2015 Competition Entrants

"Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes" is an asymmetrical co-op game that creates a social experience out of virtual reality. One player will wear an Oculus Rift headset and find themselves trapped in a room with a randomly generated time bomb. The other players are the "experts". They have access to a hardcopy of the bomb manual, which describes how to defuse bombs in general. They cannot, however, see what the player wearing the Rift sees. The two sides must communicate back and forth in order to determine the right steps to take to defuse the bomb. It gets loud, it gets tense, and the clock is ticking. Save your friend!

Track the Bad Guys, be brutal and smart in your planning, and eliminate them one by one. But bear this in mind: each criminal's death has to look like an accident. In each level, you'll have the chance to splatter and destroy the Bad Guy using various weapons and traps. It's up to you to make sure he ends up in the wrong place at the right time.

In this ingenious puzzle game in which physics plays an essential role, you'll need to keep a cool head and your wits about you. Show no mercy as you set out to kill the Bad Guy!

Available on PC/Mac/Linux on Steam.
http://www.ktbg-thegame.com/
http://www.exkee.com/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/293940/

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 rival Queen.

A wise King knows that his kingdom will fall.
A brave King does not despair.
A great King knows that his riches can rule,
But spends every penny with care.

In Kingdom, each coin spent can tip the balance between prosperity and decay. Attend to your domain, border to border, or venture into the wild to discover its wonders and its threats. Master the land, build your defenses, and when the darkness comes, stand with your people, crown on your head, until the very end.

Run your own Matchmaking Agency with 'help' from drag queen diva Kitty Powers!

* Match an endless parade of desperate clients with candidates from Kitty's Black Book!
* Guide them through awkward conversations and dating dilemmas!
* Unlock extra date venues, and exciting upgrades like the salon and gift shop!
* Connect with Facebook to compete with your friends and send them on dates!
* Send your avatar anonymously to other players' agencies to generate your own personal dating data!

and no in-app purchases!

Klang is at its core an evolution of traditional rythm games. Where previous games in the genre has mostly focused on pressing buttons in correct timing with the music, Klang expands upon this with adding the flair of exploration, platforming and combat.

Klang is designed around the philosophy of merging dynamic world exploration with the adrenaline rush of becoming one with the music through acting upon audiovisual queues.

Klaus is a 2D Platform/Puzzle Game that breaks the 4th wall with a twist: You can control two characters and parts of the environment. The game follows the story of Klaus, an office worker, who wakes up in a basement and with no recollection of who he is or where he's located. His only clue is the word KLAUS tattooed on his hand. While trying to escape this mechanical prison, Klaus will meet K1, a friendly brute disturbed by prolonged imprisonment. He will also become aware of the player which will create a great existential dilemma.

The game will focus on tight controls, puzzles, an elaborate narrative and will allow the player to interact with the environment in many interesting ways. This interaction will primarily come in the form of movement and rotation of objects, including platforms, jump pads and many more. During his escape, Klaus will explore every corner of this complex environment in order to discover the truth about himself.

Knight & Damsel is competitive couch multiplayer for two players, in which a knight quests to rescue a damsel and a damsel quests to rescue a knight. Players attempt to delay their opponent so their chosen hero can recieve the most glory by throwing blocks on to their opponents screen, warping the fourth wall between 2D and world space.

Knight Squad is an up to 8 players top down competitive party game where knights fight to death in an open arena.

In the midst of the chaos created by the one hit kill combats, the players have to compete for the map's objective : have the most points at the end of the timer, capture the flags as a team, survive the longest, etc. Find new weapons and power ups on the map to overtake your opponents! Battle your friends in a setting that will remind you of classics like Bomberman and Gauntlet.

Krinkle Krusher is an action tower defense where you cast elemental spells to defend your kingdom from funny creatures called Krinkles.

After several generations of peace, they happen to come back exactly when the Ancient Tree gives its first fruits in centuries… and of course a cake was made from it.

