We went to PAX East! Despite there being waist-high snow everywhere in downtown Boston and Shu flying directly to the show from GDC that same week, this ended up being damn fun.
I believe the word is “teeming.”
Crystal Brawl got accepted into Indie Games Live, a cool game party held in an underground club!
Setting up for a night of gametimes
Indie Games Live wooooo!
Pluuus, Mike from Game Informer showed up, played the game and not only included us in their list of PAX East’s Amazing Indies, but had such a good time he wrote this gem:
“Towerfall and Samurai Gunn touched off a wave of arena multiplayer games. I’ve played a number, and Crystal Brawl stands out as one of the best.”
Works for me!
Mercato Art Mastermind (and occasional lead programmer) Chris also showed off his other game Rad Raygun, which always recruits a few superfans at these things.
Playing @trufun202‘s Super Rad Raygun while Sabrepulse spins gameboy tunes: it was meant to be #PAXEast https://t.co/4yHoD47z3E — Studio Mercato (@StudioMercato) March 7, 2015
We also demoed both the analog and digital versions of Nika for Brad at BoardGameGeek…
Hands-on Nika demo
… and we streamed some Crystal Brawl at Gung Ho’s booth! You can catch the whole thing here (the sound is fubar’d at the start, but comes back after about a minute).
Gung Ho was streaming indies all day!
There was a ton of other cool stuff, like ominous music racer Thumper, the return of Harmonix’s Kickstarted Amplitude, and Extreme Exorcism from our buds at Golden Ruby!
.@MagicCircleGame is a gorgeous adventure into the soul of a vaporware game #PAXEast https://t.co/KzS3WvEEBJ — Studio Mercato (@StudioMercato) March 6, 2015
Duel @ThumperGame action! Game is so gorgeous #PAXEast https://t.co/pnRLEZUAsc — Studio Mercato (@StudioMercato) March 7, 2015
Stop by booth 10189 to play some #extremeexorcism at #PAXEast today. A ghostly good time! pic.twitter.com/kWudbfQTu7 — Golden Ruby Games (@GoldenRubyGames) March 8, 2015
Live by the sword, dad by the sword @rocketcatgames #PAXEast https://t.co/WktKdsXIan — Studio Mercato (@StudioMercato) March 6, 2015
JET SET RADIOOOOOOOO
Excellent choice of music for @shapesnbeats #PAXEast #FINISHHIM https://t.co/4nAQ0yvtHD — Studio Mercato (@StudioMercato) March 7, 2015