Twitch makes indie games a priority, and you might benefit from it (as well as the indies)

Twitch makes indie games a priority, and you might benefit from it (as well as the indies)

If Twitch wasn’t already cool enough. More reason. Enjoy the official details below.

Beginning Monday, February 19, Twitch Prime will shine a spotlight on a handful of top-notch games from eight different indie devs and allow the community to pick which game will be given away to Twitch Prime members for free on Thursday, March 15. Additionally, there’s a $175,000 prize pool for the developers of the winning games.

The Twitch Prime Indie Amplifier program includes the following games:

– Tomb of Annihilation (Dungeons and Dragons), from Bkom Studios
– Tumblestone, from Quantum Astorphysicists Guild
– Treadnauts, from Topstitch Games
– High Hell, from Devolver Digital
– I, Hope, from Double Plus Good Games
– Shadow Tactics, from Daedalic Games
– Kingsway, from Cartoon Interactive
– Steamworld Dig 2, from Image & Form

Voting closes on Sunday, March 11, and the winning game will be given to Twitch Prime members for free on Thursday, March 15.

For the next two weeks, Twitch’s Giantwaffle and bacon_donut will play the games and get to know the developers on the Twitch Prime Indie Amplifier shows, while Simcopter1 and DizzyKitten will be streaming the games throughout the next four weeks.

To learn more about Twitch Prime Indie Amplifier, vote for your favorite game, or to get the full Twitch streaming schedule head on over to amazon.com/indieamplifier