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Google Play Indie Games Festival winners are Tiny Bubbles, Flipping Legend, and Slayaway Camp

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Google Play Indie Games Festival winners are Tiny Bubbles, Flipping Legend, and Slayaway Camp
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Over the weekend, Google Play's annual celebration of indie games took place in San Francisco and what a line-up there was. From the award-winning Splitter Critters to the promising Brave Hand, eventually the winners were picked.

The slashing, sliding, Slayaway Camp clearly thrilled the judges as much as it thrilled us when it released. Slayaway is a block-sliding, isometric puzzler where you play as a classic slasher serial killer going to town on a camp of unwitting teens, workers, sheriffs, and more. That doesn't sound appealing off the bat, but it's a hilarious and nicely designed puzzler which pays homage to the classic horror movies of the 80s.

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Secondly, there's Hiding Spot's Flipping Legend which offers up another puzzling adventure in three 'columns'. The aim of the game is to get through the level (by flipping) but you can only move using certain patterns, i.e. diagonally, while trying to deal with the multiple hazards and enemies ahead.

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Finally, there's the very promising Tiny Bubbles which looks both relaxing and challenging in all of the right ways. It's an arcade puzzler which the developer made by creating a custom physics engine based on his grandfather's research (an MIT scientist). By using familiar match-three mechanics, matching four or more colours will pop the bubbles and hopefully create a chain reaction. Though it's not out yet, the game should be coming out pretty soon on iOS, Android, and Steam.

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The finalists that just missed out are: 7 Pin Pool, Age of Rivals, Beast Brawlers, Brave Hand, Covens, Crashy Cars, Dokudo, Gladiator Rising, Jigsaw Story, Loteria Latin Bingo, Maruta Escape, No Stranger, Space Tunnel, Splitter Critters, Star Vikings Forever, Storm Wars, and Topsoil.
Source: Venturebeat.

Emily Sowden
Emily Sowden
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