Say hi to Holmes and crew when you’re in Boston
“Dad By The Sword is a game about YOUR DAD running around in jorts and slaying Anti-Dads with a claymore. Experience a unique First Person Swordplay experience as you try not to get killed by leaping hot dog monsters. Outsmart your enemies, destroy weak points in their armor, and then slice through them in dadly combat.”
If I could make it out to PAX East this year, the Indie Megabooth would be my first destination. Good people, good games. There used to be short lines, but that’s probably no longer the case.
While I like to roll up and let individual booths catch my eye, I don’t fault anyone for coming in with a plan of attack. The Megabooth and Minibooth lineups are out — scan the list here or below.
Megabooth
- 20XX / Catlateral Damage – Fire Hose Games
- Affordable Space Adventures – Knapnok Games
- Band Saga / One Way Heroics+ / Revolver 360 RE:ACTOR – Playism
- Black Ice – Super Duper Garrett Cooper
- Broforce – Free Lives
- Dead Pixels II: Straight to Video – CSR-Studios
- Downwell – Ojiro Fumoto
- Enter the Gungeon – Dodge Roll
- Flamingo! – radiostatic
- Forced 2: The Rush – BetaDwarf
- Grim Dawn – Crate Entertainment
- Homesick – Lucky Pause
- Interloper – Monogon Games
- Just Shapes & Beats – Berzerk Studio
- Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes – Steel Crate Games
- KWAAN – Ankama Canada
- Lacuna Passage – Random Seed Games
- Ladykiller In A Bind – Love Conquers All Games
- Lovely Planet – QUICKTEQUILA
- Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime – Asteroid Base
- Mayan Death Robots – Sileni Studios
- Mini Metro – Dinosaur Polo Club
- Move or Die – Those Awesome Guys
- NEO Scavenger – Blue Bottle Games
- Nuclear Throne – Vlambeer
- Paradise Never – Kitty Lambda
- Planet of the Eyes – Cococucumber
- Prismata – Lunarch Studios
- Renowned Explorers: International Society – Abbey Games
- RIVE – Two Tribes
- Sentris – Timbre Interactive
- Severed – Drinkbox
- SpeedRunners – Double Dutch
- Swords & Soldiers II – Ronimo Games
- Telepath Tactics – Sinister Design
- The Magic Circle – Question
- The Masterplan – Shark Punch
- Titan Souls – Acid Nerve
- Tumblestone – The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild
- Vagante – Nuke Nine
- Viking Squad – Slick Entertainment
- WE ARE DOOMED – Vertex Pop
Minibooth
- A Druid’s Duel – Thoughtshelter Games
- Antihero – Tim Conkling
- Gathering Sky – A Stranger Gravity
- Boot Hill Heroes 2 – Experimental Gamer Studios
- Cosmochoria – 30/30
- Dad by the Sword: Swordplay Simulation Action Tactics – Rocketcat Games
- Deathstate – Workinman Interactive
- Dog Sled Saga – Trichotomy
- FallMan – Glad Game Studio
- Fearless Fantasy – Enter Skies
- Freedom Planet – Galaxy Trail
- Go Plague Monkey! Go! – sparsevector
- Induction – Bryan Gale
- Liege – Coda Games
- Magnetic By Nature – Team Tripleslash
- Ninja Pizza Girl – Disparity Games
- One More Line – SMG Studio
- Sky Arena – Hammer Labs
- Super Rude Bear Resurrection – Vorpal Games
- The Hole Story – Girls Make Games
- Thumper – Drool
- Trace Vector – Vexel Games
- Twelve Minutes – Luis Antonio
Tabletop
- A.E.G.I.S. Combining Robot Strategy Game – Zephyr Workshop
- Bad Detectives – Forced Output
- Cinelinx: A Card Game For People Who Love Movies – Cinelinx Media
- Divorce! The Game – anyo
- Mahou Shojo – Deerfox Games
- Mech Deck – Off the Shelf
- Pleasant Dreams – Aerjen Games
- RESISTOR_ – Cardboard Fortress Games
- Skiptrace – Skiptrace
- The Shadow Over Westminster – Zenion Games
- Titans Tactics – Imbalanced Games
It’s only now, after otherwise finishing the post, that I realized I failed to use a photo of Hugh Jackman running shirtless on the beach. If we had demerits at Destructoid, that’d surely be one.