Osmos
Developer: Hemisphere Games
Platform: Windows (free demo available)
Nominations: Seumas McNally Grand Prize, Excellence in Design, Technical Excellence
Description: Bounce around a petri dish, eating the weak and fleeing the strong. The catch? Moving costs you size, making you weaker.

Night Game
Developer: Nicalis
Platform: WiiWare, Windows
Nominations: Excellence in Design, Seumas McNally Grand Prize
Website
Description: 2D puzzle-platformer starring a ball moving through levels with realistic physics.

Dyson
Developers: Rudolf Kremers and Alex May
Nomination: Seumas McNally Grand Prize
Platform: Windows, Linux (free)
Website
Description: Dyson is a real time strategy game about colonizing asteroid belts. The catch: this game is one of the most abstract RTSs available today, and has simple enough inputs to be played only with the mouse.

CarneyVale: Showtime
Developer: Singapore-MIT Gambit Game Lab
Nomination: Seumas McNally Grand Prize
Platform: XBLA, PC (Free demo, paid full version available)
Website
Description: You play as Slinky, the magically-animated puppet acrobat, in his quest to become the best acrobat ever. You use the ragdoll physics to navigate through perform tricks in vertical platform levels. Grand Prize winner of the 2008 Dream Build Play Challenge.

Blueberry Garden
Developer: Erik Svedang
Nominations: Seumas McNally Grand Prize, Excellence in Audio
Platform: Windows (not yet publically available)
Game Website
Description: That’s a darned good question. You can see the game’s trailer, which is all we know about it, at the game’s website. It was the winner of the Best Innovation award at the 2008 Sweedish Game Awards.