[This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Gamasutra and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource Games Press.]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ATLANTA - April 6, 2016 - After more than a
hundred submissions, twenty indie games have been named finalists
for the second annual
MomoCon Indie Game Award
Showcase. Each of the twenty titles will be playable in the
Indie Game Area at
MomoCon 2016, taking place Thursday -
Sunday, May 26 - 29, 2016 at the Georgia World Congress Center in
Atlanta.
These twenty games illustrate the innovation and passion indie
games represents:
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A Quiver of Crows, Sheado.net (Windows, Mac,
Linux)
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Blade Ballet
, DreamSail Games (PlayStation 4)
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Color Thief, Trouble Impact, LLC (Windows,
Mac)
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Crusaders of the Lost Idols,
Codename Entertainment (Windows, Mac)
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Dimension Drive, 2Awesome Studio (Windows, Mac,
Linux)
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Dragon Fin Soup, Grimm Bros (PlayStation 4,
PlayStation 3, PS Vita, Windows)
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Ellipsis, Salmi Games (iOS)
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Emily is Away, Kyle Seeley (Windows, Mac)
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Epistory - Typing Chronicles, Fishing Cactus
(Windows, Mac, Linux)
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FORCED SHOWDOWN, BetaDwarf (Windows)
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Fossil Echo, Fossil Echo Team (Windows, Mac,
Linux)
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INVERSUS, Hypersect (PlayStation 4, Windows)
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Layers of Fear, Bloober Team (PlayStation 4, Xbox
One, Windows, Mac, Linux)
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Lethal Tactics, SkyBox Labs (Windows)
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LOST ORBIT, PixelNAUTS (PlayStation 4, Windows,
Mac)
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Native, Nuldrums
(Windows)
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Overpower, Hydrant Games (Windows)
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Planet Diver, Fabraz (Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS,
Android)
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Reflections, Broken Window Studios (Oculus Rift,
Windows, Mac, Linux)
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Shu, Coatsink Software (PlayStation 4, PS Vita,
Windows)
Five winning entries will be announced in an awards ceremony on
Saturday, May 28,2016. Developers of those titles will receive:
- $1000 Prize
- 10 x 20 Exhibit Space at MomoCon 2017
- Dedicated Panel at MomoCon 2017
- Highlighted placement in a MomoCon newsletter going to tens of
thousands of gamers
- Glass Trophy
XSplit will continue their longstanding support of indie games
and developers by having a small panel of content creators from
the
XSplit Elite
program select their favorite game from the MomoCon Indie
Awards Finalists. The developer of that title will
receive $2000 USD and an Indie[dot]XSplit Award.
In addition to these twenty titles, MomoCon will showcase three
indie games developed in the state of Georgia and provide a $1000
cash prize to the developer of the judges' favorite game.
"The vast number of amazing indie games submitted to this year's
award program made selecting twenty finalists exceedingly
difficult," said Chris Stuckey, CEO, MomoCon. "but these games
represent the best of the best. We look forward to when the
tens of thousands of attendees that come to MomoCon every year will
get to experience these works of art for themselves."
Images:
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0B1ilWhgsvXaiN3F6bXJnc1BrY3c
About MomoCon
Founded in 2004 by Jessica Merriman and Chris Stuckey, then
students at Georgia Tech, MomoCon has grown from a 700 person on
campus event to the largest gaming event in the southeast United
States for fans of video games, animation, cosplay, comics and
tabletop games.
More information about MomoCon is available at
http://www.momocon.com/
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