This article is about games shown at alt.ctrl.GDC as a part of the alternative controls showcase at GDC.
2014
2015
2016
| Game |
Developer |
Notes
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| Wiz |
Minds N Hands |
Developers also listed as Toi Ngee Tan, Yochiro Katsumoto, Kesaku Kawauichi, & Liew Feng Ming
|
| Crank Tank |
Henry Lam, Andrew Genualdi, & Jaeseong Yi |
|
| Little Book |
CNAM-ENJMIN |
|
| Ziff |
Alejandra Molina |
with illustrations by Line Birgitte, music by Nifflas
|
| Disruption |
Spooky Elephant & Hull University |
|
| Hello, Operator! |
Em Lazer-Walker |
|
| The Von Neumann Personality Test |
Amy Hudgins |
|
| DOBOTONE |
Videogamo |
|
| Operator |
Killigan Industries |
|
| Suck My Rainbow |
Triband |
|
| Planet Licker |
Azuria Sky, Frank DeMarco, Otis Denner-Kenny, & Mouth Arcade |
|
| Petitwo |
Steph Caskenette |
|
| Disc Jockey Jockey |
mildmojo |
|
| Please Stand By |
Jerry Belich & Victor Thompson |
|
| ROTATOR |
Robin Baumgarten & Petri Audio |
|
| Threadsteading |
Gillian Smith, April Grow, Chenxi Liu, Lea Albaugh, Jen Mankoff, & Jim McCann |
|
| Palimpseste |
Le Chant du Cygne |
|
| Fabulous Beasts |
Sensible Object |
|
| Slap Friends! Dispute Resolution Simulator |
Pretty Fox Games |
|
| OCTOBO |
Yuting Su |
|
2017
| Game |
Developer |
Notes
|
| Orpheus Quest |
Anibal Hormeche, Raul Palavecino, & Laura Palavecino |
|
| Schadenfreude |
Courtney Snavely, Seung Whan Lee, Paul Frank Mallon, & Kevin Constantino |
|
| Fear Sphere |
New Arcade |
Winner of the alt.ctrl.GDC 2017 Audience Award
|
| F.O. Bellies |
Miyeon Kim, Yue Lin, Xianghan Ma, Xiaomeng Tang |
Developer Xiaomeng Tang is also listed as Maximity
|
| Superbrin |
Studio Bruyant |
|
| Cylindrus |
Jerry Belich |
Developer listed as Jerrytron
|
| Shape Fitter |
Haptic Controller |
|
| Doggy Tug-of-War |
Martin Sebastian Wain |
|
| Victor the Loser |
Chuck Kuan, Chao-Hui Tu, Yumeng Wang, Magnus Pind, & Xianghan Ma |
|
| vinylOS |
Josef Who? &Jonas Bo |
|
| Emotional Fugitive Detector |
Alexander King, Samuel Von Ehren, & Noca Wu |
|
| Zombie Crawler |
Anders Karlsson, Ida Anderson-Junkka, Louise Fändriks, Linda Thern, Erik Nord, & Adrian Lavrell |
|
| Objects in Space |
Flat Earth Games |
|
| Spacebox |
James Keats, Amanda Ledwidge, Jake Pierce, Robin Shafto, Ricky Rizzo, & Dennis Dysart |
|
| Sand Garden |
DigiPen Team Psylight |
|
| Super Furry Neon Cat Heads |
SFNCH Team |
|
| Cryptogram |
The S. Crew |
|
| RotoRing |
Gregory Kogos |
|
| Close the Leaks (to prevent imminent death) |
Henning Steinbock & Samuel Chapman |
|
| The Heist |
Setapp |
|
2018
| Game |
Developer |
Notes
|
| Striker Air Hockey |
Guerilla Nouveau |
|
| Too Many Captains (And Not Enough Wire]] |
Avi Romanoff & Giada Sun |
|
| Vaccination |
Installation Required |
|
| Clunker Junker |
HNRY |
|
| Grave Call |
Totally Not a Game Studio |
|
| Living Orb |
Jonathan Giroux |
|
| Wind Golf |
PepijnWillekens |
|
| Puppet Pandemonium |
Fluffy Games |
Winner of the alt.ctrl.GDC 2018 Audience Award
|
| Disco is Dead! |
Third Floor Games |
|
| Voiceball! |
Alex Turbyfield, Stephen Borden, Ilya Polyakov, Talal Alothman, & Ali Yaldrim |
|
| Wobble Garden |
Robin Baumgarten |
|
| Unicornelia |
The Sad Rainbows |
