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WELCOME TO THE NINTH EDITION OF INDIGO, WHERE YOU PLAY THE MOST OUTSTANDING GAMES BY INDEPENDENT DEVELOPERS.
Game Garden celebrates its 10 year
And remember to vote for your favorite game!
anniversary. We’re happy to have you
Cast your vote for the INDIGO Award
It’s a special year for us: Dutch
with us! 40 games from 17 different countries are here for you to discover
using the tickets at the registration desk.
and enjoy.
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Program Talks
Partners & Sponsors Floorplan INDIGO 60 Parsecs!
A Stickman Reality AENTITY
CONTENT
Arboreal
BattleBand Bird Game Boltstorm Bossgard
CoopScoop
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Cube Escape: Paradox 19 Dungeon Squeaker 20 Fromto
Good Company HoverShock KIN
Lake
Landinar: Into The Void Linn: Path of Orchards Lona 4
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Mish Mash Mobility!
Path to Mnemosyne Phased
Please, Do Touch The Artwork Q.U.B.E. 2 Retro Rockets Revhead RotoRing Skyworld
Soccer Nations Battle Solace State Space Vikings
StoryWall ColorDive Swords & Soldiers II
The Mofflys: Invasion Mayhem Thirteen & Half Cats
Town City
Ultimate Pirates
Valhalla Olympics VR Table Sports
About Dutch Game Garden
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DOORS OPEN
11:00
TALK BY EPIC GAMES @ KINEPOLIS ROOM 3
19:00
DRINKS BY BLUE MAMMOTH GAMES
20:00
INDIGO AWARD CEREMONY
21:00
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PROGRAM
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11:00 - 12:00 THE FUTURE // SJOERD DE JONG (EPIC GAMES)
TALKS
@ KINEPOLIS ROOM 3
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Epic Games’ Sjoerd De Jong will talk about what the Unreal Engine in the year 2018 stands for and what its future entails for Epic Games and the games industry. From Fortnite’s success and its push towards crossplay or AAA games on mobile, to the push for getting game technology adopted by other industries and the work opportunities that opens up, to the complex surrounding ecosystem of a commercially available game engine in 2018. Education and training, funding and publisher initiatives, marketing assistance, and so forth. Sjoerd will give a look into how Epic develops the engine, and what their vision is for the future of the games industry.
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PARTNERS & SPONSORS
Swords & Soldiers II RotoRing Retro Rockets HoverShock Bolt Storm Q.U.B.E. 2
FLOORPLAN INDIGO
Arboreal
60 Parsecs! AENTITY Bird Game BattleBand Lona
Please, Do Touch The Artwork Solace State A Stickman Reality
The Mofflys: Invasion Mayhem
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Bossgard
Soccer Nations Battle Thirteen & Half Cats Town City
Ultimate Pirates KIN
StoryWall ColorDive Revhead Valhalla Olympics Mish Mash
Path to Mnemosyne Phased Dungeon Squeaker Fromto Good Company Lake
Landinar: Into The Void Mobility!
Cube Escape: Paradox Linn: Path of Orchards Space Vikings
VR Table Sports CoopScoop Skyworld
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60 PARSECS!
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60 Parsecs! is an Atomic Space Age
soup shortages and other horrors of
adventure of scavenge and survival.
outer space. And maybe reach your
Keep your crew alive and ready for
destination. Or not.
action. Make difficult choices, face
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ROBOT GENTLEMEN • WWW.60PARSECS.COM
story, the game gets players to be an
VR experience which uses 2D and 3D
active part of the story and project
animations in a 3D VR environment
their experiences on the storyline.
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A Stickman Reality is an immersive
to engage the player in an interactive story. By presenting an interesting mix
A STICKMAN REALITY
of meaningful interactions in a linear
IMPROVIVE • WWW.IMPROVIVE.COM
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AENTITY
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AENTITY is a rather slow paced game on awareness and fugacity that really challenges the sense of direction: discovering all the nodes takes an unerring eye and some patience. When lost there are two hint systems if desired, a guiding figure, another utilizes the (initially empty) gallery frames and titles. The game circles a most difficult main objective: to have no aim for a while. Once understood and identified with its unusual goal, you are in a sense protagonist/antagonist in one. And must overcome yourself.
