Say hello to the more than 50 exhibitors who will be attending this year’s Rochester Game Festival…
ORGANIZATIONS
Avenue Studios
Avenue Studios produces BombSquad, an actual play RPG show. During the Game Fest, they will host a special Murder Mystery One Shot using the Open Legend RPG system. (Official Website)
Buffalo Game Space
Buffalo Game Space is a place for people to collaborate, learn, and play. Buffalo Game Space is a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to helping people make games, by offering the educational, mentorship, and equipment resources to both professional and aspiring game developers. (Official Website)
A Gamer’s Nostalgia
A Gamers Nostgalgia is Rochester’s only gaming arcade and lounge specializing in console games. Proud to be in operation for over four years, AGN is also home to several of the competitive gaming communities including Smash for Wii U, Street Fighter V, Call of Duty, and Madden. AGN aims to be an environment that is friendly to players of any age. (Official Website)
LANFest RoCLAN
LANFest is a national organization made up of volunteer gamers like you that host LAN parties for Charity. RoCLAN is the newest growing community centered on LAN Parties in and around the Rochester, New York area. This is our first of many giant events that include 3 days of action packed tournaments, contests, games, and prizes. (Official Website)
MAGIC Spell Studios
At MAGIC, we believe that we learn by making. This guiding principle informs our work and our relationships and is at the heart of what we do.
Founded in 2013, the RIT Center for Media, Arts, Games, Interaction & Creativity (MAGIC) is two distinct entities housed within a new 52,000 square foot facility known as MAGIC Spell Studios. Across both sides we passionately pursue our missions of learning, research, entrepreneurism, commercial outreach, and project showcase. (Official Website)
Maker Faire Rochester
Maker Faire is a gathering of fascinating, curious people who enjoy learning and who love sharing what they can do. From engineers to artists to scientists to crafters, Maker Faire is a venue for these “Makers” to show hobbies, experiments, projects.
So you want to be a Maker? Well, everyone is a Maker, so you’ve already won. (Official Website)
RIT Electronic Gaming Society
The Electronic Gaming Society is a student-run club for gamers at Rochester Institute of Technology. Join us every Wednesday for our weekly game nights from 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM in the Student Alumni Union’s Davis Room Cafeteria. (Official Website)
ROC Game Dev
ROC Game Dev is an organization dedicated to fostering a community of game creators in Rochester, NY. Our mission is to provide a local platform for game creators at beginner, amateur, and professional levels to learn, share, and collaborate in all aspects of building games. (Official Website)
VeRacity VRcade
Enjoy the best in Virtual Reality games and experiences in our state of the art entertainment center.
At ROC Game Fest, we will have Richie’s Plank Experience. Ride an elevator 80 stories up. The doors open and you’re staring at a plank. Do you freeze or do you walk out? Take the plank challenge for yourself! (Official Website)
Virtuosity Arcade and Academy
Virtuosity is committed to bringing affordable virtual reality experiences to all members of our community.
At ROC Game Fest, we will have Beat Saber, a unique VR rhythm game where your goal is to slash the beats as they are coming at you, and Space Pirate Trainer, fighting off relentless waves of droids with all the weapons and gadgets you would ever need as a space pirate. (Official Website)
GAME DEVELOPERS
Aesthetician Labs
Aesthetician Labs makes tiny web and mobile games with tons of juice. Crazy Platez is a high-octane, Rochester-themed, casual arcade mobile game, inspired by games like Grand Theft Auto and Crazy Taxi. Udder is about a legless cow, running as far and as fast as she can! The faster you go, the harder you fall, and the further you fly into the air! Other new, unannounced prototypes may also be available to play! (Official Website)
0Dark&Nerdy
0Dark&Nerdy will show How to Make a Killing, a 2D top-down view in a puzzle/combat adventure world.
Ardin Interactive
Project Snow is an infinite runner game developed for Android and iOS. While playing, the player must maintain the optimal size of the ball by balancing speed, navigation, and purposeful collision in order to achieve as high of a score as possible.
Carmic Industries
Drinks & Daggers is a cooperative drinking card game set in the world of the podcast Drunks and Dragons. Step into the shoes of Aludra, Harper, Jaela, Thom, and others as they take on some of Drunkeros’ biggest villains.
