Czarcade’s Clobbr takes the top prize at Casual Connect’s indie showcase

Czarcade won the Best in Show award at the Casual Game Association‘s indie prize showcase at the Casual Connect game conference last week in San Francisco. Such awards shows have become more important in the indie market, where it’s increasingly hard to predict what will be the next Clash of Clans (a potential billion-dollar game made by Supercell in Helsinki).

The Portland-based Czarcade studio won the award for its Clobbr game, which is cartoon-style puzzle game in which you play a cute little blue guy who has to hit a stump with a hammer and smash a rock through a maze and knock out a cat. Clobbr beat out more than 100 rivals at the show, which focuses on unpublished games created by independent game developers. Ten other teams also won prizes.