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Fantastic Arcade 2017’s full lineup is revealed, details on this year’s game jam

Today, Juegos Rancheros has announced the full lineup for 2017’s Fantastic Arcade, the showcase of independent games in special custom-made cabinets at Austin, TX’s Alamo Drafthouse Mueller.

The games that will be appearing at Fantastic Arcade are:

  • A Mortician’s Tale (Gabby DaRienzo)
  • Alien Caseno (Grace Bruxner)
  • Below (Capy)
  • Blind Drive (Lo-Fi People)
  • Chuchel (Amanita Design)
  • Cosmic Express (Alan Hazleden)
  • Dig Dog (Rusty Moyher, Matthew Grimm)
  • Everything is Going to be OK (Nathalie Lawhead)
  • Freeways (Captain Games)
  • Fugl (Team Fugl)
  • Genesis Noir (Feral Cat Den)
  • Hypnospace Outlaw (Tendershoot)
  • Jettomero: Hero of the Universe (Ghost Time Games/Gabriel Koenig)
  • Liquorice (boris)
  • Love Is Moving (Jared Johnson)
  • MOLOCH (Zero) (Seemingly Pointless)
  • Overpass (Studio Bean)
  • Palmystery (Paloma Dawkins)
  • Small Talk (Pale Room)
  • Trackless (Aubrey Serr)
  • Wandersong (Dumb and Fat Games)
  • Wilmot’s Warehouse (Hollow Ponds & Richard Hogg)
  • World of Horror (Paweł “panstasz” Koźmiński)

In addition to the game lineup, this year’s game jam finally has a theme, Phony Island, in honor of its new home, the Alamo Drafthouse and its boardwalk carnival-esque bar, the Barrel O Fun. For rules on how to enter, visit the game jam page.

This year’s theme is Phony Island, in homage to Fantastic Arcade’s new home — Alamo Drafthouse’s boardwalk carnival-esque bar, the Barrel O Fun. The jam will be open to developers from around the world to submit their best 2-player microgame in the style of an almost-but-just-this-side-of-not-copyright-infringing carnival games

Fantastic Arcade will be held at the Alamo Drafthouse Mueller in Austin, TX, from November 17th to November 19th. For more information on Fantastic Arcade or to view trailers of the games available, visit the Juegos Rancheros website.

Sean Anthony likes to combine two of his passions: gaming and writing. Gaming has been a huge part of his life ever since he played his first game as a child, Kirby's Adventure. He aspires to have his name attached to an article that makes the whole world go, "Huh, that's neat, I guess."

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