Gallery: Inside Japan's Indie Games Fest, Where Crazy Is Mandatory

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    Veteran developer Yoshiro Kimura of Onion Games was the only double-winner at BitSummit.
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    Raigan Burns (L) and Mare Sheppard, the team behind N++
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    BitSummit 2014 was in a much larger venue for its second year.
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    8-4 showed Western indie games that it will be translating into Japanese.
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    Shcocooococo uses a lotion bottle as a controller.
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    A homemade LED console with a built-in fighting game.
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    Kickstarter's Luke Crane told the crowd the pros and cons of crowdfunding a video game.
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    ""This is our first presence at BitSummit and it's been going really well," said Microsoft's Takashi Sensui, head of the Japanese Xbox division.