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Create free account[Music] we have a fourth panelist who will be joining us so this is fantasy pitching it's like a bit kind of Dragons Den death match the idea is that we're going to basically try to explore a number I don't know how many we'll get through but and last we got through thick 4 right 4 different crazy concepts and I'm still hoping Kathleen will turn up she was here earlier I thought we can just randomly choose someone to since we could randomly knows the bonus round we're gonna basically the rules that I am gonna show a screen grab from a crazy
game we are going to ask our delightful judges no jerseys participants whatever panelists that's what to give me a pitch of what that game is and you get to vote what you think is your favorite do you are going to vote upon originality innovation and whether you think that game should be made are the rules clear we all happy with the rules happy is not the right word ok game number 1 this escape number one this is a real game by the way I will it reveal the real game later well I think you're sat there Martin go for it I got two minutes by the way Tunis two minutes two minutes so I'm happy happy to see all three of you turned up today so it's great to my game pitch this this game is called a Humpty
Dumpty trials so you know we all know the story of Humpty Dumpty he sat on a wall had a great fall happened to be Trump's wall by the way sitting on it was a great crime indeed because no one sits in Trump's wall so now all the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again but someone to court anyway cuz he sat in Travis alright no one gets away with that so in this in this game it's a mobile VR game you get to make important life choices for poor little humpty-dumpty you got to put them back together again they're very challenging and interesting 3d pieces of puzzle putting an act together again and and then you you bring him to code where he you know it's you you get to make it human not human rights lawyer whose eggs rights lawyer and yeah it's you know
there's several stories through the several endings to the story depending on on which choices you make as his eggs rights lawyer you can replay it as many times as you like to lock/unlock all the endings but more importantly to unlock all the different variations of the angry Trump tweets it's premium game as a set mode and yeah well you know we're currently in beta and yeah we got many you know Twitter has many many egg eggs and they all of it Plus now Instagram you know the egg moves at the most eggs you know most likes it's this one really yeah so a marketing's so so perfect thank you thank you very much so that was your first game it was Humpty's judgment made the name up foot so we're gonna move on to our next next go for it
yeah that makes working excellent alright thank you for having me today I'm here to present our newest game called judge me not it is the game where you can immerse into the savage life of a courtroom you in this game the courtroom simile works with you as a corrupted judge hungry for the power and some public defenders blood obviously its it in order to get to the highest ranks of the UK's so you use all the sticks and stones you have possibly to achieve your goal all the bribes and imagine having much worse version of the papers please but in the UK and brexit law you ever sorry
we recently made the veer support of for our to make your fantasies of running the court even more close to the reality download on Steam and get your dirty mind even though they're in the house of law you know you want it thank you very much and next up we have more we go this is gonna kick in so um I don't have notes I'm gonna go my god I have never done this my first time anyways meet Pokemon go with ghostbusters so you everyone likes to collect things right everyone likes possessions we are in a prime time of capitalism so basically you are this is a mobile game
and you are in this universe in which every mansion or historical site haunted the village is in despair the world is falling into pieces so it's your job to exterminate these ghosts and how do you do that in order to collect them yes the more you have the better it is have to go to this site using AR and geolocation and when you find that you're gonna have puzzles to solve the more puzzles you solve and more ghosts you collect more experience you get more experience you get more equipment you guess that it is free to play it's also as a service which we can put a lot of live ups and then expand to demons and everything else so the idea for this game is that it's never-ending you will never leave this haunted key because the more ghosts you collect the more you wanna collect sounds familiar thank you very much so that was ghost Iman PO and over here
because that's easier and Athene your it's your turn please tell us what game this is kiss hi guys so thank you again ask her for having us once again we all said yes and you knew better ok we already know the drill right so actually oscar is such a nice guy and he's sending us phone.i screenshots all the times and we yeah we really worship you so um I'm from Belgium for those who know not know me
but I live in France and I've always always wondered my whole life why the English people call french fries french fries because everybody knows that the best fries are from Belgium right Marty yes thank you so um Oscar's invitation I decided to create a new brand with fighting against french fries and calling it the Belgian fries so let's start and do this welcome this new gaming company called Belgian fries forever so that is B a plus B R so this is BFF and B thank you so the first game at the FF and B will present you is angry justice so meet here the first screenshot of languages where you actually play as a lawyer it's a PvP game simulator court simulator game and you are playing
