PAX East 2014 Round Up

Monday, May 12th, 2014

Now that we’re fully recovered from PAX East and are full steam ahead on development, it’s finally the time to wrap up the show! The Indie MEGABOOTH was everything we were hoping it would be and more. Some of our experiences with the Indie showcase at GDC had helped set some expectations and it was rewarding to see familiar faces and an incredibly welcoming atmosphere at PAX East. We met a lot of incredibly talented developers, very enthusiastic press and loads of gamers.

Fortunately, nothing we didn’t already expect from GDC cropped up at PAX East. We had one or two bugs from new content, which is to be expected, but the demo ran smoothly the entire weekend! We received a lot of great feedback and press coverage which has helped carry us through the next steps of making the game.

Here’s all the great things people had to say about Tetropolis:

• Colin was one of the first to preview Tetropolis at PAX East and it made a good first impression!
• Bob had a really great chat with Jean-Marc over at Jeaxvideo about Tetropolis.
• Tony from FrontTowards Gamer had some very nice things to say about Tetropolis.
• Cassidee dropped by with the Leviathyn crew and included us in her “Ten Awesome Games from the Show Floor”
• Nicole had what I would argue as “the best reaction to the game” as she played Tetropolis at the Minibooth. (She gasped and laughed at all the right moments)
• Bob and Jeff had a nice chat with Adrian Staniago from indie News Now at the booth about the game.
• It was an honor to talk with Jonathan Holmes of Destructoid about Tetropolis (Bob geeked out a bit), though we’re bummed Hamza didn’t get to play it!
• Jeremy Parish, the man who coined the term Metroidvania, even dropped by and had some amazing things to say about the game.
• Kyle Orland over at Ars Technica even included us in The Ars indie showcase: 30 games to watch in 2014.

If you’re more of the visual media consumer, here’s some of the video interviews and previews we did for PAX East:

PAX East was amazing and the feedback was overwhelmingly positive. We couldn’t ask for a more welcoming reception to our game and we’re looking forward to the trade-shows we’ll be appearing at later this year!

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