Swipe, Tap and Hold. Cast spells with intuitive gestures to defend your castle! Use the power of fire wall, ice crown, mud, energy bolt, thunder and air wave. Hit the various Krinkles weaknesses and combine your powers to keep them away. Use consumable items to stop time, distract them and improve your defenses. Upgrade your spells and castle to face the bigger Krinkle hordes and the bosses!

Kriophobia is a survival horror game with fixed camera angles based on cornerstones from the same genre. It mixes well-known gameplay themes with a new and unique art style based on graphic novels, modeled to create an immersive narrative. User interaction is based on point and click and the complete game will be published for PC and mobile.

An innovative rendering technique was developed for the game, allowing for comic book stile drawings to be rendered on highly optimized 3D environments. This mix of 2D and 3D art enables high quality scenarios with dynamic lightning even on mobile graphic cards.

KromacelliK is a game about cells, a microscopic cells flowing through the organism.
You are an special one, as you have to find the lost cells and bring them back to their places...
KromacelliK is about soft bodies, you can stretch, expand, bounce and squeeze as any cell under the microscope, but also you'll be able to kill, ride other cells, and move around a world where there's no gravity.
You'll have to learn how to move when, not all the control is in your hands, just like real life... under the microscope.
If we were microscopic, the world would be full of color.

The frantic old-school action of classic coin-op shoot-'em-ups comes crashing headlong into the 21st century with Kromaia. Explosive high-octane blasting combines with hordes of enemies in a 360˚ environment, allowing you to fly, spin and shoot anywhere and everywhere!

Where most shooters see you racing along a fixed path to blast anything in your way, Kromaia does things differently. Set in three-dimensional space, you're free not just to explore but also dodge and blast through hordes of enemies all intent on destroying you! With your objectives spread out in all directions, it's a true test of high-speed flying and sharpshooting skill – only the greatest space pilots need apply!

kRYSTLR is a matching-type game that is composed of a wrapped board with a triangular topology formed into a polyhedral 3D mesh, rather than the usual grid alignment. As such, the game is played in "3D" by rotating the board around to bring different parts into view and making matches by sliding pieces into matching sets of triangles. Time pressure and scoring are added to give the game an arcade-style feel.

The original idea for this game was to try and do a match-3 game in 3D, to see if it would work. The prototype was a rotatable 3D cube arrangement of sphere-shaped pieces. It turns out that everything underneath the surface of a three dimensional volume is not visible and therefore not very playable. So the idea evolved into what you see here. The playfield is around the surface of a sphere-shaped volume, in keeping with the rotation mechanic, and is somewhat sparsely arranged to allow for some visibility into the depths. With a bit of skill, one can see another piece queued up behind each one on the surface - these will pop up when a match is made, and can also be swapped with the outer piece as a mulligan-type move.

In a world where Viking mythology collides with magic, explore the world of KYN in a fast paced role playing strategy game that combines team based combat with exploration and progression.

Unlock the mysteries of the vast world of KYN as you explore ancient ruins, lush landscapes and snowy mountains filled with intricate puzzles and plenty of danger! Fight against a variety of intelligent enemies and use your skill and cunning to take out powerful boss enemies. Leverage the environment to create traps and defendable areas or build up special attacks.  When tactics are needed, utilize the slow motion feature, where time slows to almost zero and you can direct your heroes to an area and assign them a task to out flank, out smart and defeat your enemies!

Build a classic RPG dungeon crawling group with up to six powerful warriors and customize each with different equipment and specialized abilities to meet your needs. Allocating points in mind, body, control will build characters that fit your style or meet the challenges of the puzzles you will soon face. A deep crafting and loot system with over 100 different elemental materials is designed to help you get more powerful weapons and armor.

A true adventurer's adventure game!

Kyoto Wild is a 4-player weapon brawler about retired ronin fighting through feudal Japan.
When a village-wide brawl ignites, the former masters face off with any weapons still on hand - swords, knives, rakes, a paper fan…

Four players face off in a one-hit-kill battle.
The surviving ronin moves on to a new part of town, to face more opponents controlled by the three slain players.
And the fight goes on - the little tale of a town gone wild, in each match.

