Saturday
October 24th, 2026
Wake Tech - Southern Wake Campus
11:00am - 6:00pm
Saturday
October 24th, 2026
Wake Tech - Southern Wake Campus
11:00am - 6:00pm
What is
Oak City Indie Games?
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Oak City Indie Games is a beloved annual showcase featuring work from local NC (now including other East Coast) indie game developers and artists. Come out and meet local game developers, artists, and creatives. You'll find awesome indie games, demos, jam games, TTRPGs, VR games, board games, experimental games, multiplayer games, dev talks, and a few fun surprises along the way!
This year Oak City Indie Games 2026 will be held at Wake Tech!
In addition to local games, we'll be able to play projects from students of the Wake Tech Simulation and Game Development (SGD) Program!
SGD is an Associate's Degree program designed to give students a broad understanding of all facets of video game design, while also allowing them to focus on honing the skills best suited to their abilities and maximizing their potential.
Let’s take the day to celebrate our local community and play some awesome games together!
Since 2023, they’ve been building community through casual, in-person video
game events. They create welcoming "third places" across the Triangle, perfect for gamers, families, & teens of all skill levels.
As long as you can hold a controller, they'll show you how to have fun!
* Games and schedule are coming soon.
Bingo Bard is creating a Bingo experience specifically designed to be played during Oak City Indie Games 2026!
Stream Raleigh - The Raleigh Community MeetUp, Powered by Twitch is a volunteer-run organization that hosts quarterly networking events for streamers, mods, viewers, game devs, and fans to connect with each other IRL.
Auto Ball Arena is a physicsy strategic autobattler! Create your warrior, equip them with weapons, and watch them bounce around and destroy enemies in the arena.
CataMouse is a fast action 2D retro game for two players. Cat, eat the mouse! Mouse, get to the House to safety! All this is played in a randomly generated, initially invisible maze. With features! One-way walls, teleporters, mouse-only tight passages, all discovered only as you come close to them. More surprises per second than any game in sight! With rounds typically lasting only 15 seconds, this will keep you jumping.
Apocalypse Approaches is a time-traveling action roguelite where the world ends in one minute, and your health is the constantly draining Doomsday Clock. Take damage and lose time. Defeat foes to gain it back. Run out of time? The Apocalypse has arrived. The only option left is to loop back to the start. Use entropy from previous attempts to grow stronger, gain mastery over the Doomsday Clock, and take one step closer to stopping the Apocalypse!
Mech Tech is an action-packed RTS + MOBA Hybrid. You can fight the enemy team from your mech, or hop into the Battle Tank to deploy troops that help you. The game supports local and online multiplayer for up to 8 players.
Survivors Side-Scroller Retro Roguelike
Cede is an action adventure modernized by combat farming. Burst monsters into seeds, becoming vegetation to support your faction.
Gorf is a government-run facility destroying the environment and natural resources available for humans for profitable gain. It is taking a eco terror stand against the implementation of data centers casually, as a viewpoint from an easily gullible frog into generating electricity by spinning the wheel of tomorrow.
An exploration game about knowledge and discovery. Change between seasons, investigate plants, and discover secrets about the world to stop an ecological disaster.
RougeLike/hack and slash game where the player can choose what type of build they want to play. You fight waves of enemies and bosses to find the one who's been imprisoning all of these souls who can't move on in purgatory! Defeat them and set everyone free!
Plucky's Adventure: The Quest For Shiny
Plucky's Adventure is a charming 2D platformer where you play as a backpack-wearing crow named Plucky on a mission to get a treat from his human friend. A good crow never arrives empty handed, however, so you must collect shiny objects along the way to bring in exchange. Use your powerful bird wings to take flight to high places, divebomb bushes to bounce even higher, slurp worms to keep yourself healthy, and karate kick anything that stands in your way. Plucky's Adventure: The Quest For Shiny is fun for all ages.
Hyperworld is a 2.5d action-adventure game with fighting game-inspired combat, 3D-platformer style movement, and roguelike mechanics. Meet odd characters, unravel mysteries, and build powerful synergies to aid you in exploring a strange, handcrafted world. The game supports online co-op so you can journey through Hyperworld with a friend.
The mother vessel is adrift in space, out of fuel and doomed. Your mission is the colony’s only hope for survival. Will you be able to navigate the claustrophobic canyons when your ship begins to fail?
