2021 ROC Game Fest Online Show: Meet the Developers

Aesthetician Labs
Links: Official Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

Squire For Hire: Digital Edition
Buy It: Google Play Store | iOS App Store
Your day has finally come – a famous hero has enlisted YOU to be their Squire! When your hero completes quests, defeats baddies, and takes all the credit, they also earn loot – which you get the great honor of carrying! Collect items and organize your bag efficiently to get hired!

In the official Squire for Hire: Digital Edition app, play the Squire for Hire 18-card game and unlock Mystic Runes – the first standalone expansion! Includes solo play, quests, and pass-and-play multiplayer.


Blue Angel Studio
Links: Official Website | Instagram | Twitter

Wiltune
Demo: Itch.io
Wiltune is a third person stealth and puzzle game where you take the role of Mitra, a resident of Wiltune Village tasked with journeying to lavish environments in the city afar to steal their treasures. These treasures are powerful musical artifacts that, in this world, allow time to flow regularly. Wiltune Village is in desperate need of time and music, and you are their last resort. Manipulate time, sneak past the guards, and steal back the music for your village!


Eric Wilder

The Mandalorian Fangame
A reimagining of an episode of The Mandalorian in the style of a home-brewed Game Boy game.


Hypostatic Studios
Links: Official Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | YouTube

A Perfect Year
A Perfect Year is an educational entertainment Sci-Fi RPG which teaches players about quantum superfluids, transhumanism, psychology, biology, and much more. In the year 8128, the last perfect number discovered by the Ancient Greeks, become an immortal Strata Statue and meld minds with your friends online in order to perfect humanity!


Ichiban Games
Links: Official Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | YouTube

Cannon Custodian
Demo: Itch.io
Cannon Custodian is a retro styled arcade game of skill and hi-scores. You’re Ted, Area 51’s newest resident janitor that just so happens to get stuck in an interdenominational jail, mistaken for an era 1981 arcade machine. With an enormous cannon car, blast your way through waves of escaped convicts and their kingpins, all the while defending your energy pods; the key to your escape… and theirs! Grab massive power ups to eradicate everything that moves, and reach the bio-dome to get the power cell needed to repair the entry portal. So ready those thumbs and get to lock and load, because it’s time to blast some filth!

Peacock Block
Peacock Block is a fast paced 3-5 player “Take That!” board game/card game, with two game modes and three ways to win. Players take on the roll of peacocks at rager of a party, all trying to attract the the love of the bodacious Peahen by flirting, growing tail feathers, or presenting “The Ring.” However it won’t be that easy, players will stop at nothing to block each other with insults, pluck tail feathers, and cause all kinds of shenanigans to stay at the top of the pecking order. Now the real question is, are you a Cold Turkey, or a Burnin’ Hunk Of Bird?!


Imaginary Monsters
Links: Official Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | YouTube

Grindblood’s Gauntlet
In Grindblood’s Gauntlet you play as a tortured soul forced into a gladiator survival gauntlet by your hellish masters. Death is guaranteed, and escape is impossible, so how long can you survive? Use stolen treasures and arcane secrets to delay your inevitable mortal suffering, and then try again! Grindblood will feature roguelite bullet hell style gameplay, drawing inspiration from games like Smash TV, Binding of Isaac, and The Treacherous Tower from A Link Between Worlds.


Inverted Productions
Links: Official Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

Workshop Scramble
Play It: Google Play Store | Microsoft Store
Help save the holidays. Make toys for kids in Santa’s workshop, then hop around the calendar to make Valentine’s gifts in Cupid’s workshop, and then give out Halloween candy from Jack’s workshop—or eat it yourself to try to keep a sugar rush going! Put the pieces of each request together, move them to the bottom conveyor belt, and ship them off—it’s a simple task that quickly turns into a fast-paced scramble to assemble everything in time!


Jacob Yaple
Links: Facebook

Cold Quest: The Arctic Ice Floe-Maneuvering Game
Players compete to be the first to cross the board by maneuvering ice floes (actually repurposed dominoes), avoiding or confronting the polar bear, and picking up tools such as Snowshoes and Kayaks while taking the risk of picking up Thin Ice instead.


