The Independent Games Festival has announced the entrants for its upcoming independent game developer showcase to be held during the annual Game Developers Conference, which will be held in San Jose, Calif., on March 21-23, 2002. The festival will include 44 entrants from around the world, and it will feature a grand prize of $15,000 for the recipient of the Seumas McNally Award for Independent Game of the Year. Previous recipients of the award include Nexon's Shattered Galaxy, Longbow Digital Arts' Tread Marks, and Singularity Software's Fire and Darkness.

　　Entrants for the Independent Games Festival:

　　Ace of Angels, Flying Rock Enterprises

　　Altitudes, Miremare

　　Arcadia, Gamelab

　　Art of Chaos, Melted Minds Studios

　　Axis, World Netgames

　　Bad Milk, Dreaming Media

　　Banja Taiyo, Olivier Vandenbos et al.

　　Castle Marrach, Skotos Tech

　　Championship Euchre, DreamQuest Software

　　The Corps of Discovery, Whoola,

　　Cratered, Thomas Tong, et al.

　　Crimson Legacy, Tim Harris, et al.

　　Journals of Alex Whitney

　　Cybernetic Dawn, Dominque Douglas, et al.

　　Darkest Hour, White Griffin Trading Co.

　　Dementia, Games Research

　　Dissension - Voices of Justice, Digital Legends

　　DomWorld, Gary Lipon

　　Earth Force, Daniel Abdala Bauman, et al.

　　Egg Files, Flying Mikros Interactive

　　Elemental Saga, Nexon

　　Fighter Spirit, Parrott Technologies

　　Gridiron, VS-Sports

　　Hailey's Threshold, RedMud Games

　　Hostile Space, Interadventure

　　Insaniquarium, Flying Bear Entertainment

　　The Ire Sequence, Integral Studios

　　Kung Fu Chess, Daniel Goldstein, et al.

　　Marv's World, Scott Caputo, et al.

　　miniCan, GM Squared

　　Pencil Whipped, Chiselbrain Software

　　Reactor, CleverMedia

　　Red Shark, G5 Software

　　rtChess, Paul Kahler, et al.

　　Scorched Earth 3D, Wilnai Productions

　　Star Light, Northern Lights Out Group

　　Star Monkey, Small Rockets

　　StarThief, Daniel Goldstein

　　Static, William Fox, et al.

　　Teridian Shadow, Linus Tan Zonghui, et al.

　　They Came From Hollywood, Octopus Motor

　　Trash, Inhuman Games

　　World Dance, iSeeSoft LLC

　　Xmission, S7 Games

　　"The response to this year's event has been fantastic," said Alex Dunne, chairman, Independent Games Festival. "The number of international submissions, representing so many different game genres and perspectives on video game design, not only indicate the popularity of video games as a form of entertainment, but demonstrate that the number of talented technical people around the world who develop them is rapidly growing. The competition for the 2002 awards is sure to be the strongest yet."

　　For more information about the upcoming Independent Games Festival and the entrants, visit the show's official Web site.