Indie Links Round-Up: Leveling Off

“Develop in Brighton will host its yearly Indie Showcase next week.

More E3 2013 coverage in today’s Indie Links, including SoundSelf, That Dragon, Cancer and the PS4 indie launch titles.

Develop Indie Showcase 2013: meet the finalists(VG247)
“Develop in Brighton will host its yearly Indie Showcase next week. VG247′s Dave Cook spoke with each of the ten finalists about their games, and to learn more about the teams behind them.”

IndieCade at E3: That Dragon, Cancer(Joystiq)
“That Dragon, Cancer is a poetic, emotionally intense story of love in the face of death, blended beautifully into a point-and-click adventure game. It tells a true tale, unfortunately, of developer Ryan Green’s family life – his 4-year-old son, Joel, has cancer, and he’s currently fighting his eighth tumor. Joel has survived two years of treatments, surpassing doctors’ initial estimates, and Green has transformed his pain into a beautiful, introspective game.”

The Indie Eight: Polygon Talks with the Showcase Indies Launching on PS4(Polygon)
“There they stood, shoulder to shoulder across the wide semicircle of high definition screens at Sony’s E3 press conference. Streamed live to the world from the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, the presentation showed eight indie developers demonstrating their games live while a crowd of journalists and enthusiasts cheered them on.”

Super Pole Riders’ two extra players turn the game into a frantic, strategic sport(Polygon)
“The experience pitched by the Sportsfriends bundle, a Kickstarted package of four local multiplayer indie games for PS3 and PC, can be seen in a single match of Super Pole Riders, QWOP creator Bennett Foddy’s contribution to the package.”

Right now, Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty isn’t coming to Xbox One or Xbox 360(Eurogamer)
“Right now, as it stands, Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty! won’t come out on Xbox 360 or Xbox One. Why? Because Microsoft has stuck with its policy of forcing developers to partner with a publisher in order to bring games to their platform.”

Octodad: Dadliest Catch preview: calamari chaos(Shacknews)
“Who’s that giant cephalopod trying to make his way down the chapel aisle? It’s Octodad, of course! Octodad: Dadliest Catch is the sequel to the original game from Young Horses. Originally created for PC, the indie developer was courted by Sony to be among the many indie titles to launch with their new console. I got to go hands-on with the PS4 version on the E3 show floor.”

Jacob Jones & The Bigfoot Mystery and Quell Memento(Indie Gamer Chick)
“Puzzlers are the absolute toughest games to write a review for. I’ve spent hours staring at my monitor trying to figure out how to describe these games in an entertaining but informative way. Good games mind you. But still puzzle games. It’s a genre that doesn’t lend itself well to the types of reviews I write here. If I didn’t love them so much, I would probably quit covering them. They do the lowest page views too. And yet, they’re an absolutely essential part of gaming.”

This LSD-Inspired Oculus Game is The Most Intense Thing I Saw at E3(Kotaku)
“I’ve seen things inside the Oculus Rift you people wouldn’t believe. And, for the most part, it involved the strange LSD-inspired indie game SoundSelf.”