– IndieCade Anywhere & Everywhere Festival 2023! –
Join us this November as we celebrate this year’s IndieCade indie game nominees. Connect with the creators, experience the gameplay, play demos and featured games, and have a chance to be a part of this groundbreaking community!
Sign up to volunteer: https://form.jotform.com/232836036637157
Festival Games Finalists and Award Winners
Explore the 37 Nominated games! Demos, live streams, videos, talks, a live-streamed show-&-tell and more will be available via Steam as a central part of IndieCade’s Festival. Event opens November 3rd and runs through November 17th.
IndieCade Annual Awards
Join us for to celebrate the nominated and award winning games of 2023. Awards will be streamed on the front page of Steam.
IndieCade “Conference” – nominated game post mortems, and behind the scenes
Hear directly and interact directly the game makers about their work in the festival. These sessions are live and offer an opportunity for direct discussions and engagement with the creators as they talk about their games, the process, and more. This is ticketed.
– Night Games –
Night Games Returns!
Our beloved nocturnal celebration of games, interactive entertainment, and immersive outdoor experiences for players of all ages to be hosted November 10-11, 6:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. Pacific Time at the Jerry Moss Plaza The Music Center in Downtown LA.
Learn more on The Music Center’s page for Night Games.
Sign up to volunteer: https://form.jotform.com/232836036637157
Ultimate Chicken Horse
IndieCade East 2016
Description: Ultimate Chicken Horse is a party platformer game where you build the level as you play, placing traps and hazards to screw your friends over, but trying not to screw yourself.
Multiplayer
Platforms: Ultimate Chicken Horse fully supports crossplay!
– PC: Windows, Mac, Linux and Steam Deck
– Xbox One, Xbox Series S|X
– PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5
– Nintendo Switch
Status: Released
Artholomew Video’s Stream Challenge
Festival 2022
Description: An interactive performance from last year’s Performance Award winner! Join Alistair on the big screens as he makes art, poetry, songs and dances using the prompts that you send him from your phones!
Multiplayer in participation with the performer
Platforms: Interactive livestream
Stage Show
Downloadable game for Windows + Twitch
The Gentle Oraclebird
Festival 2019
Description: The Gentle Oraclebird is a narrative exploration of kindness, using ritual and storytelling, and a new divination mechanism inspired and derived from the Chinese tradition of “lottery sticks,” tarot decks, and carnival-based fortune telling mechanisms and games.
One-on-one with the performer
Platform: Interactive installation game.
We Are OFK
IndieCade Festival 2023
Nominated for the Audio Design, Performance, and Impact Awards
Description: Start a band in this dreamy musical journey from indiepop band OFK. Cry, skate, date, & run for your life in 5 interactive music videos, across a heartfelt story of what you risk to chase your dreams
Single Player
Platform: Steam, Epic Games Store, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4
Status: Released
Secret Shuffle
IndieCade Festival 2023
Nominated for the Live Action Award
Description: Secret Shuffle is a music party game for 4 or more players in the same room wearing headphones. Try to catch the player who doesn’t hear any music but pretends like they do!!
Multiplayer
Platforms: App Store, Google Play, Steam
Status: Released
Get Off My Lawn
IndieCade Festival 2023
Nominated for the Live Action Award
Description: Get Off My Lawn is an alt. controller FPS defense game where your goal is to keep your chair rocking while aiming your hose to spray away neighborhood kids trying to destroy your pristine lawn!
Single Player
Platforms: This is an alternate controller game. The software is run on a PC, and the hardware is the controller that we built.
Status: Unreleased
Desperation
IndieCade Festival 2023
Nominated for the Tabletop Design Award
Description: Desperation is two small roleplaying games of gothic storytelling experiences steeped in actual history. Dead House and The Isabel are dark, lyrical games about people pushed far past their limits.
Multiplayer
Platform: itch.io, roll20.net
Status: Released
Puckish
Nominated for the Live Action Award
Description: In Puckish, Billiard Balls Are People. They have complex hidden relationships, inspired by the emotional tension in 19th Century British literature.
Single Player
Platform: TiltFive, the Mixed Reality tabletop interface. (A reduced-quality version may eventually be available on WebGL/Windows/Mac,)
Status: Unreleased
ABOUT THE MUSIC CENTER
The Music Center convenes artists, communities and ideas with the goal of deepening the cultural lives of every resident in Los Angeles County. The $70 million non-profit performing arts organization has two divisions: TMC Arts and TMC Ops. TMC Arts, The Music Center’s programming engine, provides year-round programming inside The Music Center’s four theatres, on Jerry Moss Plaza, outside at Gloria Molina Grand Park—a 12-acre adjacent green space—in schools and other locations all over Los Angeles County and on a digital platform called The Music Center Offstage. TMC Arts presents world-class dance with Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at The Music Center, free and low-cost public concerts and events, as well as live and digital K–12 arts education programs, workshops, performances, interactive experiences and special events. TMC Ops manages the theatres, the Plaza and Gloria Molina Grand Park, which comprise $2 billion in county assets, on behalf of the County of Los Angeles. The Music Center is also home to four renowned resident companies—Center Theatre Group, Los Angeles Master Chorale, LA Opera and LA Phil. For more information, visit musiccenter.org. Follow The Music Center on social media @MusicCenterLA.
