Top 10 Games of the Year at GameTunnel

[cyrus_zuo]

The final award is up:

http://www.gametunnel.com/articles.php?id=661

Thanks for another year of great support! Hope you enjoy the article

[DrWilloughby]

Hey, I was pretty close!

HAHA, OK, here's my guess as to how it will look: (not my opinion, just my guess as to GameTunnel's opinion)
1) Aquaria
2) Depths of Peril
3) Venture Arctic
4) Immortal Defense
5) Mr Robot
6) Knytt Stories
7) Darkside
8) Secret of Bird Island
9) Galcon
10) Reach

Very much an honor to have made the #3 game of the year! Happy new year!

[cyrus_zuo]

Hey, I was pretty close!


Very much an honor to have made the #3 game of the year! Happy new year!

Yeah, your list was amazingly close...I had wondered if you had broke into my house .

[cliffski]

congrats to all! Now DIGG and slashdot firehose it!

[RinkuHero]

I did Digg it, but it only has 9 diggs now, it'll never make it. Which is too bad; if everyone on this forum regularly dugg these types of things indie games would probably have more of an online presence.

Hm, 4th isn't bad at all for my first shareware game I think. Coincidentally, 4th place last year was Master of Defence, also a tower defense game.

[Pi Eye Games]

Dugged, if that's what you call it

I've just had a customer email me to say he found Scavenger via GameTunnel & Reddit ... going to join the rest of them now!

Thank you to Russ and Happy New Year to all ... time for a beer I think

[Sybixsus]

It was never going to be anything other than Aquaria for number 1, and rightly so. For all the clones which give Indie Games a bad name, here's something which gives Indie Games a good name. Really pleased to see Mr Robot in there too, as I loved it and thought it was criminally overlooked in a lot of circles.

As usual with these type of lists, there are always a couple of new games that I've managed to miss through the year, and I'll obviously have to try Scavenger and Depths of Peril, as they both look like a lot of fun.

Congrats to everyone.

[GolfHacker]

I dugg it!

[barrygamer]

I dugg it too, the ball is really rolling now

[RinkuHero]

Still only at 12 -- I think you need at least 100 in the first 8 hours to get on the front page. That's what it seems like on average anyway, though I've seen articles with around 500 diggs which didn't make it to the front page.

[cyrus_zuo]

I'm not sure on the numbers. Last year it worked in the mid-afternoon of the first day at around 53 diggs. Still hopeful...and somewhat dreading the overload ...but hopeful to have the overload!

[Desktop Gaming]

It was never going to be anything other than Aquaria for number 1, and rightly so.

I disagree. I found it really tedious. No denying its pretty, but the game bored me rigid. Heard it gets better later, but the boring start was just too much. I didn't want to see any more after half an hour of pointless swimming about.

[RinkuHero]

I think Aquaria is very good, but it's niche -- it appeals to people who like atmospheric exploration games with some action -- like something between Super Metroid and Knytt Stories.

But yes, the demo doesn't really show off everything it has, the full game is much more non-linear, with more difficult action scenes and a huge world to explore in any order you like -- it took me 20+ hours to finish it, and I didn't even explore all the areas there were to explore.

[Grey Alien]

Congrats to everyone! There's some games in that list I've got to try out.

[Leon]

Yay, apparently 28 diggs were enough to get it dugg.

I think we need to update the indie people digg list again, however. The last time we signed up and linked together on the site to help push indie stories to the front we had 31 people. On the Game of the Year digg, five of us dugg it, ouch.

On the other hand, it's nice to see people not from here digging indie stories.

Here's a link to a thread I started about this. I'd really love to revisit this and get people linked up together again, as I still believe(Even though for a stretch of a couple of months I didn't visit digg.com myself) that this could be a great marketing tool that'll give exposer to games that deserve it.

[RinkuHero]

Huh? It didn't. When it does, it says 'made popular [x] days and [x] hours ago' or something like that.

[Leon]

Huh? It didn't. When it does, it says 'made popular [x] days and [x] hours ago' or something like that.

My bad, I saw it say, "Dugg in Upcoming News - 20 hr 1 min ago" and everything else with a low amount of diggs said, "Submitted in News - X hr X min ago". I saw the change in wording and got excited.

[RinkuHero]

I think there may be tiers -- the largest one composed of anything anyone submits, the second tier is upcoming, and then the front page (only 12 stories or so a day make it there).