ARQUOIA • WWW.ARQUOIA.COM
ARBOREAL
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Arboreal is an open-world farming & adventuring game where you save ancient colossi from a spreading corruption. An abandoned orchard located in a distant town is inherited by you. It’s in dire need of restoration and you take on the task, hoping that soon you’ll be able to live and profit off this land. The townspeople are welcoming
and you soon feel like a part of the community, but the world outside the town hides more than meets the eye. Ancient colossi, rooted in their environment, have been corrupted. This corruption is spreading across the land like wildfire, and only you can save your new home.
TEAM NOMAD • WWW.ARBOREAL.NL
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BATTLEBAND
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BattleBand
roleplaying
traditional turn-based RPG systems
game where you take control of a
and rhythm games. You generate
band that battles and interacts with a
power by tapping in the rhythm of the
bunch of zany characters ranging from
beat to use special abilities in order to
undead groupies to talking chairs. The
vanquish foes.
is
rhythm
combat system is a unique blend of
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MILAN LEFFERTS • WWW.MILANLEFFERTS.COM
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BIRD GAME
Bird Game is a short, zen-like fly ‘em up game where you navigate a bird through a black-and-white line drawing landscape.
3XBLAST • WWW.TWITTER.COM/BIRDGAMEDEV
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BOLT STORM
NL
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Your kingdom is in ruin. Betrayed and
Build an army as a King, customize
dethroned, you have been left to rot in
gear and storm out of the procedural
the dungeon cells. But this is not the end,
dungeons by destroying traitor armies
as your loyal supporters will join your
and guardian bosses. How far can you
side to fight against the traitors on your
survive before falling in battle? You come
quest to vengeance.
back to life, but so do your enemies. Fight till the end and take revenge in the dungeon crawler Bolt Storm.
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KUALITY GAMES • WWW.KUALITYGAMES.COM/BOLTSTORM
finally get to play the boss. Who’s the boss? You’re the boss! The meanest, the baddest, the silliest bosses are yours to command! Team up and
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Fight your friends in a fast-paced asymmetrical multiplayer where you
fight together as melee or ranged. From the bulkiest to the shortest, the Vikings are going all in. Axes, hammers, bows and even bare knuckles will help you drop
BOSSGARD
the pain on the boss. What’s your weapon of choice?
SAND SAILOR STUDIO • WWW.BOSSGARD.COM
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CoopScoop is a VR arcade style game that revolves around managing a chicken farm. A chicken epidemic has broken out and you need to make sure all your chickens stay healthy and happy. Try and hold on as long as possible with as many chickens as possible. Can you manage all those chickens?
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Cube Escape: Paradox is the tenth
in two different universes and needs
and final Cube Escape game, and is
to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will
combined with a Rusty Lake short
interact with the movie in an unique
film. The movie and game both
way, via television, telephone, tape
follow the story of detective Dale
recorders and more.
CUBE ESCAPE: PARADOX
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Vandermeer who finds himself trapped
RUSTY LAKE • WWW.RUSTYLAKE.COM
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Dungeon Squeaker is a mix between Minesweeper and an adventure game. In Dungeon Squeaker you play as a mouse that finds a magical compass which points
DUNGEON SQUEAKER
to the nearest threat. Oh, and the mines are cats.
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MICHEL MOHR • WWW.MICHELMOHR.ME
FROMTO
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Fromto is a party platform racing game which combines racing and track building. Modify the track as you play to make it to the finish first and to oppose your competing friends. Add ramps, moving platforms and traps. You can even draw roads or drill your way through rocks to reach your goal! STUDIO ERIKSON • STUDIOERIKSON.COM/FROMTO
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GOOD COMPANY
DE
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Good Company is a single- and multiplayer management simulation about building, automating and optimizing your robot manufacturing empire, set in a colorful ‘80s-inspired world. 22
CHASING CARROTS • WWW.GOODCOMPANYGAME.COM
CANPLAY • WWW.HOVERSHOCK.COM
HOVERSHOCK
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HoverShock is a fast-paced multiplayer game where the player controls a drone full of weapons and mind-bending powers in an exaggerated and colorful world, full of life, movement, effects and crazy explosions. HoverShock has several game modes designed for multiplayer, taking full advantage of the numerous possibilities of controlling a drone to create competitive and fun battles.
