Announcing the Winners from the Indie Games Festival in San Francisco

Posted by Kacey Fahey, Developer Marketing, Google Play

At the Google Play Indie Games Festival over the weekend, we welcomed hundreds
of attendees to try out and enjoy a diverse range of amazing games from the
indie community. The competition was very tough, and in the end, we recognized
three winners:

• href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.noodlecake.flippinglegend">Flipping
  Legend by Hiding Spot
  
• href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bluewizard.slayawaycamp&hl=en">Slayaway
  Camp by Blue Wizard Digital
  
• Tiny Bubbles by Pine Street Codeworks (coming soon!)

We'd also like to congratulate the rest of the Top 10 developers and all of the
finalists who shared their games to make for such a fun and exciting event.
Check out the great href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/collection/promotion_30023d4_games_indie_games_festival_2017">collection
of games on Google Play.

Here are the other seven games that rounded out the Top 10:

• href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.robotogames.ageofrivals">Age
  of Rivals by Roboto Games
  
• href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.v2g.beastbrawlers">Beast
  Brawlers - PvP Arena by V2 Games Inc.
  
• href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.CovensMapTest.RainCrow&e=-EnableAppDetailsPageRedesign">Covens
  by Raincrow Studios, LLC
  
• href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.headupgames.crashycars">Crashy
  Cars by pixelbizarre
  
• href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.HappySquareStudio.JigsawStory1&hl=en">Jigsaw
  Story by Happy Square Studio Inc
  
• href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gorillabeangames.loterialatinbingo">Loteria
  Latin Bingo by Gorilla Bean Games
  
• href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rac7.SplitterCritters&hl=en">Splitter
  Critters by RAC7

The day started with time for attendees to play the 20 finalists' games. They
experienced different genres and styles of gameplay and were encouraged to talk
with the developers about their work and what it's like to make mobile games for
a living. The event brought together kids, adults, gaming enthusiasts and
non-gamers, and was a great representation of the fun experiences mobile games
create.

In the afternoon, attendees voted for their favorites and the Top 10 moved on to
the presentation round. These developers had three minutes to deliver their best
pitch to the panel of judges. After the judges voted, results were in and the
three winners and seven runners up were named.

If you like indie games and want to keep up with our favorite indie picks, visit
the Indie Corner on Google Play.

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Helping indie developers get discovered on Google Play

Posted by Adriana Puchianu, Google Play Developer Marketing

There are increasing growth opportunities for indie game developers, but being
one can still feel daunting in today's crowded gaming industry. We've been
working hard to help indie developers find an audience and to recognize them for
their creativity and innovation. We launched the href="https://play.google.com/store/info/topic?id=topic_b000054_games_indie_corner_tp&hl=en_GB&e=-EnableAppDetailsPageRedesign">Indie
Corner as a destination for exciting new games along with longstanding indie
masterpieces. Since launch, more than 380 games have been featured. Earlier this
year, we launched href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/collection/promotion_30028e5_android_excellence_collection_games">Android
Excellence which showcases apps and games that deliver incredible user
experiences on Android, while providing another opportunity to be discovered on
Google Play.

We've also held several indie games contests across the globe, giving indies the
chance to showcase their games and find new audiences. In April, we selected the
winner of the second Indie Games Festival in South Korea and we recently
announced the top 20 finalists of this year's San Francisco event. href="https://goo.gl/5y63JF">Come and see the finalists in person on
September 23rd, it's free to attend and open to the public. Soon we'll be
bringing back the second Indie Games Contest in Europe too.

Watch François Alliot, the developer of href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.devolver.reigns">Reigns,
an indie game showcased in href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/collection/promotion_30028e5_android_excellence_collection_games">Android
Excellence and the winner of last year's href="https://events.withgoogle.com/indie-games-contest-europe/">Indie Games
Contest in Europe, share how he built a successful games business in the
video below.

And, finally, check out our recent href="https://medium.com/googleplaydev/a-q-a-session-with-indie-game-developer-spry-fox-23cac57c29da">Q&A
with Spry Fox, makers of the popular game Alphabear, to learn more about what it’s like to be an indie game developer.

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