Just noticed we were up for a Flashforwad award for the last BBC projet I worked on, a series of flash cartoons and games called ‘A fairly reliable history of British films‘. We didn’t win, but at least we went down fighting

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The finalists in the 2006 Independent Games Festival have been announced. This almost always means good times, as many of these things have either free demos or are simply free altogether. You have no doubt already heard of Darwinia, but there’s some way quirkier stuff than that even. Strange fighting games where the object is to pile bodies high enough to escape is only one of the new ideas I saw over there.

There is a game called Thomas and The Magic Words that I enjoyed, and some of the browser based games were pretty smart.