SMELLS LIKE INDIE SPIRIT: THE OFFICIAL FANTASTIC ARCADE 2012 TRAILER

While I’ve already given a breakdown of the Adventure Time Game Making Frenzy, the Fantastic Arcade-related event coming in just a few short days to Austin, TX and around the globe, next week — from Thursday through Sunday — the Alamo Drafthouse will be hosting Fantastic Arcade proper: a free & public celebration of indie game culture featuring custom arcade cabinets for a selection of showcase games and an even larger field of spotlight games, with panels and developer talks by a number of local and visiting indies including Vlambeer, Terry Cavanagh, Dennaton, White Whale, Stoic & more.

In the lead-up to that, the Alamo will be springing the above trailer on unsuspecting movie-goers: a whirlwind tour of games like Proteus, Windosill and Mirrormoon that should hopefully give the general public an intriguing sense of exactly what’s happening just under the surface of what they more generally think of as videogames.