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Stadia Makers brings more independent games to Stadia

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Video games are awesome. Making a video game is really, really hard. That’s why back in March, we announced Stadia Makers, a program to support small teams making Unity-based games who want to bring them to Stadia. Now we are ready to show you some of the incredible, passion-fueled games these independent Makers are creating. Take a look.

TOHU
Developer: Fireart Games
Publisher: The Irregular Corporation
Release Date: Fall 2020

TOHU is a brand new adventure game that’s set amongst a world of weird and wonderful fish planets. Explore beautiful landscapes, solve intricate puzzles, and discover the truth about a mysterious little girl and her mechanical alter-ego, Cubus. Combining traditional adventure game mechanics with an approachable design, TOHU features a variety of enchanting locations and strange scenarios, including a theatrical stage production filled with wonderful creatures and a topsy-turvy world where staircases lead you in directions that defy physics.

The adventure begins when The Girl’s peaceful world of the fish planets is disturbed by a strange, shadowy creature. With an intention to only cause chaos, it destroys the sacred engine that is the key to this world – and now all life on the fish planets is under threat.

Features:

  • Swap between The Girl and Cubus at any time to harness their unique abilities, but keep your wits about you: mystery lurks around every corner and you’ll need to plan, strategize, and find creative solutions to intriguing puzzles to proceed.
  • Packed with an array of quick and challenging conundrums to overcome, whether it’s a search for critters needed to power your expanse-traversing fly-ship, or learning how to fire a cannon filled with moustachioed moles.
  • Encounter eccentric characters like Juncle, your thin-legged robot friend and former caregiver, and a highbrow trader that lives in a bathtub, all while the game’s enchanting story takes players on an unforgettable journey.
  • Set to a soundtrack by Christopher Larkin (Hollow Knight), TOHU combines visual storytelling with a lush, engaging musical composition.

Death Carnival
Developer: Furyion Games
Publisher: Furyion Games
Release Date: This Winter

Death Carnival is a fast-paced top-down shooter with extreme weapons & online multiplayer mayhem. In a future world, broken by war, humanity endures in a few overcrowded cities. To escape their bleak reality, many turn to televised combat sports, the most popular being Death Carnival. In this deadly game show, contestants must battle against hordes of monsters and machines for fame and fortune on live TV.

Features:

  • Fast-paced, top-down combat
  • Story campaign with more than 30 levels
  • Unique storyline for each of the 10 playable characters
  • Cross-platform, 4-player online co-op and PVP
  • Customizable weapons and loot
  • Daily & weekly challenges, boss-raids and more gameplay modes, each with unique rewards

Unto The End
Developer: 2 Ton Studios
Publisher: Big Sugar
Release Date: This Winter

Unto The End is a hand-crafted cinematic platformer about a desperate journey home.

As the adventure unfolds, the decisions you make can carry consequences not just for you, but also for the creatures you encounter. Mastery of combat is critical, but fighting isn't always the only way. Overcoming adversity can sometimes be better achieved through sharpness of perception.

Unforgiving terrain, fierce opponents, and paucity of supplies means there are scant opportunities for respite. Through the suffocating gloom of frigid caverns and biting winds of harsh mountain peaks, every step weighs heavy with the relentless struggle to make it home.

Features:

  • Read-React Combat - One of a kind combat system focused on skill and mastery, designed and built from the ground up specifically for 2D. Fight intelligently and strike tactically with your sword and ranged weapons in fierce one-on-one and group battles
  • Handcrafted Encounters - The adventure unfolds through carefully crafted encounters, each featuring intelligent, worthy opponents, all with their own motivations and place in the world
  • Player-skill Focused - A challenging single-player experience with minimal handholding. All the father's abilities are available from the outset and mastery of those skills, as well as keen observation of your surroundings, are key to survival and success
  • Unforgiving Terrain - From cavernous underground ruins to harsh mountain peaks, overcome environmental challenges and deadly traps as you travel through a world of meticulously crafted landscapes

Figment: Creed Valley
Developer: Bedtime Digital Games
Publisher: Bedtime Digital Games
Release Date: Early 2021

A musical action-adventure set in the recesses of the human mind... Welcome to the world of Figment. A strange and surreal world; a place filled with our deepest thoughts, urges, and memories, populated by the many voices we hear in our heads.

Figment: Creed Valley is an encore to Figment. Dusty and Piper have restored peace in The Mind, however, a new adversary is threatening its balance. Our two heroes must travel to Creed Valley, where The Mind’s beliefs and ideals are formed, to face their most menacing and theatrical foe so far.

The Moral Compass has been shattered and a once-peaceful voice of the subconscious has broken loose. Face new enemies as you make your way through enigmatic challenges and explore The Mind’s two fundamental states: Open-minded and Closed-minded. Switch between states and adapt to the shifting environment to move forward.

