Anywhere and Everywhere
October 28, 2020 3:08 AM Subscribe
The 2020 Indiecade Anywhere and Everywhere Award Winners are here, including Electric Zine Maker (Interaction Design, Previously), The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED] (Experience Design), Wide Ocean Big Jacket (Jury Prix), Mutazione (Grand Jury), Holly Gramazio (Bernie DeKoven Big Fun Award), Derek Yu (Trailblazer), Zuraida Buter (Game Changer), Tangle Tower (Performance), I Was A Teenager Exocolonist (Procedural Design), NUTS (Audio Design), Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze Detective (Visual Design), Terrarium: An Alternate Reality Game (Location Based and Live Play), Thousand Year Old Vampire (Tabletop), Sin Sol / No Sun (Impact), Journey of the Broken Circle (Narrative), Mini Motorways (Indiecade Choice).
Links in the main post go to the game page on Indiecade, but I encourage you to visit the first main Award List link, which includes the judges' comments on each winning game.
Download/buy/find out more:
Links in the main post go to the game page on Indiecade, but I encourage you to visit the first main Award List link, which includes the judges' comments on each winning game.
Download/buy/find out more:
- Electric Zine Maker (Win/Mac)
- The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED] (Win/Mac/Linux/Switch)
- Wide Ocean Big Jacket (Win/Mac/Linux/Switch/iOS)
- Mutazione (Win/Mac/Linux/PS4/Apple Arcade)
- Holly Gramazio (Mefi's own severalbees)
- Derek Yu (creator of Spelunky)
- Zuraida Buter
- Tangle Tower (Win/Mac/Switch/Apple Arcade)
- I Was A Teenager Exocolonist (Win/Mac in 2021)
- NUTS (Win/Mac in 2021)
- Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze Detective (Win/Mac/Switch/iOS/Android in 2021)
- Terrarium: An Alternate Reality Game
- Thousand Year Old Vampire (Print and Free PDF)
- Sin Sol / No Sun (iOS)
- Journey of the Broken Circle (Win/Mac/Switch/iOS)
- Mini Motorways (Apple Arcade, Win in late 2020)
Glad to see so many on Switch, and also glad to see Derek Yu getting overall recognition. That said, Spelunky 2 is kind of uninteresting to me and the people I talk to. It's maybe inherent in trying to recapture that kind of magic, because Spelunky already had two somewhat distinct versions that are among the greatest games of all time.
posted by SaltySalticid at 8:12 AM on October 28, 2020
posted by SaltySalticid at 8:12 AM on October 28, 2020
Mini Motorways feels like a more frustrating version of Mini Metro -- in my experience there's ways to trigger deadlock where cars don't make progress even though they could clearly move. And some high level jank where you don't connect 'bad' houses, or deliberately pave over places to prevent destinations from spawning there. Also, the titular motorway feature is hard to get and I'm not even sure they help.
posted by pwnguin at 10:52 PM on October 28, 2020
posted by pwnguin at 10:52 PM on October 28, 2020
I am definitely going to check some of these out! Thousand Year Vampire is intriguing.
posted by dr. moot at 4:08 PM on October 29, 2020
posted by dr. moot at 4:08 PM on October 29, 2020
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I saw the Mini Motorways listing and thought "Oh no, somebody has ripped off mini metro!" Luckily, it's the same people, and it looks awesome. Can't wait til it leaves the Apple ecosystem.
posted by dbx at 5:03 AM on October 28, 2020 [1 favorite]