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Idle Metropolis Builder secured first place on the Cell version of the Very Huge Indie Pitch throughout Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki this yr.
Pocket Gamer Connects returned for one more iteration of its Helsinki occasion, throughout Finnish Sport Week. The occasion was jam-packed with tons of talks and a brand new monitor on transmedia, serving as a two-day celebration of the tradition of sport improvement. Alongside all of this, there have been tones of various fringe occasions like this to participate in, together with the VBIP.
For those who aren’t acquainted with the Very Huge Indie Pitch, it is a speed-dating-style occasion that challenges a gaggle of indie builders – a few of whom have video games which are nonetheless in improvement and a few whom have launched video games – to pitch their sport in a quick-fire pitch at tables of consultants from all corners of the video games business.
Builders who take part within the Very Huge Indie Pitch get useful suggestions on each their sport and their pitch as a complete, in addition to acquire expertise in pitching quikcly and assembly quite a lot of completely different consultants. Winners additionally recieve prizes together with a golden Huge Indie Pitch baseball bat and promotional packages.
The Very Huge Indie Pitch at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki this yr noticed 12 video games pitched by a bunch of various builders, masking various scopes, methods and themes with their video games.
As there was such a large spectrum of video games and high quality, it was difficult for our consultants to make their ultimate choices on their favourites. Nonetheless, there can solely be one winner!
First Place
Idle Metropolis Builder by Playnest
(iOS, Android)
Our consultants discovered Idle Metropolis Builders to really feel very polished! This enjoyable, enjoyable, cellular metropolis constructing sport has you shaping a world filled with blocks by means of play. You could harvest and refine your sources, construct up completely different buildings, and improve your townhall ranges to make sure you’re progressing as a metropolis.
As soon as your metropolis has grown, you’ll be able to meet visitiors, commerce, and unlock new options like landscaping to make your metropolis your individual. Idle Metropolis Builders even has customized villager skins and world themes, to additional the personalisation choices!
Second Place
Gamingcouch.com by Gaming Sofa
(Different)
In second place, we’ve got Gamingcouch.com, which is a mixture of a cellular sport and a PC sport. This celebration sport is stuffed with completely different arcade video games that gamers play utilizing their cell phone as controllers. It is extremely accessible, being web-based, and gives numerous sofa co-op enjoyable for one to eight gamers.
Ease of play is a giant characteristic of Gamingcouch.com – simply scan the QR code along with your cellphone and you will discover your self enjoying a great deal of completely different enjoyable, social, and even aggressive mini-games along with your family and friends.
Third Place
HORTENSIAS by Paperclip
(iOS, Android)
HORTENSIAS got here in third place on the Very Huge Indie Pitch in Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki. This touching cellular sport focuses round actual conversations between the developer, her mom, and her grandmother – all reflecting on reminiscences that they had of the developer’s nice grandmother, who has handed away.
The sport contains a non-linear story strung collectively by means of a collection of upbeat and melancholic mini-games and comedian strips, that allow you to play by means of their memoires. Numerous moments like stitching and baking, that really feel actually relatable.
Wish to showcase your thrilling new sport? We host Huge Indie Pitch occasions all year long, so make certain to often examine our upcoming occasions web page over on BigIndiePitch.com.