|
| Mark Wars |
MatthieuAlves, Louis Bernot, Alessandro Cheinisse, Gaëtan Cloarec, Florian Eschalier, Matthias Johan& Pierre Llanusa |
|
| Pump the Frog |
7 Holy Frogges |
|
| Bot Party |
Phoenix Perry & Frieda Abtan |
|
| Yo, Bartender! |
Kraken |
|
| Doors to the City |
Looking Glass |
|
| Lemonade |
Jing Sun, Yaying Zeng, Yuchen Huang, & Ziqiang He |
|
| Hi-5 Heroes |
Bobby Lockhart & Marty Meinerz |
|
| Scissors The That Than |
Shcocoococo VS |
Developer also listed as Miyazaworks
|
2019
| Game |
Developer |
Notes
|
| Cathode Mk 1 |
Public Games |
|
| The Book Ritual |
Alistair Aitcheson |
|
| Guitar Wizards |
Ben McInnes, Adoné Kitching, Jason Sutherland, & Luc Wolthers |
|
| Plünge |
Darryl Feniquito, Gavin Nelson, Jackson Lanaus, Sebastian Scaini, Sprite Man Vuk, & Xin Zhang |
|
| Table44 |
Alon Adda |
|
| HOT SWAP: All Hands on Deck |
Peter Gyory & Clement Zheng |
Winner of the alt.ctrl.GDC 2019 Audience Award
|
| Koo-Koo |
Overtimers |
|
| ReLeap |
Orbit Break |
|
| OVERTIME |
Josh Delson & DePaul University |
|
| Machinaria |
Black Mamba Studio |
|
| Roambot |
Jack Ford |
|
| Neon Nemesis |
Marcus Ford, Alexander Peck, Adam Olsson, Anton Berglund, Anna Malian Nelson, Patrik Lindkvist, & Petrut Raileanu |
|
| Ruins Climber |
Takahiro Miyazawa |
|
| Coal Rush |
Team Moon Moon |
|
| Cook Your Way |
Enric Llagostera |
|
| Continuum Bacterium |
HNRY |
|
| ETRAREALITY CODEBREAKER |
FLEB |
|
| Octopad |
Patrick LeMieux |
|
| HELLCOUCH: A Couch Co-op Game |
Carol Mertz & Francesca Carleton-Leon |
|
| Tied Escape: Curse of Cortez |
ATE Team |
|
2020
Due to the nature of the coronavirus outbreak, the 2020 GDC show was cancelled. The audience award was not given out this year, but these developers were still listed and recognized on the GDC site as finalists.
| Game |
Developer |
Notes
|
| Far Away Cage |
Team Neustromo |
|
| Plug-Plug |
François Iakouchev, Matthieu Chapeland, Thomas Giuliani, & Adrien Six |
|
| People of the Moon |
Jean-Pierre Chastagnol, Maëlle Fanget, Simon Giraud,Jérémy Guarober, Morgan Jobbins, & Louis le Gacq |
|
| Kaleida |
Benjamin Mora-Davison, Justin McKague, Mary Andrea Arroz, & Xinran Ma |
|
| Neck ‘n’ Neck |
Paraxonia Productions |
|
| The Unfathomed Voyager |
Chenchen Ava Tan, Ruoxi Li, Boyi Liu, & Matthew Bofenkamp |
|
| Ready? Set. Haiya! |
Geeky Planet Studio |
|
| Vincere |
Red Planet Games |
|
| Guilty Smells |
Molleindustria & Heather Kelley |
|
| Our Sutured City |
Tabitha Arnold, Corey Arnold, Richard Vallett, & Andrew Cotter |
|
| Wizard’s Warehouse: The Magick of Retail |
Mike Salyh |
|
| Pat Pat Please! |
André Ruiz, Leticia de Vicq & Lucas Lima |
|
| Ozone |
Ozone Project |
|
| MAD - Mutually Assisted Destruction |
Clément Amendola, Nicolas de Castro, Adrien Dourgnon, Emile Chuffart, Emmanuel Lataste, & Samuel Tunnell |
|
| Hug Machine |
Gel Pen Collective |
|
| Twined |
Tissue Drop Games |
|
| Cursed! |
WeHaveNoCat |
|
| Buy! Sell! |
Mouse & The Billionaire |
|
| Milk!That!Cow! |
MTC Industries |
|
| The Sword |
Takahiro Miyazawa |
|
| Bruce and Box |
Wataru Nakano & MIYAZAWORKS |
|
2021
Due to the nature of the coronavirus outbreak, GDC 2021 was held as a hybrid event, and alt.ctrl.GDC was not a part of that event.
