“Play brilliant new games for free, as the Best of the Independent Games Festival returns to ACMI. Dubbed the ‘Sundance of the game world’, the IGF has previously featured the groundbreaking games Braid, Everyday Shooter, Drawinia, and Cloud, and premiered smash hits De Blob and Portal.

Established in 1998 in San Francisco by CMP media (now Think Services), the annual festival encourages innovation in game development and recognises the best work of indie designers.

2009 games include:

Blueberry Garden, Eric Svendang, Sweden. Winner – Seumas McnNally Grand Prize.
Machinarium, Amanita Design, Czech Republic. Winner – Excellence in Visual Art.
Brainpipe, Digital Eel, USA. Winner – Excellence in Audio.
Musaic Box, KranX Productions, Ukraine. Winner – Excellence in Design.
Cortex Command, Data Realms, USA. Winner – Technical Excellence.
Osmos, Hemisphere Games, Canada. Winner – D2D Vision Award.
PixelJunk Eden, Q-Games, Japan. Nominated – Excellence in Visual Art.
The Graveyard, Tale of Tales, Belgium. Nominated – Excellence in Visual Art.
Night Sky, Nicalis, USA. Nominated – Seumus McNally Grand Prize.
Eufloria, Alex May & Rudolf Kremers, UK.”