2014 Competition Entrants

Enter the pages of the hand painted world of Journal. A journey through the life of a young and troubled girl as she tries to face up to the choices and responsibilities that come with childhood. An experience that questions the reliability of how we choose to remember events and explores the truths hidden within our dreams.

Accompany Jim, a naive and good-hearted roach, on his journey through an old dark bunker, in a world where the humans became extinct by a nuclear war. Journey of a Roach is an adventure with a focus on exploring the maze-like world around you. Find your way along by walking on walls and ceilings, collecting items and skillfully combining them. Solving humorous riddles unlocks more and more rooms and episodes.

Drum to control a tribe of monkeys! Jungle Rumble could be called an RTS if the R stood for rhythm.

The Mofongo tribe lives deep in the jungle. They swing from tree to tree under vast skies. They vie to throw coconuts the furthest. And they pursue the sweet flesh of the banana. When a rival tribe invades, to steal those bananas, a conflict ignites. Is animal savagery to blame? Or is it mankind's insatiable hunger for plastic tsotchkes?

Enter the lost world of Kairo. Explore vast abandoned monuments. Bring strange and ancient machinery back to life. Slowly uncover the true purpose of Kairo and fulfil a great destiny.

Kairo is an atmospheric 3D exploration and puzzle solving game. Developed by Richard Perrin the creator of the white chamber with music by Wounds (Bartosz Szturgiewicz).

A beautiful and relaxing paper puzzle game.

KAMI is deceptively simple: fold out coloured paper to fill the screen in as few moves as possible.

Relaxing and easy to pick up, you'll soon find yourself deep in contemplation to perfect each puzzle.

Created by State of Play, famous for their handcrafted aesthetic, KAMI has been created with real paper in an elegant Japanese theme.

KAMI is tactile, engaging and stunning to look at.

KSP is a game where the players create and manage their own space program. Build spacecraft, fly them, and try to help the Kerbals to fulfill their ultimate mission of conquering space.

The game is currently under heavy development. This means the game will be improved on a regular basis, so be sure to check back for new updates. Right now, KSP is in Sandbox Complete state, but we want you to try it out and have fun with it. The Demo version is free to download and play, and will remain so forever.

The KSP Team is strongly commited to the project, and we are always listening for feedback from the players.

Killer Queen Arcade is a 10-player team-based real-time strategy platformer inspired by classic arcade games like Joust and Mario Bros.

Two teams, each led by a powerful Queen, face off to be the first to bring the giant snail god home, fill their hive with nectar, or assassinate the enemy Queen 3 times.

Kingdoms Fall is an epic action RPG for iOS. You will get to explore an open world, where you will find powerful items such as the Boomerang, Bombs, Grappling Hook and Fire Wand. You will need to venture into the realm's darkest dungeons, conquer tricky puzzles, and survive intense boss battles to save your kingdom and everything you love.

This game was written in objective-c and utilizes the cocos2d-iphone game engine. Playing through the game unravels a story that at times can be uplifting, and at other times quite tragic. Great attention to detail was taken with regards to touch device's small screens and lack of tactile response. For instance, you will notice all off screen enemies have position indicators at the edge of the viewable area, and the d-pad re-positions to wherever your thumb first touches the screen so that you don't have to look down in order to know where center is.

We hope you enjoy our game as much as we enjoyed making it!

Krautscape is an action-packed racing game with bird-like flying cars, focused on competitive multiplayer gameplay. The leading player actively builds the racetrack while the chasing players can take shortcuts by flying off the track to overcome obstacles. But the track is needed to score and to get speed – the vehicles don't have any thrusters to accelerate while flying. The three multiplayer gamemodes are designed to support nonlinear gameplay and intelligent movement instead of forcing you to drive perfectly.

Kromaia is a six degrees of freedom adventure shooter which takes action, speed, agility and immersion to a new level. Insane enemy patterns, impressive swarms, giant god-like guardians, ancient temples, contraptions, treasures, visual ecstasy... All in a vast and unexplored universe only ruled by physic laws.

