2004 IGF Independent Game of the Year Winner
2004 IGF Winner, Innovation in Game Design
Game Tunnel's 2005 Independent Game of the Year

What's a "casual game" doing at Manifesto Games? We don't carry them, right?

Not normally. But with Oasis, we couldn't resist.

Oasis is, at its core, a highly original casual game--but with strong crossover appeal to strategy gamers. In some ways, our site is where it belongs, probably more so than at, say, Yahoo! Games.

Guitar Hero? How Crude. But Opera Slinger--Cossì Specializzato!
Student Showcase Winner, 2007 Independent Games Festival

In Opera Slinger, you sing opera--into a microphone. It's a quasi-beat matching game, but your score depends on hitting the right notes as well as singing them at the right times; before you play, you choose the male (tenor) or female (alto) role. Your "opponent" is controlled by the AI, and the game's conceit is that you are competing with him or her for the regard and adoration of the audience--which changes more in your direction the more accurately you sing.

The game transpires in a 3D modelled opera house, and periodically you have to sprint to another location to hit your next mark--and can lose points if your "opponent" does so in time to begin the next number while you're still navigating the space.