January 31 - DemoNight!

Event Details

When: Tuesday, January 31st - 6:30pm doors/food/drinks open | 7:30pm presentation begins
What: IGDA-Montreal DemoNight
Where: The SAT, 1201 St.Laurent
Why: Demos from local devs
Who: All game developers, and those related to the game industry
Entry: free for IGDA members; $5 for non-members

Presentation

"DemoNight"

DemoNight is the chance for local studios to show off their work-in-progress games to the Montreal development community. These are all pre-release games - some are big budget highly anticipated AAA games, some are indie projects of passion that we've never heard of before. All will be presented in real-time (no pre-baked marketing flying throughs allowed) and get approx 7 minutest to show off and be discussed.

Here's the list of games to be presented, in alphabetical order:

 

Blockolicious
> Hibernum Creations

Blockolicious is a fast paced action arcade puzzle game for iOS where you squeeze Fruit Blocks into bursting Juice Bombs. Perform actions with each block color to extract flavored juice and energize your animal powerups. Use your powerups at key moments to boost your score. Play fast and well to benefit from streak bonus' and multipliers. Test your skills on the weekly leaderboard with the support of Facebook Connect and Crystal.

Castle Story
> Sauropod Studio

Castle story is a voxel-based real-time strategy game in which you build castles brick-by-brick and then try to defend it against enemies or other players.

Escouade B
> Bibliothèques de Montréal

Escouade B, c'est un jeu sérieux qui propose aux jeunes de 8 à 13 ans une façon novatrice et interactive de développer des compétences de recherche sur Internet, dans une perspective de formation documentaire. Le jeu plonge les joueurs dans les corridors souterrains de Montréal pour y débusquer les monstres qui l'habitent. À l'aide de leur tablette intelligente, les jeunes doivent analyser correctement le contenu des sites web qui leurs sont proposés pour progresser dans l'aventure.

Fez
> Polytron Corporation

Gomez is a 2D man on a voyage of discovery into the mysterious 3rd dimension. Change your perspective and look at the world in a different way.

FRACT OSC1
> Phosfiend Systems

FRACT is a first person puzzle-adventure game in the vein of the Myst titles, but with an electro twist. Players are tasked with exploring a bizarre broken down world built around and inspired by electronic music.

Frenzy
> Centre NAD + UQAC

Frenzy est une variation du classique "Capture de Flag". Réalisé dans un cadre académique, Frenzy est une première collaboration entre des étudiants de la majeur en Jeu Vidéo de l’UQAC et du bac en Animation et Design Numérique au Centre NAD.

Gladiators
> Ludocracy

The glory of victory or bloody defeat lies before you. Gladiators from every corner of the Empire stand ready to kill your for the crowd’s entertainment. You are a Gladiator of Imperial Rome, and your future holds either glory or death.

IRR RPG Builder
> Christian Clavet + Andres Jesse Porfirio

The project is open source game builder focused on the 3D RPG game creation. Created entirely in C++ using Irrlicht graphic library (actually Irrlicht 1.7.2), using other libraries as IrrKlang audio library, wxWidget and LUA for scripting. The main use for the tool is to allow non-developper to create 3D RPG type games quickly without requiring a lot of knowledge.

Winning Jam Prototypes
> Montreal Game Jam

The Global Game Jam (GGJ) is the world's largest game jam event occurring annually in late January. GGJ brings together thousands of game enthusiasts participating through many local jams around the world. The jury-selected "best of jam" game from each location in Montreal will be presented.

Jurassic Park Builder
> Ludia

Jurassic Park Builder provides a social experience where players have the opportunity to build, customize and expand their own dinosaur attraction park. Players will unlock and collect various species by searching for amber pieces filled with dinosaur DNA. Players will also have to prevent disasters from happening in their park.

Legacy of the Yods
> Eternal Outcast Team

Legacy of the Yods is going to be a free Action-Adventure based on CryEngine 3 SDK Free. It evolved from the Crysis mod open Outcast and shares its goal: to create a worthy inofficial sequel to the Original "Outcast" from 1999. Demo contains: Combat/nonlinear dialogues/travelling/HUD and UI/Music and SFX.

Mass Effect 3
> BioWare

The latest in the epic Mass Effect series!

Memories of a Vagabond: Broken Destiny
> Darkelite

It's a journey of a young mercenary who travels from one soul to another to avenge his fiance and her family. While finding a way to travel back in time, the hero encounters many obstacles and meets new allies. This turned based RPG on PC is meant to explore your imagination and intelligence.

Papo & Yo
> Minority Media Inc.

Papo & Yo is a 3D Puzzle-Platforming Adventure for the PlayStation® Network (PSN). The game is about a young boy, Quico, and his best friend, Monster. Monster is a huge beast with razor-sharp teeth, but that doesn’t scare Quico away from playing with him. That said, Monster does have a very dangerous problem: an addiction to poisonous frogs. The minute he sees one hop by, he’ll scarf it down and fly into a violent, frog-induced rage where no one, including Quico, is safe. And yet, Quico loves his Monster and wants to save him.

Party of Sin
> Crankshaft Games

Party of Sin is a coopetitive puzzle-platformer for 1-4 players on PC and Xbox. Tear out of the depths of Hell and into the highest reaches of Heaven as one of the Seven Deadly Sins: Envy, Gluttony, Greed, Lust, Pride, Sloth or Wrath. Use an arsenal of weapons and your unique powers to defeat enemies and manipulate the environment to solve puzzles. Cooperate with your teammates, but be on guard; in Party of Sin, alliances are tenuous. It’s the nature of a Sin to back-stab its friends for points, ammunition and glory. Join a party of epic proportions that tests your ability to think from the other side of morality, which Sin will you choose?

The Secret World
> Funcom

The Secret World is a massively multiplayer online world with a unique modern-day setting and unparalleled freedom of character progression. Imagine if every myth, conspiracy theory and urban legend was true. Imagine a world where you can become anything you want to be, without restrictions such as classes or levels. This is the premise for The Secret World.

Warp
> Trapdoor

Warp is a puzzle-based stealth action game where you play Zero, a little orange alien with a big score to settle! Trapped in an underwater research facility, you must escape the villainous Commander using your arsenal of alien abilities: warp, frag, echo, swap, and launch.

  

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