There's more to gaming than just the AAA releases. Sure, they can be awesome, but just like in music there's brilliant stuff to be found in the independent world. And sometimes, indie names turn into huge hits, and everyone's better off in the end. After all, you may notice that Valve are independent, despite their size. And they've been helpful enough to provide us with the chance to turn mainstream gamers into indie gamers, and console gamers into PC gamers.

How big? There's 7 prizes here, worth a total of around $500! Over 30 games from over a dozen different studios. Any prize pack can be yours, all you have to do is take a chance on some indie game music. Send a results screen of any song by dB soundworks, composer of the Super Meat Boy! soundtrack, or Magnus 'SoulEye' Palsson, composer of the VVVVVV soundtrack, to contest@fairwoodstudios.com and you'll get two entries for the contest. If they don't spring your interest, no problem. You can play any other Fairwood Studios song or any song from Pac-Man Fever and get one entry instead. You get up to three entries from our songs (not counting VVVVVV or Super Meat Boy), and up to one entry from Pac-Man Fever. You have until the end of July to enter!

Of course, if you'd rather not spend money, you can just Tweet the below message for a free entry:

I've been bribed by @fairwoodstudios to promote Super Meat Boy and VVVVVV music on the Rock Band Network! #RBN #smbvvv http://bit.ly/kBl4il

It's a big party, with big prizes. We're going to select 7 winners, and they get to pick the prize package they want. Along with the prize bundles listed below, every winner gets 800MSP and a Steam copy of VVVVVV courtesy of Terry Cavanagh! Our Grand Prize winner gets first pick of the below packages. First prize gets to pick from what's left, and so on down the line. This way nobody gets stuck with a bunch of games they already have.

When that's all done, we'll also pick 3 runner-up entries. Each of them gets the Humble Indie Bundle #3, a charitable collection of great indie titles. And of course, VVVVVV is hanging out in that group too.

* Team Fortress 2 is free to play. Prize includes a premium gift copy of Team Fortress 2 along with 1 (one) Chieftan's Challenge virtual item and 1 (one) weapon per in-game class (to be determined by Sponsor), 10 (ten) virtual items total.
** Any combination of games worth up to $15 (fifteen US dollars) total

No purchase necessary. Entries will be accepted until 11:59:59 EDT July 31, 2011. Entries depicting the results screen of any Rock Band Network song performed by dB soundworks or Magnus 'SoulEye' Palsson sent to Fairwood Studios at the email address listed above will be considered two (2) valid entries each. Entries depicting the results screen of any Rock Band Network song listed on http://www.fairwoodstudios.com/songs.php, that is not part of the previous group, sent to Fairwood Studios at the email address listed above will be considered one (1) valid entry each, with a maximum of three (3) entries obtained in this method. Entries depicting the results screen of any Rock Band Network song performed by Buckner & Garcia sent to Fairwood Studios at the email address listed above will be considered one (1) valid entry each, with a maximum of one (1) entry obtained in this method. Recorded Twitter messages containing the text listed above will be considered one (1) entry each, with a maximum of one (1) entry obtained in this method. A maximum of ten (10) entries per person will be considered valid. Winning entries will be selected by random number assignment using www.random.org.

PRIZE DEFINITION: The contest will consist of ten (10) Prizes. Seven (7) Grand Prizes will be allocated as follows. Winners will be selected in sequence and given the option of Prize Packages defined above. One copy of each Prize Package will be provided. Winners have 48 hours from notification to select their prize. All Video Game Software included in the Prizes are Steam codes or gift copies, provided by an existing Steam account controlled by the Contest Sponsor (Fairwood Studios). Three (3) Runner-Up Prize winners will each be awarded a gift copy of The Humble Indie Bundle #3.

Staff of Fairwood Studios, Team Meat, dB soundworks, and their families and dependents are prohibited from entering this contest. Contest open to United States and Canada residents except where prohibited by law. Canadian citizens may be required to pass a demonstration of skill before being awarded a prize.