Dozens of game developers from all across the Rochester area (and beyond) will take over the Irondequoit Public Library on Saturday, May 5th, for the ROC Game Fest Spring Showcase.
Want a sneak peek at the tabletop and video games that are going to be on display? Check out the full list right here…
ROC Game Dev
ROC Game Dev is a group dedicated to bringing together game development enthusiasts, hobbyists, and anyone interested in making video games. Whether you’re a developer, artist, musician, programmer, streamer, or totally new to game development, you’re more than welcome to join the group, partake in discussion, and attend the meetups. No prior experience or projects to show needed. Come hang!
Organizers from ROC Game Dev will show entries from the Rochester Arcade. (ROCGameDev.com)
Adam Trollinger
Adam Trollinger is working on Fealty, a tableau building tabletop game with a single action per turn that ends when reaches a certain amount of points.
Aesthetician Labs
Aesthetician Labs is working on Crazy Platez, a game where you play as a driver dashing haphazardly across the city to deliver as many plates as possible. Your responsibility as a Crazy Platez delivery driver is to keep the people of Rochester satisfied and full. Race against the clock to deliver plates and refill your tank before you run out of gas! (Aesthetic.games)
Alexis Lipina
Alexis Lipina is currently working on Awake(), a 3D action RPG with an 8-bit artistic style heavily inspired by Hyper Light Drifter. In Awake(), you explore a variety of alien environments, fight challenging monsters, and piece together what your purpose is on a strange planet.
Bad Games
Bad Games has created Which Friend, a social tabletop game that was designed to bring friends together. It promotes interaction and laughter as the question cards tend to bring up old stories and funny instances that are unique to each set of friends that play the game. It involves thought and strategy, and is a great way to see which of your friends knows each other best. (WhichFriendGame.com)
BC Likes You
BC Likes You is Rob Mostyn, the founder of ROC Game Dev and the developer of A Small Robot Story. A Small Robot Story is an adventure-platformer where you play as Rae, a small robot who activates and has no idea why. So you need to set out and find out what’s up! (bclikesyou.Itch.io)
Bull Horn Games
Bull Horn’s Aurum Kings is a two-to-four player couch competitive game where the players each choose a Great House to fight for the right to the Crown. Gain gold while you hold the Crown, or pick it up throughout the time spent in each level. The first player to reach the set amount of gold wins. (BullHornGames.com)
Darkwind Media
Darkwind Media recently launched Wulverblade for the PC, PS4, Switch, and Xbox One.
Defeat the Ninth Legion of the Roman army in this side-scrolling, arcade-inspired beat ’em up set in Roman-era Britain, and inspired by classics such as Golden Axe, Sengoku, and Knights of the Round. (DarkwindMedia.com
Dennis McCorry
Dennis McCorry is currently working on The Sword and the Slime, a 2D pixel art side-scrolling platformer where players control a free floating magical sword with the mouse. But they cannot stray too far from the various creatures and characters they’re magically bound to during the game. So the player is tasked with protecting, following, or even leading (both directly and indirectly) the creatures the sword is bound to.
Devin Strehle
Devin Strehle is working on Project Savior… “In a world of darkness, you carry the light to guide the lost back home. You are a reclaimer. Traverse dark dungeons, decrepit ruins, eerie forests, and vile muck to retrieve survivors of the last human village in the world. Do not hesitate. Do not falter. For your failure is the failure of all humanity.”
Imaginary Monsters
Peter Lazarski makes comics and games under the name Imaginary Monsters, including Abyxsis, a hellish high-bit “MetroidVania.”
In Abyxsis, you play as a penitent demon intent on escaping the abyss to rescue an innocent human child from peril in the mortal world. You are the least likely hero in a world where prayers otherwise go unanswered. (ImaginaryMonsters.com)
Impostor Cat Games
Go Morse Go! Arcade Edition is a four-player competitive cheerleading game where players must hype up the crowd by shouting letters via Morse Code. An “Exhibition Version” will be on display at the Spring Showcase with controllers built to feel like real telegraph keys. (ImpostorCatGames.com)
Inverted Productions
Zachary Yaro uses the name Inverted Productions as a designer and developer of various games and pieces of software, including Banana Split, a twist of third-person shooter and real-time strategy ingredients for a sweet new flavor of multiplayer​ action… and heaps of dessert puns. (InProd.co)
Jacob Yaple
Cold Quest: Tundra Tactics is an Arctic-themed race game using domino tiles as ice floes, which players manipulate to be the first to cross the board. (Facebook.com/coldquestboardgame)
Joel Tom
Do you love the head to head competitive rush of a fighting game? Do you love the thrill of gambling? Get ready to enter the exciting world of Pachink-Off! Joel Tom’s Pachink-Off! is a head-to-head competitive slot machine Game with exciting casino-themed minigames and a colorful cast of characters! (Facebook.com/pachinkoff)
Pynkuu
Pynkuu is Tiffany McFarlane and Robert Pruden, and they’re working on Blanket. Blanket was conceived during the “Find the Kind Game Jam,” a game jam centered around making games around the concept of kindness. In this game, you’re cohabiting with Blanket, a depressed person who’s not particularly good at self-care. The choices you make around your apartment can impact actions Blanket will take towards self-care but what exactly does self-care look like? Is it answering emails, is it being comfortable with giving yourself a break, is it doing the easier thing when you just don’t have the energy or doing the hard thing despite it? These are questions we hope the Player will ask as they make choices on how to spend the day and learn Blanket’s story. (Pynkuu.com)
Rasklz Publishing
Rasklz Publishing is currently working on Cheating Death, a tabletop game that follows the adage, “Life sucks, and then you die.” In Cheating Death, players will need to outlive their friends and family! Avoid stacking up awful Afflictions and use Cheat cards to evade death and sabotage your opponents. (Rasklz.co)
Second Avenue Learning
Second Avenue Learning is a developer that explores the possibilities of learning and technology.
In Martha Madison middle school students join meerkat scientist Martha Madison on quests to help her community, all the while learning physical science concepts and 21st century skills. Jump, fly, slide, and bang through game levels built on a side-scrolling platform that plays like a video game. Martian Math is an augmented reality (AR) game where elementary school students visit a virtual farm and use their knowledge of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to solve equations and help the farmer keep his animals. (SecondAvenueLearning.com)
That Indie Studio
That Indie Studio is a small game studio situated in Rochester.
They are currently working on their first title, Rogue Flight, a roguelite shoot ’em up that takes place in galaxy at war. Who will you help? How will you survive? (ThatIndieStudio.com)
Tremorworks
Tremorworks was founded in 2006 by two guys with a passion for innovation in games, with a goal of providing innovative and groundbreaking games to tabletop game enthusiasts around the world.
The Paragon Universal RPG is a “flexible and adaptable” system for tabletop RPGs based on realism, with a focus on role-playing rather than combat. Tremorworks will also show Tiger Territory, an in-development tile placement/territory control game that in part simulates the difficult life of a male tiger in the wild. (Tremorworks.com)
Triphammer Studios
Warbeasts & Wyrms is a tabletop RPG from Triphammer Studios… “It is a time of war and fear, of death and destruction. It is a time for heroes. Take up your spear and shield, as you face down hobgoblins, windigos, dire gods, and more!”