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TumbleSeed is a “rolly roguelike” where players balance and roll a seed to the top of a procedurally-generated mountain filled with holes and corrupted creatures, presented by designers Greg Wohlwend and Benedict Fritz.

Designer and developer Andrew Shouldice quit his job to work on Secret Legend, an adorable Zelda-inspired isometric adventure with a modern retro style, winning Best in Show at Fantastic Arcade. Andrew joins us from Halifax to share his latest progress.

Manifold Garden is an exploration puzzle game that imagines a universe with a different set of physical laws, set in a mind-boggling Escher-esque world filled with secrets and mysteries, presented by Chicago-based designer and developer William Chyr.

Luna is a tactile, narrative puzzle game set in a vibrant and sculptural storybook world, where players follow Bird, whose adventure begins when the Owl convinces Bird to swallow the last piece of the waning Moon. Funomena founders Robin Hunicke and Martin Middleton join us from San Francisco to show their latest progress.

At first, Memory of a Broken Dimension appears to be noise, a glitched-out landscape of digital artifacts, but you soon learn to see and piece together the geometry of a deteriorating world in this two-time IndieCade Award winner. Creator XRA joins us at XOXO to show off his latest progress.

Bennett Foddy is an XOXO staple from his past work on QWOP, Super Pole Riders, and Speed Chess. In an XOXO exclusive, Bennett joins us from NYC to debut his collaboration with Beglitched co-creator AP Thomson, a collage of hundreds of vintage emulated games into a fast-paced two-player battle that’s like Wario Ware meets MAME.

Set in a surreal town with a bizarre cast of characters, Thimbleweed Park is the spiritual successor from the designers of Maniac Mansion, the 1987 classic that spawned the point-and-click adventure genre, raising $626k from over 15,000 backers on Kickstarter. Legendary designer Ron Gilbert (Secret of Monkey Island, The Cave) joins us at XOXO to show off his latest adventure.

Nathalie Lawhead defragments Internet ephemera, GIF culture, and retro gaming into Tetrageddon Games, a playable pop art satire of our online lives. We’re thrilled to welcome Nathalie to XOXO from her home in beautiful Irvine, California.

Rain World is the highly-anticipated upcoming game from Videocult, a Kickstarter-funded survival platformer set in an abandoned industrial landscape following a nomadic slugcat as it hunts to survive. Presented by James and Lydia of Bright Primate.

Itch.io founder Leaf Corcoran is speaking at XOXO’s conference, and we’ve asked him to show off a rotating selection of some of his favorites from his vibrant indie game community at XOXO Arcade.

The Portland Indie Game Squad is a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the local indie game community with events and resources. They’ve curated an incredible showcase of some of the best games the Pacific Northwest has to offer, and the designers of each will be on site to talk about their work. See the full lineup.

Beglitched is a game about insecurity, in our computers and ourselves, a pastel world of networks where nobody truly knows what they’re doing, hacking is a magical art and the notorious Glitch Witch is the most premium archmagi of the net. Designer Jenny Jiao Hsia joins us from Brooklyn.