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KIN
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Lively colours, intuitive gameplay and
in a bright dress. Defeating enemies
interesting level design set the tone for
and solving puzzles, she leaps from
KIN, a VR puzzle platformer in which
platform to platform, travelling through
the player moves through the world as
alien landscapes.
a mysterious, tiny girl with big hair, clad
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HOUSE OF SECRETS • WWW.KIN-GAME.COM
been
since
On her mail route, she runs into many
Meredith Weiss left her rustic lake
of the townsfolk. Some are new, others
town in Oregon, USA. Sudden and
are part of her long forgotten past.
unforeseen
seventeen
years
circumstances
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It’s
have Why did she come back? And will
city, and take up a job as a mail carrier.
she stay?
LAKE
forced her to come back from the big
GAMIOUS • WWW.GAMIOUS.COM/LAKE
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LANDINAR: INTO THE VOID
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An action-packed neo-noir space
it’s time for change! Deal with people,
adventure in a backwater quadrant
take on contracts, fight your enemies,
under tight control of the Empire. You
collect new tech, build your spaceship
play as a captain down on his luck,
and join the rebellion to liberate the
with more enemies than friends and
quadrant!
a knack for getting in trouble. After an unfortunate run-in with the law,
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CONVOY GAMES • WWW.LANDINAR.COM
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out
of
your
conventional
platforming habits with the dynamic and rotating world of Linn, a modern puzzle platform with in a fantastic and mysterious ancient world. You are in control of Aban, an exotic guardian on her journey through an ancient temple in the sky to fulfill her mission. Aban can run, jump and dash swiftly in air in order to reach the light in each level. Levels consist of treacherous dynamic platforms that make you rethink every move before you swipe your finger in a direction. Completing each level needs both
LINN: PATH OF ORCHARDS
Step
timely reactions and logical thinking.
FANOOS GAME STUDIO • WWW.FANOOSGAMES.COM
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LONA
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A stylized adventure art game about
it is up to you to piece them together
Lona, a girl trapped inside her
and interpret all clues. Relax and enjoy
drawings inspired by life hardships.
each scene which is like an interactive
Accompany Lona through her inner
painting with a musical harmony and
struggle to find peace of mind and
let the aesthetics lead you through the
find out what she has been through.
puzzles and Lona’s story.
Each puzzle and item tells a story but
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SPACE FOX STUDIO • WWW.LONAGAME.COM
you get to see how your drawing connects
It is a turned-based game where you add
to the rest of the collective drawing. The
your drawing to the previous player’s
game triggers imagination and brings
drawing. As part of this process, you only
people together by celebrating diversity
see a segment of the drawing you are
and individuality in a playful way.
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adding onto. Once you finish your part,
creating expansive collaborative drawings.
MISH MASH
Mish Mash is an experimental game for
KWA QUA GAMES • WWW.KWAQUA.COM/MISHMASH
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MOBILITY!
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Explore various spaceships as a repairman in training and attempt to get them back up running. Inside engine rooms across the ship, you fix broken ship components by traversing through the level, making contact with every single platform in it. 30
AURORIAX • WWW.MOBILITY.AURORIAX.COM
Immerse yourself in Path to Mnemosyne, a hypnotic adventure
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created within an infinite zoom. Walk the path, explore your mind and recover all lost memories by solving dozens of imaginative puzzles. A mysterious story, a minimalist script and disturbing sounds and graphics make Path to Mnemosyne a
to reach the end of the path?
PATH TO MNEMOSYNE
bizarre and memorable gameplay experience.
Will you be able
DEVILISHGAMES • WWW.DEVILISHGAMES.COM
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Phased is a colorful platformer about distorted spacetime and multidimensional beings. You use phasing superpowers to save your island from an all-powerful villain. While you traverse dynamic and nonlinear environments, shadows crawl out of other dimensions to stop you. In this game you find new superpowers, fight the shadows, solve puzzles, build sandcastles and save
PHASED
(or destroy) spacetime.
