Day of the Devs: GDC Edition Direct

[Music] hello and welcome to day of the devs mm I gotta figure out what might call this thing the other does mm seeds on the wall [Music] hi everybody and welcome to day of the devs that's right we're doing a special edition today that is where you can watch it in your very own home safe from all disease and infection then just the only thing that will affect you here is love love for videogames Greg here and his pals have gathered together 12 great games to show to you and it was originally gonna be at a live show during GDC but the Game Developers Conference was postponed but they have

supported us in sharing this with you in a more direct sort of way and hopefully when it comes back as a show they'll be GC David's there too but for now tell us how this all works yes we've been doing Dana DES Double Fine and I am a pet have been hosting this for eight years now this is the eighth year I'm doing this it's crazy and it started trying to put a spotlight on amazing indie developers and indie games throughout the industry so we always try to find the best games we can from around the world so we work with all of our friends at various platform holders basically all of them PlayStation and Xbox and Nintendo and Steam and epic and we all get together and talk about our favorite indie games coming out and kind of across platforms decide what are the most exciting things that we can be showing so we have a bunch of people we reach out to over 300 submissions every year and we've curated that down to this list of 12 games and try to have a really kind of broad spectrum of diverse games from people all over the world we've got stuff from

Germany and from Japan from Denmark big teams small teams some student projects and they all have very diverse styles in terms of visuals and game mechanics and we're trying to find things that are really pushing the industry forward and unique and interesting ways that's great and so glad we're able to do this because you know a lot of people GDC is one of those events that helps you promote your games and for any developers like there's not you don't have money to just buy ads and put your game so it was really an important event for them and then it seemed so heartbreaking that you see wouldn't happen for good reasons of course but so that's why I'm so glad we were able to still have the show share these games and so thanks to our sponsors for sticking with us yeah we've got 12 games to show one of them is a world premiere excited me world premiere well and yeah like we said every year we try to really focus on the developers make it very easy for them it's a free event we handle all the setup all of the hardware and everything and that is

thanks to all of our sponsors we chip in and help so that's the Game Developers Conference which are letting us do this stream and have graciously hosted this and we will have a selection of games maybe some of these maybe some new ones at GDC once it happens down the road playstation ID at Xbox Nintendo Epic Games Steam Humble Bundle Nvidia Logitech and Astro gaming all helped with hardware in various forms and and helping support the event financially as well for many years and also very extra special thanks to dos one who provided music for this dream always kicking the beats Yoshi the best I don't know how I find the time he's like he's in like in 12 the games he's on multiple games in the showcase well let's get to the games I'm excited what's the first one first gamer you look at is cloud Punk it's from a studio called IM lands in berlin germany you can see i think a little bit sneak peek of this behind but we'll cut to gameplay soon it's a noir neo noir adventure

story game set in kind of a cyberpunk voxel world where we play as employee of a delivery service delivering packages around the world obviously it unfolds and there's a lot of internet but I kind of has a little bit of those crazy taxi vibes of delivering packages throughout this beautiful landscape so [Music] [Music] control I'm at the destination and no one is here control chemists are you awake yes I am awake excited what to help can you scan the area local scan look for ID chips on possible delivery containers I don't know how wait I know how I think what is box a box is a square cube no what is that box it's right there okay I

see it I guess that's the package then why is no one here I have bad feelings me to canvas I hear noise what noise chemists from the package I hear it too I still have bad feelings one second chemists control come in control this is driver 14 FC come in this is important driver 14 FC this is control please

deliver your current package with urgency control why is this package ticking don't you could have to defense response fine tell her control what's happening there nothing I've been informed that you're to stop calling us about the package don't look very quickly that is all please no more communication until delivery chemische I don't know what to do I am nervous why I am nervous because you are nervous maybe we can throw away the tic-tock tic-tock tic-tock tic-tock tic-tock maybe I could dump it at the trash chute in section 8 B that sends it into the refuse collection at the base of the city nothing ever comes back from there well mr. control be mad yes I got a bad feeling - countess I think

it would be bad either way I want to help but don't know what to do I know chemists I know I just have to make a call on this one [Music] I guess it was nothing we did our job Camus we shouldn't ask so many questions I am Not sure you want to say something if it is okay sure is this a job good it

pays good are we doing good things no more questions please chemists okay that's awesome so what is the next game next up is chicory a colorful tail so this is from Greg Leben of who created one or song tonight later love's yeah yeah and I think you can tell it's in the DNA of the game it feels like it comes from it comes from him because it does and I think if you think about wonder song as quirky adventure narrative game about music this is that but about art so it's basically said the main premise is that you're in this world where there's this famous artist named an artist named chicory who goes missing and with her all the color of the world also goes missing and so you pick up her brush and kind of take the helm and are there to bring color back to the world and find out what happened disagree so you have this magical paintbrush and able to actually paint on the black and white landscape like it's

a coloring book I think the mechanics are kind of a zelda like world but obviously has a beautiful art style of its own also the music is from Lennon who we know and our friends of did the music on Celeste and many wonderful projects as well so but that'll be a highlight as well [Music]