Features:

  • A Whimsical Hand-Drawn World - Experience how traditionally hand-painted brushstrokes come to life in a world filled with surreal art, colorful illustrations, and charming characters
  • A fresh chapter of Figment with its own self-contained story
  • New singing nightmares with their own original songs and themes
  • Discover two sides of the same world with a unique state-changing mechanic
  • Whimsical narrative and art style
  • Unravel mysteries as you venture into the depths of The Mind

As a special gift to Stadia Pro subscribers, the first Figment will be shipping directly into Stadia Pro ahead of the launch of Figment: Creed Valley, so keep an eye out! Travel across an amazing hand-drawn world, encounter awesome musical performances, and solve brain-bending puzzles as you take on the Nightmares.

Nanotale - Typing Chronicles
Developer: Fishing Cactus
Publishers: Fishing Cactus
Release Date: Early 2021

Nanotale - Typing Chronicles is an atmospheric typing adventure RPG set in a colorful vibrant world. Follow Rosalind, a novice Archivist, as she journeys out to explore a distant world. On her quest to gather knowledge, she collects samples of mystic natural beauties. Everything is peaceful. War is a thing of the distant past.

In the shadows, a tale of dissonant magic is spreading, instilling corruption into broken hearts.

Features:

  • Play with magic - Combine powerful spells, change their shapes, and enhance them to defeat enemies. Use your magic on the environment and make it resonate with your creativity.
  • Knowledge is power - As a member of the order, your role as an archivist is to gather knowledge. The more you learn about the world, the stronger you become.
  • Explore a rich world - Embark on a journey to the Ancestral Forest, discover the Blue Desert, and try not to get lost in the Sunken Caves. Meet the inhabitants of these new lands, be amazed by the beauty of the flora blooming in these diverse biomes, and be intrigued by the critters roaming on your path but be careful not to cross paths with the dangerous creatures looming over.
  • Reveal secrets - Step in a fascinating story with multiple faces that have left their mark on these lands. Meet people, listen to their tales, and catalog mysterious occurrences, in an attempt to unravel the secrets behind dissonant magic.
  • Your mightiest weapon, your keyboard - In Nanotale, everything is played with your keyboard. From puzzles to dialogues, combats to menus, the entire game can be played solely with your favorite keyboard. All keys are re-bindable, supporting all kinds of layouts (Qwerty, Azerty, Qwertz, Dvorak, Colemak, BÉPO,...).

The Darkside Detective Season 2
Developer: Spooky Doorway
Publisher: Akupara Games
Release Date: Q1 2021

Season 2 is bigger, better, and 100% slimier than ever! A year after the “Motel Incident” of Season 1, we find our reliable Darkside Detective, Francis McQueen, picking up the pieces that left the Darkside Division’s dynamic duo as a slightly less-than-dynamic solo. While the best line of defense against the unknown took a hit to their ranks, the Darkside’s ominous influence remains ever-present with the supernatural running amuck and the paranormal causing havoc around the completely (ab)normal city of Twin Lakes.

This brand new collection of comedic point-and-click adventures will see Detective McQueen in six new standalone cases as he investigates a creepy carnival, explores a retirement home, and even tries to unwind on a trip to “sunny” old Ireland…

Features:

  • 6 brand new standalone bite-sized micro cases to solve in The Darkside Detective franchise, with more to come post-launch
  • Detective McQueen goes big with an international case of global proportions
  • Twin Lakes’ hottest fashion trends
  • Pixel optimization for better facial recognition
  • Use of an innovative combination of noises known as Moo-sak to build atmosphere and chase off lonely, eerie silence

Much like Figment, we’re also bringing Darkside Detective Season 1 directly to Stadia Pro ahead of the launch of Darkside Detective Season 2. Get to know the spookily hilarious world of Detective McQueen before the sequel drops.

Kaze and the Wild Masks
Developers: PixelHive, SOEDESCO Studios
Publisher: SOEDESCO
Release Date: Q1 2021

Let 90’s inspired platformer Kaze and the Wild Masks take you on a trip down memory lane as you side-scroll your way through the Crystal Islands. In the colorful world of Kaze, you face enraged living vegetables in a variety of ways thanks to the powers of the Wild Masks. Pounce ferociously like a tiger, soar through the sky like an eagle, sprint fiercely like a lizard, and rule the sea like a shark.

Kaze and the Wild Masks embraces all the classic 90’s platformer elements and gives it a personal touch with modern-looking pixel art graphics. With simple and intuitive mechanics, difficult challenges, iconic bosses, and the satisfyingly smooth platforming and speed of the game, you will find yourself hooked to accomplish everything.

Features:

  • Unleash the skills of the Wild Masks to get powers from the tiger, eagle, lizard, and shark
  • Uncover the secrets of the Crystal Islands through collectables, achievements, and 50+ bonus levels
  • Relive your childhood memories of classic platformers with high quality frame by frame pixel art
  • Pave your way through a satisfyingly smooth, but challenging platformer


This is just the beginning for Stadia Makers. More and more unique voices are coming to Stadia, each bringing their own vision for what games can be. More than 15 games are already part of Stadia Makers. To learn more about them, follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. And if you’re a game dev interested in becoming part of Stadia Makers, let us know.

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By: Stadia Team

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