Dare Indie Games Showcase 2012
Dare Indie Fest brings to you a plethora of indie games, coming from both the UK and overseas. Come play and discover these gems in games. Be inspired. Be entertained. Be enthralled.
Book the Conference. Only £20. HTML 5 workshop only £10.
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Gears of Glory: Apex Ace – the pick-up-and-play competitive racer. |
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UrZoo is a fun, exciting, new social game from FluffyLogic which gives the player the chance to run their own zoo. Players can feed their animals, accessorize them, decorate the zoo and then breed weird and wonderful new cross-breeds which they can then show off to their friends on facebook. |
Guerilla TeaWelcome to the world of miniature aerial combat! ‘Fangs Out!’ is a model helicopter dogfighting game set in sitting rooms and kitchens, in play parks and gardens. Take control of model helicopters fully armed with stinger missiles and rail guns. Hide in the sink to ambush your enemies, and pray your missiles don’t take out the TV. |
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Outplay EntertainmentOutplay Entertainment are a venture backed social and mobile game developer based in Dundee, Scotland who are delivering innovative, engaging and massively enjoyable games across a number of social and mobile platforms such as Facebook, Google+, iOS, Android, Windows Phone devices and more! |
Pixels on ToastA game about food. Food with legs. Combining simple one-touch gameplay with all the knockabout fun of a platform game, Food Run is coming to your iPad, iPhone and iPod touch this autumn! |
Proper GamesMulti-award winning and critically acclaimed Dundee Development Studio, Proper Games, are excited to exclusively announce the forthcoming release of their latest Facebook title! Do you have what it takes to protect the citizens and fight off the Zombie attacks? Are you a true ZOMBIE HERO? Out of quarantine late 2012! |
Quartic LlamaMoeba is an organic scrolling shooter where you protect your character from enemy cells as she travels through her cellular world. With its colour changing action, distinctive art style and ambient soundtrack, Moeba will bring an addictive gaming experience to your smart phone. |
Surface TensionPresented by Virgin Media, Super-Fluid is the product of a science experiment by DynamiSplice, and is able to change between three states, allowing him to navigate and manipulate the environment. The aim of the game is for Super-Fluid to overcome obstacles and solve puzzles in order to escape the clutches of its mad creators. |
Swallowtail GamesBAFTA winning studio Swallowtail Games presents Tick Tock Toys - a colourful puzzle game where the player must clear a path for a cute clockwork robot to find his way to the goal inside a cluttered toybox. Tick Tock Toys will be available to download for iPad later this year. |
Tag GamesTag Games Ltd. is a social-mobile games developer based in Dundee, Scotland. Now six years old, and with a range of clients including EA, Square-Enix, Ubisoft, Namco Bandai, and others, 2012 looks set to be the year Tag Games establishes itself as a leading international social-mobile powerhouse. |
Too Easy GamesWe are Too Easy Games, a new start-up based right here in Dundee! We recently graduated from Abertay and decided to give this game development malarkey a try. Our first game will release later this summer and will be playable on PC and iOS at the show! |
WallabeeWallaBee is the ultimate collectibles game. Available on iOS and Windows Phone (soon), the aim of the game is to complete sets by collecting items in a variety of ways. With over 250 individual items to collect along with special branded items and prizes, the game is never ending fun! |
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Professional Masters in Games Development, Abertay UniversityProfessional Masters in Games Development (MProf) students from Abertay University present four games– ‘Castle Fearghas’, a vampire-smashing multiplayer brawler; ‘Mount Dash; Reach for the Sky’, a family-friendly competitive racing game set on a mountain; ‘Vikings!’, a strategic tower-defence game pitting Scots against Vikings; and ‘Epic Tale of Rock’ a fast paced rhythm action game. |
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Service Please: Game evaluation.Come and try our Shape Shifting Ipad App ‘Service Please’. We are pleased to give an exclusive first look at our new game. Come and see how it works and learn about the project team and the science behind it. We are a multi-disciplinary group with expertise from a range of disciplines: a psychologist (Scott-Brown, Abertay University) specialising in creative psychological applications for industry and communication, a health psychologist (Allan, Aberdeen University) who designs and evaluates dietary behaviour change interventions, an information scientist (Azzopardi, Glasgow University) who designs and develops web based apps (including games for children) and specialising in user-system interaction, a health economist (van der Pol, Aberdeen University) who brings specialist knowledge on behavioural economics and health behaviour choice, and an artificial intelligence researcher (Crook, Herriot-Watt University) with extensive experience in machine learning. |
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Supported by Creative Scotland and Abertay University, the new programme Dare+ have recruited 20 computer games enthusiasts/entrepreneurs from across the UK and as far as Copenhagen. Under the leadership of industry veteran Brian McNicoll, they worked in teams in a studio environment for a month and learnt to develop their business potential/start up readiness and take products to market. Here at the Dare Indie Fest, you will see the results of their prototypes: 
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