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[Music] well Greg I think we should carry on it's not funny yet am I supposed to yeah okay next is Kari Jobe landed perfect king of them yeah next we're gonna like a game called carrion from a studio called phobia game studios and Warsaw Poland yeah they pitched this game as a reverse horror game and that you are the animal doing the dirty beat deeds so you're in the role of this kind of like amorphous blob that is destroying the world and stalking and consuming all of these enemies around you the structure of the game is kind of Metroidvania so getting new abilities and unlocking new areas

but I think just you can tell from looking at how good it feels and how much you just want to take control that blob and it's very satisfying it's like being the creature than the things he's really emphasized in focus you really empathize yes he didn't ask to be born you could all relate to that she wants to revenge exactly it's the scientists that created [Music]

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next up is coma Co from half-past yellow it's a new studio out of Copenhagen it's an adventure game you like adventure games yeah hand-drawn adventure my god it's beautiful very striking I think it's hard to not see a gift or an image of this and be

intrigued I love the color palette and the style of the let's call it the art yeah it's very fun very unique original selected puddles we don't there's no other game that looks like that for sure and it's neat mix of kind of like 90s cartoon and like indie comic zine world that you don't really see in game so I think that's super fresh and obviously we love adventure game

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you know a game I love minute your plate a minute I'll Becca I'm really good if we could ever get a game but well the next game that we're in look at his disk

room it's a super group that includes developers of minute Ikeda Calais and JW but also Terry Velma and DOS one who did heavy bullets coming together for this amazing game it's a very hardcore game where death is inevitable you're gonna die all the time and it's about prolonging your life and surviving so yeah that premise of the game is there's rooms full of disks that are there to kill you and you have to survive as long as possible that starts on unraveling in different ways and sometimes you have to die in multiple different ways or sometimes there's very cryptic alien puzzles that you're trying to solve but ultimately traversing this series of rooms full of deadly disks they called it dodged them up there is you know a set of abilities you'll get over time like dodges and things like that but never any guns so always going to be about survival and passive there obviously against violence I can tell by looking at blood yet it's pretty hard

how are they staying alive so long mmm I'm already stressed out Oh as a perfect tuning where you always like are about to die right when the time runs up and enjoy don't die well yeah I accept it then it was all but they got me used to that [Music] [Music] [Music]

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oh this was pretty yes it is let's talk

about it this is rainy season it's actually a student game so this is a Japanese illustration student who is doing video games with a hobby and doing a very good job of it obviously and it's a life sent out of just living your life in the rainy season in Japan interacting with your family members and talking to them picking up objects and interacting with them as well and daydreaming about life outside of the rain so it's like Shenmue but location yeah yeah it's like life in Japan and a quiet way I suppose and I mean anyone who has visited Japan it feels like very nostalgic it feels like you're you're there [Music]

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what's next up next is heavenly bodies from two point interactive studio in Melbourne Australia a hot spot of indie games I feel like every year there's more and more Australian games and Day of the Dead the main show we had like eight last year so they just keep coming and actually the team shares a space with the house house guys who did untitled goose game everyone's favorite yeah split the rent it's actually a larger workspace there's even more people who work there but lots of cool games coming out of there this is a physics-based game about cosmonauts and we're kind of dealing with a variety of scenarios in space grabbing things trying to grab things trying to deal

with I guess the unpredictable nature of zero gravity and it's a co-op game which we don't see a lot of anymore and I love golf games okay will they be two astronauts on the screen during hopefully you will see gameplay of co-op because you can play single player but obviously it's more fun everything's more fun let's go up accept your partnership which probably will happen in this game you killed us why don't you uh get Sandra Bullock honest I don't believe so maybe maybe if it's well you can pretend that cinder block ended of it [Music] [Music]

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we got sludge life we already saw a game from this duo Terry Velma and DOS one who did heavy bullets together back in action overachievers yeah two games in one year Wow I don't know that's happened before yeah so this is collaborators on heavy bullets in this room also dosa to the music for getting beasts doing kind of a first first-person open-world narrative sandbox game so it's just world you can freely roam and talk to whoever you want and it's just kind of oozing with style it's two plays a graffiti artist and all the characters are very colorful and have interesting strange things to say so just a cool space to be in and live a little life for and has good of course yeah DOS diddle music and writing so it's a sounds good it's got lots of funny jokes it is [Music]

