PAX East Indie Showcase

PAX East Indie Showcase

Each year we showcase a collection of the best indie games you’ve never heard of available on mobile platforms.


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Our submission period has ended for 2013, but check out this year's winning entries!

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Little Chomp

Little Chomp

Developer
ClutchPlay Games
Platform
iOS, Android
Genre
Action / Arcade
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The Chompwood Kingdom is loaded with fruit, but it’s going to take a daring caterpillar named LITTLE CHOMP to get it!

One part classic platformer, one part physics puzzler, ClutchPlay challenges you to brave three unique worlds in a quest to chomp the tastiest fruit and collect the rarest butterflies. Take aim, fling from leaves, spring off mushrooms, collect all the loot and solve every challenge, all while dodging dangerous enemies in this fast-paced touchscreen climber!

Little Chomp features 54 levels, 162 skill challenges, and 108 unique butterflies for hours of climbing, collecting, and chomping!

Major Magnet

Major Magnet

Developer
PagodaWest Games
Platform
iOS, Android
Genre
Orbiting Platformer
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A new hero is making his way to mobile devices soon and although he doesn’t know it yet, he’s going to save the world with an all new style of platforming! It’s up to you to swing, toss, and boost Major Magnet through an adventure unlike any the mobile world has seen before.

Orion’s Forge

Orion’s Forge

Developer
Trinket Studios
Platform
iOS, Android
Genre
Puzzle Narrative
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Orion’s Forge is a brain-teasing puzzle narrative where players help the celestial smith Orion create new stars. As each challenge is completed, a whimsically illustrated alien fable unfolds to become a new constellation.

Saturday Morning RPG

Saturday Morning RPG

Developer
Mighty Rabbit Studios
Platform
iOS
Genre
RPG
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Saturday Morning RPG is an episodic role-playing game set in world heavily inspired by 1980s Saturday morning cartoons. Players take the role of Martin “Marty” Michael Hall, an average high-school student who has just been granted an incredible power. This power leads him to attract the ire of the world’s most notorious villain, Commander Hood.

Saturday Morning RPG features a turn-based battle system that incorporates interactive events to keep players on their toes. As Marty, the player fights battles by wielding magical powers associated with nostalgic items.  Such items include a stuffed bear which launches a deadly rainbow from Marty’s chest and a transforming action figure which turns Marty into a semi-truck to run over his enemies. Saturday Morning RPG also features an amazing soundtrack by legendary composer Vince DiCola (Transformers, Rocky IV) and his composing partner Kenny Meriedeth.

Spaceteam

Spaceteam

Developer
Henry Smith
Platform
iOS
Genre
Party
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Spaceteam is a co-op iOS party game for 2 to 4 players who shout technobabble at each other until their ship explodes.  Each player is assigned a random control panel with buttons, switches, sliders, and dials. You need to follow time-sensitive instructions. However, the instructions are being sent to your teammates, so you have to coordinate with them before the time runs out. Also, the ship is falling apart. And you’re trying to outrun an exploding star.  Good luck. And remember to work together… as a Spaceteam!

Third Eye Crime

Third Eye Crime

Developer
Moonshot Games
Platform
iOS
Genre
Puzzle / Stealth
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Master art thief Rothko has a unique gift: the ability to read minds. With this talent he can infiltrate any location, make off with any prize. But he has attracted the attention of a shadowy master criminal known only as “Caravaggio,” and he is about to be pulled into a city-wide conspiracy. But who is behind it all? And who is playing whom?

Third Eye Crime is Moonshot’s unique take on the stealth/puzzle genre. Use Rothko’s telepathic abilities to sneak your way through 8 chapters of sneaky, heisty fun. Outplay and outwit clever AI that are hell-bent on keeping their stuff!

Featuring gorgeous noir-inspired graphic novel interstitials and a soulful jazz soundtrack, Third Eye Crime is a fiendishly clever stealth puzzle game with a serious noir twist.

Time Surfer

Time Surfer

Developer
Kumobius
Platform
iOS
Genre
Action / Arcade
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The end of time is after you. Everything will end, again and again. Time Surfer mashes up two very different game ideas: Tiny Wing’s simple physics slingshot gameplay and Braid’s mind-bending time reversal. The result? A twitch-based time rewinding action game following the inevitable march of time, the universe and everything in between. Surf until your doom catches up - then rewind time and keep going! Avoid spikes, pits and the end of the universe - it’s a typical, never-ending day in the life of a trans-dimensional cosmic time god!