After hosting a rather wonderful Indie Connect festival in Berlin last month, A MAZE. now sets its sight upon Johannesburg, South Africa for A MAZE. Interact 2012. If you’ve got a game, especially an experimental one, and are from the sub Saharan region and/or South Africa then you should consider submitting it to the festival.

From August 28th to September 2nd, A MAZE, will be be taking over several locations in Braamfontein, Downtown Johannesburg for Interact 2012. This is a media art festival that will celebrate the convergence of games, art and society; as in the A MAZE. way. The location of Interact 2012 is very important as it aims to become an annual platform for African and European media artists and game developers.

“Creatives are encouraged to break down the conventional computer game and surpass established digital or analog concepts of play. A MAZE. Interact targets the collaboration between artists and the exchange on an artistic, academic and cultural level.”

A MAZE has partnered with a multitude of organizations for this event, including the Goethe Institute Johannesburg, Witwatersrand University, University of Johannesburg, Praekelt Foundation, VANSA, Trinity Session, Transmediale, CIANT and Coded Culture.

If you’d like to submit your game to be showcased at the festival then you should contact the festival director, Thorsten Wiedemann, at thorsten@amaze-festival.de before June 15th 2012.

More information on A MAZE. and their various efforts can be found over on the official website.

Broken Rules sophomore game, Chasing Aurora, is a finalist at the Indie Games Award at A MAZE. Indie Connect in Berlin.  Chasing Aurora is their upcoming aerial-action game due out some time later this year.  You may remember that IGM nominated Chasing Aurora as one of its most anticipated indie games of 2012. While it didn’t win, this new mood trailer shows off exactly why you should start getting excited for this game.

Chasing Aurora boasts a fantastic visual style that reminds me of paper cut-outs and bright construction paper.  Couple that with folky strumming of guitars and this game is already oozing atmosphere.

For more gorgeous screenshots and information, visit Chasing Aurora’s official website.

As avid followers of IGM over the last few months will know, The first official International Indie Games Conference and Awards will be coming to Berlin on April 26th and 27th 2012, and we’re proud to be among the event’s media partners. For the uninitiated, there’s an ample amount of background information here.

With just over a couple of weeks until the awards are dished out, the A MAZE founder, Thorsten S. Wiedemann, has given the public the opportunity to offer their personal contributions to the event through Startnext. Donations will feed directly into the cash prize given to the winner of the “Most Amazing Game” award, voting for by several professional independent games journalists. The idea, according to the Startnext page, is that “the gain is encouraging the development” of exciting new indie projects, helping to boost the cultivation of creative ideas within the small-scale gaming medium.

As is becoming customary with such publicly funded schemes, there are also a few incentives on offer for sizeable contributions. Donate €75 or more, for instance, and you’ll gain full entry to the festival, including access to the closing party. Also up for grabs are official bags and T-shirts, along with the opportunity to wine and dine with Mr. Wiedemann himself. Heck, there’s even the chance to win one of the games put forward for the “Most Amazing Game” gong, which could well end up being rather fan-dabi-dozi indeed.

For more information on how to contribute, head over to the official Startnext page.

The doors are now open for hopeful developers to submit their game to the A MAZE. Indie Games Award 2012 in hope of being internationally recognised and receiving that nifty cash prize.Taking place as part of the Deutsche Gamestage 2012 in Berlin from April 26th to the 27th, the A MAZE. Indie Games Award 2012 will be given to the “Most Amazing Indie Game” as picked by the event’s high profile international jury.

Original Source: A. MAZE Indie Games Award 2012 Now Open For Submissions

This Article was originally posted on our sister site, The Indie Game Magazine written by Chris Priestman.

After a busy 4 month semester, students at the Games Academy Berlin have rounded up the prototype of their “musical survival game” Meteör and it has left us quite impressed.At its very basic, Meteör is a third person shooter. At it’s most exciting, it is a uber rock, guitar-gun adventure of various proportions. The story goes that you’re part of a rock band whose tour bus has broken down on a planet – yes, it’s a space ship. The mission is to collect parts so the bus can be repaired and you and the band can make your merry way out of there.Unfortunately the parts are scattered around the planet and the natives aren’t happy with your presence

Original Source: Uber Rock Out Time In ‘Meteör’; An Impressive Student Project

This Article was originally posted on our sister site, The Indie Game Magazine written by Chris Priestman.