Kromaia takes place in a multiverse and tells the story of a stranded soul who awakens in a weird shrine, finding itself sealed inside a mechanical unit. Having no memories at all, it must make its way in search for answers, in a world of forgotten devices and hostile creatures, while a somehow familiar voice within claims to know its mind better than itself.

Spiral into audioreactive obscurity as you are transported to a mysterious and melancholy land. Kyoto is an interactive ambient musical experiment that serves is an homage to the wonderful city of Kyoto.

LabRATory is an action puzzle game for iOs & android devices. It features tons of lab rats, all desperately trying to reach a tiny piece of cheese.

Legend of Dungeon is a randomly generated Beat'em'up dungeon crawler with heavy Rogue-like elements, striking visuals and a never before done randomly assembled dynamic music system. Unlike most rogue-likes, you can play with up to 4 players on one computer, to team up against evil!

On your journey, you will find weapons, items, and long forgotten magic that will help you to fight off the hoards of mysterious creatures you will encounter. There will be complete darkness to contend with, secrets to discover, traps to avoid, and treasure that, should you manage to bring it back, will make you a Legend.
...But you'll probably die.

Legend of Raven is a portable high-speed 2D fighting game, created by ex-King of Fighters developers.

Lens is a first person exploration, adventure game made by students at UC Santa Cruz. The game is set in parallel worlds where players interact with both worlds seamlessly through the use of a device known as the lens. The game features compare and contrast gameplay, where players use the lens to look into a world parallel to their own and manipulate objects between these two worlds. The story is told through the player character's journal, revealing pieces as you progress, but there are many hidden entries to find that give more depth to the worlds.

Lens offers players an interesting take on exploration and storytelling in a first person perspective, and we hope you enjoy your time in the worlds we've created.

Life Goes On is a 2D puzzle platformer where you send a series of bumbling medieval knights through a trap-ridden gauntlet on a quest for mysterious treasure. To reach this prize, you must sacrifice the knights one by one. Impale a knight on a spike in order to provide a safe platform needed to cross a pit, or throw yourself into a saw in order to weigh down a button below. Our game aims to give players a fresh look at life and death in video games using comically morbid puzzles and challenges that only dying can overcome.

A unique blend of puzzle games and Pac-Man. "Life on a tiny earth, the symbolic ages" is a retro arcade puzzle game where you have to avoid opponents in a spherical labyrinthic world, to save species at the edge of existence.

This game takes its inspiration in the desire to make, in a symbolic way, an action puzzle gameplay about preservation and biodiversity. The game's world is a symbolic representation of earth. The player has to rescue all the species members.

Remark : The version 1.0, available since march 2013, can be seen as the alpha version and can be purchased "as is" with no support, to get feedbacks and to contribute to the development of the next version(s). The 2.0, closer to a beta version, is still under development, and should be available before spring 2014.

The treasures you've conquered over the millenia are now in danger. The pathetic players, the so called "heroes", are gathering at this very moment, plotting to destroy your kingdom. Focus. Equip your most powerful armor and weapons. The reckless mortals know they are no match for you, and will come in great numbers. Hone your skills and make deadly combinations, for a game of life and death awaits you. Place your deadly traps along your room, and prepare for the carnage that is soon to begin. After all, YOU are the boss, and no one touches what is yours.

In this epic, yet comic game, face countless heroes that are organized with one goal. To murder you and wear your head as a helmet. Take advantage of your size and power, and of course, of their incompetence, to crush wave after wave of battle ready players. Witness grown men crying like babies, kill the damned healers, face the meter-crazed damage dealers, and easily kill noobs that stand in the fire in Like a Boss!

Little Big Mansion is a puzzle platformer about two rivalling magicians with different powers, one of them can change the size of objects, the other can change their type. They use these powers to overcome obstacles in their way, while they are looking for the secret hidden deep within the mansion.

Help Little Luca collect the missing stars in this addictively fun physics-based game.

Luca had a dream once - that the stars in the sky suddenly fell. The stars spread all over the world. Deep into the oceans, high up the hills and all across space. It's your job to get the stars back! Bounce on the wobbly hills, get thrown in the wind, launch from strange gravity wells and zap across the screen through mysterious portals. But most of all look out for the dangerous volcanoes in the deep oceans!

