PAX 10 Independent Games Showcase 2009 Winners Announced
The votes are in and the winners announced for the ultra exclusive "Pax 10." Each year the folks at PAX choose from hundreds of entries to pick the ten best independent games of the year. This year's winners have ben announced and you can check them out with the handy dandy links provided below...
- CarneyVale: Showtime by the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Games Lab (Xbox 360)
- Closure by Tyler Glaiel and Jon Schubbe (PC)
- Fieldrunners by Subatomic Studios (iPhone/iPod touch)
- Liight by Studio Walljump (Wii)
- Machinarium by Amanita Design (PC)
- Osmos by Hemisphere Games (PC)
- Puzzle Bloom by Team Shotgun (PC)
- Tag: The Power of Paint by Tag Team (PC)
- Trino by Trinoteam (Xbox 360)
- What is Bothering Carl? by Story Fort (PC)
While all the games look great, my vote goes to Machinarium (shown in video above) for pure artistic weirdness. Something about it just speaks to me. Good luck to all of them and let's cross our fingers we see a breakout hit along the lnes of the fantastic World of Goo.
Fruit Brute
Posted to Hot Stuff, Video Games, Videos on 16 July 2009
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My bet is on Machinarium. I pre-ordered my copy last week.
I'll definitely check out some of these others, though; thanks for the links! (:
CarneyVale Showtime and Trino are both wonderful games that I highly recommend. Trino especially is highly addicting. I feel like CarneyVale might be cheating a little since it was released last year, but I guess if they're doing "years" as from one PAX to another then it qualifies.
Mechinarium looks amazing, and after playing other Amanita Design games I Pre-ordered it immediately. I suggest others do the same.
http://www.machinarium.com/preorder.html
Machinarium looks cool, but Puzzle Bloom is really impressive. You can actually play it at their website right now from Fruit Brute's link! Just install the Unity Player and you're good to go.
It is in a similar style of artsy-puzzle-solving, but it strikes me as having a hell of a lot of personality.