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[Music] this is paper beast up next paper beast from pixel brief led by Eric Allen / distracted you were so into it what is this crazy thing Greg this is paper beast from pixel brief led by Eric chahi no yeah he's a legend legends another world yes he did another world and from dust and I think when you see this game you can see it pulls elements of both of them yeah it has yeah it has some mechanics of from dust and just like lanes presentation style of another world yeah they're out of France it's a VR title so it seems to be a very meditative space to be and it's an adventure game but also kind of this interactive sandbox world to play with

full of giant paper beasts [Music]

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more games next up is she dreams elsewhere from Studios severe in Cleveland Ohio which i think is actually just a one-person studio mostly Davian Gooden making this game with a few collaborators and friends but it's a surreal adventure game RPG about a comatose woman where you're kind of exploring her dreams in her world a lot of kind of commentary on mental health and anxiety and things like that and it sounds like a very kind of personal emotional story I think the visuals and audio really jumped out us on this one it just obviously has a really unique presentation and style to it I wish you could hear it because the music is really awesome I mean here they will be able to hear it but yeah it gives me sort of a undertale vibes which I think it might hopefully click in the same way for people [Music]

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up next bird whoo skateboard obviously based on that my word that's outside of our office right now it's so cute and cool no don't have to say anything it sells itself right oh let me sell it some more though cuz this bird is can we still say that since oh well you mean because of yeah the heroes are the crows everyone all he died no you die every minute in this game that's like get up get ready minutes gates it's from glass-bottom Games in Seattle led up by Megan Fox and it's a skateboarding bird game I like

skateboarding games I enjoy them but I'm Way more into this one and I think it's something about it it's it could be the bird and the Howie that's the bird flaps this little wings when you do a little trick can it grab the can you do like crabs yeah there's actually some narrative stuff too so you'll meet other birds who will come to your to your skate park and unlock other skate parks for you is have a little quest for you to skate NASA skate nest oh that's cute now it is called a skate best Megan Fox we deserve this thank you I was transfixed by the yes me role from glass-bottom games there's a small team up in Seattle Washington and me excited bowel really except it's a silly fun one for sure [Applause] [Music]

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its prey [Music] [ __ ] you miss Bonnie prevented making a perfect [Music] [Music] keen eyes see everything that moves in the water when a fish swims by he strikes and sees the face with it bill

[Music] when he sees a fish come near the surface each one just like a blue streak [Music] is it time for world premieres we've seen so many wonderful games but there is one more and it is a secret surprise you're seeing here for the first time I think we're not gonna say anything I'm just gonna roll roll footage you guys

enjoy I need to upload the digital brain first it should be in the box Russell did you receive it it just arrived good listen priority is to find the real cause of death looks like where the body was upload is ready he be ready yes good

please cam for the latest memory confined ideally just before her death understood so this is when she died below there Johanna what was in your mind when you looked at your shadow [Music] interesting glitch on the clock [Music] reconstructing glass from memories I don't think we'll ever get it right afternoon light did she die at night afternoon light did she die at night she might have known she was going to die is there enough data to reconstruct a

subjective State of the memory yes good I'll enter the subjective state and see what I can find [Music] subjective reconstruction was successful but I couldn't interpret all data it's fine easy subjective interpretation is tough for any AI even a special one like you [Music] a picture of a dog following her her laptop

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[Music] [Music] 8% of dream reconstructed [Music] wow wow what did I just see that was different that was the signifier from Plainview studios in Santiago Chile and it is you just saw it's a crazy adventure game 3d super high-end visual narrative experience about exploring people's minds and memories that's cool

yeah awesome here well that was it wonderful games I'll be done for doing this yeah yeah we are thank you Double Fine uh I am a bit yeah I want to pull Greg rice for coming of course is a special thing hey Tyson thanks for all the devs for showing these games I'm glad we were able to get them out there in some way out there beautiful things they're coming out in many cases very soon so keep an eye out for them I get thanks to all the sponsors and stay tuned for more day the devs later this year in November we'll be doing another big showcase many more games new games unreleased games it's gonna be great and now I think it's time for the IGF and GDC Choice Awards oh really is that coming up now it is right now daddy who's been on some wonderful much funnier no and I heard those well I don't want spoiling and we'll see all right enjoy the show nice box

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