Highlights:
- Simple and skillful one touch controls (it's all about timing)
- 90 lovingly designed levels in 3 unique worlds.
- Amazing music with 5 different tracks (+ a hidden bonus track)
- Compare scores and collect achievements

Little Warlock is a free to play, online trading card game where players
explore a colorful and quirky world, it features new to the genre real time
battles where attacking and defending happens simultaneously.

Collect, create, upgrade and trade cards that you use to summon creatures,
construct buildings or cast spells, all to conquer the various foes and
bosses in adventure mode or challenge your friends in the arena.

Little Warlock is suitable for all ages and is fast and easy to learn, yet
offers hundreds of different cards, combinations and decks to master and
hours of fun and exploration.

Lost Crypts is a multiplayer coop webgame inspired by the arcade classic Gauntlet and rogue-likes. Players attempt to delve as deeply as they can through crypt levels facing hordes of monsters, traps and gathering treasure.

The game requires a browser with Flash installed, keyboard and mouse.

Developed as a solo project by Kevin Lin, it is now in open beta.

LOST ORBIT, a vertical scrolling platformer, follows the story of Harrison: a lone astronaut who must travel through deep space in an effort to make it home after his ship is destroyed. Despite his lack of resources, Harrison will relentlessly strive to survive hopeless conditions. Players will navigate Harrison through solar systems while the gravitational pulls and forces of the surrounding planets and bodies challenge him on his journey.

Lost Toys is a mentally engaging 3D puzzle game of profound beauty, depth and challenge. Toys are lost, broken, or forgotten. Fixing them promises to right this hauntingly gorgeous chamber and restore the childhood innocence that has been lost.

* Winner Best Game Design Award at Sense of Wonder Night 2013
* Winner Most Artistic at Codame Indie Games Developers Showcase
* Winner Most Promising at Casual Connect San Francisco

"The visuals on Lost Toys are incredible." - Codame

"Lost Toys is the type of game you rarely see on mobile and tablet, which is why it seems so refreshing." - Indie Haven

Spiral down to discover a surreal world populated by discarded, mixed-up toys hanging lifelessly from the ceiling. Reconstruct the jumbled toys to reveal their original shapes to progress through 4 chapters and 32 levels in this gothic masterpiece.

- Spin the petrified wooden toy in full 3D to study it from every angle.
- Rotate the scrambled pieces in the proper order to unravel the childhood toy.
- Only a few moves are ever necessary. Undo by tapping the filled circles.
- There are no timers, points, or scores. You won't miss them.
- Tap the (?) if you grow weary of the challenge.
- Replay levels as many times as you like. They're reshuffled each time.
- Original soundtrack by Peter Rudenko. Best experienced with headphones.

Lovely Planet is a First Person Shooter gun-ballet set in an abstract world made of cute stuff. Balance between avoiding the onslaught of bullets and taking aim for a better shot at your enemies, learn levels and execute them with perfection to earn rewards.

Lugdunon is a 2d multiplayer RPG / sandbox game that is reminiscent of the 16 bit console era. Lugdunon runs within your web browser, so there is no need to download a client. Lugdunon can also be played 'on the go' on mobile devices such as iPads and Android tablets. Players can engage in combat with each other or with NPCs, craft and trade items, empower their character with the advancement system, place and decorate in-game signs using the full-featured sign editor, and more!

However, what is really interesting about Lugdunon is the ability to take the game and truly make it your own. With powerful in-game editors available to players who have been designated 'Game Masters' and the ability to run your own server, the sky is the limit! Currently, from within the game itself, Game Masters can create new crafting recipes, add and edit NPCs, paint the landscape using up to 16 terrain layers, raise and lower elevation to create cliffs and chasms, place items, and edit NPC spawn points.

Lumino City is a puzzle adventure game made entirely out of paper, cardboard, miniature lights and electric motors. The sequel to Lume, it has been in development at State of Play for two years. Collaborating with artists, architects and model-makers, we've build an eight foot high interactive city, and have been using motion control rigs, video footage, stop motion animation and still photography to create a photo real interactive space.

