Fantastic Arcade Announces 29 Featured Indie Games
August 13, 2010 10:00 AM | Eric Caoili
As announced previously, annual genre film festival Fantastic Fest will return to Austin's Highball and Alamo Drafthouse theater this September with a new, four-day Fantastic Arcade spin-off running alongside the movie event and showcasing a selection of indie games.
Fantastic Arcade's organizers have announced its principal lineup of 29 titles that will appear at the inaugural show, each of which will be available for attendees to play for free on "custom-built arcade-style gameplay stations" and 20 new notebook computers (Alienware M15x/M17x).
The games are split into two categories, Fantastic Arcade Spotlight and Fantastic Arcade Showcase, with the former composed of eight entries "vying for honors and recognition at Fantastic Arcade", while the latter features 21 titles that fit within the Fantastic Fest realm, including sneak previews of upcoming releases.
The Fantastic Arcade Spotlight games include:
- Enviro-Bear 2000* (Justin Smith)
- Every Day the Same Dream (Paolo Pedercini)
- Feist* (Florian Faller and Adrian Stutz)
- Machinarium* (Amanita Design)
- Monaco* (Andy Schatz)
- Nidhogg (Mark Essen)
- Norrland (cactus)
- Ulitsa Dimitrova* (Gerard Delmas and Lea Schönfelder)
The Fantastic Arcade Showcase games include:
- Braid* (Number None)
- Canabalt (Adam Atomic)
- The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile (Ska Studios)
- Dustforce! (Hitbox)
- Flotilla (Blendo Games)
- Garden Gnome Carnage (Daniel Remar)
- Gravity Bone (Blendo Games)
- Human Centipede The Game! (I-Mockery)
- Inside a Dead Skyscraper (Paolo Pedercini)
- Limbo* (Playdead)
- McDonald's the Videogame (Paolo Pedercini)
- Oiligarchy (Paolo Pedercini)
- Operation: Pedopriest (Paolo Pedercini)
- Overgrowth (Wolfire Games)
- The Path* (Tale of Tales)
- Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor* (Tiger Style)
- Super Columbine Massacre RPG (Danny Ledonne)
- Sword & Sworcery EP* (Superbrothers, Capybara Games)
- Tiny and Big: Up That Mountain (Black Pants Studio)
- Trine (Frozenbyte)
- Zeno Clash (ACE Team)
You can purchase tickets for Fantastic Fest and find more information on the event at its official site.
[Via IndieGames.com]
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