ABOUT
ROC Game Fest attendees will be able to join us on the Show Floor at RIT’s MAGIC Spell Studios to try out new and upcoming projects from more than 40 exhibitors from across New York State.
THE DETAILS
WHEN: 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
WHERE: Atrium + Sound Stage + Third Floor
AUDIENCE: All Ages
RGF SPONSORS
Irondequoit Public Library
Links: Official Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | YouTube
The Irondequoit Library has co-sponsored the Rochester Game Festival since 2017. Visit our table to learn more about games and gaming in the library, and everything we have to offer!
MAGIC Spell Studios
Links: Official Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | YouTube
Founded in 2013, at the RIT Center for Media, Arts, Games, Interaction & Creativity (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.
Play That Damn Goat! at the MAGIC table. It’s a party game where chaos reigns, frustrations mount, and everything you think you know is thrown out of whack by a head-butting goat with magical powers!
ROC Game Dev
Links: Official Website | Discord | Facebook | Twitch | Twitter | YouTube
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.
Play RoboDome at the ROC Game Dev table. It’s a twin-stick roguelike that drops players into the most popular sport around, a competition of professional Robo Battlers who must destroy robotic sentries and face off against each other in the arena.
ORGANIZATIONS
1UpState
Links: Official Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitch | Twitter | YouTube
New York’s Tech Valley is home to a video game development cluster, ranging from small, independent studios to internationally recognized names. 1UpState, a celebration of games and the people who make them, is a new expo for game developers in New York’s Tech Valley Region! Saturday, October 19, at the Albany Capital Center.
AudioAssets@RIT
Links: Official Website
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AudioAssets@RIT is an online repository of music and sound effects for use in video games and media created by RIT students for RIT students. It aims to streamline collaborations between composers, sound designers, game developers, and filmmakers at RIT by enhancing collaboration across various disciplines. This web-based application features a user-friendly interface, strict audio quality standards, comprehensive metadata, searchable functionality, audio preview capabilities, and an automated usage approval system.
Additionally, it allows users to upload audio files with different visibility settings, search for and download available audio assets, and offers an enhanced administrative view for content moderation. Above all, AudioAssets@RIT strives to create a safe and convenient space for RIT students to share their creations with others, ensuring their works are shared in a way that protects their intellectual property.
Villa Maria College
Links: Official Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | YouTube
From pre-production, to development, to modeling and texturing, Villa Maria College’s Game Design program immerses you into every phase of the game design process, molding you into a strategic and creative individual who is prepared to take your talent to the professional playing field. Faculty and students will share information about Buffalo’s only Game Design program! Learn more about our hands-on program that guides students as they learn to create all kinds of games from concept to completion.
Play Spirit Runner at the Villa Maria College table. This student-made game asks players to collect Soul Orbs in an attempt to bring a recently-deceased ghost back to life.
GAME DEVELOPERS
Aesthetician Labs
Links: Official Website | Discord | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
Aesthetician Labs will bring an Unannounced Game to this year’s Rochester Game Festival.
Alexis Lipina
Links: YouTube
Exalt is a hack-and-slash action-adventure that combines 2D pixel-art visuals with 3D exploration and gameplay. Explore a world as a robot-mage, blinking around enemies and casting spells. Play in a wave-based arena game mode, or help test some unfinished prototypes of levels for the in-development campaign.
Bad Bass Games
Links: Official Website
Bait and Tackle is a 2D boss-rush designed around fishing minigames while incorporating elements of platformers and collect-a-thons. Designed for players who spend too much time mastering fishing minigames, Bait and Tackle offers plenty of challenges and laughs for experienced and aspiring fishers alike. Grab your fishing rod, cast your line, and hoist yourself into the world of Bait and Tackle!