Labyrinth: Venture Forth is a first person PC game with 3D platformer, puzzle and roguelike elements, focused on exploration and discovery. A massive volcano threatens to destroy your entire village. Your objective is simple: enter the caves, find and capture the heart of the volcano, and escape alive. Lose yourself in the exploration of this rich and mysterious world.

Lamp & Vamp is a RLL (roguelike-like) game.
The game won the "best game" and "best art" of the http://proceduraldeathjam.com/ in March 2014

Tom Christiansen, http://www.gamezebo.com/2014/03/29/browser-pick-lamp-and-vamp/
"Lamp and Vamp is an enjoyable strategy game where players must navigate a vampire to his coffin through a randomly generated neighborhood, while avoiding the local neighborhood watch, determined to catch them. Movement is based on a tile system, each turn the player can move to any adjacent tile, and the vampire hunters also move one tile. The catch is that the vampire hunters have torches and flashlights, and can see ahead. If the vampire is caught in the hunter's line-of-sight, all the hunters in the neighborhood will converge and attempt to corner the vampire, resulting in death."

Adam Smith http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/03/27/lamp-and-vamp-is-the-best-fre...
"It's a puzzle game in which you play a vampire who is trying to return to his coffin. Pesky townspeople and priests block the way but using your powers (BAT-FORM, MIST-FORM, BLOODSUCKING), you can navigate the streets and find your way home. It's absolutely splendid."

And Thomas Schulenberg in http://www.joystiq.com/2014/03/30/lamp-and-vamp-vants-you-to-suck-blood-...
"If there's one thing that Lamp and Vamp has taught us, it's that being a vampire is tough." ^-^

Lamp & Vamp will be available soon on your favorite mobile device!

Lantern Forge is a sandbox crafting and building game with RPG elements. It employs an isometric perspective, allowing for fast-paced hack and slash style combat.

Players explore a massive procedurally generated world where nearly everything can be harvested for use. Find vegetables and plants to grow in a garden or cook them for dozens of meals and potions. Dig underground to find ore for tools, weapons, and armor. Fight monsters for rare items and experience toward a variety of class trees to improve combat and survival skills. Build a home to store loot and attract villagers to buy and sell items.

Leo's Fortune is a platform adventure game where you hunt down the cunning and mysterious thief that stole your gold. Beautifully hand-crafted levels bring the story of Leo to life in this epic adventure.

• VOYAGE
through lush environments from mossy forests and arid deserts, to pirate cities and snowy mountains.
• SURVIVE
vicious traps and solve physics-based puzzles through 24 levels of treacherous platform adventure.
• FOLLOW
the trail of gold and uncover the truth behind Leo's stolen fortune in this award-winning platformer.

Control real life robots via twitch.tv through chat commands, while watching the live video feed from the robot's onboard camera.

Lethal League is a competitive projectile fighting game where you have to hit an anti-gravity ball into the face of your opponent to win. The ball speeds up with every strike, up to explosively extreme velocities.

The basics of the game are super easy to pickup, you have to hit the ball back before it hits you. However, each playable character has its own unique playstyle with different hit angles, movement abilities and of course supermoves. Together with the ever increasing speed of the ball this results in very intense matches where quick reflexes and predicting your opponent are needed to win the game.

Lie to the Devil is a single player game where the player is left alone in a room to have a conversation with a strange computer AI that eventually wants to hurt him. Not For Children.

Life Goes On is a comically-morbid platformer where you guide heroic knights to their demise and use their dead bodies to solve puzzles. On your quest to find the Cup of Life, you will summon knight after knight to be brutally sacrificed. Impale knights on spikes to create a safe path. Catch a knight on a saw blade (ouch!) to strategically land the body on a button. Freeze your knights into blocks of ice to reach higher ground. As you journey through treacherous and trap-ridden worlds, you'll show no mercy to solve each challenging puzzle.

In Life Goes On, death is not a setback. It is the only means to success.

