You Have to Burn the Rope
Developer: Kian Bashiri
Nomination: Innovation Award
Platform: Flash
Website
Description: We talked about this quirky deconstruction of 2D platforming in our Flash Roundup

Mightier
Developer: Ratloop
Nomination: Innovation Award
Platform: Windows (freeware)
Website
Description: Navigate your friendly Actionaut through a 3D platformer to pick up pieces of data. Help him by carving the platforms out of the ground using a giant laser from outer space. And by laser, I mean a pencil. And by from outer space, I mean on a piece of paper.

The Graveyard
Developer: Tale of Tales
Nomination: Innovation Award
Platform: Windows, Mac
Website
Description: You accompany an old woman on a visit to a graveyard. Selected by Indecade and the European Innovative Games Award.

Coil
Developer: From The Depths
Nomination: Innovation Award
Platform: Web Browser (Flash)
Website
Description: Coil is an experimentation in what games can be. It intentionally into putting the player into situations where he doesn’t know what to do, but trying not to make that a bad thing.

Between
Developer: Jason Rohrer
Nomination: Innovation Award
Platform: Windows, Mac , Unix/Linux
Game Website
Description: Between is a two-player tower-building game played on a local network. Currently freely available at SourceForge (links above). Telling you more would be cheating.