Mira and the Legend of the Djinns
Mira: The Legend of the Djinns is a classic Metroidvani a style game to be released on PC. The story follows the adventures of Yuba, a treasure hunter and explorer who travels the vast expanse of the Desert Ocean, and Mira, a mysterious Djinn who has lost memories.
Idosra: The Electric Renaissance
Idosra: The Electric Renaissance is a 2D action-adventure roleplaying game set in a distant future world on the verge of rediscovering electricity. Players take the role of Marika, who finds herself in the crossfire between two opposing bodies. On one side is a government that is taking advantage of the recently rediscovered force of nature-electricity. On the other side is a faction that wants to seize control of this knowledge for itself. Idosra features an immersive story and a rich skills and leveling system. Explore and find books that can unlock dozens of skills, find gold to unlock powerful weapons and tools, and devise cunning strategies to help Marika outsmart the Vallan Empire.
Keaton's Adventure
Keaton's Adventure is an expressive 2D action-adventure platformer. Traverse the recently formed Milkdromeda Galaxy to bring about peace and stomp out an alien invasion!
Bingo Bard is a social bingo game and engagement platform for all ages. Towns, sports teams, events, and businesses use it to turn passive audiences into active participants through customizable, shareable bingo games.
A 6-player multiplayer arcade cabinet
Memory Paint
Memory Paint is an interactive art tool designed for freedom of expression and out-of-the-box creativity. Memory Paint includes a wide range of art mediums that accurately replicate real-life painting techniques and styles. With Memory Paint, you can create a masterpiece regardless of your experience with art, and without the help of AI generation.
Magic Eight Ball is a simple desktop game where you push decision-making onto the entity of the eight ball. Meant to mimic CDRom games, Magic Eight Ball scratches a nostalgia and whimsy itch.
Midinous is a non-linear MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) Sequencer editor built using a game framework (Monogame), blending game characteristics with a utility for musicians. Midinous can act as a perfect introduction to creating music using an intuitive interface or an advanced tool for complex melodies. Midinous also utilizes logic gates for even greater control over sequences! Build something as simple as a switch or as complex as memory modules.
The Dark Souls of Smash Bros in a 1920s Detective Noir movie.
Project Berserk is a 2D fighting game where you fight with or against your friends with crazy sci-fi tech, innovative mechanics, and a classic yet colorful retro feel! It intends to challenge the fighting game formula with various fighter complexities, wild forms of player expression through dense mechanics, and multiple game modes like a 4-Player Free For All!
Wittle Wizards
Wittle Wizards is a 3D Platform fighter with Arena Shooter Elements. Pick up spell books, harness their power to rack up your enemy’s percent, and send them flying. Each wizard starts with three lives, and the last one standing wins in this 4 player free for all!
The Utsuro Hotel
The Utsuro Hotel is a first-person horror roguelite where the building decides where you go. You wake up in a stairwell with twelve doors and one goal: reach the roof. No door tells you which floor it opens onto, and you only find out once you're standing in it and the lock has turned behind you. Find that floor's key to get back to the stairwell, or gamble on the elevator, which is faster, breaks down every time, and doesn't let you choose where it stops. You can't fight anything in this hotel. You can only be somewhere else.
Crossing’s End (Working Title)
Animal Crossing horror game
Phantom Tome is a narrative platformer/bullet hell where you navigate Will through a fantastical world of very odd things.
Comette
Comette is a 2D Platformer for Game Boy Color. It’s about a silly, eccentric space explorer/scientist on a mission to get back the water of Lake Lush from the mega conglomerate, KorpoKorp, after they steal it for their AI data center by using a sponge. With her strong charge punch and down stomp, she can defeat enemies and break terrain. Her helmet’s antenna also allows her to get a second jump and float in the air to get over tricky obstacles. The game is short and sweet, with three levels and a boss planned for the final release. The OCIG 2026 build will have the first level playable.
Getting Goopy is a puzzle platformer where you can slide, jump, and shoot goo as a little slime to solve various puzzles.
Precision platforming to collect the packages for Fetchr as quickly as possible.
Fist of the Forgotten is a silhouette styled platformer with a huge focus on momentum. You can slide down slopes to build up speed and jump up ramps for extra height. You also obtain a giant, mechanical fist which provides both movement and combat abilities.
