Zoo Entertainment (video Game Company) - IndiePub Games

IndiePub Games

Zoo Publishing is also the sponsor of indiePub Games, a community of independent video game developers. Zoo originally launched indiePub as 2Bee Games in 2009 but changed to indiePub in 2010 and periodically holds indie game development competitions with cash prizes for the best games.

Mid 2010, indiePub held its 3rd Independent Game Developers' Competition when indiePub launched. (The first two developer competitions were under 2Bee Games). Winners were announced October 8, 2010, at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) Online in Austin, Texas (USA). The winners were:

• Grand Prize: Dustforce! by Hitbox Team developers Woodley Nye, Matthew Bush and Alexander Dostal in Brisbane, Australia.
• Technical Excellence: Hazard: The Journey of Life by Alexander Bruce.
• Best Art: The Dream Machine created by Cockroach Inc. developers Anders Gustafsson and Erik Zaring from Denmark and Sweden.
• Best Audio: Coma by Thomas Brush.
• Best Design: Vanessa Saint-Pierre Delacroix and Her Nightmare by Bad Pilcrow.
• Staff Pick: Catapult for Hire by developer Tyrone Henrie of PixelMega.

Mid to late 2010, indiePub held a Mobile Game Competition. The winners were announced December 15, 2011:

• Grand Prize: SteamBirds for Android (Spry Fox and Radial Games)
• Art: PLEXXR for iOS (Tactile Media)
• Audio: Spark It Up for Android (sumiguchi)
• Design: SKWER for iOS (Alebrije Studios)
• Technical Excellence: Hero Mages for Android (D20Studios)

Early 2011 indiePub held an indie game developer competition called the Independent Propeller Awards and featured $150,000 in prizes, an award sponsored by Unity Technologies and an award sponsored by Intel AppUp developer program. Winners were announced on March 13, 2011, at the ScreenBurn Arcade, the gaming portion of the 2011 South by Southwest event in Austin, Texas (USA). The winners were:

• Grand Prize: GLiD (Glid) by Spiderling Game Studios
• Best Art: The Uncanny Fish Hunt by Uncanny Games
• Best Audio: Skinny by Thomas Brush
• Best Design: Chewy by Happy Candy Co.
• Technical Excellence: Creo by Turtle Sandbox
• Intel Innovation Award: Deep Sea by Robin Arnott of WRAUGHK Audio Design
• Unity Development Award: Tiny and Big: Grandpa’s Leftovers by Black Pants Game Studio

Late in 2011 indiePub started their fifth indie game developer competition called the 2012 Independent Propeller Awards and featured $50,000 in prizes. Winners were announced on April 18, 2012. The winners were:

• Grand Prize: Deity by DigiPen's Double++ (Ryan Chew, Caroline Sugianto, Michael Travaglione, Christopher Mingus, Ying Liu, Matt Frederick, Aariel Hall and Ryan Hickman)
• Best Art: The Bridge by Ty Taylor and Mario Castaneda
• Best Audio: The Red Solstice by IronWard (Hrvoje Horvatek, Daniel Mandić, Marko Pintera, Vjeko Koščević, Danijel Ribić and Marko Kovačić with audio by Andy Mack, Cory Richards, Žarko Dragojević and Dominik Zorić)
• Best Design: FYI by Digital Dreams (Geert Nellen, Thijmen Bink and Roy van de Mortel)
• Technical Excellence: Nitronic Rush by DigiPen's Team Nitronic (Kyle Holdwick, Andy Kibler, Chris Barrett, Andrew "Angrew" Nollan, Jason Nollan, Laura Borgen, Eddie Peters, Ariel Gitomer, Nathan Aldrich, Jordan Hemenway and M.J. "The Quiggles" Quigley)
• Mobile Game: CreaVures by MuseGames (Howard Tsao and Conrad Kreyling)