Exhibition | A MAZE. Berlin

The A MAZE. Indie Connect exhibition is one important module of the event, featuring the nominees and hot indie game productions and playful interfaces created by international artists and game designers.

O.R.pheus

Evelyn Hribersek (DE)

O.R.pheus questions the human aspiration to overcome boundaries and death.

Spaceteam

Henry Smith (CA)

Spaceteam is a cooperative party game for 2 to 4 players who shout technobabble at each other until their ship explodes.

ERVAX for 2

Monrad & Nielsen (DK)

An interactive art piece, ERVAX is both a game and a compositional too. Even though it looks and plays like an arcade game, the point is that the players are creating music.

Panoramical

Fernando Ramallo & David Kanaga (MX)

Panoramical is an interactive musical landscape controlled with a repurposed DJ device. Players alter the scene with sliders and knobs, gradually changing the world's shapes and sounds.

Sneaksneak

Frambosa (NL)

Sneaksneak is a cooperative sneaking game for two players focused on teamwork, timing and stealth. The game challenges players to truly work together which in turn triggers communication about the game.

Reus

Abbey Games (NL)

In Reus you take control of nature through the hands of mighty giants. You possess powers like terraforming, life creation, and genetic manipulation. Mankind escapes this control.

The Gaudy Woods

Rice 'n' Potato (DE)

Take a walk through a wonderous landscape with special residents who communicate in their very own way. Their peculiar characters will join you on the trip through a slightly different nature.

The Bridge

Ty Taylor/ Mario Castaneda (US)

The Bridge is a 2D logic puzzle game that forces the player to reevaluate their preconceptions of physics and perspective. It is Isaac Newton meets M. C. Escher.

Haunt the House: Terrortown

SFB Games (UK)

"...What was that sound? Is somebody there? Leave the dusty halls of an abandoned clock tower to haunt your way through a town in the dead of night!

Dear Esther

The Chinese Room (UK)

Dear Esther is a pure-story game that immerses you in a stunningly realised world, a remote and desolate island somewhere in the outer Hebrides. As you step forwards, a voice begins to read fragments of a letter.

Of Light & Shadow

12 Angry Devs (AT)

In ”Of Light and Shadow”, two characters' abilities need to be combined to succeed - one of them can only survive in light while the other can only exist in the shadows...

Desktop Dungeons

QCF DESIGN (SA)

Desktop Dungeons is a quick-play puzzle roguelike that you get sucked into for quick bursts that end up lasting hours. Each time you play, you're tasked with leveling up a puny adventurer.

A Day in the woods

RETROEPIC SOFTWARE (SA)

Little Red Riding Hood is enjoying A Day In The Woods while making her way to her grandmother’s cottage. Distracted by the wonders of the woods she soon strays off the familiar path deep into the dangerous forest.

zX

retroFuture (SA)

zX - Hyperblast comes from the core ethos of retroFuture, which is embodied in our name. We fuse classic gameplay with modern design. zX brings the euphoric intensity of Shmups to a new arena.

Escape Velocity

RICHARD PIETERSE & RYAN MAZZOLINI (SA)

Escape Velocity explores the question of just how many human persons can play on the same computer. The game itself quite simple. Each player controls a centipede-like creature with a single button.

Broforce

FREE LIVES (SA)

Broforce is an indie action platform-shooter video game for PC, with online multiplayer functionality. It features 90′s blockbuster movie action heroes making up the Broforce team.

Goldstation

by Eddo Stern (US)

Goldstation allegorizes the notion of progress for progress’ sake. Styled like an old school, 8-bit video game, the projection, flanked by walls lined in reflective foil, depicts a large golden asteroid, moving through outer space. www.eddostern.com/goldstation.html

Luftrausers

Vlambeer (NL)

LUFTRAUSERS is a 2D dogfighting game about launching an experimental fighter plane from a submarine deep inside enemy territory and leaving behind a trail of style and burning wrecks everywhere it goes.

Knytt Underground

Nicklas Nygren (SE)

Knytt Underground, the sequel to the massively popular Knytt and Knytt Stories, is the next stage in the well-liked series. The exciting platform game offers gamers exploration in an infinitely breathtaking atmosphere.

Perfect Woman

Lea Schönfelder (DE)

"Perfect Woman" is a Kinect game created by Peter Lu from LA and Lea Schönfelder from Ludwigsburg. In an ironic way the game asks theplayer to be as perfect as possible which can be very difficult depending on your body's flexibility.

Parapluie

One Life Remains (FR)

Parapluie is a fast & competitive multiplayer race game. Each player must lead a cyclist in a maze to find the hidden “treasure”. The first player to bring the treasure back to the starting point wins. The game is about dexterity and spatial memory. Since you’re running through corridors, orientation and speed are assets.

Quick Draw

Greenfly Studios (UK)

Quick Draw is a gun-slinging homage to traditional Western films and Victorian pistol duels. It's a no-graphics, digitally enabled party game for 2-7 players using the Playstation Move controllers.   On the count to a church bell, each player takes a step forward and on the sound of pistol fire, everyone turns and shoots. The winner is the fastest, and straightest, shooter.

Europe in 8bits

Javier Polo (ES)

EUROPE IN 8 BITS is a documentary that explores the world of chip music, a new musical trend that is growing exponentially throughout Europe.

The Gamer Inside

Jesús Fabre (ES)

The Gamer Inside is an independent transmedia documentary project about the impact of videogames in the society. The idea departed from one person, Jesús Fabre, who decided to create a platform to gather and divulgate the testimonies of all kinds of people around the world about their lives and their relation with games (mainly digital, but also analogic ones).