Luna's Wandering Stars is a puzzle game about tackling orbits and gravity with nine unique cosmic powers. With simple controls but complex tasks, players will be challenged to explore gravity like never before!

Featuring beautiful stylized graphics, a level creator/editor that can share any player-created levels online, and level designs that will surely challenge the way you think about gravity, Luna's Wandering Stars invites you to become masters of planetary physics!

A simple game of touch, pleasure and joy. Luxuria Superbia is a musical journey through stylized flowers that react to your gestures. Exciting designs explode from your motions, from the realm of the senses on to the rational up to the spiritual.

Luxuria Superbia is a completely abstract game, without a story or characters. It's all about the experience, the interaction with the software. The game consists of twelve tunnels with different shapes inspired by flowers. It's reminiscent of a tunnel shooter game. But instead of destroying enemies your task is to be nice to the tunnel, to make it feel good. When you touch the walls of the tunnel, the color changes. It starts white and your goal is to make it as colorful as possible. The tunnel likes to be colored. You can sense this. The game is very responsive. The way you get a high score is by playing slowly and gently. Just pushing through as fast as you can will result in failure. The game wants you to take it easy and really play with it.

Created by Michaël Samyn & Auriea Harvey (Tale of Tales) with music by Walter Hus.

Kick back and poke at geometry.
LYNE is a minimal and thoughtful puzzle game for your mind.

9 out of 10 wizards agree: you must play this hilarious & challenging dungeon-crawling adventure!
MacGuffin Quest provides your daily dose of collecting, fighting, unlocking, and escaping in one complete package.

Play as Knight, Archer and Wizard to collect the precious MacGuffins. Unlock outrageous gear and achieve fame & fortune. Beware! The very environment you explore will fight back, and you must make your escape before the dungeon--or your own greed--gets the best of you.

Let the MacGuffin Quest begin!

• Switch between 3 characters with unique abilities on the fly
• Customize your adventurers
• Unlock powerful AND hilarious gear and items
• Explore randomized levels for a new experience every time you play
• Experience heart-pumping escape sequences

MacGuffin's Curse is a Werewolf Comedy Puzzle Adventure following the hilarious misadventures of magician turned thief turned werewolf Lucas MacGuffin, as he uses his new-found lycan powers to escape puzzling rooms, complete quests, and pay the rent.

MacGuffin's Curse is a puzzle-adventure hybrid, with a unique spin on sokoban-style spatial puzzles, combined with a point-and-click-style adventure and story.

Machineers is a challenging puzzle adventure, set in a Machinarium-inspired industrial universe. You play as Zola, a young robot girl who starts working as an apprentice at Hayden's repair shop and wants to become a Machineer. The puzzles you encounter are broken machines that only you can bring back from the scrapyard: an owl with a broken wing, the DJ console, a neon sign, and even a coin-operated crane machine!
Once you have proven yourself as a capable Machineer, you are presented with an even greater challenge: To build your own vehicle from scratch! Do you want to build a car with 3 tires? 4? 5? Should it have front steering? Back steering? Headlights? Disco lights? Honk? Radio? YOU decide!
Drive your car through an obstacle course to the next level, where even more fantastic machines await your skillful hands: River City.

Magma Riders is an online cooperative platformer set on a dangerous volcano island. It features a fairly sophisticated level editor for everyone to create their own challenges.

From the moment it goes live, the project is meant to evolve over time. What you'll experience is the beginning of something bigger. We hope you'll enjoy it!

Chasing dreams is like walking alone on an endless road, direction is so clear but way too long...trying so hard but no one knows...is it worth it anymore? I think I am just magnetized by my insane fantasy, and no one could stop it.

In Man in a Maze we meet Chuck, the latest contestant prepared to risk it all for a chance to win sweet prizes!

All that stands between Chuck and glory is a legion of deadly robots scattered throughout a devious labyrinth filled with lethal traps and high-tech security systems. Help him sneak, trick and explode his way through the maze to win a set of superb steak knives, a new toaster, a popcorn maker, a HUGE flat-screen TV and a mountain of other fabulous prizes! Play Frenzy and Bonus levels with military-grade weaponry to get back at those pesky robots and win even more!

