Check out the awesome entries in the 2009 Independent Games Festival Student Showcase!
http://www.igf.com/02studentfinalists.html
City Rain looks slick, although I'm not sure what exactly you're supposed to do in it.
The Unfinished Swan is a simple but awesome idea. I can see some great potential in this game.
Winds of Orbis looks like a game that requires too much excersize o_O poor kids ;)
The rest have some interesting ideas also, well worth checking out at least the movie vids.
NEW City Rain Building Sustainability
Hello. I´m Caio, from Mother Gaia Studio. I´m here to let you know that there´s a brand new version of City Rain BS on Direct 2Drive ( http://www.direct2drive.com/buy-indie-games-download ). There´s also a free demo version to play online at Kongregate flash portal ( http://www.kongregate.com/games/mothergaiastudio/city-rain-bs) and screenshots, videos and stuff at our official web site ( www.cityrainbs.com )
I hope you like it
Best regards.
*Strokes non-existent beard*
Guess I should have a look over these in a bit. Might give me a better grasp of the indie game project we're starting up. Some do look quite cool, others look...well there's always something "meh" to someone.