against another lawyer and whenever the judge says you're overruled then your life goes down so the point is not obviously and secondly the second goal of the of the game is to win the hearts of the chewy so angry justice is all about shames so it's actually very cheap to make we only need like 10k so we're doing a Kickstarter and get this up and rolling very very fast so this is the first time BFF and with angry justice thank you very much thank you watch scratch so we have we have three that's a four delightful game concepts in front of me do you think that this game is Humpty justice is it Natasha's judge me not or Sabrina's ghost him on Poe or the
game from the new company BFF M be angry justice you see me do the bottom the true world with angry justice I know so can we have votes please those of you think it's Humpty judgment please would hand up okay who thinks it's judge me not a little bit ghost him on Poe oh oh beginner beard is it or is it angry justice oh I think we have to give it to ghost him on post too much right so that's the first game let's look at the second game oh oh sorry no I better to do what that game walls sorry that's alright this actually is called accounting plus genuine game on it is a nightmare adventure comedy experience classic virtual reality gameplay cleaning up your office taking the battery out of the cooling machine
playing a skeleton xylophone and summoning thousands and thousands of demons I mean who doesn't want to play that I'm actually genuinely true though it's a good it is a game a please I'm not actually here to take the mickey out these games I just think they're really crazy and hopefully we give them a bit promotion so next up what is the next game the next game is this so on that note I think we have to go Martine let me just turn the timer on you have two minutes and Counting so as for the people who know me and my company you know that I do you know a lot of make-over games actually you know we publish them like hit an optic hey my home makeover you know interior makeover makeup makeover you make over this and and this is a latest one this is a thug's bunny makeover you can
you can pimp out your little fluffy brother you know feel bit bop bra style dressed up in the latest memes he knows the way the game is aimed at kids obviously you know because this is like the best way to prepare kids of age six to ten for well the world wide full of internet trolls commenting and you know best way to introduce them to very very obscure references so the perfect monetization method for this is you know awesome to the steep learning curve of the Internet's microtransactions let him waste way too much money on useless skins that cannot be carried over to any other game works in fortnight's so why not work in this and it's it's gonna be as a mobile game and yeah it's I mean it's gonna be full of ads obviously because it's also with kids absolutely
love very well so yeah it's lucky title coming up thank you very much so that's the name you call that that bugs bugs bunny makeover I like that yeah Natasha please can tell you what tell us what this game really is okay the game is the game is called make it rain you ever wondered what happened to your beloved cartoon characters from your childhood well now in this clicker hi through casual game you can as a manager who is taking care of and getting the gigs of all those old and not well almost forgotten cartoon characters here for example we have Bugs Bunny as a little bit overweight Bob Rose earring against flying knuckles naturally that's what everything as a manager you want to
squeeze every penny from their gigs quality of scripts does not bother you set those gigs up to your childhood idols and make it flow it is free to play on Google Play and Android app stores so get it out now thank you very much but of course you know Sabrina tennis will this game really it okay are you a baller are you trend do you want to be trendy do you want to be known breach and famous so this is the game for you it costs 999 you heard me again and he's gonna show how much of a baller you really are the goal here is simple get your bunny and be a baller it's gonna rain memes it's gonna rain swag all that's supreme jealous that you friends feel it's gonna be here what you have to do you just keep the app open I've already got almost a grand anyways
so it's a great model keep it open and best of it you're gonna share the screen shot of your bunny the more likes you get the more tokens you get click on the shop get your skin and be a baller drops the mic get we did that last time that's what it goes so this getting tell small thank you ladies so the next game of BFF and be will be crest your bunny honey so we can all this game is like the game mechanics are so simple even a toddler can play actually it is for toddlers right so only thing that you have to do is go online get your crafting do your settings your bunny look like real honey and get it a gram play with other players of the same game get a compare and comparison and at the end of the week one winner
will get a real bunny send home so that's actually you know the mechanics behind this game is really to get the real bunny that you can take care of and don't craft it too much at home just craft the game that will be enough the pricing is $2.99 and it's a subscription model so every month you can and craft your bunny honey and yeah do it go go go your bunny honey thank you very much so we have our second game is it do we think thug's bunny make watch this game is it make it flow is it the bunny bowler or is it craft your bunny honey so can we please have votes for thug bunny makeover okay sorry he likes your games though um votes for
make it flow oh it's a bit more promising votes for the bunny boiler oh oh it's tough cool - cool how about craft your bunny honey oh my goodness I can't tell the difference between those right I'm gonna do the last three again just to make sure but make it flow okay those four bunny baller oh okay those four craft your bunny honey I think it's bunny baller that's sure then a new player has entered the game okay next up well actually let's find out what that game was in case you're wondering it is a real game it's chunga's clicker from space pancakes it has quite a few stars it is basically a tapping game you tap to grow your a big chunk as' you earn