Catch exotic fish and fight comical sea-monsters as you chase after the one that got away! Enjoy calm fishing by the dockside, but beware – if a big enough bite is on your line, prepare to face off against a new deep-sea monstrosity! Use your fishing rod as a grappling hook and a sword as you travel to a variety of locations, reeling in and facing off against a roster of dangerous catches along the way…
Burgee Media
Links: Discord
Erenshor is a “simulated MMORPG” where players can experience classic MMORPG gameplay on their own terms, and in the company of an entirely simulated server population. The SimPlayers always “online” and ready to play when you are, and when you’re too busy with other things, they’ll always be there waiting for you.
Mathletix is a puzzle game that utilizes the basic principles of math, all set against gorgeous backgrounds and a relaxing, lofi soundtrack. Players must arrange numbers and operators into proper equations in the style of crossword puzzles.
Changeling VR
Links: Official Website | Discord | Twitter | YouTube
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REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE. FOR THESE MEMORIES ARE NOT YOURS.
Magic exists in Changeling VR, for better and worse. Angela Summers calls upon Aurelia Walker to use her powers to help her troubled child. As Aurelia, see and experience the memories and fears of those you touch. Each memory a different hope, fear, and experience.
Chits and Chat
Links: Official Website | YouTube
Chutes and Levers is a collection of one-card puzzle mazes with a side-scroller arcade feel.
Cosmonaut Collective
Links: Official Website
Chronoweaver’s Loop is a small time-loop puzzle game where you play as Mune, a young apprentice mage who must relive the same two minutes trying to solve the puzzles of a crumbling tower in order to unlock the mystery of your dying mentor.
Erik Andersen
Links: Official Website | Discord | Twitter | YouTube
So to Speak is a puzzle game where you wander around a 2D simulation of Japan and encounter Japanese words in signs and conversations. You must connect them to nearby objects or text with the same meaning.
For example, you can drag a Japanese sign for “entrance” onto an actual building entrance located nearby or the English word “entrance” in the game’s description of the entrance. It has an educational purpose, but it’s also a puzzle game where you use context clues to decipher the meaning of words in a language you don’t know. It doesn’t assume any background in Japanese and you can enjoy it even if you don’t really care about learning Japanese… yet.
eStudio NooN
Links: Official Website
Wacky Invaders Saga is an arcade inspired shooter where you command a lone turret defending earth from an alien clown invasion. Scoot and shoot, gather power-ups, and destroy all the enemies before they land!
Speedster Showdown 3000 is an open-cockpit, multiplayer, VR kart racer!
Games By Thomas
Links: Official Website
Ball Game Remix is a single-player and multiplayer modern-day Breakout/Pong clone featuring a cartoony art style. Play as Ball, Beth, or any of the characters available in this demo as you go head-to-head with your friends or fight the other enemies trying to take your crown.
Growler Interactive
Links: Official Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
While exploring deep underground on a journey to the center of the earth, your party has been waylaid by trolls! As the leader of the expedition, it is up to you to take back your stolen supplies and rescue your comrades. Map the optimal route through the randomly generated labyrinths. Then run out as fast as possible after grabbing your gear because the trolls will be hot on your trail in Growler Interactive’s Delvin’ Dwarves!
HiveMind Studios
Links: Official Website
Good Luck Valley is a single-player, 2D puzzle-platformer in which the player takes the role of Anari, a young girl who finds herself in a mystical spirit world during a complicated time in her life. Traverse the spirit world’s unusual terrain via your magical bouncing mushrooms to get home safely and unveil the truth about this mysterious world.
Horton Dev
Links: Official Website
Heavy Hangs the Head is a colony simulator from the perspective of one: the leader. Inspired by Rimworld, every world is a brand new “history generator.” As the leader, you must feed and protect your people. Choose to rear a population of warriors, artists, or anything in between. Build a kingdom, stop invaders, and make way for future generations. No one said it would be easy; sacrifices will be made for your people, your children, and your legacy. In peace or war, with smile or frown: Heavy Hangs the Head that wears the crown.
Ichiban Games
Links: Official Website | Discord | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | YouTube
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.