Chuck's willingness to risk it all for consumer goods will present the player with several confronting and profound questions such as 'Am I too, a man, in a maze?' and 'Should my new couch have a leopard print, or bumblebee?'

A project developed (almost) entirely by Lewis Mitchell, a games industry veteran of over 10 years, with credits including lead art on BAFTA-nominated deBlob, Man in a Maze is available now on Desura! Enjoy.

Maniacal Mouth is a unique creative game set in an alternative universe where everyone has a perfect smile and oral hygiene is an outlawed practice. You play a dentist and are given the opportunity to practice your talents of creativity on a willing albeit dimwitted volunteer.

You begin with two tools at your disposal but as you gain points in the oral massacre you can then trade in your points for additional tools of destruction, if a tool is purchasable it will stay highlighted in the store and you can hit the back button to return to the creative process. There's no limit for how much destruction you can perform on your patient but if you're happy with your work you can stop at any time by clicking the done button. If you want to hold on to your score just replay to carry your score over to be used to purchase more tools. The cost of each tool is still being debated and not all the tools are available in this build.

March of War is an episodic, cross-platform, free-to-play, online strategy game set in an alternate 1940's conflict, in which players fight for world domination. Six unique factions engage in vividly rendered 3D battles using a rich mix of dieselpunk inspired weapons and war machines.

Players influence the games episodic structure as they can vote (via marchofwar.isotx.com/vote4war) on content which will be available within the game. Eacht first Thursday of the month will see a new episode set to a specific theme.

A richly imagined, metroidvania, physics-platformer. Inspired by HP Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos. Explore Namaset, a city from the dawn of humanity. A city of beauty and unspeakable horror. A city built for the Old One Kraal. Unearth bizarre technologies and creatures not of this world. Delve deep into Namaset's twisted history, and make its future.

At its core, MotOO is about a unique and coherent movement mechanism. Thomas' tentacles provide a totally unique way to experience an environment, evoking novel feelings of strength, momentum, and power. Basic movement has a relaxing rhythm that quickly feels natural, but gracefully navigating a dynamic environment challenges preconceptions of character movement. Thomas doesn't swing like Spider-Man; Thomas moves like the eldritch abomination he has become.

Imagine a world where death is no longer final, where precious memories are saved to enjoy forever, where your soul is immortal, welcome to the Soul Cloud. Upload your soul to our dedicated servers and relax knowing that a part of you will live on for eternity. That favorite holiday, happy moments from your childhood, meeting that special someone for the first time. All these memories saved for your digital soul for your family to revisit again and again. The Soul Cloud - saving your past to secure your future.

Master Reboot is a haunting first person sci-fi adventure horror game set inside the Soul Cloud. It's an exploration game with action and puzzle elements set across 34 unique environments. In the not-too-distant future exists the Soul Cloud, a giant server that holds the data of your soul and your memories when you die. The Soul Cloud is filled with floating islands, each island looks like a town, village or city filled with rooms, skyscrapers and houses that hold people's memories. To house your Soul, a family member (or you before you die) must purchase an island on the Soul Cloud where the server will generate rooms, houses or skyscrapers that hold each and every memory from the deceased's past.

The game features a distinctive visual style, intriguing story-line, psychological adventure-game action and a dynamic atmospheric soundtrack. Get prepared for upload......Where am I?.....Who am I?......It's time to piece your life......and death back together.

Math Trap is a social educational game where you build security systems out of math and earn money by breaking into the protected vaults of your friends. Players create, share, and play levels containing puzzles built from interacting equations and AI characters.

Math Trap allows players to craft puzzles that require the tool of algebra to be used like a 'lock-pick' to solve them, and in that sense it does not 'teach' math. Rather, Math Trap is built to create (and allow players to create) deep and interesting obstacles in a social environment that motivate players to self-learn in order to overcome them.

Mathtronaut is completely different from any math game you've ever played. Mathtronaut aims to counter math anxiety by empowering the player. Mathtronaut empowers the player by involving them in the process from step one. The game revolves around the player creating the question they want to answer. In Mathtronaut, you are in control every step of the way, and rewards your growth. Did you build a harder question to challenge yourself? - Hey, you got a higher score! And we all know a higher score means cooler stuff and bragging rights.

