Award nominations bear “distinctive qualities about the games themselves

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“Honestly, in all of my experiences, they're actually super open, thoughtful, warm and genuinely funny people who are simply trying to push “games” in directions we hadn't thought to try before. And I think this is reflected in this year's selection,” Boyer explains.That list of nominees includes games as varied as the one-button party game B.U.T.T.O.N. and the delightfully weird, but approachable Nidhogg, two games in particular where social multiplayer components feature prominently.B.U.T.T.O.N.”If you've seen either played in replica Tissot T90.4.106.01 watch public,” Boyer says, “you know that the experience is as valuable to the observers as it is to the players themselves, and that's a pleasure that for the past few decades has been reserved almost entirely for the deep, hardcore fighting/dancing game underground.

necessarily doing what games normally do, and helps erase this perceived 'high brow/low brow' gap.”Videogames have as much capacity to be as transcendentally wonderful and surprising and beautiful as every other medium, and my hope is that the IGF serves to help expose people to all of that wonder and beauty!”NidhoggIn replica Tissot T0144101103700 Men's Watch addition to the eight Nuovo nominees, the IGF also recognized five additional games with honorable mentions, including Amnesia: The Dark Descent (Frictional Games), Faraway (Steph Thirion), Feign (Ian Snyder), Choice Of Broadsides (Choice Of Games), Spy Party (Chris Hecker).

He hopes the highlighted Nuovo nominees will “broaden the minds of people that haven't seen what videogames

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In another of 2011's Independent Game Festival Nuovo Award nominees, you play as a dictator's cat.The Independent Games Festival Awards special prize, the Nuovo Award, exists to reward “abstract, short-form, and unconventional game development,” to honor the more esoteric art games competing in the annual indie game competition.”There's a crucial and growing sub-segment of the indie games community that's replica Tissot T0114171704100 Men's Watch devoted themselves to these new areas — documentary and autobiographical games, meditative games, games where the 'video' part of videogames is far less important than the 'game' that's actually happening amongst the players themselves,” said IGF chairman Brandon Boyer in advance of the nominee announcement.

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2011年1月17日星期一

McMullan was primarily warning climbers against testing positive for recreational Omgea Replica watches

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