Julian Heuser

SubDivide
Buy It: Steam
SubDivide is a puzzle-platformer about dividing the world. Navigate through over 50 levels by moving a line that separates two dimensions, and seamlessly jump between them. Cut away at platforms to make a path, reveal hidden platforms, or use a platform like an elevator to reach the goal. Use your wits and good planning to make your way through forests, caves, and a mysterious laboratory. Something is compelling you, but what? What awaits you at your destination?


Kingblade Games
Links: Official Website | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube

Do Not Buy This Game
Wishlist: Steam
Do Not Buy This Game is a Comedy Walk-Sim where the game is being built as you play it! When you enter the game you are greeted by the game’s creator, that tells you that… well… the game isn’t ready yet! And so you both embark on a journey to try and create something fun for you to play.

Do Not Buy This Game explores how deep a connection can you create between the player and the game’s creator, only using minimalist game mechanics, humor, and honesty.

Last Banana Games
Links: Official Website | Twitter

Nine
Demo: Itch.io
9 lives. 9 minutes. 9 bosses.

A team of 9 mech pilots known as the Maniacal Mice are trying to steal the moon! They’ve built a spaceship and are on schedule to drill into its core, mine it for precious cheese, and disappear forever. But what they don’t know is that a Courageous Cat has snuck on board. And it will do whatever it takes to stop the mice, even if it means using all 9 of its lives…

Nine is a roguelike platformer full of robotic mouse creations in a dynamic procedural spaceship. Chase down 9 mice bosses as an agile warrior cat with 9 lives.


Letiman Games
Links: Official Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

Questlings: A Role-Playing Game
Buy It: Letiman Games Store
The Questlings children’s books are heavily inspired by role-playing games, and we have teamed up with game designer and writer Banana Chan to bring you a role-playing game set in the Questlings world!

In Questlings: A Role-Playing Game, players will play as two characters, one as your kid form and one as the Inner Hero your child aspires to be! The game guides players and game moderators through a map accompanied with a storybook to give them a framework for roleplaying and building the story.

Matthew Vimislik
Links: Official Website | Twitter | YouTube

King of the Cul-De-Sac
Play It: Google Play Store | Itch.io | Steam
The King of the Cul-De-Sac is the title given to the strongest, toughest kid on the block, who rules the circle of suburban homes in the manner they see fit. With Karah’s brother moving to college, she assumes she’s next in line for the throne, but quickly realizes the other contenders for the crown will have to be convinced… with her FISTS!

King of the Cul-De-Sac is an interactive comic that uses games, music, and animation to immerse and amuse readers, while branching story paths bring them back again!


Menace Interactive

Project AEGIS
Project AEGIS is an “Apocalyptic Emergent Game Immersive Sim”


Neon Deity Games
Links: Official Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | YouTube

Junkpuncher
A 2D robo-smashing punch ‘em up in the vein of classic late-era NES action-platforming games. Junkpuncher follows the story of our hero, accidentally attached to a dangerous bio-mechanical prototype: a robotic arm called The Atlas. When military robots attempt to procure The Atlas by force, our hero panics and decides to return it to the company that created it: The Pantheon. A cooperative global conspiracy is eventually revealed by both The Pantheon and the military. Our hero, with the aid of The Atlas, must put a stop to their nefarious plans.


Obsidian Valley Studios
Links: Official Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

Render
Render is a new breed of action-adventure game that focuses on exploration, experimentation, discovery, and growth. You play as a mysterious blue avatar that finds itself in a strange world with a need to push forward. As you explore the abstract levels you’ll claim powerful new weapons and abilities locked behind arduous platforming challenges, complex puzzles, and dangerous enemies. In order to overcome these obstacles you’ll have to learn how to utilize your avatar’s high mobility and diverse combat options to interact with your surroundings.

