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PAX East has chosen the winners of their Boston Indie Showcase, and a Mac game developer is among them. Owlchemy Labs will be showcasing their game Smuggle Truck at PAX East at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center in March.

Smuggle Truck is an over-the-top physics-based driving game where you smuggle your passengers across the border in the least amount of time. Tilt your truck, catch newborn babies, drive over armadillos, and rocket your way over hills, through caverns and over quicksand to save the people. The game was created as a satire on the very real issues of immigration, because the developers had watched personal friends deal with the issue themselves. Owlchemy is releasing the game for Windows, Mac, iPhone/iPod Touch, iPad, as well as a web-based version.

The other two winners are Boston Indie developers Team Uncertainty and Retro Affect. Team Uncertainty will be showing Blinding Silence, a sound-based puzzle game for Windows. Retro Affect explores cameras that can do more than capture images in their Windows-based game Snapshot.

PAX East is a mirror of PAX Prime (the original PAX held in Seattle), bringing gamers together from across the globe for three days of celebration of gaming culture. The Boston show will be jammed with panel discussions, concerts, tournaments and an exhibitor hall filled with the latest new games for pen-and-paper, tabletop, CCG, PC and console video game fans. PAX East runs from Friday, March 11 – Sunday, March 13.