With the death of the giant laser show / burlesque club that was the old E3, and the rise of what it supposedly a toned-down, more exclusive new E3, it feels like independent games are the smart, well-dressed classmates that are getting invited to a teaparty that E3’s mom is making him have for his birthday instead of the huge kegger he wanted to throw for CliffyB. This is courtesy of Indiecade, which, in this analogy, would be like indie games’s mom, who called E3’s mom and convinced her to invite indie games because she felt they were spending too much time on their homework and needed to have some fun. In the end, E3 has a great time and with the help of his new friends (and the magic of montage) he actually raises his GPA to a C+ and gets his high school diploma.
Check out the line-up after the extended. It’s a good crop of games and developers:
Hands-On Demos
8, by Tale of Tales
And Yet It Moves, by Vienna Institute of Technology
Braid by Jonathan Blow
Cloud, by That Game Company
Everyday Shooter, by Jon Mak, Queasy Games
Fijuu2, by Julian Oliver and Pix
N, by Metanet Software
Night Journey, by Bill Viola with Tracy Fullerton, USC
Revolution, by MIT Education Arcade
Rumble Box, by Digipen
Whyville, by New Medeon
Video Compilation
Arcade Wire, by Persuasive Games
Bone, by Telltale Games
Can You See Me Now, by Blast Theory
Freedom Fighter 56, by Lauer Learning
Game Over (Machinima), by Pes
[giantJoystick] (Installation), by Mary Flanagan
Out of Your Mind, by gameLab
Steam Brigade, by Pedestrian Entertainment
(Source: Kotaku)