Independently-produced games are well represented on this week’s AppData list of the fastest-gaining Facebook games still under a million monthly active users. You’ll just need to look past the first three, which don’t count: Name Analyzer miscategorized itself as a game, Fish Friends is backed by Playdom, and ¡Teclas Machucadas!, a app about banging on your keyboard, isn’t particularly notable.

The indie list starts, then, with Car Madness, a game that has been around for a while but didn’t start to pick up players until recently. It’s leading the pack with 187,783 new players:

	Name	MAU	Gain	Gain, %
1.	Name Analyzer	559,557	+432,916	+341.85
2.	Fish Friends	934,240	+428,760	+84.82
3.	¡Teclas Machucadas!	331,613	+276,567	+502.43
4.	Car Madness	721,577	+187,783	+35.18
5.	Funfari	174,752	+174,743	+1,941,588.89
6.	Battle Punks	206,542	+135,986	+192.73
7.	Evony	329,882	+127,222	+62.78
8.	Write In Pictures	380,779	+122,056	+47.18
9.	WPT Texas Hold ‘Em Poker	198,697	+113,127	+132.20
10.	Football Mania	118,219	+106,397	+899.99
11.	( Fupa Games ) – Arcade Blitz	110,523	+103,691	+1,517.73
12.	My Tribe	417,551	+103,255	+32.85
13.	Hızlı Yaz	349,664	+99,746	+39.91
14.	Daily Tarot Cards	361,093	+97,076	+36.77
15.	RockFREE	435,849	+94,758	+27.78
16.	Lords Online	188,333	+86,241	+84.47
17.	Bingo Island 2	348,527	+83,747	+31.63
18.	Top Gun	355,374	+82,589	+30.28
19.	DoubleDown Casino Blackjack	229,869	+74,681	+48.12
20.	Motorcycle Madness	410,945	+72,994	+21.60

A few more interesting picks: Battle Punks encourages players to create personalized avatars to fight it out in a fantasy world of, what else, punks. The game, by Gravity Bear, has significantly better graphics than most of what you’ll see on Facebook. That’s because Phil Shenk, a former lead designer for Diablo II, led development. We reviewed the game in early March, before it began growing.

Evony is a strategy game that made its name on the web — and became infamous for its racy ads, when it was still called Civony. For now, it’s the closest thing to Civilization on Facebook. ( Fupa Games ), a few places down, is yet another game publisher like MindJolt — we’ve been seeing a lot more of these pop up lately, especially since the big acquisition of MindJolt.

Slow and steady wins the race for My Tribe, coming in right under Fupa at number 12. This island civilization game from Big Fish has been around since early March, but stayed small for several weeks before beginning to grow. When we asked the company why, they said they have not added on any more advertising or promotion — players simply noticed the game’s deeper gameplayay and started trickling in.

Top Gainers This Week – Games

	Name	MAU	Gain	Gain, %
1.	Name Analyzer	559,557	+432,916	+341.85
2.	Fish Friends	934,240	+428,760	+84.82
3.	¡Teclas Machucadas!	331,613	+276,567	+502.43
4.	Car Madness	721,577	+187,783	+35.18
5.	Funfari	174,752	+174,743	+1,941,588.89
6.	Battle Punks	206,542	+135,986	+192.73
7.	Evony	329,882	+127,222	+62.78
8.	Write In Pictures	380,779	+122,056	+47.18
9.	WPT Texas Hold ‘Em Poker	198,697	+113,127	+132.20
10.	Football Mania	118,219	+106,397	+899.99
11.	( Fupa Games ) – Arcade Blitz	110,523	+103,691	+1,517.73
12.	My Tribe	417,551	+103,255	+32.85
13.	Hızlı Yaz	349,664	+99,746	+39.91
14.	Daily Tarot Cards	361,093	+97,076	+36.77
15.	RockFREE	435,849	+94,758	+27.78