Lots of great stuff on display but now comes the hard part; waiting for them to arrive so we can play them.
Earlier today, the Day of the Devs showcase, as part of Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest Kickoff Live! streamed globally, spotlighting some incredible indie games, including from Akupara Games, Annapurna Interactive, Devolver Digital, Digerati, Rose City Games and Thomas Happ Games, among many others.
There were also magical performances from Darren Korb & Ashley Barrett, who performed music from Supergiant Games’ Hades, Luca and Omniboi who performed a song from Team OFK’s We Are OFK and SCNTFC, who performed music from MWM Interactive and Night School Studio’s OXENFREE II: Lost Signals.
You can find the full list of games featured in this showcase (as well as links to their assets) below:
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A Musical Story by Glee-Cheese Studio (releasing in October 2021)
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Axiom Verge 2 by Thomas Happ Games
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Behind the Frame by Akupara Games + Silver Lining Studio
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Death’s Door by Devolver Digital + Acid Nerve
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Despelote by Julián Cordero and Sebastián Valbuena
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Garden Story by Picogram + Rose City Games
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Last Stop by Annapurna Interactive + Variable State
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Loot River by straka.studio
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Moonglow Bay by Bunnyhug + Coatsink
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Phantom Abyss by Devolver Digital and Team WIBY
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Road 96 by DigixArt
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Soup Pot by Chikon Club
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The Wandering Village by Stray Fawn Studio
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TOEM by Something We Made
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Unbeatable by D-CELL GAMES
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Vokabulantis by Wired Fly Stop Motion + Kong Orange + Morten Søndergaard
The showcase also highlighted a number of titles from asobu, the “lighthouse” for indie game creators in Japan, a community founded to support and evangelize independent game development in Japan and Japanese games abroad. Assets for those games can be found below.
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Demolition Robots K.K. by Takaaki Ichijo, Throw the warped code out
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Elec Head by NamaTakahashi
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Walk by Kazumi Games
If you missed the stream, you can find the full video on YouTube here (starting at 2:16:00).