BostonFIG Announces Showcase Games

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Amelia vs. The Marathon
Trouble Impact, LLC
Attempt to beat your best marathon time while your running rival’s henchmen try to slow you down! A linear, replayable 10-15 min adventure in which you must dodge obstacles and defeat a sequence of characters as fast as possible to get the best marathon time. Battles are short, turn-based fights with timing mini-games that determine the power of your attacks. Obstacle dodging sections appear between the battles and allow you to regain some of your lost speed. When you’ve completed a race‚ start over again to try to beat your best time using the skills and strategies you have learned.

Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller
Phoenix Online Studios
Episode 1: The Hangman Cognition is a thought-provoking mystery following Erica Reed, a Boston-based FBI agent, haunted by the unsolved case of a serial killer who took her brother’s life. Taking a turn for the strange, Erica investigates with the ability of post-cognition, sensing an objects past with a mere touch. What unravels is a much greater, much more complex and enigmatic mystery, as it becomes clear that someone knows her secret.

Conclave
10×10 Room
Conclave is a “web-top” game: a tabletop-inspired roleplaying game you can play with your friends either synchronously or asynchronously from any web browser.Set in an original fantasy world in which civilization has withdrawn to a last refuge called the Conclave, the game allows groups of up to four players to embark on quests together to uncover the cause of this centuries-long Age of Retreat. Quests feature turn-based tactical combats on top-down battlemaps as well as story-driven decision points in which your options are determined by the skills possessed by the characters in your group. The initial quests in the game are free to play, while the remaining quests are part of a campaign you can purchase. There are no in-game items to buy and no subscriptions to pay.Players can play together in real-time or seamlessly switch to taking turns whenever they have a free moment, Words With Friends-style. Since the game requires only HTML5 and JavaScript, you can play from just about desktop, laptop, iPad, or smartphone as long as it has an internet connection.

Gimbal Cop
Defective Studios
Gimbal Cop is an asynchronous multi-player racer/track creator. One player flies through space leaving a trail behind him, and the others follow along trying to catch him! Targeted at iOS/Android devices, the game maximizes the use of tilt controls and competitive gameplay to deliver an experience completely new to the mobile scene. Players can also join a game from their Windows or Mac with the option of hooking up their mobile device as a controller. As the Architect, explore a universe full of narwhals and potatoes while laying down track in the style of an Octopus Tentacle, Western Thoroughfare, CandyLand, LavaLand, and many more! As the runner, collect boost and try to stay on top of the track’s bends and turns in order to catch up with the architect at the head of his twisting tendril. Come up with a cool-looking track? Well, of course you did! Share the design with your friends online and race on it again, and again. On the PC, armed with the (free) Unity game editor, save your favorite tracks and edit their shape, adding extra doodads.

The Hold
RUST LTD
The Hold is a first-person 3D puzzle platformer that takes place inside of a massive MC Escher-like spacestation. Users must navigate the absurd space, solve puzzles, shift gravity, and maintain perspective as they try to escape.

Prime’s Quest
Prime’s Quest
Prime’s Quest introduces Prime, a young and charismatic teenager searching for his kidnapped grandfather in a post-apocalyptic Earth. This puzzle adventure game takes the beloved sokoban style and adds fresh and innovative mechanics coupled with handmade puzzles to add a new twist to the beloved genre.







Comments


Are you talking about the dolnowad-able games? If so, everything should be fine. The next generation of consoles will use the same market (PSN/XBL) as today, probably just an upgraded version. So your stuff will be saved. Too early to be thinking ahead, next consoles should be out by late 2013.

Graham (not verified) | Mon, 10/15/2012 - 07:45 | Permalink

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