indie series Showcase
3D block puzzles built from pixel art! Push, pull, and climb on the blocks of a PictoPull puzzle in order to reach the goal. Create your own puzzles and share them!
Developer: Screen Smith Studios
https://screensmith.net/
Rampage through your enemies in this twin-stick kiter fighter.
Kill your foes and power up your mech in this combat-heavy game of destruction and mayhem. Maneuver around the battlefield, avoiding enemy fire while dishing it out in kind. This game is all about tanky bullet-hell combat while exploring a power fantasy through various upgrade paths.
Developer: LAN Line Games
https://www.thesandknight.com/
When scorned chameleons swap the colors of all other animals, causing mass confusion and upset, Squirrely Roo, a hybrid animal, springs into action with her chameleon-outcast friend, Cammie, to track down the chameleon king and return peace to the world. Powered by fruit, Squirrely Roo and Cammie explore new lands and solve their puzzles!
Squirrely Roo Rabbit is an in-development, 2.5D, puzzle-adventure game based on color theory and featuring a visual style reminiscent of watercolor pop-up storybooks.
Boba Studios is a women-owned indie game studio in Baltimore, MD. Squirrely Roo Rabbit demo available now at www.bobastudios.com!
Developer: Boba Studios
www.bobastudios.com
Scrap Seas is an action-roguelike about customizing your murder-boat to battle robots, dieselpunk pirates, sea monsters, and huge bosses! Use your firepower and maneuvering skills to destroy your enemies in fast-paced gameplay. Travel through a randomly generated campaign of battles, broken up by shops and random events. Just don’t die, because death is a permanent condition!
Developer: Scrap Seas
https://www.funfreightergames.com/scrapseas
In Eras Rising, follow a party of warriors as they journey to uncover why strange beasts have suddenly begun invading their homeland. Manipulate the enemy position and use terrain to your advantage to fend off the beasts in turn-based tactical combat!
Developer: Stellar Stoats
https://linktr.ee/stellarstoats
Gunhawk is new lightgun game for the original Nintendo Entertainment System that can be played with either the NES Zapper or a standard NES controller.
In Gunhawk, you will control the eponymous mech as you shoot your way through 5 multi-stage sectors to escape the enemy base. Between levels, you will have the opportunity to upgrade the Gunhawk’s capabilities and become more powerful.
As you clear each sector, the story of the game will unfold through dialogue cutscenes. Optional events give you a chance to tap into enemy communications for additional upgrades, but this will not be without risk.
Developer: Skyboy Games
https://skyboygames.com/
GAME JOY
EMIMLIVE: Chroma Quest is a 2D, top-down, turn based RPG set in a world where all of the color has been stolen by an evil mime. The player’s goal is to traverse the game world to meet new people, learn new things, face bold challenges, and fight against Master Mime and his forces for the world’s color. Use the power of Color Swapping to invert the game’s colors, allowing you to change party classes mid battle and solve puzzles in the overworld.
Developer: Game Joy
https://game-joy.itch.io/emimlive-chroma-quest
Advent of the Reaper is a dark fantasy tactics RPG about Reapers, Angels, the pasts they left behind, and the fate of their world!
Inspired by the great tactics games of the GBA era, Advent of the Reaper aims to deliver a nostalgic, narrative-driven tactics RPG experience with a rich cast of characters and lore.
Developer: Brekkies at Noon
www.adventofthereaper.com
LOSE YOUR WAY. FIND YOUR VOICE.
UNBEATABLE is a rhythm-adventure game where music is illegal and you do crimes. Talk your way through trouble as you explore vibrant locales. Fight your way through exciting arcade-perfect rhythm setpieces, featuring an original soundtrack by Peak Divide.
Developer: D-CELL GAMES
https://www.unbeatablegame.com/
Hao x Sora is an endless runner rogue-lite featuring fast-paced action, randomly generated loot, and a customizable hoverboard.
Developer: Sky Hour Works
https://twitter.com/SKYHOURWORKS
LOSE YOUR WAY. FIND YOUR VOICE.
UNBEATABLE is a rhythm-adventure game where music is illegal and you do crimes. Talk your way through trouble as you explore vibrant locales. Fight your way through exciting arcade-perfect rhythm setpieces, featuring an original soundtrack by Peak Divide.
Developer: D-CELL GAMES
https://www.unbeatablegame.com/
ParaLily is one little girl’s adventure to retrieve her dear stuffed dinosaur Patches, who in the middle of the night sprung to life and took off through a mysterious door. This strange journey will take Lily through a set of dangerous and terrifying parallel universes, as she attempts to retrieve her little stuffed runaway. Lily can shift between the parallel universes at will; which will help her avoid danger, and solve puzzles while traversing the paranormal universes.
Each universe has is its own space with unique themes, enemies, and attributes. A single level cannot be traversed by only interacting with one universe, so the relative spatial relationship of each universe is critical to gameplay. When Lily changes universes her momentum carries with her, allowing her to continue a jump from one universe to the next. This combination of parallaxing parallel universes, and momentum; creates a special blend of precision and puzzle platforming, that makes ParaLily both challenging and thoughtful.
Developer: Luna Wolf Studios
https://paralilygame.com/
Over Many Waters is an exciting Top-Down, Action-Adventure RPG set in 1500s Mesoamerica. In this fantasy indie game, play as Leo, a seafaring adventurer of Spanish and Aztec descent. Gather ancient and mystical weapons and items. Fight for Azuria and the Jaguar Princess to save a dying land from the evil Siyak, the Smoking Frog. Will you choose the fierce life of an Aztec warrior or the sea-hardy ways of the exploring Spaniard? Connect with your roots as a child of both worlds and determine your path in the new world.
