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The best of the rest at the Big Indie Pitch Montreal 2015

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The best of the rest at the Big Indie Pitch Montreal 2015
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We've already announced the MIGS Big Indie Pitch 2015 winner, and the two runners up.

But as always, a ton of other developers turned up to the event with their phones and tablets in hand, ready to show us their individual labours of gaming love.

Here are the games you haven't yet seen from the MIGS Big Indie Pitch 2015.

Dare Up
Be Studios

Dare Up lets you fulfil your lifelong fantasy of jumping off a cliff with nothing but a piece of brightly coloured canvas between you and death.

Dashy Square
KasSanity

An open riff on the Geometry Dash formula, Dashy Square mixes up its side-scrolling platforming with gravity shifts, disorientating screen flips, and a ton of deadly obstacles.

Wits and Warfare
Red Meat Games

This one fuses base-building gameplay with trivia, casting you as a scientist who must build a top-tier research lab by answering general knowledge questions.

Groovy Joy
Groovy Pulse

A rhythm action game with a zoological bent, Groovy Joy converts your iTunes library into a lane of tappable notes. Also you can play as a funky fox or swinging shark. Not that kind of swinging, don't be weird.

Natural Born Soldiers
Eric Lajeunesse

If shooting someone in the brain a point blank range wasn't personal enough, Natural Born Soldiers lets capture your own face and glue it onto your avatar, ensuring the last thing your enemies see as they perish is your grainy, underlit mug gurning at them from the screen.

Star Kart
Laurent Gosselin

Star Kart is designed to help prepare ably-challenged kids use wheelchairs. Though we demoed the racer with a Dual Shock, the finished product will be controlled with a joystick similar to that found on a wheelchair, and will teach users how to control the chair in a safe and stress-free way.

Colour Mage
Ambimage

If you know your cerulean blue from your royal navy, this colour-merging puzzler might be the game for you. You have to match a colour at the bottom of the screen by shift palettes around with your finger.

Feudal Feud
Urubu Studio

You know how Subterfuge pits you against your friends to dominate the seas? Feudal Feud uses similar turn-based multiplayer mechanics, but bring the battle ashore. However, your warlord will age and die over the course 30 days, meaning a new claim on the throne is never far away.

Kevin Toms Football Manager
Kevin Toms

Originally released in the early 80s on tape-powered platforms like the Spectrum, Kevin Toms Football Manager was one of the first of its kind. It sold millions then, an is hoping to create similar success on mobile with a touchscreen remake.

Magicus
Boogie Down Games

Unleash your inner Dumbledore with this gesture-based spellcasting game. You draw glyphs on the screen with your finger to summon magics, then direct them at your enemy. Expelliamus! etc.

Sakujo
Sakujo

This one's a little confusing to explain. It's a tile puzzler in which you must eliminate tiles by selecting a group of squares, then dragging those squares onto a tile bearing the corresponding number. Tiles. Squares. Numbers.

Kick-Off Legends
Studio Qi

Having already created a hockey management game, the folks at Studio Qi decided to take their brand new football management sim to the BIP to test the water. We'll have to wait and see whether it can compete with the best of them.

James Gilmour
James Gilmour
James pivoted to video so hard that he permanently damaged his spine, which now doubles as a Cronenbergian mic stand. If the pictures are moving, he's the one to blame.