Yellow Monkey Studios made some waves last month as its latest game, It’s Just a Thought, disseminated among the indie Internet. The team was lauded for its incorporation of social website Facebook into the game. I consider catching Michael Rose’s attention a good litmus test of indie superstar potential. Alliteration aside, indies in India seemed like a good idea to explore, so I decided to hear what Yellow Monkey Studios has to say about the Indian indie scene. Along the way, I discovered how tasty vada pav looks!

Read more here…

 

 

 

After trampling though the entire holiday season we have finally got a chance to get up and say “Hello World” thanks to the folks at Touch Arcade. You can check out the review at Touch Arcade however I suggest you take our word for it and just BUY THE GAME. We might just have some surprises coming soon !

 

I am a believer, help me remember.
Maybe later.

 

Only a couple of hours left until the finalists are officially announced. That also means our pre-cognitive skills are at their peak and we are releasing our own little list of possible finalists. No we don’t necessarily take any responsibility for disappointing you.

 

Possible Excellence in Gameplay Award Finalists

Nidhogg

AltSHIFT

Amnesia: The Dark Descent*

NightSky

Under Another Moon

Super Crate Box*

Spy Party*

Specter Spelunker Shrinks*

Record Tripping

Proun

 

 

Possible Excellence in Audio Award Finalists

Star-Twine*

Bit trip runner*

Planck*

Zen Bound 2

Substream

SOLACE

 

 

Possible Mobile Game Finalists

Colorblind

Shot Shot Shoot

Halcyon*

Mega Jump

Train yard*

Shibuya*

 

 

Possible Excellence in Art Finalists

Capsized*

Autumn Dynasty

Flutter

Hohokum*

The Dream Machine

Swimming Under Clouds

Afterland

The Tiny Bang story

 

 

Possible Semus Macnally Award Winners

Baiston*

Minecraft

 

* have a higher chance of winning.

 

Before I could go into the future to take a peek at our finalists for the nuovo category, IGF judges thwarted my time traveling expedition by simply releasing the Nuovo finalists earlier on. However little did they know that I had already made my assumptions on a desktop-lying notepad file. Here were my potential finalists.

 

Possible Nuovo Award Finalists

A house in california

Boham*

BUTTON*

FOTONICA*

DuoVoxel

Dyad

Infinite Blank*

 

Now unfortunately, we haven’t got access to all the games entered into the IGF 2011 but using pseudo psychic powers inherent to our latent monkey brains, we easily deduced another set of probable finalist.  Enough of past talk you say ? Lets look into what the future holds for the Indie Techies. Here is our pick !

 

Possible Technical Achievement Finalists

Boham*

Cell*

A New Zero

Confetti Carnival

Miegakure*

Overgrowth

Mobiloid*

Snapshot

 

Not every man reading this may be satisfied with our assumptions. Neither will a woman so what the heck! Feel free to comment in your own lists. The one with most number of correct entries might just win himself a piece of his mind!

 

* have a higher chance of winning.

After anticipating a long approval time due to the holiday season App rush, we were pleasantly surprised by Apple. Our app was approved in two hours flat after it went into review. As a result, the game is now live here: http://itunes.com/apps/itsjustathought/

Now the wait for a million downloads begins…