The game begins with the discovery that the cute babies of Totems, a colorful undiscovered species, have lost their way in an ancient labyrinth tomb. In order to reunite the children with their parents Gamers can turn, touch and tweak the screen of their mobile devices to move the Totems that illuminate a certain colour. By positioning these Totems so that their rays of light reach and awaken their slumbering lost children, the gamer can rescue the babies and advance to a more difficult level.

As the player progresses new mechanics are introduced to block, bounce and blend light in hopes of saving the tiny Totems. These will include: boxes, mirrors, lenses, sensors, and pressure pads to name a few. However beware! There are also monsters in the darkness that are best left undisturbed...

Lost Cave is a 2D side-scrolling platformer where the player explores the depths of a strange cave. The player possesses the ability to shift the perspective of the camera that views the world, allowing them to change the size and position of objects in the foreground and background of the environment. This manipulation of the world allows the player to solve puzzles and overcome obstacles to progress deeper into the cave. It was originally created as part of the 2014 Global Game Jam, based on the theme phrase "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." This led us to create a game where your view of the world effects how the world exists.

Stranded after his ship is destroyed in deep space, Harrison, a lowly maintenance worker and our hero must struggle to find his way home...

LOST ORBIT is a fast paced and deadly dodge 'em up. Players take control of a lone astronaut (Harrison) who embarks on a dangerous journey to rejoin his civilization. Armed with only an improvised set of equipment and a relentless spirit, Harrison will need to speed his way across four systems, survive over 40 levels of intense challenges, and confront not only his mortality, but what lurks in the darkness...

Set in a world rich with comedy and tragedy, LOST ORBIT is a game filled with risk, loneliness, wonder, and death. Coming soon to Steam!

Love Connection is an isometric colour based puzzle game for iPhone and iPad. It's a narrative driven game telling the story of Mr Yellow block as he goes in search of his lost wife who says she's just gone to the park. By drawing paths for Mr Yellow and other coloured blocks that you meet along the way, you reunite long lost lovers with their missing partners that they have been searching so long for. Love Connection follows Mr Yellow over the course of a year, taking you through Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter in his world as he tracks down his lost wife.

This game was originally conceived for Ludum Dare 26, where it finished amongst the top 10 games overall. The theme was minimalism, and that theme has stuck with me as I took this original jam entry through to its natural conclusion as a full, story based game.

You can download Love Connection from the App Store here:
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/love-connection./id889736798?ls=1&mt=8

With boots of speed on your feet, an infinite supply of bullets for your semi-automatic and the ability to jump over twice your own height, you're well equipped to go up against any enemy on your quest. You'll find yourself trying to balance between jumping around dodging bullets and taking aim for a better shot at your enemies. The gameplay, should you choose to play a particular style, doesn't involve camping at cover spots and waiting for enemies to pop out. Defeat the baddies and avoid the onslaught of bullets to get to the next stage - perhaps it's a kind of play not suited for a 3D First Person Shooter game, but Lovely Planet hopes to translate the old formula into a version of its own anyway.

Lumino City is a puzzle adventure game, and the sequel to Lume. Three years in the making, it's handmade entirely out of paper, card, miniature lights and motors.

Lumino City begins where Lume left off. Begin by exploring the city, and using your ingenuity piece together all sorts of puzzling mechanisms to help the people who live in its unique world. Discover gardens in the sky, towers marooned high on an immense waterwheel, and houses dug precariously into cliffs. To create the environment, a ten foot high model city was built by hand and by laser cutter, with each motor and light wired up individually, bringing the scenes to luminous life.

Deceptively simple. Infinitely complex.

LYNE is a minimalist puzzle game that will knot your brain as it calms your soul.

Connect the shapes. Fill the board.

Lose yourself in the interflowing paths of LYNE.

The player controls a black distorted dot – black matter – in a top-down view. While picking up other black dots the character gains size and health. The challenges include moving around planets with a gravitational pull and avoiding forces of evil that try to damage you. Along the game, the player is shown that these forces of evil capture the black dots and want to keep them for themselves. The player is sent out to free all the black dots from these forces of evil.

