Gleemax™ is the Platinum sponsor of the 10th Annual Independent Games Festival, which encourages innovation in game development and recognizes the best independent game developers. View the full list of festival entries.

Gleemax will be awarding the following prizes to its chosen “Gleemie” award winners for strategic game play.

• 1st place – $5,000 – Desktop Tower Defense by Hand Drawn Games
• 2nd place – $3,000 – Skyrates by Team Skyrates
• 3rd place – $2,000 – Quadradius by Quadradius

In addition, all seven finalists will get the opportunity to sign distribution agreements worth at least $50,000 in total.

The finalists for “The Gleemie” were selected from a field of more than 170 game submissions based on strategic and innovative game play. Click here for the finalists.