Jason Ozubko
Links: Official Website | Discord | YouTube
In MetalMercs, you’ll build a formidable army of mechs and pilots, each tailored to your strategic vision. Navigate the treacherous expanse of the Core, brokering contracts and forging your path through a cutthroat galaxy. Deploy your forces with precision to dominate the battlefield, achieving mission objectives that will test your tactical acumen. As you conquer each challenge, earn vital resources to expand and upgrade your mech arsenal, enhancing your capabilities and ensuring your supremacy.
MetalMercs offers a thrilling blend of strategy, negotiation, and combat, inviting you to command your destiny in a world where every decision matters.
John Wuller
Links: Official Website
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Are stories too coherent for your liking? Then have I got the game for you!
Growing up, our family would tell “and so” stories. One person would start telling a story until they said, “and so…”. At this point, the next person would pick up the story and continue it. StoryBot lets you tell one of these unpredictable stories in Discord!
That’s right – this game is experienced entirely in Discord! It’s a Discord bot that can be added to any server!
StoryBot will then choose random users who /join to take turns adding onto a shared story. The story gets bounced around from person to person as everyone adds their own unique touch to the story! People can continue the story, introduce a cameo, or just completely mess up the plot by introducing a multidimensional llama. It’s impossible to tell what will happen next with StoryBot!
Matter Games
Links: Discord
Reflectile is a minimal precision-puzzle game that yearns for the early 2000s era of video games. It will test your ability to cut corners, squeeze through tight corridors, and make split-second inputs to reach the goal of each stage.
Menace Interactive
Links: Official Website | Twitter | YouTube
AEGIS [Working Title] is a stealth-action roleplaying game set in an open world post-cataclysm after the millennium crash shut down the world.
Nilson Carroll
Links: Official Website | Twitter
Heal Slime is a skin-care RPG puzzle game about close looking and having patience with your own body. It can take players 10-30 minutes to play through and encourages teamwork, speedrunning, and multi-playthroughs to find smoother paths.
Northbot Studio
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Rhythm Override is prototype of a 3D rhythm tactics game.
Olympus Interactive
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What if ninjas fought in a trampoline park, but with paint? Ninjas on Trampolines is a two-to-four player platform fighter where players are ninjas that splatter their opponents on the battlefield. Use trampolines to fight for aerial superiority. Having the most paint on the battlefield will make you victorious, but be careful because your opponents can paint over what you have already. The person with the most paint at the end of a match is declared the winner.
Open Sorcery Games
Links: Official Website | Discord
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In Hearth & Holmes, you are John Watson. Persuade your flatmate to eat something and go to sleep. He solves mysteries. You meddle with his reading material. A life-management simulation of cozy intimacy and PTSD flashbacks.
Partner’s Best Games
Links: Official Website
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VIER is a double deck of feeling cards that can be used as a therapy tool or for family fun.
The COVID Game is a tongue-in-cheek party game that allows you to re-experience the pandemic in a fun and safe way!
Pencil First Games
Links: Official Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | YouTube
Pencil First Games is a boutique publisher of delightful, high-quality board and card games. Whether you’re looking to craft pottery, take a peaceful walk, or explore a garden, discover delightful experiences with our relaxing nature games like Sunrise at the Studio and Snowfall Over Mountains! Or, experience the excitement of our two-player asymmetric adventure games, Skulk Hollow and Maul Peak, where enormous guardians battle clever Foxen and fierce Grizzar!
RUST LTD
Links: Official Website | Twitter
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Turn magical creatures into sausages in Dunderbeck, a frantic inventory management auto battler set in an alternate reality Cincinnati.
Build a gourmet sausage brand as a young, hungry entrepreneur (with a side hustle exterminating goblins.)
ShawnGG
Links: Official Website | Twitter | YouTube
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Far away from home, settlers found a new nation in a strange land. But, with this land comes dark powers that prey on the minds of men and beast alike. Unknown to the settlers, a web of powerful magic has been spun beneath the very ground upon which they stake their claims, mutating the flora and fauna above. Long have these innocent days past, with four nations now standing where tents did before. And the lurking threat now bares its fangs.
