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Press release:
ATLANTA – March 29, 2018 – The fourth annual MomoCon Indie Game Awards Showcase will honor its top 20 finalists at MomoCon 2018, taking place Thursday – Sunday, May 24 – 27, 2018 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta. More than 35,000 unique attendees are expected at the show, where the developers will exhibit their games on the largest gaming exhibition floor in the southeast United States.

The finalists are:

Bio Inc.: Redemption, DryGin Studios (Windows)
City of the Shroud, Abyssal Arts (Windows, Mac, PS4, Xbox One)
Cosmo’s Quickstop, Big Sir Games (Windows)
Door Kickers: Action Squad, KILLHOUSE GAMES (Windows)
Epic Tavern, Hyperkinetic Studios (Windows)
EVERSPACE, ROCKFISH Games (Windows, Mac, PS4, Xbox One)
Haimrik, Below The Game (Windows, PS4, Xbox One)
The Inner World – The Last Wind Monk, Studio Fizbin (Windows, Mac, PS4, Xbox One, Android, iOS)
Last Encounter, Exordium Games (Windows, Mac, PS4, Switch, Xbox One)
Mike Dies, Psydra Games (Windows)
Mutant Football League, Digital Dreams Entertainment LLC (Windows, PS4, Xbox One)
The Norwood Suite, Cosmo D Studios (Windows, Mac)
One Deck Dungeon, Handelabra Games (Windows, Mac)
The Path of Motus, MichaelArts, LLC (Windows, PS4, Xbox One)
Path to Mnemosyne, DevilishGames (Windows)
Projection : First Light, Shadowplay Studios (Windows)
Samsara, Marker Limited (Windows, Mac, Xbox One)
SiNKR, Wahler Digital LLC (Windows, Mac, Android, iOS)
Sleep Tight, We are Fuzzy (Windows, Switch)
Super Daryl Deluxe, Dan & Gary Games (Windows, PS4, Switch)

Five winning entries will be announced in an awards ceremony on Saturday, May 26, 2018. Developers of those titles will receive:

$1000 Prize
10 x 20 Exhibit Space at MomoCon 2019
Dedicated Panel at MomoCon 2019
Highlighted placement in a MomoCon newsletter going to tens of thousands of gamers
Glass Trophy

Four Georgia-made games, one of which is also a general finalist, are eligible for the third annual MomoCon Georgia Award with its own $1000 prize:

Colours and Shapes, Products for Robots (Tabletop)
SiNKR, Wahler Digital LLC (Windows, Mac, Android, iOS)
TwinCop, Finite Reflection Studios (Windows, Mac)
Zap Blastum, Shiny Dolphin Games LLC (Windows, Android, iOS)

“The creativity and dedication we see in these submissions every year continues to amaze me,” says Chris Stuckey, CEO, MomoCon. “All of our finalists are titles to watch, and our judges, industry luminaries including Rami Ismail and editors from distinguished publications like IGN, Destructoid and Kotaku, will be hard-pressed to narrow this list down to five.”

Passes for MomoCon 2018 are on sale now, with four-day and single-day options available.

About MomoCon
Founded in 2004 by Jessica Merriman and later joined by Chris Stuckey, then students at Georgia Tech, MomoCon has grown from a 700 person on-campus event to the largest event in the southeast United States for fans of video games, animation, cosplay, comics and tabletop games.

Jonas “O.J” Ek
The Gaming Ground
Twitter: @TheGamingGround