But most importantly? It's a game first. It's fun. It also happens to be an exceptional teaching tool, but I won't tell if you won't...

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Everything is available, for a price!

You are Commander Gog. You open your eyes, and find yourself lost and alone in the stale air of your cracked and broken escape pod. Outside is oddly familiar, but the twin suns remind you that this is not Earth.

Surveying the damage, you see your ship, a mile off, in shambles. There's no sign of your co-pilot, your ship is broken and it's getting dark out...

A friendly merchant will gladly sell you the parts you need to fix your ship. But you'll need to run, jump and dodge your way through many exciting levels to even have a hope of affording his prices.

You'll need all the help you can get to find the broken parts of your ship, your friend, and maybe even a secret or two along the way.

McDROID is a Fusrious Arcade RTS, aka FARTS. Imaging RTYPE and Dune2 combined, economy is strawberries and McDiamonds, robots everywhere, an infested planet you heal by planting trees.
A mix of RTS-y tower defense mechanics and arcade finger twitching.

Me vs. You is a collection of three single-screen, two-player games. Circle. Line. Square. Each player takes a side of the screen, there is a quick countdown, and the battle begins.

MEG: RVO is a top-down, online multiplayer game that combines action and strategy for an intense and addictive gaming experience. The initial version will be for iPad 3 (retina display) and up.

In MEG: RVO, a sinister corporate entity known as Slate Kinetic is training remote vehicle operators, (RVOs) to explore alternate worlds. As an RVO, you can join campaigns and compete with other players using combat vehicles known as rigs. Make the best use of terrain, allies, and available assets to gain control of strategic locations within the simulated environment. This earns you SKN (pronounced "skin"), Slate's company currency, which you can use to access various rig types, weapons, armors, and defensive systems in the Slate Marketplace.

Your rig can be customized to any style of play, and what you take into combat is up to you. Use your robotic MEG Unit to deploy defenses and retrieve salvage from defeated foes. Gain combat experience to unlock more powerful equipment.

Melodive is a unique dreamlike flight experience, built to be the most fluid and immersive 3D game on iOS. Spread your wings and feel the thrill of diving into an endless, ever-changing world of form, color and music! Your only enemy: The ground.

Meltdown is the first title from Phenomenon Games, an original tactical arcade shooter, featuring great characters, deadly enemies and lots of upgradable weapons to unlock.

In this frantic 2D action game, you are part of the Mercenary Kings, the most skilled team of warriors-for-hire on Earth, but when your comrades have fallen and the fearsome forces of CLAW have seized an island-wide top secret Laboratory Base, you must do what it takes to stop them.
But you're not going in unprepared! Your back-up is made of a crew of rogue geniuses and experts of their field! Able to craft & customize guns'n'blades or upgrading body armor, you've never been this ready to join the fight.
Whether its solo or with friends, move out, cut down CLAW and save the world!

Metrico is a new world. A living world filled with infographics. You have to navigate through Metrico, while all the bar charts, line diagrams and pie charts directly react to your movement, actions and input. One bar diagram might grow for every step you walk to the left, while another could decline with every jump you make. You will have to explore Metrico and carefully analyze your every move to see how it affects the world, and whether it will get you further. This mechanic is called "Input Morphing" and it makes you think about actions you normally don't think about. Metrico is a combination between exploration, skill, experimentation, but most of all: thinking outside of the box.

Metrico is currently in development by Dutch indie Digital Dreams, exclusively for PlayStation Vita.

Mini Ini Mo is a 2D Puzzle Game for mobile platforms (Android and iOS). It gameplay involves controlling three distinct characters with focus in cooperation. Each character has specific skills and characteristics, where each characters can only perform certain tasks. Another key point in the gameplay is the combined actions. These combined actions will form groupings where the characters in them organize in different ways so they can perform different tasks.
The characters of Mini Ini Mo are creatures with unlikely physical traits; these traits define both their skills as their characteristics, creating a visual link between the characters as well as letting you know what you could do with them, individually and collectively.