Drinks & Daggers is for 2-4 players, and takes 20-30 minutes to play. It is very easy to learn, even if you have had a few. The combination of heroes and bosses will make every game play differently, and give the game a lot of replayability. At the core, we wanted to make a game that would be fun for anyon… you don’t need to drink or listen to Drunks and Dragons to enjoy Drinks & Daggers! (Official Website)
Chloe Fisher
Top Dog is a game for 3-7 players, for ages 11 and up. This debate-based party game has you take the role of a Canine Senator vying for the right to lead the Doggo Nation to greatness. Using cards to form your argument (and to sabotage the arguments of opposing senators), you must climb your way to the top of the pack to secure the spot of Top Dog! Stand up for your Doggo beliefs, but do not forget the millions of Doggos you represent… (Official Website)
Chris Commisso
Punch Down is a Virtual Reality 3D parkour platformer. The project is my attempt at designing a movement system that was fun and new in VR. (Official Website)
Closed Umbrella Games
Contemporary Allied Racing is a game designed for iOS and Android. It combines arcade-style racing with the physics found in racing simulators. Race against computer-controlled drivers in single-player mode or with your friends in multiplayer!
CollectorVision Games
Sydney Hunter and the Curse of the Mayan is an 8-bit action-adventure platformer featuring thirteen stages, and is our love letter to the classics. Help rebuild the Maya Haab calendar, fight the Maya gods, and stop time from freezing. (Official Website)
Dane Sherman
The Itch is a 2D platformer centered around using heart rate as a resource to make objects move, grow, and shoot in order to find a doctor who can cure a deadly virus. The path to the doctor is full of obstacles as you traverse cavernous environments filled with plant life and people. (The Itch @ Steam)
Darkwind Media
Darkwind Media is a Game Development Studio and consultant agency offering contracting services for low level engine porting, game porting, and unique IP creation. We create our own games, help you with yours, and bring game technology to other industries. (Official Website)
Davis Snider
In Phantom Frame, you play a detective investigating strange crimes throughout your town. The locals are spreading rumors of ghosts and monsters, but surely ghosts aren’t real… right? Armed with a cursed Polaroid camera whose photos allow you to see the unseen, uncover the truth about whats going on, and more importantly, live to tell the tale.
The Doodle Challenge
The Doodle Challenge is an exciting game and cognitive tool created for both adults and children that can foster creativity, improve problem solving and storytelling skills all while reducing stress through doodling. Based in neuroscience, psychology, and design/art theory, The Doodle Challenge has been carefully developed to improve mindfulness and aid in gaining a new perspective.
The Doodle Challenge is an exciting cognitive tool and game for adults to play in a group or solo, that can combat stress, self-doubt, disconnect, and burnout. The Doodle Challenge has developed multiple products to help you harness your own creative mojo. In addition to targeting the key psychological factors we have described, The Doodle Challenge also hones storytelling skills, which are essential for enhancing effective communication and problem-solving, as well as bolstering creativity. (Official Website)
Duncan Mott
NAIR is a simple fighting game with one attack, and a tug-of-war style health system. (Official Website)
Eyedrinox Games
Play as “Pyro the Clown” in an event called Super High Dunk to help him win back his fame and to help his orphan kid fans save there home from closing. Run, dash, and jump over obstacles in order to build up enough speed to make a super high slam dunk to win each stage. There is a $10 million prize for the winner but it won’t be easy defeating Pyro’s rival, the evil “Nosey the Clown,” who has rigged the course with hazards to stop you in your tracks. (Official Website)
The Goo Crew
Slime Lab is a virtual pet simulator for mobile where you can care for, race, and customize your very own pet slime. Slimes can be a rainbow of colors and can change shape to grow different animal parts, like cat ears or a dog tail, which we call “Mutations.” Besides changing the slime’s appearance, these Mutations also help your slime perform better in races across five different types of terrain. If your slime wins these races, you win Goo (the game’s currency) which can be spent to acquire more Mutations. It can also be spent on new items to help care for your slime. Like all pets, slimes enjoy attention and will gladly let you pet, feed, and shower them. You know what they say… a happy slime is a fast slime!