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EPICHOUSE STUDIOS • WWW.PHASEDGAME.COM
simple relaxing and meditative color-
Kandisky (Russian, abstract art). The
puzzle-game inspired by modern art.
game aims to educate the player
It’s an introduction into the world
about art-history while providing a
of early 20th century abstract art
subtle growing puzzle-challenge at
pioneers such as Piet Mondriaan
the same time.
(Dutch, De Stijl), Kazimir Malevich
STUDIO WATERZOOI • WWW.STUDIOWATERZOOI.COM
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(Russian, suprematism) and Wassily
PLEASE, DO TOUCH THE ARTWORK
Please, Do Touch The Artwork is a
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Q.U.B.E. 2
UK
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Q.U.B.E. 2 is the sequel to the hit first-person puzzle game Q.U.B.E. You are Amelia Cross, a stranded archaeologist who has mysteriously awoken among the sand swept ruins of an ancient alien landscape. Together with the distant help of another survivor, Commander Emma Sutcliffe, you must traverse and manipulate the structure of this forgotten world to find a way back home.
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TOXIC GAMES • WWW.TOXICGAMES.CO.UK/QUBE2
beware, killed Retronauts return as a
in which Retronauts have to complete
quad gun-toting security robot.
their objectives and survive Destructo! This killer robot will hunt down and
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Retro Rockets is a multiplayer game
Hunter becomes hunted!
RETRO ROCKETS
kill the Retronauts one by one. But
EMISSIVE GAMES • WWW.PLAYRETROROCKETS.COM
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REVHEAD
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with
using
wrecks,
CREATIVE PUDDING • WWW.REVHEADGAME.COM
Revhead.
around and earn the title of
your car to make it the fastest
components, fix and tweak
You can buy or sell cars and
them into a racing beasts.
used cars and transforming
start
Your budget is limited - you
in a small village in Australia.
start your journey somewhere
build your own race car. You
simulation game where you
Revhead is a car racing
HU
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ROTORING
GREGORY KOGOS WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/ROTORING
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RotoRing is a circular puzzle-platformer where you use a custom hardware controller. Its display is made out of 2 orbits of LED lights. You use the dial to control the single brightest light and use the button to jump from one orbit to another. The goal is to get to an empty spot while avoiding the red lights!
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Skyworld reimagines classic strategy for VR. Play accessible turn-based strategy and fast-paced real-time battles, all set in intricately animated miniature worlds. Build and command your forces right on the battlefield, conquer all Skyworlds and compete
SKYWORLD
in online multiplayer. Plus, DRAGONS!
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VERTIGO GAMES • WWW.SKYWORLD-GAME.COM
Best team of the day at INDIGO wins Steam Keys! Soccer Nations Battle is a local multiplayer side-scrolling soccer game. Prepare for fast-paced matches with lots of
SOCCER NATIONS BATTLE
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goals: block, tackle or simply outsmart your opponent. Play 1v1 up to 4v4 matches in this wild and hilarious party game. The more players, the more chaos, the more laughs.
VIRTUAL PLAY • WWW.VIRTUALPLAY.ZONE
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SOLACE STATE
CAN
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Solace State is a 3D visual novel set in a near-future surveillance state, where hacking identities can mean the difference between unifying resistance or enacting reluctant acceptance of an unjust fate. You play as a young hacker, Chloe, who must move beyond vigilantism to protect her friends and her community against indoctrination, oppression, and violence. Solace State innovates the 3D visual novel genre by using 3D spaces as the canvas of its storytelling, where the text is written on the walls. VIVID FOUNDRY • WWW.SOLACESTATEGAME.COM
the treasure of your friends. Work
where you defend your treasure
together to outplay the defender or
using deadly traps, and steal crystals
bash your friends just before securing
from your friends while dodging
their crystals to steal their loot.
menacing
goal
Discover the inner workings of around
of Space Vikings is to get hold of
a dozen traps and become a master
as many crystals as possible while
in trapping attackers and dodging the
defending your treasure and attacking
danger yourself.
The
SPACE VIKINGS
contraptions!
