This year's E3 season has obviously been a little scattershot due to COVID-19 effectively canceling the annual gamꦕing conference. In its absence, developers have had to come up with alternative ways of announcing their hot new gaming projects to the masses. While this isn't a problem for big-name pu♓blishers like Sony or EA, smaller indie game companies have had a harder time getting the word out about their upcoming titles.
Thankfully, Double Fine's annual Day Of The Devs showcase is here to help independent developers reveal their games to audiences that may not have heard about them otherwise. It was a bit of a bizarre livestream, especially since it was proceeded by announcements for both 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Crash Bandicoot 4 and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Smite, two decidedly 🔜not indie games. There was also an interview with ALF....Yes, that ALF.
Once it was past its initial weird beginning - that took over 40 mind-numbing minutes to finish - the show transitioned into the actual Day Of The Devs portion of the stream. There were plenty of unique and charming titles shown off by Tim Schafer and company, so here's a recap of all the games we🌳 got to see.
Gameheads Showcase
The show started with some titles f⛎rom Gameheads, an organization that teaches game design to low-income students. They showed off the following projects from their classes:
Serpent Showdown
T🔴his game involves snakes fighting each other with swords. There really isn't muchꦛ more to say about it, but if you think snakes wearing armor and dueling sounds fun then here you go.
Tri-Ger
A vertical shmup in the same vein as Ikaruga that seemed to borrow the visual style of Geometry Wars. It looks a little simplistic, but could easily be a solid 🦩time-waster like most good shmups tend to be.
The Groundz
There's always room for more dodgeball games, but this one looks a little rough. The animations seem off and the characters appeared to be lagging through the video. It is a student project, so it's possible that it just requires a lot more polish and guidance, and this was simply early alpha footag🥀e.
The Artful Escape
Coming from Beethoven and Dinosaur, this game is all about helping a teenage rock star discover his onstage persona while setting out on a wild, cosmic musical adventure. It looks like someone took the art style of Oxenfree or 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Afterparty and made a platformer/rhythm game out of it.
Starbase
If you like space and games where you and your friends shout at each other while frantically trying to build things, then you should look into Starbase. You build a spaceship, ba💯ttle other players, and can even discover planets together. It looks like the kind of thing streamers will be all over.
Foregone
It was surprising when the developer mentioned 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dead Cells during this presentation since Foregone looks like a dead ringer for that game. Everything from the genre to the art style resembles Motion Twin's hit roguelike, but th൲at doesn't necessarily mean this won't be good. The animation is pretty solid, the combat looks fun, and it could easily be a title that stands on its own when it comes out in October.
But seriously, it looks a lot like Dead Cells.
Spinch
Hey, do you like drugs? Then here's a game for you! Spinch is what would probably happen if you dropped acid and then decided to play Super Meat Boy. It's the perfect title for those who love platformer🐠s and extreme psychedelia. It's ou🎃t on September 3rd.
Ynglet
Coming from the creators of Knytt Underground and Uurnog, here's another g🐬ame with a hard to comprehend title. You play as a weird jellyfish thing that bounces between bubbles and platforms while the soundtrack adapts to your movements. Could be neat.
Skate Story
In a year where we're due to get remakes of Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1 & 2 and EA has finally announced a new Skate game, now we also have Skate Story. Although this one seems less like a pure skateboarding game and more of an adventure where your glass skateboard man tries to make it to the underworld under New York City. So it's a bit more high concept than 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Tony Hawk, but it looks like you can still do ollies.
Black Book
This cross between an adventure game and a deck building RPG is about a young witch who travels throughout Eastern Europe during the 19th Century. It features gorgeous art and references to Slavic folklore. It looks like it'll be simultaneoꦅusly spooky and beautiful.
Drake Hollow
The makers of The Flame And The Flood introduced their newest game, which looks like a more adorable version of a survival game. There was plenty of footage of hitting things with axes in order to gather resources. If all goes well, it cou♏ld very likely be another hit with streamers and content creators.
Panzer Paladin
In terms of games that try to echo 8-bit or 16-bit games of the past, Panzer Paladin does a pretty incredible job.🎐 It ha🦩s a pretty strong chance of being the next big indie hit and should be a blast on the Switch.
