EGX Rezzed 2018 unveils Leftfield Collection lineup
Best bit of Rezzed
The best part of EGX Rezzed, the London-based games event in April run by our corporate siblings, is always the Leftfield Collection. I don't know if The Man will allow me to say that, but it is. Come at me, The Man. Meet me in the car park and bring HR to referee. Leftfield is the showcase of smaller and stranger games curated by Feral Vector head honcho David Hayward, and it always has a pleasingly wide range of games. The Man today announced this year's Leftfield lineup and yup, it's a goodun. The fact that I don't recognise half the games myself is exciting. Go, see, play, find out.
- Above: An Aeroplane Adventure by Mighty Moth
- Annwn: The Otherworld by Quantum Soup Studios
- Before I Forget by 3-Fold Games
- Bitsy Boutique by Mark Wonnacott & various Bitsy authors
- Blind Drive by Lo-Fi People
- Bury me, my Love by The Pixel Hunt, Figs & ARTE France
- Bushy Tail by Fuero Games
- Double Kick Heroes by Headbang Club
- Haiku Adventure by Small Island Games
- In Other Waters by Jump Over the Age
- Islid by Aaron Oldenburg
- Like Roots In The Soil by Space Backyard
- Lingotopia by Tristan Dahl
- Over the Alps by Stave Studios
- Regular Human Basketball by Powerhoof
- Skuiggle by Eric Merz & Eli Rainsberry
- Sloppy Forgeries by Jonah Warren
- _space_train by Josh McNamee
- Tala by The Garden Well
- The Skeleton by Adam Dixon & Thryn Henderson
- Umwelt by Cupboard Games
- Weaving Tides by Follow the Feathers
- Wobble Garden by Robin Baumgarten
- Yorkshire Gubbins by The Stairfall Institute
I know some of these. Yorkshire Gubbins is a funny adventure game about robots, slugpeople clones, and pies; it's already out so you can play at home. Wobble Garden I've seen at another event, it's a hypnotising platter of light-up wobbly things, made by the Line Wobbler fella. Regular Human Basketball is a local multiplayer b-baller played by teams inside giant robots. Double Kick Heroes is a post-apocalyptic heavy metal roadtrip, and seemed pretty fun when I played an early version way back. We've posted about Like Roots in the Soil before. Beyond that, I do not know. Sloppy Forgeries looks a right lark though.
EGX Rezzed 2018 runs April 13-15 at Tobacco Dock in some place called London. RPS will be doing some stuff at Rezzed, as per usual. I could not tell you what; I'm not allowed back into England anymore because I always complain about the train journey.