Growler Interactive
Life as a goat in Goat Cliffer is great, except for those pesky trolls. How long can you keep the trolls at bay while keeping your herd from wandering off the cliff? Knock invading trolls off your mountain while saving your herd goats. Be careful not to run off the cliff yourself though! (Official Website)
Hoodlings
Hoodlings is a wearable toy that pairs with a collectible game for mobile devices. (Hoodlings @ Facebook)
Ichiban Games
Ichiban Games will bring several tabletop games and video games to the Game Fest. Peacock Block is a fast-paced “Take That!” tabletop game for 3-5 players. Tis the season for winning! Santa’s Toybox is a “point salad” set collection game for 3-6 players. Alchemazam!: The Grand Arcanum is a Collectable Card Game/Living Card Game that can be played over multiple game formats. And Cannon Custodian is a retro-styled arcade game of skill and high scores. (Official Website)
Imaginary Monsters
Like Dante’s Inferno, Abyxsis represents a modern “Apocalypse Tour of Hell.” You play as a penitent demon intent on escaping the abyss to rescue an innocent human child from peril in the mortal world. You are the least likely hero in a world where prayers otherwise go unanswered. Abyxsis will showcase some sensational depictions of otherworldly suffering in a darkly comic manner, but also wrestle with topics of imprisonment and forgiveness. (Official Website)
Inverted Productions
Help put together gifts for Cupid and Santa in Workshop Scramble… it’s a simple task that quickly turns into a fast-paced scramble in this mobile game from Inverted Productions. (Official Website)
It’s Never Dark Enough
Shattered is a self-contained tabletop RPG that is built on a unique die system providing players with a tangible sense of growth. Inhabit one of eight distinct races and explore the dangerous post-apocalyptic world of Feneryss. Millennia ago, millions sacrificed themselves in a ritual to the dark god, Ragnarok. The blood rite failed and rebounded on the planet, capsizing entire tectonic plates, replacing once plentiful oceans with molten rock, and calling down catastrophic storms to ravage what remained. (Official Website)
Jacob Yaple
Cold Quest is an Arctic-themed race game in which players manipulate ice floe tiles to avoid the polar bear and be the first to cross the board. Enjoy new and improved rule book due to ongoing blind playtesting! (Cold Quest @ Facebook)
Janus
Janus: Helheim is a third-person beat-em-up video game where you play as a Nordic warrior who is going on a journey in Helheim. The player will use runic magic and brawling combat to survive the onslaught of Helheim monsters. The game is a test sandbox used to develop new feature for The Janus Framework, as well as demonstrating the framework’s capability. (Official Website)
Kendall Priebe
Fill your home with plants that bring you happiness in Houseplants and Happiness. Select which plants to buy and place them on your shelves and watch them grow! Growing takes time, but if you’re patient, eventually your garden will be full of plants. (Official Website)
Latinforimagination
Loop Thesis is a time-traveling puzzle game about learning to do impossible things. The game features a mind-bending single-player puzzle campaign, as well as co-op puzzles and competitive multiplayer. Set in a simultaneously strange-yet-welcoming world, Loop Thesis is a lovingly hand-crafted game about lovingly hand-crafted things. It’s been specially designed for anyone who enjoys exploring systems, discovering new things, learning to be clever, and then proving just how clever they are.
Loop Thesis provides a complete, internally consistent simulation of time travel. Nothing in the game is faked, which means players are free to experiment and combine the rules of world in creative ways to solve problems. The experience of playing Loop Thesis is a bit like taking apart a mechanical watch, or a puzzle-box. Each level reveals new details about how the world works and how the disparate mechanics fit together into a single, unified system. (Official Website)
Letiman Games
In Matryoshka, some rare Matryoshkas composed of seven dolls each were spread during the years and ended up distributed randomly among some antique collectors. These collectors arranged a meeting to exchange dolls and try to reassemble the rare Matryoshkas. Obviously each collector wants to leave this meeting with the most valuable collection. But who will succeed? (Official Website)
Luminous Wolf
Your goal is to dig up a buried treasure in Swords Mark the Spot. To find the treasure, you must visit stone tablets with pieces of the treasure map etched on them. Meanwhile, wandering monsters will be an ever-present threat. Your party of adventurers must learn skills and gain items as they search if they are to survive their quest. (Official Website)
Alexis Lipina
Exalt is a third-person action RPG where you play a robot exploring a strange alien world with challenging enemies to face, mysteries to unlock, and an ancient evil that must be stopped.