2022
After a short hiatus due to the pandemic, alt.ctrl.GDC resumed.
2023
| Game |
Developer |
Notes
|
| Atomik |
Posly |
|
| Attack of the bric-a-brac |
Tatiana Vilela dos Santos & Olivier Drouet |
|
| Blossom |
Laura Meng & Blossom Team |
|
| Cloth Car Challenge |
Richard Vallett, Leo Cohen, & Spencer Cohen |
|
| Fooscade |
Hong Hua & Yixuan Liu |
|
| Funny Kitty Stick |
Kindle Games |
|
| Gilliams Great Escape |
Marcus Kuffner, Annas Shazad, Deegan Kosen, Rowan O'Neil, Davide Ashley, & Jayden Galita |
|
| Gridmaster |
Jonathan Voss, Katie Kohutek, Emily Regner, & Jon Siemon |
|
| Haber Dasher |
Erin J.K. Truesdell |
|
| HEIST 98 |
Dean Debono |
|
| inTIErrupted |
French K155 |
|
| Kitchen Kauldron |
The Kitchen Kauldron Team |
|
| Paper Glider |
S213 |
|
| Stump’d |
Team Borf |
|
| Two By 4 Racing |
Night Owls |
|
| Unicycle Samurai |
Spartan Samurai & Michigan State University |
|
| YetiBebbis: Puppet in a Cult |
Yuan Suo, Yile Xu, Jiacheng Qiu, Rei Yamada, & Tingyu Yan |
|
| Cosmic Crew: The Game |
Space Cow Team |
|
| Grocery Trip |
Victor Motti, Sara Brugoli, Arnaud Brabant, Clément Jamaer, & Mathis Jibert |
|
2024
| Game |
Developer |
Notes
|
| 996 Tech |
Yijia Guo, Yue (Krystal) Huang, & Zhuoran Ma |
|
| BARC |
Interactive Materials Lab |
|
| Bib Goes Home Lowtek Light Book |
Alistair Low, Jake Bretherton, Zap Fernandez, & Matt Stark |
|
| Boss, Blinds, Brandy |
Wataru Nakano & MIYAZAWORKS |
|
| Chairdevil |
Bobby Lockhart & Andy Saia |
|
| Channel: Death |
David Antognoli, Ian Beckman, & Michael Vaughn Green |
|
| Chú Mó |
The Chú Mó Team @ ArtCenter |
alt.ctrl.GDC 2024 Audience Award Winner
|
| Competitive Waffle Game |
Daniel Medrano |
|
| Get Off My Lawn! |
Marc-Julian "MJ" Galicha, Saurabh Sood, Christopher Jones, Jessy Tang, Sandy Sang,William Rockwell, Shubham More, Landon Beaty, Avni Shelke, & Deniece Radford |
|
| Grapple Fisher DX |
Nick Maglio, Max Kenny, Sean Walsh, & Jacob Abrams |
|
| JETCola |
Tamakotronica |
|
| Limbitless Redline |
Limbitless Solutions |
|
| Miniature Nightmares |
Team Lose Ctrl |
|
| Mosquito Escape |
Yuhan (Coco) Ma, Xiangrui (Siro) Zeng, & Xiao Tan |
|
| Puppet Master |
Timsiss |
|
| Round the Valley |
Léo Abbaz, Sam Chevrin, Tristan Loumont, Solenn Ripoteau, & Danny Vu |
|
| Runaway Robbers |
The Velocity Vandals |
|
| Sky Ladder Repair |
Andrew Qiu, Ben Courtemanche, Dakota Du, Kitty Chen, Samuel Wang, Sadira Kooblal-Caesar, & William Sun |
|
| TerrorTV |
Dean Debono & Paige Plowman |
|
| Weirdows ‘98 |
Collin Rehmeyer, Samantha Trimboli, Xinyu Ai, Zhaojia Guo, & Dazhou Hou |
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