Maybe there should be a GOTM (Game of the Month). Hey, that sounds like Got'em. If we had a GOTM then we could just choose one of those to be the GOTY next year.
Seeing as how I've been a lazy git this whole year, I've released nothing more then a brief one-level engine test for Elf World, so I cannot vote for my own game.
But I'd go with Crystle Towers or Bernard & Hank. But I highly enjoyed Spiderhead...and I made a sprite for Neonair racing, so that makes it rule.
Fine Garbage since 2003.
CURRENT PROJECT:
-Paying off a massive amount of debt in college loans.
-Working in television.
In the Retro section I nominate my Defender game. Its only had 18 downloads due to broken link...fixed now. It features all the sounds and graphics of the original Williams Defender including the fast and furious game play. Try it out. Its well commented so maybe some of the features (like the scanner) could be put into your own TGF games. Its well commented. I did not think I could control so many objects in a TGF game but there it is. If you are not familiar with Defender...try it out.
Yeah, but logically for a game to be the best game of the year, it would also have to have been the best game in the week it was released. I mean, unless something's changed and years aren't made of weeks anymore.
Not that GOTW is any indication of quality anyway.