Menace Interactive
Project AEGIS stands for “Apocalyptic Emergent Game Immersive Simulation.” (Official Website)
Michael Pasquarello
Come Ye Cultists is a deck-building worker placement game where players compete for tiles, manipulate their deck of workers, and use them to acquire points.
Neon Deity Games
Junkpuncher is 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, who is 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. Now you, in control of the hero and with the aid of The Atlas, must put a stop to their nefarious plans. (Official Website)
Obsidian Valley Studios
Render is a third person action adventure platformer where the focus of the experience centers around engaging gameplay rather than a complex narrative. Throughout their adventure players will explore unique levels to earn new abilities and weapons to both improve their effectiveness in combat as well as enhance their ability to traverse the various environments. In order to conquer the challenges in Render you’ll have to think hard, fight to build up combos against tough enemies, and uncover secrets to expand your arsenal. (Official Website)
OM Games
Duck and the Land of Flightless Birds is a 2D Hybrid platformer focusing on exploration and obstacle based platforming. It’s a treasure chest of charm, with it’s expressive visuals, playful sound, and tight gameplay. Level up and explore all the Land of the Flightless Birds has to offer! (Official Website)
Possum House Games
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.
Underneath its stark occult western aesthetic Shot in the Dark is a challenging one of a kind platformer and point and click hybrid where most enemies and hazards blend seamlessly into the background. (Official Website)
Punk This Studios
Battle For Vitoria is a hardcore fantasy war game where your decisions can influence the Loyalty of your units. Without loyalty, your units are likely to retreat from the battle map. There is no randomness; players must out-think their opponents to achieve one of many possible win conditions. (Official Website)
Queenship Game Studio
Open Spaces is a visual novel about anxiety and agoraphobia. Skylar is an art student suffering agoraphobia and anxiety. Navigate their story to discover their symptomology, learn about their community supports, and how they manage their disorders. (Official Website)
Samurai Sheepdog
Mystical: Kingdom of Monsters gives players the ability to capture and train monsters in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. With over 150 monsters, both new and familiar, trainers embark on a quest to stop villainous thieves and challenge arena masters as they build recognition and fame within the Kingdom. (Mystical: Kingdom of Monsters @ Facebook)
Ship in a Flask
The corrupt Majaican king is owed a great debt in Boats, Booze, and Betrayal. To ensure his payment, he casts a hex upon four pirate captains, preventing them from leaving the waters of Majaica. Whoever can pay back their debt first is rewarded freedom, and the rest will pay with their lives.
On your voyage, you will find booze which can be sold for gold back at port. Not only will you come across booze, but you will encounter strange occurrences in the mystical waters of the Majaican Sea. Some will bless you with more wealth or increase the hardiness of your vessel. Others, like the Kraken or Siren will hinder your quest. You’re not the only one trying to survive. Other pirate captains will betray you and plunder your gold and booze. But maybe you will befriend the Kraken to betray them first. It is you or them, after all.
SynthLabs
OverDrive is a high powered rhythm game. Take an 80’s themed joyride down the retro neon Miami scene, as you cruise along to the beat. Swerve between lanes to keep up with the music and avoid hazards as you become more engrossed. (Official Website)
That Indie Studio
The Last Hex is a deckbuilding RPG with roguelike elements. The dead arise and only you can stand against them. Travel the lands to slay monsters, acquire new cards, survive dangerous encounters and claim powerful equipment to enhance your deck. A final showdown with The Lost awaits you at… The Last Hex! (Official Website)
ToothPike Games
Grave Shadows is a third-person mystery-adventure game following Colton Graves, a former cop turned private eye. After a horrendous accident nearly kills him, Graves finds himself somewhere between life and death, imbued with the ability to merge into shadows. Graves must use his detective skills and shadow powers to uncover the leader of The Family, the corrupt crime syndicate behind the accident. Explore multiple locations, avoid guards, collect evidence, and link them to the different suspects. (Official Website)
Vorpal Enterprises
Vorpal Board is a platform that enables playing tabletop games remotely with friends using the actual pieces. Games are streamed and scanned in realtime to let anyone, anywhere play tabletop games together. (Official Website)
Zucchini People Games
Adventure Tactics: Domianne’s Tower is an encounter-based, campaign-driven, cooperative deck-builder. Begin your journey as one of 5 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. (Official Website)