Boston Indies and MIT Game Lab are proud to present the Boston Festival of Indie Games and have just announced their final selection of 36 games, each of which was carefully selected by game industry professionals. If you happen to live in or near the Boston area, make sure to swing by the MIT campus this Saturday (9/22/12) for the event as it is a celebration of independent game development. Games will cover a wide variety of media and genres, will be available for all to play, and most importantly its free!
While nearly 100 games were submitted, only 36 were chosen. The 36 final submissions are listed below:
Resonance – Wadjet Eye Games
When a brilliant particle physicist dies unexpectedly, the race is on to secure his terrible new technology before it falls into the wrong hands. The lives of four playable characters become entangled as they fight against the clock to find the dead scientist’s secret vault. The suspicions they harbor, the memories they guard, the connections they share – all will converge as these four ordinary people work together to prevent a potentially cataclysmic disaster.
Jack Lumber – Owlchemy Labs
The creators of Smuggle Truck have a new game for us to play, Jack Lumber. Use the supernatural powers of Jack Lumber to massacre the forest and make Granny proud in this time-warping line-drawing log-slicing pun-filled lumberjacking mashup.
Dark Scavenger – Psydra Games
An adventure game that combines strategic turn-based combat with point-and-click mechanics for PC and Mac.
Photons – Electric Coffee Games
A first person puzzle adventure set in a unique environment to explore. Focusing on the interactions between light, darkness, and an interactive immersive environment. The player explores a previously inhabited island in search of a means to establish a new colony for man to live in peace, else lose themselves to the insanity caused by the darkness.