The Days of the Sun (TDOTS) is a %dice (d100/2d10) based system that produces powerful characters who are worn down over time. In addition, TDOTS is a cooperative creative experience at its core, providing tools for both the players and game master to establish lore, non-playable characters, locations, and historical events.
Shoreside Studio
Links: Official Website | Instagram | Twitter
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In Pelican Post, you play as Pepper, a pelican who has just moved to the town of Port Pleasant and is taking a job as the town’s newest mailman. Through your daily deliveries, you will converse with, get to know, and become closer with the colorful cast of residents that call this place home.
Port Pleasant was once a vibrant, active community with a powerful sense of togetherness. Unfortunately, times have changed, and people have grown distant from each other. Through your new job, you’ll perform small acts of kindness that have a big impact on the community and the people that form it. You could be the key to reestablishing the togetherness that was once a centerpiece of this town.
The Spacies
Links: Official Website | Twitter
Play as Arya– junker, ship jockey, and fighter– in Project Rope Tool. Lacking working thrusters, her ship is equipped with her latest contraption, the Rope Tool — a grappling hook and a stapler duct taped together.
Swing through the corpse of an asteroid mining gold rush. Gather rockets from the rubble of all-consuming corporate rivalry to propel yourself to blinding speeds. Launch those rockets to take down abandoned drones or set off the industrial explosives left lying around. Everything in this physics-led zero-gravity world is an opportunity for chaos and speed.
The forces you’re up against are stronger than you, more advanced than you, richer than you. They will knock you down, knock everything you’ve scraped together right off of your ship. But they can’t keep you down. You always come back.
SynthLabs
Links: Official Website | Instagram | Twitter
Party Crashers is an asymmetric VR party game in which one player dons a headset to host a virtual bash with friends joining from any web-connected device!
Team Broke Kids
Links: Official Website | Discord | Instagram | Twitter | YouTube
Mushroom Kid’s Big Grass Sword is a narrative, physics-based, precision platformer that follows Mica, a little mushroom, on a journey to rescue their village after the residents are captured by a gigantic bird. Meet Grandmashroom as she leads Mica to a mysterious temple to claim the Blade of Grass: a powerful weapon with the ability to pull Mica up ledges and over dangerous obstacles.
Team Toast
Links: Official Website
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Sometimes Toast is O.K. is a point-and-click casual physics sandbox with a focus on humor and achievement hunting. Complete objectives and explore the environment while playing with physics objects and kitchen appliances. Inspired by games like I Am Bread and Untitled Goose Game, this simple yet charming game shows you that Sometimes, Toast is O.K.
That Indie Studio
Links: Official Website
Draw Your Own Platformer is a plug and play interactive that lets you draw your own level, scan it, and then play it! The interactive also saves the levels so that others can play other user-created levels. The main idea behind it is to introduce players to the concept of level designing in a fun and interactive way.
Tristan Jay Otto
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Little One is an RPG made in RPG Maker about a strange kid exploring a strange world on a mission to get food for their dog. In the game you’ll need to explore your surroundings, travel to interesting new locations, and gather items to help you fend off any monster that tries to harm you, all while meeting people both pleasant and rude along the way.
Yesteryear Games
Links: Official Website | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube
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A modern take on timeless arcade action, Bat Bots is a light gun shooter simulator inspired by the classics of 80s arcades. Take down waves of robotic bats using precise aim and quick reflexes. Engage in solo play, challenge your friends and family, or work together to defend against the oncoming waves.
Zachary Gardner
Links: Official Website | Patreon | Twitter | YouTube
Garbanzo Quest is a crazy bullet-heck platformer where your main weapon is your own spit! Help Garbanzo (and Pinto if you have a buddy) save their Friends in the wacky world of Freedomland. This world is full of hand-crafted challenges, secrets, and branching paths!