Will you be able to uncover the story behind the world and its inhabitants? Can you conquer the bosses and collect all the upgrades scattered throughout these 10 unique levels? Join a friend or play solo to render puzzles solved, enemies defeated, secrets uncovered, and every challenge overcome in this low poly action filled adventure.


Pepperfaced
Links: Official Website | Twitter

Qbi
Play It: Itch.io
Qbi is a tiny robot whose sole purpose is restoring light to the world! The only thing is, he can’t actually control when he fires orbs of light.

Help Qbi navigate puzzles and restore the dormant light bulbs of the world!


Possum House Games
Links: Official Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | YouTube

Heavy is the Crown
Play It: Itch.io
During the day you must contain your flock of sheep by keeping them from wandering off the screen. How many sheep you have left at the end of the day determines how much money you make.

At the end of the day it is up to you to decide how to spend that money. Do you buy more sheep? Do you build a fence? Do you refill the pantry? In Heavy is the Crown, it all depends on you.

Shot in the Dark
Buy It + Demo: Itch.io | Steam
Shot in the Dark offers a unique challenge, combining nail biting pixel perfect platforming with precise point and click shooting. But many of the cruel creatures of the night remain hidden in shadow. The bandit will have to be on the lookout for glowing red eyes, shadows moving through the trees, and figures lurking in the night. Because sometimes the only sign of a demon on your trail is the slight movement of the tall grass. And sometimes all you can do is take a shot in the dark.

The Sword and the Slime
Buy It: Itch.io | Steam
The Sword and the Slime is a unique take on the 2D puzzle-platformer where you play as a flying sword and find an unlikely ally in a slime. Using only the mouse, protect and guide your companion through a dangerous dungeon full of nasty monsters and cruel traps.


Queenship Game Studio
Links: Official Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

Return to Self: An Anxiety Management App
Buy It: Google Play Store | Itch.io
Return to Self is a mobile and web-based app intended to assist users in managing panic and anxiety attacks. Rooted in meditative practice, color theory, and psychological analysis of anxiety management methods, we wanted to create something beautiful, simple, and highly effective for calming anxiety and decompression for panic attacks. Return to Self was produced as a companion to our debut game, Open Spaces: A Visual Novel of Anxiety and Agoraphobia.


Russ Kumro
Links: Twitter | YouTube

Jamjam N Jelly
Jamjam N Jelly is a fast-paced “bullet hell” shooter.


Team Type-0

Mispel
Mispel brings 2D platform-fighter combat to a single player adventure! Explore uncharted lands, meet friends and foes, and take their powers for yourself. Swap between movesets on the fly to craft your own unique combos and playstyle.


The Camera That Bleeds Team
Links: Official Website | Instagram | Twitter

The Camera That Bleeds
The Camera That Bleeds is a first-person survival horror game where the player, using an enchanted polaroid camera, must hunt down and photograph invisible monsters.

You play a freelance detective, and it always rains in this cursed city. You’re down on your luck, and low on cash, but you’ve found a puzzling case involving a strange polaroid camera, whose photos reveal things invisible to the naked eye. Uncover the truth behind the string of supernatural crimes that’s sweeping across your town, and get out in one piece!


Zucchini People Games
Links: Official Website | Twitter

Adventure Tactics: Domianne’s Tower
Buy It: Letiman Games Store
SHARPEN YOUR SWORDS. READY YOUR SPELLS. GATHER YOUR ALLIES.

The ruthless Queen Domianne rules the kingdom of Astelia with an iron fist, but an ancient prophecy has emerged which threatens her reign. The adventure starts in your humble village and eventually leads to the seat of Domianne’s power, the peerless and ancient Tower of Greylock.

Adventure Tactics: Domianne’s Tower is an encounter-based, campaign-driven, cooperative deck-builder. Begin your journey as one of five Basic Classes and battle your way through a branching campaign where you choose your own path in an attempt to overthrow the evil Queen Domianne. With each encounter, you will level up and unlock over 15 Elite Classes, adding new actions, equipment, and abilities.