{"id":61208,"date":"2013-12-31T12:26:16","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T10:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=61208"},"modified":"2013-12-31T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T10:30:00","slug":"sa-game-among-top-indie-games-of-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/61208-sa-game-among-top-indie-games-of-2013","title":{"rendered":"SA game among Top Indie Games of 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indie DB community has cast 97,500 votes to decide which is the best independently developed game of 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Despite only being released in alpha form, the Players Choice 2013 Indie of the Year, Starbound is a deserving winner.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Indie DB editors, only a handful of votes separated the top 10 indie games of 2013:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">10. Rogue Legacy<br \/>\n9. Outlast<br \/>\n8. Tales of Maj&#8217;Eyal<br \/>\n7. Path of Exile<br \/>\n6. Into the Dark<br \/>\n5. The Stanley Parable<br \/>\n4. Space Engineers<br \/>\n3. Kerbal Space Program<br \/>\n2. Contagion<br \/>\n<strong>1. Starbound<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the Indie DB editors made their own picks for the best of the year, including local legend Desktop Dungeons.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Editors Choice Best Overall Indie\n<ul>\n<li><strong>3rd Place &#8211; Desktop Dungeons<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>2nd Place &#8211; Monaco<\/li>\n<li>1st Place &#8211; Rogue Legacy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Interaction Award &#8211; Gunpoint<\/li>\n<li>Creativity Award &#8211; Sub Rosa<\/li>\n<li><strong>Musicality Award &#8211; Desktop Dungeons<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Worldy Award &#8211; Fist Puncher<\/li>\n<li>Visuality Award &#8211; Ballpoint Universe<\/li>\n<li>The Ressie 2013 &#8211; Surgeon Simulator 2013<\/li>\n<li>Best Upcoming &#8211; Chasm<\/li>\n<li>Best Alpha Funded Indie &#8211; Pixel Piracy<\/li>\n<li>Best Multiplayer &#8211; Monaco<\/li>\n<li>Best Singleplayer &#8211; Rogue Legacy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W2rXvrqAQVI\" height=\"340\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/60029-desktop-dungeons-launches-on-steam.html\">Desktop Dungeons launches on Steam<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/61193-largest-collection-of-video-games-in-the-world.html\">Largest collection of video games in the world<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/61192-top-game-mods-of-2013.html\">Top game mods of 2013<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indie DB top games list includes a home grown favourite<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":60031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2600,8258,21,1223,1752,1753,11793],"class_list":["post-61208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-desktop-dungeons","tag-games-of-2013","tag-headline","tag-indie-db","tag-indiedb","tag-moddb","tag-slidedb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61210,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61208\/revisions\/61210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}