Indie Games

Indie Games

Welcome to the Indie Game Exhibition Hall, where innovation, creativity, and passion converge to bring you the next wave of gaming experiences! This is an open space for independent developers to offer a first-hand look at their games for all interested to try them out. The hall exhibits interactive demo stations and is an opportunity to meet the creators behind the games, chat about their development process, and even provide direct feedback.

Tom Lander: The Exiled King

Heavy Photon presents Tom Lander, a retro combat flight sim. It utilizes a highly unique control scheme that gives you full control of individual thrusters of Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) vehicle. Prepare to fly an aerial vehicle like never before!

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Atmocopter / unTied Games

Play Atmocopter, the side-scrolling platformer game featuring a helicopter robot! Blast bad bots as you navigate Atmocopter through a dangerous mechanical factory. Use Atmocopter’s arms to grab crates, hover platforms, and more to solve puzzles!

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Aarimous & Thornity

A small team of indie game devs who love to craft games focused on delighting our players with chill experiences and well paced number go up style incremental games.

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Veridian Expanse

Drill, craft, and blast your way through winding caverns. Upgrade your utility pod with plasma cannons, missiles, and laser drills. Build an army of tireless drones to do your bidding. You are going to need every advantage to venture deep into the asteroid’s secrets if you want to repair the ship and make your escape. Discover the genesis of this place, or become its lunch.

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Snakemod

SnakeMod is an in-development, snake themed, roguelike deckbuilding game. Mod your snake and build your deck to make number get big and snake get long!

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Dice Gun Commando

Guns roll dice. Dice trigger mods. Mods cause MAYHEM! Save the world from invading cosmic horrors by building crazy synergies with dice-driven weaponry.

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SEAR Prototype by Temerity Games

SEAR is what music racing was always meant to be – intense, full-control racing infused by equally intense music, each complimenting the other to form a new gameplay experience. While this prototype is a work in progress, we promise you’ve never played anything like it. Come check it out and let us know if we’re on the right track.

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Rob Stenzinger Games

Rob Stenzinger Games presents: Word Turtle Island has both a cozy library and nature dungeon action to rescue books and readers from danger. Award winning at 2D Con 2025, Teacher Approved on Google Play. Lexilotl is crossword puzzle run. Each run is about careful letter guessing, and a just-one-more puzzle flow. Reveal the words and keep your axolotls safe. Cozy intellectual word game.

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