The game is designed with an easy and intuitive approach to its gameplay, embedding the player for coming challenges. No player will not be able to enjoy Macrocosm and neither will thou be able to stop the flow..

Mage rage is a digital Collectible Card Game about old Mages who forgot how to use magic.
Too stubborn to admit it, wizards now rely on spells which mostly consist of different variations of heavy objects and kinetic force.
Join the Arcane University staff and show the other Mages that you are the only one of the proud title of Mage! Use combination of stealth, magic and brute force (mostly brute force) and guide your arthritis-ridden hero to top ranks of Arcane university!

Magna Polaris, an immense and strange mountain. Delve into its depths, uncover its secrets and share them with the world; For the time IS at hand.

Magnetic By Nature explores platforming without platforms. Experience a swift, single-player adventure mixing fluid motion, split-second decision making, stylized machine-age visuals, and a dynamic soundscape. As the last remaining robot, journey through forgotten ruins to reactivate your friends. Successfully funded on Kickstarter and winner of both the Best Developed Game and Audience Choice awards at the 2013 Utah Game Wars competition, MBN is the debut title from Team Tripleslash.

Create a one-of-a-kind Makie doll and design fantastic clothes and accessories for her in Makies Fashion: the most creative doll fashion-maker ever built! Spend countless hours creating fashion designs with the fabric customiser, then apply your designs to tops, dresses, jewellery, shoes and more. Create an endless variety of unique looks, and shoot fabulous fashion photos of your Makie as she wears your creations in a catwalk show. Dress Up has never been this fun and creative, and you get the full experience with a single purchase.

"Malebolgia" is an atmospheric horror action/adventure, set in a demonic palace, situated in the deepest Circle of Hell. The characters and story are inspired by Dante Alighieri's "Inferno", the ranks and nobility of the "Ars Goetia" and European history at the dawn of the 20th century.

As the old and battle-weary Leopold, you are forced to fight your way through this desolate and cold bastion of Hell, filled with macabre ghouls, fiendish devils and gargantuan monsters. On his desperate quest for freedom, Leopold encounters some familiar faces and slowly comes to realize why he is trapped inside the palace, and if he can truly escape from the beastly Emperor of Hell himself.

Mark of the Old Ones (MotOO) is a 2.5D Metroidvania physics platformer. Inspired by some of our favorite games such as Metroid and Zelda, as well as by the mythos of HP Lovecraft. We modernize the classics by adding dynamic inverse kinematic animation to the mix; giving you the ability to explore and interact with the game world in ways that you never have before, in ways that will quickly become natural to your fingers, brain, and gamer soul.

Metroidvania game play with truly satisfying ability hardlock obstacles, puzzles and enemies that take full advantage of the physics engine and IK system.

Careful attention to the difficulty curve, giving you time to master your abilities, yet constantly pushing you to new heights.

Game play focused on a few core game mechanics.

Take a twisted version of "Hot Potato," a bunch of lovable robots, hilarious commentary, and what do you get? MASHBALL! It's the chaotic, arena combat sports broadcast you never knew you loved! Mashball features FREE4ALL and 2V2 game modes, two unique level sets, and a plethora of power-ups. Choose your favorite "tater-bot" and challenge your friends. With support for up to four players, it's fun for everyone! Mashball is the greatest potato sport ever created...because it's the only one.

A hybrid of classic 'Zork-like' text adventures and color based puzzle match games like string-match and minesweeper. You navigate your broken memories, making decisions and solving puzzles as a confusing, complex, cryptic, and at times dark story unfolds in the text based world around you.

You are meant to be confused. The story begins as a sparse linear narrative, but as you become familiar with the world, and as the story progresses, puzzles become more complex and entire chapters eventually become meta-puzzles that must be completed in order to move forward, but even then, this story is as much about the journey as the struggle.

In Mayan Death Robots, you play a massive alien robot who dukes it out in a deathmatch during the peak of the Maya civilization, 1500 years ago. Your tiny Mayan tribe, who think their god has descended from the heavens, will worship you and aid you in battle. The real Mayan gods, however, do not take kindly to this blasphemous robot worship, and will enter the fray as well. When this happens, the game turns into a co-op game where both players have to fight the common enemy before they can continue blasting each other again.

