The 2024 ROC Game Fest Spring Mini Show returns to the Irondequoit Public Library on Saturday, April 13!
Meet more than 20 exhibitors and play games developed locally and throughout New York State.
Our Spring Mini Show is the best way to learn more about the game development scene in the Flower City.
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 is a developer expo coming to the Albany Capital Center on Saturday, October 19.
Aesthetician Labs
Links: Official Website | Discord | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
Project: Fish is like if Goat Simulator and Grand Theft Auto had an aquatic child. Terrorize humanity, undergo Eldrich mutations, and take the fate of the world into your fins.
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
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Play as a battle-hardened fisherman chasing everything from the smallest minnow to the greatest kraken! Enjoy calm fishing along the beach or face deep-sea monstrosities in adrenaline-pumping boss fights until you’ve completed your collection. Travel to different locations to find a variety of new fish, reeling in and facing off against a roster of dangerous catches!
Bait and Tackle is a 2D boss-rush designed around fishing minigames while incorporating elements of platformers and collect-a-thons.
Chits and Chat
Links: Official Website | YouTube
Chutes and Levers is a collection of one-card puzzle mazes with a side-scroller arcade feel.
Erik Andersen
Links: Official Website | Discord | Twitter | YouTube
Can you learn Japanese by solving puzzles? So to Speak is a game about wandering in Japan, looking at signs, overhearing conversations, and using context clues in the environment to figure out what it all means. No background in Japanese is assumed.
Gaming Jay
Links: YouTube
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MetalMercs is a real-time, mech-based tactical strategy game that catapults you into the role of a mercenary commander in a vast expanse known as the Core. In this tumultuous region of space, five great houses are locked in a relentless struggle for supremacy. As the leader of your own mercenary outfit, you’re tasked with commanding a legion of mechs into battle.
Hire fearless pilots, negotiate lucrative contracts, salvage exotic technology, re-engineer your mechs for peak performance, and crush your foes! Can you lead your outfit to glory? Can you carve your name among the stars? And mostly importantly, can you make a profit as you do? Fortune awaits, mercenary…
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.
Santa’s Toy Box is a “point salad” set collection game for 2-6 players. Players draft cards that are Toys and Coal for points, as well as special event cards that can effect a player’s board state.
Jeffrey Hube
Gravity is a first-person puzzle game where you change the direction of gravity, interact with different kinds of crates, and avoid hazards in order to solve puzzles.
Menace Interactive
Links: Official Website | Twitter | YouTube
Project AEGIS is a Post-Y2K Apocalyptic Emergent Game Immersive Simulation (AEGIS) set in the rebuilt world of the American Southwest.
Nilson Carroll
Links: Official Website | Twitter
Heal Slime is a skincare RPG where every step counts. Help gather your slime friends before dawn in this dream-maze and work toward repairing the moisture barrier. An autobiographical puzzle with about 30 minutes of gametime.
Pepperfaced
Links: Official Website | Twitter
Qbi is back, and there are yet still dormant lightbulbs in the world that need to be lit! With his firing mechanism fixed, he has more control over his shots! But he can’t save the world alone. He’s gonna need some help from Tes! It’s Qbi & Tes!
The streets and seas are polluted, and things seem like they won’t get any better. That is until an UMI unit falls out of the sky, seemingly sent to deal with the current situation. Play as Umi and uncover one of the major sources of ocean pollution in the area in The Great Umi!
Secret Boss Games
Links: Official Website | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube
Reforge is a weapon crafting, battle royale card game. 2-6 players take turns attaching parts, placing shields, utilizing game changing gadgets, and attacking opponents in order to be the last one standing.
Ternary Designs
Rando and Robo is a third-person action platformer.
That Indie Studio
Links: Official Website
Want to make your own game? Draw it, scan it, and play it in Draw Your Own Platformer.
Usiak Games and Designs
Links: Official Website | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube
Skeptics is a cooperative tabletop game for 1-4 players where you play as paranormal investigators. Form a team trying to prove the existence of ghosts that haunt an environment by gathering evidence of the paranormal.
Players race against the clock rolling dice to match icons to Search, Reveal, and Solve Clues. Each Clue will lead one step closer to revealing the Ghost. Environment Cards are drawn at the stroke of midnight which may have hazards and conditions that will impede the players’ progress. Investigators win if the existence of the Ghost can be proven in time, but fail if time runs out.
Villa Maria College
Links: Official Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | YouTube
From pre-production, to development, to modeling and texturing, Villa Maria’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.
Zachary Gardner
Links: Official Website | Patreon | Twitter | YouTube
Garbanzo Quest is a bullet-heck platformer where your only weapon is your own spit. Help Chickpea (and Pinto if you have a friend) save their Friends in the silly world called Freedomland. This land is full of hand-crafted challenges, secrets, branching paths, and other things perhaps!?!