2018 Competition Entrants

by EXOR Studios
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Unique fusion of a top-down shooter and tower defense strategy. You are the X-Morph - an alien species that invades Earth to harvest its resources and terraform the surface. Strategize in the build mode by carefully selecting various types of alien towers or throw yourself right into the heat of the battle. Build mazes for incoming enemies in an environment that provides exceptional planning freedom. Tear down buildings and collapse bridges to support your defense or to simply indulge in a spectacle of unprecedented destruction. Possess a range of unique alien weapons and use defense strategies like you've never seen before in this genre.

by White Lotus Interactive
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You died. Welcome to XING.

What if you had the power to go up to a gravestone, read the epitaph, and transport yourself into the lives of the departed?

Your body may be gone, but your life has just begun. In death, you will find yourself on a journey across a series of mysterious lands, an afterlife filled with the thoughts and personalities of those long lost. Follow these forgotten stories, collect artifacts, solve puzzles, and discover secrets as you make your own adventure through the mysteries of The Land Beyond.

Is death without legacy something to be feared?

Do we choose our own destiny, or is it chosen for us?

~A Puzzling Place~

XING: The Land Beyond is a fantastical, non-combative, spiritual journey through the afterlife. Along the way you are challenged to solve a myriad of puzzles which require logic, creativity, and the mastery of environmental control. In this peaceful afterlife, puzzles can be solved at your own pace. Through your journey you will learn to harness the power of the sun, the rains, the snow, and more.

XING: The Land Beyond has been developed with accessibility in mind, and conforms to color-blindness, deafness, and has no time-constrains in its puzzle design.

~Virtual Reality~

XING: The Land Beyond has full VR support for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, with options to use either SDK, as well as a range of controller options, including tracked motion controllers and traditional gamepads.

by Kenny Sun
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YANKAI'S PEAK. is a love letter to PYRAMIDS. A colorful PYRAMID-pushing puzzle game about the beauty and joy of being a sentient blue PYRAMID.

by David Su
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Yi and the Thousand Moons is a short video game musical written and developed by David Su. Through the course of several original interactive songs, featuring a full cast and live band, the game weaves a story of the archer Yi's journey to save her village.

by Ackk Studios
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On the afternoon of April 4th 1999, Sammy Pak went missing. That night, a video of her last known moments was uploaded online. Recent college graduate Alex Eggleston returns home to find himself mesmerized by the video of Sammy being pulled out of an elevator by something... otherworldly.

In YIIK: A Postmodern RPG, take a Japanese RPG-styled journey across a surreal flat-shaded '90s wonderland, rife with with complex environmental puzzles, turn-based battles blended with timing-oriented minigames, and a wild dose of strange humor and stranger events.

by Αλεξαντερ Ζελιτσενκο
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Yinyang is a video puzzle game on motives of Chinese philosophy. The task is to keep the field free combining Yings and Yangs in a proper way.

by Prideful Sloth
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Yonder is set on the massive island of Gemea, a lush frontier with eight distinct environments ranging from sunny tropical beaches to frigid snow-capped summits. Each location has its own flora and fauna, along with changing seasons and a day-night cycle. Gemea, once a paradise, still maintains the appearance of one, yet an evil murk has enshrouded the land and its people in despair.

By contributing to the island through talents like farming, crafting, cooking, fishing and brewing, relationships can be built with the locals, who offer everything from resources to a new farm as rewards.

At the heart of Yonder, is a game that delivers a sense of discovery, wrapped in a familiar yet unique adventure.

by frecle
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Waking up trapped in a tree, with no recollection of anything, you must explore a strange fragmented city floating in the sky to learn who you are and where you fit into the world.

You play a Youropean, a small humanoid with suction cups instead of feet, which allows you to walk up walls and on ceilings. You must use your unique ability to solve a constantly evolving set of challenges. You will encounter physical puzzles, riddles, ferocious enemies, environmental hazards and more, in an abstract but logical universe that challenges your perception of the 3rd dimension.

Expand the game by building your own levels, cities and creating your own characters. The entire game is created using the incredibly easy to use built-in editing tools. Construct amazing puzzles and adventures, and share them with the world.

Youropa is a game about breaking rules, being upside down and thinking outside the box.

by Zing Games Inc.
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Zombie Rollerz (Mobile) enhances the classic arcade pinball game with tower defense elements and a zombie theme. It has won several prizes, including "Most Promising Game in Development" at Casual Connect Indie Prize 2016, Winner of GamesBeat 2016 and Official Selection of Tokyo Game Show, Google Indie Game Festival, IndieCade GameTasting, and Unite'16 LA!

Now we, Zing Games, announces a new title 'Zombie Rollerz Party', the first and only pinball game that supports up to three players on the same board with intense co-op gameplay will be coming to PC and consoles next year. Call your friends and grab your controllers. Let us start a pinball party!

Features:
real-time co-op survival mode (up to 3 players)
8 heroes, each with their own playstyle. (3 heroes available in the demo)
20 unique balls with unique effects.
80+ skills to spice up your gameplay
Epic boss fights

The uploaded demo has few basic features and support controllers only. We will update more content and support keyboard/mouse in the next build.

by Edgy Games
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Zombie Teacher is an all new, fully co-operative, tough as nails arcade platformer! It's being developed by a lone developer who happens to be a full time science teacher working in London (the game is my life story you see). Trapped in Video Game Hell after a deal with the Video Game Devil backfires, it's down to you to collect 101 vintage arcade machines that will lead to your freedom!

Throughout your journey you'll experience 9 distinctive worlds, each featuring unique hand-drawn artwork ranging from 8-bit style sprites to a 2.5D experience like no other. You'll be reminded of many 16-bit gems along the way and will experience challenges and set-pieces that will trigger great amounts of joy and nostalgia. Zombie Teacher is my love letter to gaming. I hope the journey brings a smile to your face and leaves you feeling like a true Video Game Champion. (You'll have to be one to get through this journey!)

by intogames
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Relentless zombies will launch waves of attacks, the monsters will cooperate with each other, the battle will be harder and harder, you can use the drop Buff to temporarily improve the combat capability, or deal with the enemies by means of terrain. After each surviving, the settlement system will rank your combat performance: accuracy, headshot, injury, hit, etc. You should make good use of the precious breathing time between each wave to buy powerful equipment in the store, gather air-drop supplies on the battlefield, or collect the materials dropped from enemies. The higher the rating of combat, the more air-drop supplies and experience value you will get. What about the obsolete equipment? Don't worry, the recycling machine on the battlefield can recycle the obsolete weapon. Even when you get some valuable materials, you can throw the obsolete weapons and materials into the recycling machine directly to maintain your funds operation. If you are a gambler, that you can even try to use a slot machine for good fortune.Running out of ammo?You can even use your gun stock to fight!