Gaming Basics
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Let’s Play Stage
Join developers, creators, and influencers as they play the games they love, chat about the games they’ve made, and have some fun on our Let’s Play Stage! We have Tabletop and Video Games content on both Saturday and Sunday. Check the schedule for a list of events!
Video Games
Console Free Play
Console/VR Free Play returns to GeekGirlCon with this year’s best co-op titles alongside the single player hits. Come bring a friend or make some new ones!
Video Game Contributors:
| Game | About |
| Nightwell Games – Surradia | In the orange glow of the Nightwell Forge, we hammer out rich puzzle and strategy experiences where choices matter. Our deduction mystery game, Surradia, explores a magical art movement that disappeared along with its creators in the midst of World War II. Investigate their paintings, letters, and photographs to answer the question: What really happened to the Surradistes? Fans of The Case of the Golden Idol and The Return of the Obra Dinn will enjoy this bold new open-ended detective game set in the 1930s Paris art scene. |
| Omega Intertainment – Clockwork Ambrosia | Clockwork Ambrosia is a steampunk fusion of metroidvania and weapon-building 2D shooter. Players pull on the boots of an airship pilot, Iris, to combat an army of deadly robots and monsters. Experiment with a range of rule-breaking weapon modifications and armors to prevail through this wild adventure! |
| Stumbling Cat – Potions: A Curious Tale | Potions: A Curious Tale is an adventure-crafting game where your wits are your greatest weapons and combat is not always the answer. Play as Luna, a young witch who overcomes obstacles with the potions she brews, as she gathers items from enchanted lands and conquers devious puzzles on her quest. |
| Unlucky Planet Games – So, This Vampire Walks into a Bar & Ink Escape: Coven Conundrum | Unlucky So, This Vampire Walks into a Bar is a visual novel where the choices you make as a new bartender affect the way you are treated by the patrons. Join our broke protagonist Jackie, who, after a workplace accident, will never look the same again. Jackie desperately tries to make ends meet by working in an unusual bar, despite having no experience at all!
Ink Escape: Coven Conundrum is our puzzle-based escape room where you learn about your ancestors in the inky pages left to you after your grandmother’s passing. |
| Lost Cartridge Creations – Astrolander | Astrolander is an action-packed PlayStation 5™ exclusive local co-op game featuring dramatic cinematics, intense action, and lush levels. Two players work together to control Haptic, an adventurous rocket powered robot, and a sidekick named Feedback, a curious quadruped that joins Haptic on a mission to save the MVPs (Most Valuable Programs)! Developed by Max Trest, a 14-year-old indie game developer. |
| Playfellow Studio – Fisti-Fluffs | Fisti-Fluffs is an adorable (and yes, ridiculous) physics-based party game where you tussle with other cats and destroy the environments in frenetic over-the-top battles.
Of course, you can play alone, but it’s even better with friends. So get your claws out! |
| Laughing Manatee Games – Puzzle Depot | A box-pushing, bug-squishing, post-apocalyptic adventure awaits you in Puzzle Depot! Challenge hundreds of meticulously designed rooms that blend classic box puzzles with new and creative mechanics, or build your own devious creations with the level editor. Puzzle Depot is presented by Laughing Manatee Games, an indie game developer with a passion for pixels. |
| Heart 20 Games – Heart of the Dungeon | A group of misfit monsters strives to build a new home for themselves free of the torment of mankind’s “heroes” that constantly hunt them. In this 2.5d action-RPG you will forge relationships with your companions as you protect the dungeon together, and in the process, you’ll find the home you were always looking for in The Heart of the Dungeon. |
| ShazySoft – Fall for You | Fall For You is a rhythm-based roguelike. Move and attack with the beat to power up, win the hearts of every damned soul you meet, traverse perilous obstacle courses, win fabulous prizes that change the way you play, and cuddle with a scary demon mom to keep yourself going! |
| UpLiftVR Studios / Wulf Design Studios – UpLiftVR ‘Maiden Flight’ Balloon Ride / High Desert Eclipse / Mansion of Mayhem | UpLiftVR ‘Maiden Flight’ Balloon Ride – Feel as if you are lifting into the heavens on a balloon maiden flight you find yourself overlooking a wondrous land calling out to be explored.
Eclipse – From your remote majestic hilltop in the Oregon high desert, see the rapidly encroaching shadow High Desert of the Moon turns day into twilight while the entire scenic horizon becomes the most amazing sunrise or sunset. Experience the “once-in-a-lifetime” total solar eclipse in 360 video that surrounds and places you in the center of this awe inspiring celestial event. Brings back fond memories for anyone fortunate enough to have seen a full eclipse in their lifetime – and a rare chance to see one virtually for anybody unable to travel. Bonus Material – Spooked in VR presentsMansion of Mayhem (early access) – Enter if you dare, leave if you can. PG / PG13 Spooky Haunted House VR experience. |
| Studio Castle Soodalkov – Unstable Scientific | All is fair in love and scientific grants! At least that’s what your rival said when he blew up your experiment…and your lab…and your career. Now you’re starting a new lab on Toromiro Island, where all is not what it seems.
