PAX Prime 2011: The PAX 10!

i love indie games

I WANT ALL OF THESE GAMES!  
 
I loved what I played of Antichamber, or as it was called "Hazard: The Journey of Life". 

this is why fuck call of duty

I am so happy that my purchase of Solar 2 is supporting the growth and maintenance of a mustache like that!

Antichamber looks so awesome. I mean, all of them look great, but Antichamber's crazy.

No comments on that mustache. Ryan, I am disappointed.

Boy, this video just sold a lot of games to me.

A Flipping Good Time looks like VVVVVV if that game had a child with Super Meat Boy. Brad will love it. Vanessa's main mechanic seems like a 3D version of Continuity.

The mustache dude is trying too hard and it ain't even up on the right side. Probably why he rarely turns to the left. All great looking games none the less.

this is why i love this site, there aren't many other people that talk about indie titles (except total biscuit, but he got his inspiration from you, or so he says)

I'm really glad that these Indie/arcade style games are coming back.  Sometimes it is nice to have a modern throw back.  Growing up with Pac Man, Asteroids, and Galaga I enjoy the old school feel.

Love the Flipping Good Time guy's Aquabats shirt.

For about 3 seconds you can kind of see part of my face.
 
I'm famous.

@Chubbaluphigous: Yes, but do you have a fantastic mustache and an Australian accent? No, you do not.

I still get pissed everytime i hear Fez isn't coming to PC for its initial release.

Also Antichamber looks confusing, but potentially awesome.

Dear developers of Antichamber,

Please bring Antichamber to every console ever made because that game looks fucking awesome.

Thank you.
jakob187

All of these developers could form a Nerd Justice League..

@RVonE said:

So the creator of Vanessa Saint-Pierre Delacroix can't pronounce 'Delacroix' properly. Classy.

Considering the amount of affectation on display in this video, I'm surprised that anyone else was annoyed by that specific example.

i fucking love Brendon Chung. The man does great work.

Some great games, really liking the cuboid 3d platform games. 
 
Solar 2 does look alot like Orbital on the GBA though. Not a bad thing though.

No comments on that mustache. Ryan, I am disappointed.

@rebgav said:

@RVonE said:

So the creator of Vanessa Saint-Pierre Delacroix can't pronounce 'Delacroix' properly. Classy.

Considering the amount of affectation on display in this video, I'm surprised that anyone else was annoyed by that specific example.

I just don't understand why a developer would choose a 'foreign' name for his game title and just fails to do a little bit of research on how to pronounce it. I mean, I can understand why some guys from the press can't pronounce it but he is the creator of the game ffs. I'm surprised he got the spelling right.

The solar 2 guys moustache is the shit, also anit-chamber looks crazy

Is "it came to me in a dream" code for " I was stoned out of my mind" ?

A preview of Antechamber (Previously called Hazard: A journey of Life) can be downloaded and played here:  
 
http://www.udk.com/showcase-hazard

Oh man, fantastic selection of games! I've been keeping my eye on both Fez and Antichamber for some time and they both still look awesome. Fez is starting to get kinda lukewarm, but I still wanna play it. I guess that's one of the hazards of indie development. You have to get word out as early as possible so you can start racking up recognition and money to make the game worth working on, but if you take too long then people will get tired of it before it's even finished... See also: Minecraft. I mean, that worked out for the best, but there are still people who are sick of the game without ever having played the actual game yet...
 
Lovely to see Atom Zombie Smasher there. I got it in the last Humble Indie Bundle. Thought it looked lame at first... Even this description makes it sound kinda lame, but it became one of my most played games in the bundle. It's just a really fun, almost puzzly, kinda board game-esque strategy game. I don't think any video or description can convey how much fun it is, it just looks really dull at first glance, but then opens up and turns into this amazing little gem that's unlike anything I've played before.
 
Jamestown, Word Fighter and Solar 2 were already on my list of games that I kinda really wanna play, thanks to Giant Bomb quick looks, and I'm downloading A Flipping Good Time right now! Man. Indie games.

Watching this vid makes me think back to the whole $.99 iPhone game vs $40 3DS game debate.

So many of those 10 games look incredibly awesome, innovative, and "out there". And (generally speaking) you could spend $120 and 60 hours playing just 2 AAA retail games (say... MW3 and Battlefield 2) OR you could play all 10 of those PAX 10 games.

It really makes me wonder how retail and big development house modern game development as we know it is supposed to survive.

Awesome. Was there but didn't see all of these. Thanks Ryan.

I don't get anti-chamber but it looks cool.

I'm a soups big fan of Blendo Games, everyone should try Atom Zombie Smasher.

There was some very cool stuff there. Go indie guys!

These all look awesome, really inspirational. Not just the insane game mechanics, but very cool art styles. I was surprised to see only 1 in 10 had fake-8bit graphics. I thought every indie game had fake-8bit graphics these days.