2025 ROC Game Fest Spring Mini Show: Meet the Exhibitors

ABOUT
Join us at the 2025 ROC Game Fest Spring Mini Show to try out new and upcoming projects from more than 20 exhibitors from across New York State.

THE DETAILS
WHEN: 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
WHERE: Meeting Room at Irondequoit Public Library
AUDIENCE: All Ages

ORGANIZATIONS

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!

Join the GLG Crew for pick up gaming competitions and matches against other festival attendees on new-generation gaming consoles and high-end PCs!

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.

GAME DEVELOPERS

Alexis Lipina
Links: YouTube

In Mech Repair, you play as a mechanic who fixes battle mechs. Clean off dirt, replace damaged parts, install upgrades, and more in this very early (and experimental) prototype.

Angry Hammer Games
Links: YouTube

FIRST APPEARANCE AT ROC GAME FEST
Railgun Command is a more modern take on Missile Command with tons of explosions and loads of weapons. Use powerful railguns to launch laser blasts or use gatling cannons, missiles, and more.

DIE SOFT
Links: Official Website | Discord | Instagram | Twitter | YouTube

FIRST APPEARANCE AT ROC GAME FEST
Explore a dream world in Little Nemo and the Guardians of Slumberland. The iconic Little Nemo is armed with toys, candy, and stuffed animals in this cute and colorful Metroidvania adventure. Experience NES-era platformer gameplay in a vast, non-linear world that has been hand-animated frame-by-frame, as you unlock new abilities to progress.

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.

Henry Orsagh
Links: Official Website

FIRST APPEARANCE AT ROC GAME FEST
Trials of Persephone is a speedrunning first-person spellslinger. Take the role of Persephone, the Goddess of Spring, and Queen of the Underworld. Nefarious forces are at play in Mythic Greece, and it is up to you to get to the bottom of it. With a gifted artifact from Demeter, harness Pneuma Spheres to navigate perilous terrain and battle your way through conspirators and their elemental minions at breakneck speeds.

HiveMind Studios
Links: Official Website

Good Luck Valley is a 2D, narratively-driven, adventure-platformer set in a magical Spirit World which reflects the emotions of a single person. Follow Anari on her journey through the Spirit World, where every secret she uncovers draws her deeper into the world’s mysterious magic. As Anari, players will use athletic player movement and a versatile mushroom mechanic to explore a magical world, each action of her journey leaving a constructive result on the slowly-corrupting world around her. Meet spirits, each with their own magical characteristics and unique personalities; some will hinder your journey, others will guide it. But, along her journey, Anari might just find how to unite them all.

Menace Interactive
Links: Official Website | Twitter | YouTube

Project AEGIS [Apocalyptic Emergent Game Immersive Sim] is an open world stealth-action RPG in a post-post-apocalyptic world, set after the new millennium opened atomic floodgates. Crashing computers cause air traffic to dive, their stocks crashing into markets in the year 00. The many who survived the future begun rebuilding the past. Bands of street gangs and government are infighting amongst themselves, clashing into each another to manifest our destiny.

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

Race to save the “illest sandy” from the Jerkwad who pilfered it in Bruisin’ Cruisers! Bump, jump, and crash him and his minions in top-down car combat action!

OM Games
Links: Official Website | Bluesky | Discord | Instagram | Twitter

Duck and the Land of Flightless Birds is a 2D platforming adventure. Bright and charming, it’s a wacky affair full of whimsy and fun. Eat bread, run away from (or fight at your preference) enemies, and venture through perilous challenges as you take on Duck and the Land of Flightless Birds.

Pepperfaced
Links: Official Website | Twitter

Rocket Bug is a platformer where you must navigate through a robot factory with a rocket strapped to your back.

Petrichor Studios
Links: Official Website

FIRST APPEARANCE AT ROC GAME FEST
In Echoes In The Mists, you are the last remaining knight in a dark overrun seaport. Uncover the echoes of your past and face monsters born of the Mists in challenging combat as you seek out the source of the corruption.

Ramona Sittel
Links: Official Website

FIRST APPEARANCE AT ROC GAME FEST
Birdworld is an eldritch RPG about uncovering the dark past of its main cast. Adam, who was once a human being, finds himself in a two-tone hellscape of feathery bipeds and abhorrent creatures. Little by little the player discovers why Birdworld’s protagonists would gamble their lives for a chance at salvation as they uncover the truths they tried to bury.

Birdworld is created in RPG Maker MV, but features a completely custom battle engine and overall flavorful playstyle as opposed to typical products of the genre. Solve micro-puzzles, bash heads with monsters that personify fears, and dig deeper and deeper into the lowest trenches of Adams mind. The game is designed to push and pull the player in different directions with each new playthrough, ensuring that all stones can only be unturned if you revisit what could’ve been. Choice of interactions, party members, and monsters slain all decide the fate of the cast. Regardless of these decisions, the only way out is through, and the only way back up is down.

Shoreside Studio
Links: Official Website | Bluesky | Instagram | Twitter

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 | Discord | 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.

Trent Garlipp
Links: Twitter

A Walk with Yiayia is a heartfelt solo-developed, bite-sized adventure game about taking your Greek grandmother on a walk after she’s lost her confidence from a scary fall.

Dream Terminal is a surreal experience that alternates between a first-person exploration game and classic text adventures on computer terminals found within the game world.

Tristan Otto

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.

Tyteros Interactive
Links: Official Website | Discord | YouTube

FIRST APPEARANCE AT ROC GAME FEST
Fermi the Radioactive Hodgepodge is a side-scrolling pixel art platformer that takes inspiration from classic NES and SNES games like Donkey Kong Country 2, Mega Man, and Super Mario World, as well as more recent indie games like Shovel Knight. Fermi is a chemistry-themed adventure in which players can collect isotope rods to purchase upgrades that alter his body, giving him new abilities. These abilities offer new ways for the player to explore levels, fight enemies, and unlock secrets.

Everything was fine until the nuclear bombardment. The Periodic Kingdom is under attack! Dr. Mendelevil’s mutant army roams the land as toxic waste threatens those who are left. Fortunately, a group of intrepid unpaid interns devise a plan to create a hero. Only… they mess up the formula and end up with FERMI THE RADIOACTIVE HODGEPODGE! He may be small, he may make weird sounds randomly, but he’s our only hope.

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.