Mayan Death Robots is a blend between a fighting game and an artillery game (think Worms). You pick an alien robot with unique abilities from the roster and fight each other in levels that you can completely destroy or rebuild as you see fit. During tournaments, the robots can be upgraded, unlocking new tactics and strategies. While you are playing, you traverse 1000 years of Mayan history as you decipher the mysterious Mayan Calendar. As time passes on, you acquire new robots, weapons and levels and experience historic Mayan events, changing the way you play the game.

Mech breaker is a 3D cyberpunk style mobile online action game (online ACT) based on unity3D engine. In the future mechanical world, Mech breakers are growing up by fighting and looting. Mech breaker use lock-free even strokes attack mechanisn to providing smooth fight experience. With Film-lens adaptation mechanism, the game provide the immersion sense as watching a 3d movie. With a high-degree-freedom assembly mechanism, Mech breaker provides virtually unlimited combinations for people to discover.

As you discover the secrets of your solar system, you'll unlock new forms for your giant transforming robot, as well as upgrades to each form. Each form and upgrade incorporates mechanics from classic arcade games. You can smoothly shift from one form to another to respond to the various threats and puzzles you'll encounter on your mission. The games whose mechanics inspired Mechagami's main forms include Space Invaders, Asteroids, Missile Command, and Defender, though many other classic game mechanics are referenced and explored.

Mechagami features several 2D worlds with different themes, enemies, and gravity. Once you've unlocked space-travel, you can simply fly out into space, and then navigate to any of the other planets. (While clearing asteroids and enemies, of course)

Don't you think that superhero games, with their limited/static/indestructible landscapes and politically correct style, don't transmit the sense of power and freedom of movement, that these characters apparently have in other media?

Megaton Rainfall is a FPS with experimental gameplay and ambitious technology. You control a superhero that can, among other things, accelerate from 0 to mach 10 in 5 seconds, destroy skyscrapers (unintentionally) when he misses the target, and fly around the real size Earth (and in fact across the entire observable universe: ten thousand quintillion solar systems).

Mekazoo is a flowy, fast 2.5D platformer, with vibrant and fully 3D worlds that can be explored and conquered with a kinetically-diverse cast of Mekanimals. Progressively unlock five playable animals through epic Mekanimal boss battles, and traverse insect-infested levels to the tune of the eclectic original soundtrack. Quickly transform between two Mekanimals at a time to make even the most dangerous challenge a thrill to conquer.

The emulator of an obscure research system is spreading across the internet, origin unknown. Following a trail of files littering the RELICS virtual desktop, you trespass into the remains of a frozen data stream. But when the stream begins to thaw, no system can handle this overflow...

Meriwether is an RPG based on the historic Lewis and Clark Expedition. As Captain Meriwether Lewis, you'll join forces with your long-time friend and former commanding officer, William Clark, and with him you'll form the Corps of Discovery, a party of hand-picked soldiers, interpreters, and hunters to whom you'll trust your life every day of your epic journey from D.C. to the Pacific, and back. It's an impossibly dangerous mission. The odds of even surviving the arduous trek are slim at best. But if you do succeed, your voyage will change the course of history, not just for the fledgling United States, but for the entire world.

Merrily Perily is a game about crisis. You play as Perry, a severely dehydrated man who stumbles into a remote village in search of help, but the inhabitants respond with strange detachment to your trouble. You may think that the nearby fountain is a safe means to quench your dire thirst, but you would soon find yourself in search of aid for a snake bite. And before you know it, you will be chased by bees, fending off bears, cursed by gypsies, and most likely on fire.

Metamorphabet is a playful, interactive alphabet.

The 26 letters of the alphabet are presented as a series of luminous and surprising transformations.

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 of exploration, skill, experimentation, but most of all: thinking outside of the box.

Metrico is a PlayStation VITA exclusive, using multiple hardware features and features a soundtrack by Dutch synth hero Palmbomen.