LUNARCADE is an indie game event, organized to promote independent videogames as an expressive medium. There will be a large gathering that highlights three HOT indie games on February 12, 2011 at The Bitte in Milan, Italy. The website provides directions, but attendance seems limited to those with an ARCI card. They point interested parties to The Bitte’s website, where things cease to remain English-friendly.

Babycastles in New York made headlines last year, promoting a public place for indie game lovers and developers to mingle. The venue had some great hand-made arcade cabinets, showing off games like VVVVVV in a wooden cabinet with a Sega Saturn controller connected to it.

LUNARCADE , along with other international ‬events such as  kokoromi.org and winnitron.ca, aims to create an open space – especially for European developers – where they can show and share their own work. The description of the games on showcase certainly smell like indie teen spirit; they will be ” fun, clever, out of the common thinking and aesthetic conventions. ”

The Lunarcade website shows off three games to be featured.

One button game Fotonica has received a lot of mainstream press lately:

Bohm is up for the IGF Nuovo award this year:

Major site Rock Paper Shotgun recently looked at Venus Patrol:

If gamers are not in Milan, don’t worry. The site administrators say, “We’re always moving, so find out where we are and come to play games, listen to good music.” Knowing that there are many venues around the world that allow this kind of indie culture to thrive is quite refreshing.

Where do you think the next indie game event should be? My vote is for Boston.

Source: @lunarcade, LUNARCADE WEBSITE