Celebrate Independence Day with Independent Games

Game Tunnel (www.gametunnel.com) has just completed its yearly mid-year article 2005 Independent Game Mid-Term Grades. The article is the mid-year equivalent of the site's end of the year game of the year awards, covering all the best independently developed games that have been released so far in 2005. This year's article covers all the best games from 8 different genres: Action, Adventure, Arkanoid, Puzzle/Casual, RPG, Simulation, Sports Strategy awarding each genre a report card-like score between 'A' and 'D.'

The Mid-Year article is consistently one of the highest read features on Game Tunnel as it quickly sums up all the best that Independent gaming has offered so far this year.
This year's article includes some games that have already been discovered by the mainstream gaming press such as Darwinia, but contains many more games that have yet to be discovered by the greater part of the gaming world.
This year's Mid-term, like those in the past, is sure to highlight many games that you haven't heard of, but will have trouble putting down once you try them.

About Independent Games
Many independent games have found their way into the everyday lifestyle of gamers around the world without them even realizing that they are playing indie titles. While the stereotypical indie developer who creates games out of his parent's garage still has some validity, new computer tools have made the costs associated with creating games much lower and have made it possible for independent game developers to bring their own game ideas to the public.

These developers have created many of the most innovative games available for the mainstream gaming market over the last few years, doing so on very limited budgets and releasing the titles on their own without the help of major publishers.

Though most Independent developers pride themselves on creating new and innovative titles, Independent games are not limited to the 'mainstream' market, but often cross-over into the rapidly growing 'casual' marketplace. In fact, the vast majority of the puzzle games commonly available through the internet are created by independent developers. Nearly all of the games available through sites such as Reflexive (www.reflexive), Real Arcade (http://www.realarcade.com/), and MSN Games (http://zone.msn.com) are in fact Independent Games. However, the casual games created by independent developers only highlight a portion of the independent gaming world.

About Game Tunnel
Game Tunnel was created in 2002 with the goal of providing news and reviews on the Independent Gaming scene. Game Tunnel focuses on providing information about the Independent Gaming scene creating a virtual tunnel to the gaming underworld where a great many praise-worthy titles exist, but remain unknown to the general public .
Since its launch, Game Tunnel has done over 200 full-length reviews of Independent (or Indie) Game titles. In addition it has published a variety of independent game-related features including previews, developer Q&As, columns and monthly features, nearly 1000 news stories, and the very popular yearly Independent Game of the Year awards. It continues to be the primary source of information for Indie games used by gamers as well as other publications and organizations.

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Russell Carroll
Game Tunnel




Celebrate Independence Day with Independent Games



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