Rescue scientists, rebuild your lab, and discover the secrets of Toromiro in this intricate pixel platformer! |
| Folding Star – Desert Angels | A story-driven exploration game set in a desert scrapyard. Search for memories in the trash, speak to its ghosts, and blast new paths with the weapons you find. Seek the generator to save your oasis village, and make your choices: What gets to be remembered, and what gets to be forgotten |
| Wooly Games – Feltopia | FELTOPIA is a cozy take on arcade side-scrollers, set in a hand-felted wooly world brought to life with stop-motion animation. Sky is a magical sheep herder who must harness their growing powers to save the Rainbow Flock and purge an insidious Smog Spirit that is engulfing the land |
| Corgi Industrial – Vago + MAZ Maker | Vagor is a new form of adventure platformer for PC, Android, and iOS that lets you explore abandoned planets in search of tools and tech to unravel the mysteries that lie within.
MAZ is a 3D modeling and game creator experience that lets users mix all kinds of media into voxel creations. Experiences range from beautiful art to game levels that can be played in the real world using augmented reality. |
Tabletop
Hosted Play
Join game companies and reps as they demo their creations on the Game Floor. Play a classic or learn a new favorite.
Freeplay and the Board Game Library
Check out a game at the board game library.
Tournaments
We invite everyone to participate in our tournaments so we start with a tutorial and practice rounds. If a tournament catches your eye, sign up at the Game Info Booth! No experience needed. If you already know how to play, our agents will let you know the specific tournament kick-off time or you can show up early and help others learn!
Tabletop Info Booth
Looking for the right game but don’t know where to start? Have a question about a demo? Need someone to engage with in witty banter? Stop by the games info booth for help with all your gaming floor needs! Sign-ups for tournaments are also located here!
Check out some organizations and people hosting games and demos below.
Tabletop Contributors:
| Game | About |
| The Pandemonium Institute – Blood on the Clocktower | Blood on the Clocktower is a game of murder and mystery, lies and logic, deduction and deception for 5-20 courageous players and one devious storyteller.
A social game played in person, seated in a circle, each player receives either a ‘good’ or ‘evil’ token with their unique character on it. Good players share information to solve the mystery whilst evil players lie about who they are and what they know. The good team wins if they can piece together their knowledge, trust each other, and execute the demon. The evil team wins if the demon can sow distrust, evade detection, and wipe out the village. |
| Violet Daisy Games – Epilogue & PopCats Fighter | Epilogue – Finish your story. From Emma Larkins A word-building storytelling game about the end, reimagined.
Designer of Abandon all Artichokes and Starry Night Sky. Art by Arnel Baluyot PopCats Fighter is a 1v1 Take-That and Hand-Management card fighting game inspired by retro arcade fighting games! Build up combos, unleash your energized Super Moves, and power on Purrks to defeat your enemy! Designed by Estefania Rodriguez. Art by Arnel Baluyot |
| University of Washington – Hummingbird Sugar Rush / Fiebre de Azúcar en Colibries | In Hummingbird Sugar Rush, you will race to collect the most nectar from flowers around the board, traveling as one of three kinds of real-life hummingbirds. Each species is equipped with strengths and weaknesses depending on its unique foraging strategy. Just as hummingbirds have to weigh the energetic trade-offs of searching for food, fighting to have sole access to it, and visiting flowers with more- or less-sugary nectar (which contains more or less energy), so must you!
By Alyssa Sargent |
| Legend Story Studios – Flesh and Blood | Learn how to play Flesh and Blood!
In this fantasy-themed game, two heroes fight to the death. Players choose from many classic fantasy classes, each with a unique play style. The goal is to reduce the opposing hero’s life points to zero. Players take turns attacking and defending, drawing cards to match their hero’s intellect at the end of each turn. Players can also store cards in their arsenal for future use. PG 16 |
| Wizards of the Coast – Magic: The Gathering & Dungeons & Dragons | Learn how to play Magic: The Gathering & Dungeons & Dragons
Jump into the world’s greatest trading card game! Whether you play in-person, or online, the mission of Magic: The Gathering remains the same: Have fun while bringing people together. The core of Dungeons & Dragons is about storytelling. The group of players essentially tell a collective story, guiding heroes through dangerous quests to search for treasure, battle deadly foes, and even carry out daring rescues. The adventure itself is only limited by the imagination of the players around the table. Beginner-friendly! Hosted by Women of Wizards of the Coast |
| Minty Beans Game Labs – Executive Producer / Varsity | Executive Producer: Mix and match original scripts, iconic actors and talented directors to create your own hit movies! Win awards and earn box office profits to become the ultimate movie mogul in this game for 3-5 players, and laugh your way to the awards stage! |
| Bad Cat Media – For All Mankind | Varsity: Lead your high school to success on and off the field! Enroll unique students, hire your favorite teachers and coaches, and get ready for Friday Night as 3-6 players meet in one-on-one sports matchups with rival schools! Who will be State Champ?
Learn to play in about 15 minutes. Finish a game in about 60 minutes. The most fun you’ll ever have blowing up your friends in space, guaranteed! |
| PlaytestNW | PlaytestNW is a Seattle-based collective of game designers and people who love games! Our mission is to offer welcoming and supportive events where game designers can playtest their games with the local community and get feedback on their prototypes. New and aspiring game designers are welcome! Find our list of events at Meetup.com/PlaytestNW |
