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The PAX 10 Independent Games Showcase list was announced recently.

Penny Arcade was pleased to announce today that The PAX 10 for 2009 are (in alphabetical order):

* CarneyVale: Showtime by the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Games Lab (Xbox 360)

* Closure by Tyler Glaiel and Jon Schubbe (PC)

* Fieldrunners by Subatomic Studios (iPhone/iPod touch)

* Liight by Studio Walljump (Wii)

* Machinarium by Amanita Design (PC)

* Osmos by Hemisphere Games (PC)

* Puzzle Bloom by Team Shotgun (PC)

* Tag: The Power of Paint by Tag Team (PC)

* Trino by Trinoteam (Xbox 360)

* What is Bothering Carl? by Story Fort (PC)

Notice all of those (PC) tags? A lot of them are also going to be available for the Mac (and some for iPhone). Specifically:

• Closure by Tyler Glaiel and Jon Schubbe (PC): You can see in their FAQ that Mac is a given…they are considering other platforms (iPhone?).
• Fieldrunners by Subatomic Studios (iPhone/iPod touch): The only solely iPhone game in the list. I’m interested in the decision process they used to determine this would be the game for the PAX 10…there are a lot of good iPhone games out there.
• Machinarium by Amanita Design (PC): I knew that this game would eventually come out for the Mac when I first investigated it for the IGF.
• Osmos by Hemisphere Games (PC): same as above for Osmos. IGF finalist, developer wanted the game to come out for the Mac, just wasn’t sure when.
• Puzzle Bloom by Team Shotgun (PC): This one I’m not so certain of. I mean, you go to the site, and you have to have the Unity web player installed to play it. Which gives the impression it was built on top of Unity. Which would mean it would be absolutely ludicrous not to have a Mac client. But people is dumb…

That’s 50% for those of you keeping score. I’ll be at PAX this year, and will give a report on all of the games, as well as interviews with all of the developers.