Explore, harness magic, and guide the wayward through harsh and unchecked lands. Atmospheric locations full of unique puzzles that you can challenge in any order you choose. Piece together the truth of a long-forgotten civilization in this stunning puzzle platformer.
D6scend
D6SCEND is a single-player 3D puzzle game centered around manipulating a six-sided die. Roll across tile-based, multi-level mazes to reach a goal tile with a specific face value oriented upward. Master spatial reasoning and orientation tracking in a minimalist sci-fi world.
Star Cadet is a space-themed puzzle game where the player has to evade a black hole before the timer runs out.
Magnet Agent is a single-player casual puzzle game where you use blocks and gadgets to solve magnetic puzzles. Magnet Agent N-52 and his robot vacuum, Dustino, use their shockingly cool magnetic spy kit to explore the world and thwart Magnet Empress's evil plan before it's too late. They are drawn to danger- are you?
Chess on a Sudoku grid with Sudoku rules! Each piece has a number, and no number can repeat in the same row, column, or 3x3 box. It's free to play with online matchmaking or offline with friends, bots, and challenging puzzles.
Temple of the Machine god is a first-person exploration, puzzle, and ambient horror game. You wake up at the end of the universe, maximum entropy. You must explore the superstructure to unravel the story of what happened.
DRIFT BOOM BOOM is a colorful top-down combat racing game with a story mode and 4-player split-screen. Story Mode features a character-driven plot and different missions on each level. It's playable in Co-Op up to 4 players. Series Mode allows the players to purchase a vehicle + weapons and hit the race tracks. Increasingly challenging AI opponents will try to eliminate the players as they progress. Players gain money from KO's and winning races, and may purchase better cars and equipment as they advance.Up to 4 players.
A vehicle platformer! Jump, Boost, Drift, and HOVERDRIVE through gravity-defying levels! Perform sick tricks to refill your boost and score a style grade. Reach The Core at the end to complete each level, but beware of The Core's defenses…
Wild Yonder is an FPS RPG (in development) where you and your friends can hop online to fight adorable and vicious enemies, explore a huge and mysterious world, and craft outrageous, game-breaking loot! If your party can get overpowered enough, maybe you'll stand a fighting chance against the humongous and ruthless bosses that wait in the wildest reaches of the wide world…
DreaMon World is an open-world monster tamer. Feed and care for your DreaMon companion while exploring a foreign world. Recruit DreaMon to join your village by engaging in battles, striking up conversations, or solving their problems. Turn-based battles powered by dice mechanics! Combined with a flexible upgrade system that makes no two DreaMon battle the same. Train your DreaMon friend exactly how you want, to fit your play style. Upgrade choices don't just power up your DreaMon, they steer a dynamic, tree-based evolution system. Your training decisions determine what your DreaMon becomes.
Team up with friends, battle through dangerous missions, collect randomized weapons and powerful upgrades, customize your loadout, and expand your home space station. Push deeper into hostile worlds and discover increasingly rare gear along the way.
In Print is a chaotic rogue-lite shooter where each round’s loser picks a new power-up to build a unique combo. Rain fire with the power of Hellvetica or fly through the skies with Wingdings. All while sporting your finest office attire.
Project Klax (working title)
Project Klax is a retro-themed rail shooter inspired by games like Star Fox 64. Lead a crew of old friends on a mission to save their home planet from a nefarious alien invasion, in full action-packed 3D!
KOOK is a Quake-like retro FPS with Lovecraftian monsters, steampunk weapons, and mind-bending M. C. Escher gravity shifts.
Isles of Artifice is a rouglite colony simulator about racing against the clock to explore a series of cursed islands. Build transport networks, automate production, cast spells, and fight the curse.
Meant to Bee is a honeybee dating sim. You play as a drone bee, trying to romance one of eight queen (or royal) bees before Hivecoming in 30 days. Manage your time interacting with royals and building skills that they would admire (through mini-games) in order to win one of their hearts!
Create a confectionery empire in Sweets Inc., the business management simulation game where you take the helm of your very own sweets manufacturing company. Design delectable treats, build and manage your factories, and market your products across the continent to become an industry tycoon
Lead your cult in the glory of YOU. Recruit followers, construct buildings in your compound, and sabotage other cult leaders to make your cult the best one! Pull off the most radical Offering and earn the most Legacy Points to write your cult into history.
