The Top 10 Indie Games of 2008

10.  Ducky Joe in Cooool Beans

This little number from Sweden stole the top prize at the IGF for most innovative use of jumping.  It's kind of like a regular platformer except with a little bit of a physics twist.  Check the barrels!

9. Holy Shit: What a Couple of Ducks!

In this traditional platformer you can manipulate your ghost backwards through time for maximum grappling hook tricks.  Bogus!

8. Duck World 2: The Legend of the Ruby Wings

In this NES style platformer, you can stick to a wall like a bug or maybe the ceiling!  Lookout badguys here come the judge!

7. Ducktor Frankenstein and Mrs. Dash

Just in time for Latin Hertitage Month comes this sweet hop and bop with a twist.  You have a Legendary Ruby Ring which allows you to graplle onto enemies and platforms for maximum damage which a realistic physics system.  Lookout Inafking.  This trio of lovely game design mistresses ain't cutting you no slack.

5. Duckington's Temple: An Elegy of Blood

What if there was a platform game with a twist?  Jump between multiple layers using the unique Excelica system to dodge enemies and collect secret eggs.  Looks like Duck on Duck crime is just getting started.

4.  Sweet Lord, There's A Duck in Your Pants DX

A 21st century take on the classic platform game, SLTADIYPDX lets you control the temprature of platforms to freeze or melt them.  I would probably live inside of this game if I could.

3. I Was A Teen-Aged Duck

This tricky side-scroller is a little bit like the 2D games of yesteryear, but with a twist.  Every coin you collect donates real life money to a child in Darfur.  Also you can reverse a ghost of yourself back in time to flip switches.

2.  Braid 2: Ducks on Patrol

Jonathan Blow's sequel to his classic hit is all about platforming action.  But things are not quite what they seem in this peaceful village because some jackass keeps messing with the Dark World/Light World mechanic when everybodys just trying to get to sleep.  What a day to be a duck!

1. Strategy Ducks: No Kissin' On The Lips

Whoa Nellie, does this iPhone classic hop and bop has a secret.  This first part is just like Super Mario Bros 1-1, but then the game you are playing is actually another game inside of a game and you have to fight the designer who is also your dad who left you years ago, but he has merged with the game to become pure code and in the end is it you who are truly being played?  This shit is meta as fuuuuuuck.