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 Indie of the Year is the largest celebration of hobbyist, amateur and professional Indie developers. With record attendance and a massive number of updates, releases and new projects 2010 was a year like no other, packed to bursting with goodies to make anyone who is tired of the boring triple A games excited again!

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Report article RSS Feed A Year in Review - Quarter Three

June through August Independent Games 2010 Releases.

Posted by Henley on Nov 25th, 2010
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What started in quarter two of 2010 was in my opinion the Indie craze that even turned a few modders over to the Indie school of thought, plus the fact that we opened the doors of IndieDB sure didn't help quell the uprising. This year saw many mod developers switching engines for the promise of extra freedom and creative control over who can play the work they do. The Wolfire boys showed the world what a few motivated people can do and raised over a million dollars for assorted game developers and charities like Child's Play and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.


UFO: Alien Invasion UFO: Alien Invasion has been two year in the making since it first released back in 2008, UFO AI is a game that is heavily inspired by the original X-COM games so expect a lot of similar features to be found here, if you enjoyed X-COM your going to love UFO: Alien Invasion!
Robotz DX Robotz DX is an unashamedly old-school, single-screen shoot-em-up that swings more to a thinking mans run-and-gun rather then the traditional shoot'em up. The game offers a whole lot of experience for such a small download with randomized levels being unlocked when the game is completed.
Nudo Nudo is best thought of a puzzle platformer built on top of an Rubik cube, you can move the level around in relation to where your character is currently standing. Its guaranteed to mess with your head a little and as far as I'm concerned thats A'ok with me!


Quarter Three | Quarter Four

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Kamikazi[Uk]
Kamikazi[Uk] Nov 25 2010, 8:24am says:

Thanks for featuring bounce! :D.

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Original_Speeder
Original_Speeder Nov 25 2010, 11:32am says:

Yay! My game on news again :D

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power.5000
power.5000 Nov 26 2010, 1:16am says:

MINECRAFT ALL THE WAY

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Fxor
Fxor Dec 1 2010, 6:53am replied:

ACROSS THE SKY!

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d3monslay3r4
d3monslay3r4 Dec 17 2010, 7:59pm replied:

TOTALLY YEAH

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rarmeow
rarmeow Nov 27 2010, 3:13pm says:

@power.5000 I second that :{D>

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ger
ger Dec 18 2010, 9:59am says:

Where can I find quarter one and two videos?

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foxatphoenixlabs
foxatphoenixlabs Mar 12 2011, 12:19am says:

cool guys. keep it up.

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