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Enter the realm of Space Vikings
NAPALMTREE • WWW.NAPALMTREE.NL/SPACEVIKINGS
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STORYWALL COLORDIVE
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StoryWall is a combination of wallpaper
in waiting rooms in the hospital to help
and a mobile app which works with
reduce stress and pain while waiting
augmented reality. When you open the
for a scary treatment or surgery. After
app and aim the camera on the animals
the surgery/treatment the children take
displayed on the wallpaper, the animals
an AR bravery sticker, based on the
will come to life and children can play
wallpaper, back home to continue playing
little games. The wallpaper is being used
with their new AR friends.
STUDIO BLEEP • WWW. STUDIOBLEEP.COM/STORYWALL
planning your strategy count for more than your ability to click on icons
This sequel to the side-scrolling
really fast. This approach makes it an
strategy hit of 2009 is releasing
accessible and unique game where
on Steam and PlayStation 4 later
players can continuously uncover new
this year with a brand-new online
ways for the three different playable
multiplayer mode, improvements to
armies
the campaign, and new challenges.
Empire, and the Demons) to counter
With Swords & Soldiers II they’re
and outwit each other.
(the
Vikings,
the
Persian
going back to the roots of the strategy
RONIMO GAMES • WWW.SWORDSANDSOLDIERS2.COM
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genre, where tactical decisions and
back with Swords & Soldiers II!
SWORDS & SOLDIERS II
The wait is over! Ronimo Games is
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The Mofflys: Invasion Mayhem is a disparaging first person shooter featuring a full VR experience in which the aliens try to invade the Earth. Play the role of an alien who disembarks from his mothership and take part in more than 50
THE MOFFLYS: INVASION MAYHEM
different mini games to become the new emperor of the world.
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SINDRIA STUDIO • WWW.SINDRIA.WORLD
In this fresh and vibrant 3D art style game, you have a mysterious curse. Learn magic spells that will help you to collect 13 and a half cats and find your way again. Thirteen & Half Cats is an emotional experience made to put a little brightness in your day.
NEKOMATATA • WWW.NEKOMATATA.COM/THIRTEEN-AND-HALF-CATS
THIRTEEN & HALF CATS
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Town City is Sparkling Society’s most colourful city builder game yet! You are the mayor of your virtual city and with your creativity, you expand a small town to the city of your dreams. Collect profits, complete quests, keep your citizens happy and discover new islands to build on.
TOWN CITY
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SPARKLING SOCIETY • WWW.SPARKLINGSOCIETY.NET
Ultimate Pirates is an online strategy
intercept other ships, plunder gold
game with RPG elements and real
and arms from the vanquished, and
time multiplayer player versus player
lead the battle against enemies and
battles. Your ships level up in battles
sea monsters!
ULTIMATE PIRATES
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and become increasingly powerful, but you also have to use strategy and tactics to fight naval battles,
MOONMANA • WWW.ULTIMATEPIRATES.NET
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VALHALLA OLYMPICS
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Valhalla Olympics is a Norse-themed party game which challenges your reactions, understanding, and adaptability. Challenge your friends in various minigames with godly twists, to gain the favor of the gods while battling through a colorful, cheerful, and magical viking universe. Your smartphone is the controller: in the minigames you swing your phone or blow into the microphone to battle your enemies. 48
CHOP CHOP GAMES • WWW.CHOPCHOPGAMES.DK/VALHALLA
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Are you ready for three table sports simulators in one game? VR Table Sports gives you the possibility to play table football, ping-pong and air hockey in a VR environment. Play against AI, online or battle your friends in the multiplayer mode.
VR TABLE SPORTS
HAPPY BAT • WWW.HAPPYBAT.COM
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ABOUT DUTCH GAME GARDEN INDIGO is organized by Dutch Game Garden. We’re a game incubator and business center with multiple locations in the Netherlands, housing 40+ game studios. Our mission is to create job opportunities and economic growth by supporting the Dutch games industry and promoting entrepreneurship. Besides providing studio space, events, advice & matchmaking, Dutch Game Garden’s incubation program helps promising game startups by providing game business knowledge, training and access to an ever-expanding network of industry professionals.
www.dutchgamegarden.nl @dutchgamegarden @dutchgamegarden
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