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Titles We’ve Exhibited

  • ?̶̏̍?̶̈́͒?̶̋͝?̶̂̎?̷̋́?̷͊̓?̴͝? Preview
    ?̶̏̍?̶̈́͒?̶̋͝?̶̂̎?̷̋́?̷͊̓?̴͝?

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  • 0Space

    Teknopants

    A local multiplayer zero gravity deathmatch game inspired by “Ender’s Game”, by Orson Scott Card.

  • 1000 Button Project

    Amanda Hudgins

    A 3D fighting game in which attacks, visuals, and sounds are mapped to 100 buttons and continuously randomized. The ultimate button masher experience.

  • 4Ever Transit Authority

    turnfollow

    Explore a procedurally generated city.

  • A Game of Foams Preview
    A Game of Foams

    Gigantic Mechanic

    Three teams square off with each other in this turn-based game of foam-sword fighting.

  • A Moment Free from Darkness

    Inflatable Reality

    A serious game about the experience of a young girl in Cambodia who was sold into sex slavery.

  • A Noise Monster Preview
    A Noise Monster

    Jon Cates, Jake Elliott

  • Action Painting Pro

    Ian MacLarty

    Discover your inner Pollock with Action Painting Pro creative software for Windows and Macintosh home computers.

  • AEROBAT

    Matthew Yaeger

    Aerobat is an absurdly high-speed arcade shmup-like

  • AFTERGLOW

    Jerry Belich

    A retro, rotary dial controlled missile simulator game in a briefcase.

  • All My Exes are in Mechsuits Preview
    All My Exes are in Mechsuits

    Anna Anthropy

    A three-player role-playing game inspired by mech anime.

  • Anatomy

    Kitty Horrorshow

    Explore a suburban house, collect cassette tapes, study the physiology of domestic architecture.

  • Anyball

    Team Anyball

    Inspired by Calvinball and playground games kids make up on the fly. A chaotic, comical, and physics-based local multiplayer game where sports are randomly mixed together every time you play.

  • APE OUT

    Gabe Cuzzillo

    A wildly intense and colorfully stylized smash‘em up about primal escape, rhythmic violence, and frenetic jazz.

  • Arcade Backpack

    UCLA Game Lab

    THE ULTIMATELY PORTABLE ARCADE MACHINE DESIGNED TO BE WORN AS A BACKPACK

  • Are You With Us?

    Allen Michael-Brower, Josh Grilli, Carson Mauthe, Mint, Slend/Syn, Jules

    Are You With Us? was a game discovered in the crawl space under the crawl space right under the local Goodwill. The video cassette and it’s manual have been lying dormant waiting for an unsuspecting soul to prey on. That day has finally arrived. Peeling open the dusty pages of what suspiciously looks like an old algebra notebook reveals dark secrets. This video and it’s notebook has the last kept record of communication with the dead. It was only a matter of time until this fell into the wrong hands… Yours. Don’t think this instructional video doesn’t come with a price…

  • ARENA GODS

    Supertype

    A top-down, arena fighting game where 2 to 4 gladiators compete for the crowd’s favor in an anything goes death match spectacle. You are a gladiator. Brave the arena and win the crowd to seize godhood.

  • Art Club Challenge

    Jarryd Huntley

  • Asta Grande

    Pietro Righi Riva

    Asta Grande is a drop-in, drop-out crowd game for 30 people where you experience a pretend auction of legendary items.

  • Astro Duel

    Rusty Moyer

    Astro Duel is a competitive multiplayer game; rounds are quick and death is sudden.

  • Baba is You

    Hempuli

  • Bad Detectives Preview
    Bad Detectives

    Forced Output

    Build a Story. Solve the Murder. Discredit your Friends. Bad Detectives is a tile-based card game designed for 3-4 players and takes 45-60 minutes to play.

  • Bamboo EP

    Sokpop Collective

  • BaraBariBall

    Noah Sasso, Strange Flavor

    A competitive sports game for two or four players.

  • Battle Chef Brigade

    Trinket Studios

  • becalm

    Colorfiction

  • BECOME A GREAT ARTIST IN JUST 10 SECONDS

    Andi McClure, Michael Brough

    “Have you ever dreamed of being an Artist? Although this was not possible before, now it is because we have made a computer program.” – Developers

  • Beglitched

    Hexecutable

  • Belette Hell

    La Team Belettes

  • Bellular Hexatosis

    Porpentine, Neotenomie

    A game about sisters who live on the purple sea and one of them is sick

  • Bernband

    Tom van den Boogaart

    Explore the city of the pff.

  • Big Fish / Little Fish

    Denver Coulson, Ben Sironko

  • BIRDLAND

    Brendan Patrick Hennessy

  • BLACK BIRD

    Onion Games

    Become the Black Bird in this dark-fantasy shooting game with an operatic twist! This is the tale of a young girl who dies a pitiful death, but is reborn as the calamitous Black Bird whose destiny is to destroy the kingdom.

  • Block Party

    Gigantic Mechanic

  • Bloodrage Fight Club

    Miki Straus, Kana Mellon

    An immersive tropical fight-club themed event featuring a game built just for that night.

  • Bomb Dolls

    Girl Software

  • Borb the Birb

    Ludonaut

  • Botolo

    Ian Snyder

  • Boxer

    Cukia Kimani and Ben Crooks

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