Tungus bucks to spend in the store and you then by dead means from 2018 feed them to the Tungus he protect he attack and most importantly he chunga's real game seriously on Android I think it might be on my phone as well but I'm not gonna check on that next game I mean obviously the talent the quality is showing here Martine please tell me your latest title about cross he wrote don't you ever wonder who drives those cars and trucks and those people who just don't hit brakes when they see like a chicken or a Mickey Mouse or giraffe or something Street who are these people who can I even hit the brakes right well we were completely full of our guests
about that so we fixed crossroads yeah and and it's we made this game we made it much more logical we made it night version there is night version is full of headlamps lens flares flares and you know makes it much more realistic the games features ton of unlockable characters like the the big giraffe right here pointless stop signs in the middle of a straight road unlockable variations of the headline headlamps is xenon just you know old-fashioned low ones etc you know can even unlock different different cars in them and doesn't add a difficulty factor you have absolutely no idea where to go because everything outside of the headlamps of death is completely pitch back as a extra challenge for for hardcore gamers there will be a VR
version as well because everyone you know who doesn't love to experience the have the experience of being run over by a truck not so slightly hardcore this will be a mobile version you know microtransactions driven based on splatter currency of lots so yeah welcome to cross the road to dark side but cross the road the dark side or as I like to think of it giraffy Road yes hello again do you like me yeah do you like action sure how about zombies well hell yeah well look no further we present to you beat them up it's a music beat game where you run from zombies in the peak of Nepal clips through dark streets of the terror the only way you can survive is through
these sick beats so get your fingers wound up because it is going to be a hell of right available on PC and Mobile beat them up down but of course Sabrina please tell us what this game really is who here really mrs. third-person adventure action games now I mean god of war you have to collect and level up is a real RPG right we missed that and we miss really good thrillers so I present to you silent giraffe this is a psychological thriller in which Iraq needs to break a curse why a giraffe because it's really high up where the clues are so now you get to incorporate this really tall animal to find the clues that's the only animal from every single other being that's able to find it your job in this third action third-person action shooter and
everything you can imagine is to solve clues feel the nygma move over Nathan Drake move over a goat simulator this is it the intrinsic NIF and the deep of the script and now the story of this game is gonna give you chills break the curse and welcome little beings back on earth thanks very much so the F&B is very happy to present yet another jar of game and this one is really it's an escape game so Oscar you know that I love you and I feel so sorry for you and I'm so afraid for you because the name of this game is escape from brexit landscape from obviously it's a co-op game you need your buddies but no the trophy is like really the boss and he will come and get you all
the you keys and the brexit ears to escape from your private land so you will have to buy this game take my money [Laughter] so good luck and work with your Yuuki guys and get all the brexit ears over the channel thank you thank you buck so we have cross the road the dark side or as on it giraffy road we have beat them up we have Soylent Duras and we have escaped from brexit land so please give me votes for cross he wrote the dark side okay next beat them up
Oh silage araf break the curse escape escape from brexit two of us so I think that winner there I was beat them up so what was that game yes it is real it is called giraffe town is is available on Steam age on with separate feet sets out to find love I genuinely genuinely a real game so there are there are links actually on each of the slide so you can see where you can go get them obviously you'll all be emailing loads right yeah I think so our next game yes Martine I say this side so people can see that image better this game is the
best game because it's got the best either believe me cuz I'm a successful business person and when I say that this game is the best game it's just at this game it's just what it is it's got numbers it's got clouds it's got a whole lot of number it's got you know even got some blue and raindrops in there it's just the best game you know and I've had successful businesses so I know how to build game so this is obviously the best game you know just they're the best and I will tweet about it and it will make a lot of money so you know it's just like if you don't believe me and you're obviously Democrats and you're wrong so yeah it's still number 10 right there it's a bit that's what it is
med games great again mixed up follow that yes all right I am hello everyone and let me present you our newest game nobody knows whether better than president Trump such a courageous man has built a great wall of USA and now the Utopia can begin behind the great wall our Humpty Trumpy has taken whether in his hands making America the greatest weather ever with his big stick he will make sure fellow Americans behind the great wall will be happy in person your job in this game is to present his predictions in most rational way I never said this is an easy game I never said this is a casual game this is a mid core really really hard game that you really want to imagine Dark Souls meets her story
that's pretty much it we challenge you to make sense of president Trump's predictions availabe CN mobile we are so sorry [Music] [Laughter] oh don't put thing in pocket I just want to remind you guys before I pitch that there's beer in the back if you want to get oh it's the gate that the goal of this game is very simple make kids go to school we want kids to stay in school right you want them to stay away from the streets we learn so they have you can you can present this game to them