Developer: MultiMediaVerse LLC
https://multimediaverse.com/over-many-waters-indie-game/
BoBae is a graphic novel/dating sim that focuses on Boba’s journey to find happiness. After a breakup, Boba took time to dedicate to their passions: academia and music. Upon a chance encounter with their ex, Boba realizes something may be missing in their life. Boba sets out to see if love is missing and asks their best friend, Mat, to help them along this journey.
Developer: 623 Studios
https://623studios.io/?stm_projects=bobae-a-pearlfect-blend-of-love
4TONS (4 Towers of NerdStorm) is a 2D rogue-like bullet hell with puzzle elements, Inspired heavily by games such as Nuclear Throne, Enter the Gungeon, and Wizard of Legend. Players take on the role of a wizard trapped in a mysterious dimension by the evil Lord NerdStorm, where they must fight their way through four towers. Along the way, players collect an arsenal of magical staves and powerful spell gems that will be vital to overthrowing Lord NerdStorm.
Developer: Crooked Studio
https://crooked-studio.itch.io/
Descend monster-filled levels to close the gate to the Underworld in this top-down tower defense dungeon crawler. Gather resources, discover blueprints, and build defensive towers to slice, dice, zap, and explode undead hordes.
Developer: Wild Domain Games
https://pixelcrushers.com/wilddomaingames/crypt_crawler/
Dice to Meet You is a cute, casual puzzle game that will challenge your spatial reasoning with every turn of the dice. With dozens of unique levels to play through and a fun corporate feel there’s never been a better time to gather around the fern and show your coworkers your sensitive side.
Developer: Bin Bon Games
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2597140/Dice_to_Meet_You/
A demon punk 2d metroidvania hack and slash adventure game inspired by Dark Souls and Bayonetta. Explore the city at your own discretion and take down the toughest thug’s demon-kind have to offer..
Developer: Shademare
https://twitter.com/bloopmuseum
gmu Showcase
Study the sciences and the arts in a team- and project-based environment. Earn a BFA undergraduate degree, or select from among several minors. Study abroad through our international exchange partnerships. Explore local video game industry and government career opportunities and through the Virginia Serious Game Institute, a unique facility that concentrates on game-related applied research while cultivating new companies.
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https://vsgi.gmu.edu/
Battle up to 3 friends in hilarious hammer-based combat for the entertainment of the Gods! Unlock a plethora of powers bestowed from your godly patrons as you duck hammers, hazards, and divine disruptions. In classic couch competitive fashion, Patrons is best played within elbowing distance.
Developer: Nam ER Technology
https://youtu.be/5PyVx4VBQOY
Team up with a friend and break out of prison in this cyberpunk co-op rogue-lite hack-and-slash on an asteroid in space!
Developer: Conglomer8 Games
https://game.gmu.edu/prison-break-conglomer8-games
In ChromaSpectra, you play as Claire Voyant, a medium, as she guides trapped spirits to the afterlife. Claire has the power to observe hidden objects in Limbo by playing her Mystic Ocarina. She uses this power to help untether the ghosts of this realm
Developer: Ghost Buddies
h ttps://twitter.com/GhostBuddies_
Fantasy Park VR allows you to step into the shoes of a theme park tycoon, giving you the power to design, build, and ride your very own roller coasters and attractions. Get ready for an adrenaline-pumping, immersive experience like no other!
Developer: Lucid Gaming LLC
https://www.lucidgamingstudios.com/
In this 2D endless runner, you play as a gorilla, living an uneventful life in the jungle. Until one fateful day: A skateboard came down from the heavens, and chose you as its new champion, and with this omen came one single goal: TO SHRED. With your newly acquired board and fellow skating primates, take to the jungle to become the greatest skating gorilla the world will ever know.
Developer: Game Analysis and Design Interest Group (GADIG)
https://gadig.itch.io/gorilla-grind
Fight in an arcade arena against tons of enemies with weaknesses to be exploited. Progress through a campaign of 75+ levels each presenting a new challenge with different win and fail conditions. Gameplay so tight and colorful it will bring tears to your eyes.
Developer: Sherbb
https://www.alansherba.com/gridform
Wield a massive sword and soar through labyrinths in this fast-paced 2D action game where you can’t stop moving!
Developer: Zenith Team
https://zenith-team.itch.io/booster-blade
Ko and the Transient Heat is a pixelated, charming, and relaxing top-down adventure that is focused and driven by puzzle-solving. In other words, it’s “A Monster’s Expedition” meets “Helltaker,” but with “A Short Hike” inspired artstyle. With over three hours’ worth of puzzles to solve, you must be resourceful and think outside the box as you push and break your way through various obstacles scattered across each frigid and compelling zone. Fulfill your rite of passage by overcoming these lands and by saving your village from its upcoming frigid demise!
Developers: A small independent team led by Anthony Clavel
Additional Credits:
Kimberly Shifflett – Programming, Asset Implementation, Level Design, UI Design
Nicholas Hunter – 3D and 2D Art, Narrative
Joseph Chung – 3D and 2D Art, Narrative
Matthew Hazelworth – 3D and 2D Art, Narrative
Griffen LeTessa – 3D Art, Narrative
Lucas Pinney – 2D Art, UI Design, Logo Design
Gordon Lauper – Music
Peder B. Helland – Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lgWbWktnkY
First public appearance and play-through at Hashtag Con Indie Series, come see what all the mystery is about!
Developer: Sig Guys Game