The Heroes Around Me tells a story of a family of 3: the hard-working and quiet father – Nan, his daughter Lili, and their pet dog Sesame. Players will experience the harshness and warmth in the simpler time of the 1990s, where lots of stories are untold.
OKJOY Game Studio, an indie game studio and publisher with a group of experienced game developers and game enthusiasts.
Beacon Pines is a cute and creepy adventure game. Sneak out late, make new friends, uncover hidden truths, and collect words that will change the course of fate!
The common thread between all Hiding Spot Games projects is feeling. The music, art, story, and gameplay all serve that common goal. Hiding Spot Games is an indie game developer based in Austin Texas, with team members scattered around the globe. Their previous game, Flipping Legend, is the highest rated iOS game on MetaCritic for all of 2017. Before that, they made Ephemerid, a musical adventure game that won the IGF award for excellence in audio. Their newest game, Beacon Pines, is their most ambitious project yet.
Poem Simulator is an FPS that simulates the abstract process of poem-crafting. The user is invited to explore the ontological debris of a dreamy, semantically-ordered universe, suspending objects from three floating cubes, each representing a resultant stanza. Through arbitrary selection, a new poem-object is born: experiences reshuffle, ideas forcibly enmesh, sub-syntactic counter-currents reverse their course. The user will find this process pleasurable and noteworthy.
August is a poet in Austin, TX. It’s me. I’m writing this. August is me.
Game with slug "2022-09-22-scrolling-exorcise" not found in the collection.
s/f/wønderland is: a research project; a web-based painting tool; a mixed-media installation piece; a visual library; a participatory creative experiment; an online labyrinth; … which explores fandom cultures as a transgressive and creative space for queer liberation, particularly in the context of state-enforced media censorship in Malaysia and Singapore.
they/he mfa in media arts ucla ‘24 | ucla game lab
interested in artistic research + archival practice via experimental games, websites and video + animation
Inspired by Flash games, CECE Sings is an interactive narrative that takes note from glitch feminism. Based on a memory, the story follows a fifth grade Celine on an emotional rollercoaster to potential superstardom. In conversation with the idealizations of the popstar and the cyborg, CECE Sings confronts your Y2K fantasies.
Celine Lassus (b. 1999, Tampa, FL) is a digital native first, artist second. Based in Austin, TX, they work across interactive visual essays (or what you could call games), performance, video and installation.
Escape into a fun and beautiful world filled with the best mini golf courses you’ve ever seen! Play by yourself, meet someone new, or challenge your friends in a private game with up to 8 people. Extremely realistic physics create the perfect experience for hardcore golfers and casual players alike. Sink a perfect hole-in-one, search for lost balls, unlock hidden clubs, or just relax and take in the views from one of our 16 included courses. The golf is miniature, but the fun is huge!
Based in Austin, Texas, Mighty Coconut is an entertainment studio serving up animation and cutting edge AR/VR games—since 2014.
Owlchemy Labs’ newest title, Cosmonious High, is an alien high school that’s definitely completely free of malfunctions! After crash-landing your way into a memorable first day, you’ll unlock powers, explore the halls, and discover the source of malfunctions to save the school from cosmic chaos.
Owlchemy Labs is an XR studio with a passion for polished, playful VR games and experiences. Founded in 2010 and based out of Austin, TX, we believe that natural, spatial interactions make virtual reality the ultimate destination for new forms of gameplay and immersion. We love building experiences for everyone: oozing with style, absurdly funny, and with ground-breaking accessibility to bring more joy to more people. Acquired by Google in 2017, Owlchemy continues to share its pioneering experiments and VR best practices through blog posts, white papers, and talks around the globe to improve VR for Everyone.
Start your own cult in a land of false prophets, venturing out into diverse and mysterious regions to build a loyal community of woodland Followers and spread your Word to become the one true cult.
DEVOLVER DIGITAL purveyors of fine digital entertainment wares from independent artists worldwide. A BOUTIQUE GAME LABEL OWNED AND OPERATED BY a team that replies to Slack threads with a non-stop deluge of hilarious gifs and passive aggressive shots at one another. DESPITE OUR DIFFERENCES A COLLECTION OF INDIVIDUALS works with independent developers from all over the world to produce and promote some of the most original, eccentric, and beloved games of the past decade.
Massive Monster is an award winning indie developer made up of one really big monster and his three “pets” who help him achieve his game making dreams. We maintain a core focus on personality and play. We create worlds in which everything has a story and around every corner is a new adventure. Massive Monster is located in Melbourne, Australia and the United Kingdom.
The Electronic Game Developers Society (EGaDS!) is a group of interdisciplinary game development lovers at UT Austin! We are a community of UT students and faculty, industry professionals, and others who aim to promote learning and practicing game development through speaker nights, art and Unity workshops, Texas Game Jam (TXGJ), our annual game developers conference called GDC^2, and more!
The Electronic Game Developers Society is an interdisciplinary student organization open to all UT students with an interest in game development. Our mission is to help students grow as developers while fostering a supportive and welcoming community. We welcome students of all disciplines and skill levels.
Games Y'all is a meetup presented by The Museum of Human Achievement. We endeavor to celebrate, amplify, and support the unique and underrepresented within indie games and beyond.