and and give them a very clear choice you either go to score you play this game if you play this game you're gonna learn math with Trump what sounds last faithful going to school or math with Trump it's pretty much answer if you get these are all math questions right you need to you gonna know how to measure learn how to add to learn how to sum and everything else but the truth is if you make a mistake you're gonna listen a little bit of Trump talking so as a smart kid will go to school and never play this game you're welcome parents to you today is healed world well heal the world is a time management game and you have like in like in very short time you will have to unlock your super powers in order to over every every world's enemies ever
obviously the holy grail of enemies is mr. Trump himself here the man in the photo I don't think so you have to use your power and get the world healthy again so heal the world is a time management game 999 and it will be PC mobile whatever consoles VR everything thank you very much so we have the best game we have Humpty trumpty the greatest weather we have math with Trump and we have world can I please have your votes for the best game ok is that the best votes we'll see can we have votes for Humpty Dumpty oh ok our boats for math with Trump oh and we have boats for heels a world I
think it's got to go to the best game the best game win um so this game is actually called learn with Trump you you you didn't tie to it so it is a school education learning welcome to trump education learning school in the station or game apparently tell you the service is real it's only got three stars interestingly so yeah I mean I literally have no words but then it is best game so I think we're gonna have to go for the bonus wrap no no it's over audience do we want one more or two I think they have voted the bonus round
this is what I've wanted to do in Helsinki but we ran out of time Martine you all right France emotions real and intense emotions from the comfort of your home or on the go on Facebook unblocked posts and comments on Twitter on Instagram on YouTube for the place where people can openly type in our keyboard get worked up over things that people who you do not say and things that do not matter in black and white pixels fix that will not change the world who wouldn't want to indulge
in that right we all do it so you can link this game basically you can hook it up to all your social media and to all the channels that you follow and it automatically sort of beats comments into this game and it will lick in building the likes and emojis and all the hearts and everything to this game and it will be translated into so these these characters right here and you know you could basically get worked up over all the other things and it will channel right into his game and by the end of the day you can crush all those emotions it's finally finally a way to really solve all your frustrations over in tournaments aggression with a giant balloon I don't know and hashtags sold separately as in-app purchases so you might think why do people care but that's what I think that arguments so yeah thank you
thank you very much next up are your hardcore gamer do you really really enjoy immersing narrative something do you enjoy games such as hell blades or god of war this is the game for you how did we make it I have no idea I'm just to see you [Laughter] I'm short okay who here likes sex hmm that's it okay so this is the game for
you experience emotions who's gonna teach you all about putting the plug in the right hole you see over there basically who knows more than pleasure than a lesbian no one we deserve fingers are tongue and everything to the maximum experience so we decided to break the taboo go over there and cater for you to have a better sex life what you're gonna do is receive tips and tricks the better you perform more tokens you get tips you will get it come and get your pleasure [Applause] okay Wow actually Sabrina you actually stole my pitch right yeah I was just I was hearing thinking and I said she's going with my pitch so so the last game of the F and B is emoticon so we
all have our little things and stuff Martina's fun of cars I'm fond of cats Oscar is fond of hats whatever so with emoticon you can try and you know get into line bag all your frustrations again sorry to get a bit about your pitch so yeah that's actually what it's all about you know get all those games together and then put it in the Modi cone and then you will be free again and live your life like you should live your life free from all frustrations thank you very much so we have in our final round you'll be glad to hear we have crush the emotions we have hardcore words we have come and
get pleasure and we have the emoji game votes for crush the emotions I'm gonna see where this might go boats or hardcore words someone had to buck the trend come and get pleasure not quite unanimous emoji game so I think we know who won that one and obviously in if you hadn't guessed someone is our runaway winner Sabrina you got three out of the five unprecedented forever blah Sabrina plays clearly our expert in so many many many things this game was he says he says uh-huh hey
this is a real game it's called puckett nothing to do with your game description although that would have been if I thought of that hairs and emotions is genuinely what happens is you pluck the hair and it reveals emotional words yeah it is a game about going through with hair plucking in this journey you will experience all kinds of emotions as you pluck hairs do you remember the last time when you had these emotions yeah I know thank you very much this has been the indie track this year fantasy pitching panel I would love to thank my incredibly generous friends here who basically put up with all sorts of silly stuff for me I am so so appreciative and I don't deserve it and I hope you guys enjoyed it you
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