Mad Gear Games arose from a group of Go gamers who met at a tournament, where they realized that they also share a passion for classic retro games. Thanks to their love of games like Megaman and Castlevania, they are trying to bring back these classics and also games with an instant fun factor. Amazing pixel art, chiptune music, and excellent playability galore!
Noizoo Games was founded in 2012 by Zsolt Marx (CEO) and Gottfried Eibner (CTO). Using the game medium, Noizoo Games fathoms areas that no one has been and researches game concepts that have never been experienced in this form – exciting combinations of genres that lead players into new worlds. The most recent one is the mobile game Dungenious, which combines a learning system with role-playing. While each player explores dungeons turn by turn and readies his figure, he also invokes his knowledge to battle hordes of monsters, all the while practising new vocabulary, compound multiplication, or even learning how to associate famous paintings with their creators.
The five students that make up Nonex are presenting Click the Pic 2, an educational learning game for mobile devices. Click the Pic not only targets children and youth, who already become familiarized with technology at a young age and for whom new technologies play an important role in everyday life. It is also geared towards those individuals who are learning a new language or who want to improve or refresh their language skills. Moreover, they are presenting Shattered, a third-person action adventure PC game with high-quality graphics and handcrafted worlds.
PEW is a casual laser tag game that can be played spontaneously on your smartphone at school or college, in the office, or with random players around town. All fellow gamers nearby are shown on a map. The game requires a modular smartphone extension, which is simply inserted into the phone’s charger plug, and you’re ready to play – Plug‘n’PEW!
Stefan Grassberger & 86/60 are presenting their first game, Phombie Flow, where the handling of digital information is put to the test. Players are confronted with incoming messages and must discern and process everything relevant to work, while weeding out anything private and spam. If this is not accomplished quickly enough, the stress level rises to the point of digital overload.
In late 2016, Atomic Pond Studios released their debut game POLYCRUSHER, a colourful multiplayer sofa spectacle, and will now be showing some of their new experiments and prototypes. Vacuum cleaners come to life and entire islands are dissected. We are full of anticipation!
Polycular is an interactive media workshop for sophisticated claims to creativity, technological excellence, and innovation. With over twenty years of experience in the high-end segment of interactive advertising, virtual and augmented realities, and computer game development, Polycular offers innovative solutions paired with dramaturgy, storytelling, and interaction, which leads to the creation of unique and exciting experiential worlds for clients.
Pushout is a platform game where the players have to thrust each other out of the playing field. Good reaction time and foresight are necessary in order to deal with the slippery platforms. Even experienced gamers make mistakes here, so Pushout is fun for everyone, for players and onlookers alike. Pushout was developed by Simon Reiser, a young HTL graduate in computer science.
Rarebyte was founded in 2006 and, since then, has successfully created more than twenty-five games for all established platforms (PC, consoles, mobile, Web). On the one hand, Rarebyte provides contracting parties, in the scope of commissioned projects, with technical and creative know-how and expertise for the conceptualization, planning, programming, and designing of games. On the other hand, the ten-person team also develops their own games, such as the action adventure Seeds of Sol. Although Seeds of Sol is still currently in the development phase, Rarebyte is already open to a lively exchange with the community, which can follow and influence the development process by way of regular development streams on Twitch and short documentaries on YouTube.
The game rebuilders for Android and iOS deals with a mix of aspects from the genres multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA), basebuilder, and tower defense. The player recruits crew members for vehicles that can be freely contrived and rigged up, which are then used to compete with and against each other. The story of rebuilders is set in a world succumbing to climate change, where the inhabitants of the planet come together to fight for the sustainable rebuilding of civilization.
Since 2009, Broken Rules has been developing unusual computer games which captivate with their unique artistic style and with themes that go far beyond common game clichés. In the current project Old Man’s Journey, for example, players experience the moving life story of an elderly man. The team working with Felix Bohatsch, Clemens Scott, Jan Hackl, Peter Vorlaufer, and Martin Pichlmair has won many international prizes with its games, which have been released on iOS, PC, Nintendo, and Android platforms.