Manage time itself from a base outside causality in this 4X-adjacent turn-based strategy game. Scan and deploy agents across 13 billion years to stabilize collapsing eras. Build infrastructure to extract resources and defend the timeline. Every mission rewrites history. You can't save everything.
Yaku Slap – A roguelike card battler where every battle is a duel of Koi-Koi against quirky monsters and powerful foes. Armed with spells, items, unlockable perks, unique classes, and a trusty deck of Hanafuda cards, you'll fight your way down the Flower Path in pursuit of becoming a Yaku Master.
Patchburgh is a turn-based road-management and bidding strategy hybrid game. You can patch a road for a quick fix, or reinforce it so it lasts for years. Play solo, or go head-to-head against a rival city to see whose roads give out first.
Wasmagetron turns a deeply strategic cult-classic arena game into an instant, cross-platform experience anyone can join from their phone or browser.
Cast Spellers
Survive hordes of enemies in this combination of tower defense, deck building, and typing! Type as fast as you can in order to create powerful and complex spells to wreak havoc on your enemies!
StarStruck blends high-octane 3rd-person horde survival with a feverish cartoon style—dropping you into vibrant alien worlds where acrobatic movement, game-breaking upgrades and escalating waves transform chaotic combat into a high-speed playground of ultimate destruction!
TRIMSON is a system-driven zombie survival game where you play as a rescue operative sent into infected zones to save survivors. Every injury, infection, resource, and survivor lost has lasting consequences.
Petri is a science-themed strategy board game where you evolve your bacteria genome using DNA cards. It's a competitive race to survive and thrive in the micro world for 2-4 players.
Huri is a two-player nature-themed strategy game where you place blocks and make harmonies between the symbols placed. It feels like meditation until your opponent pushes your world out of balance or hits you with a sand stone.
Baseball Shuffle is a fast, all-ages mashup of baseball and shuffleboard for 2-16 players built into a cocktail table... and your drinks can be used as bumpers
MANCY
MANCY is a strange 2000s-era card game where every deck is a kitchen table deck. Start with a hand-me-down collection and grow it to prepare for The Duel for the Decklord. No card limit. No meta lists. Just duelists, their shoebox collection, and weaponized creativity.
Step inside a colossal war machine and experience what it means to be a mech pilot. Control every switch, weapon, and system from the cockpit, customize your mech for battle, and outmaneuver rival pilots in tactical cross-platform multiplayer combat.
Waves of Jeju: Diving School is a cozy simulation game where you leave your corporate job and train with your instructor Eunji to become a haenyeo freediver on Jeju Island. Bond with school pet Olle and explore the breathtaking scenery where you’ll discover Korean folklore, traditional ecological knowledge, and the wonders of the ocean!
VR Fishtank is a cozy, creature-collecting game where you shrink down and get up close with many different aquatic creatures and build your dream fishtank in a fleshed out single player storyline.
Transfusion is a hack-and-slash VR game where you slice enemies into tiny pieces and wield the power of blood magic.
Design, develop and launch games in a studio environment at Duke. The Masters in Game- Development, Design & Innovation (GDDI) is a Master of Engineering (MEng) where you’ll build expertise in everything from C# & C++ to leading game engines, UX and storytelling. This MEng combines the creative focus of a masters in game design with the technical depth of a masters in video game development. Graduate with a professional portfolio and the skills to join an AAA or indie studio.
Odin Law - Odin helps video game, digital, interactive and internet media companies with legal issues and assists attorneys and litigants with media relations.
The F13 Podcast with Brian and CliffyB - Listen in as Brian McGuinness and Cliff Bleszinski shoot the sh*t about video-games, pop culture, and life.
Thanks Mark!
Poblanos Tacos and More is a family owned and operated Food Truck from Knightdale. Serving the Triangle and surrounding areas for Lunch and Dinner. Catering available
The Greek Goat is the Triangle’s newest family owned and operated food truck delivering an authentic Greek Street Food experience with all your favorites! Ioannis Theodorou brings his culture and 30 years of industry experience to the Triangle.
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Wake Tech - Southern Wake Campus
Building L #1636
@11:00am - 6:00pm
Oak City Indie is planned, organized, and hosted by volunteers for Triangle Interactive. We're a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
Our mission is to educate the public on the creative process of game development, to create and appreciate games, and support local artists and game developers in North Carolina.