Black Voices in Gaming Summer Showcase 2024

Hyperactive 2D action platformer with wicked fast attacks, omnidirectional dashing, and time-freezing! Play well enough to transform and unleash 100% power!

Discover pulse-pounding stylized parkour action as you run, jump, smash, and slide through an afro-futurist-inspired kingdom. Enjoy a single-player or two-player local cooperative mode and experience the story of two brothers and their unexpected return to their lost kingdom.

Altheia: The Wrath of Aferi is a fantasy adventure game where a sword–wielding Guardian and an arcane Monk must learn to work together to defeat the Void corrupting their home. Explore ruined temples, solve environmental puzzles, rescue spirits, and defeat giant Void monsters!

BPM Boy is a physics-based platformer, with influences from games like Marble Madness, Super Monkey Ball, deBlob and Crystal Castles. BPM Boy features multiple routes, hidden secrets, and an original soundtrack driven by RetroNinja's Dynamic Music & Sound Regulator (DMSR). The funky grooves change and react to how you play.

An updated take on the classic 1v1 fighting game model, Coreupt enhances fighting mechanics by adding over-the-top special attacks. Take combat mastery to the next level by chaining normal, special, and cinematic attacks together with each character’s Coreupted mode to pull off a heavy-hitting combo. Follow the story of an unlikely party in their mission to stop an insatiable warlord in his pursuit of tyranny over the galaxies.

Welcome to Island City, an isolated metropolis filled with undead feeders and survivors battling over what few safe havens remain. You are The Distractor - a warrior bard wielding the power to soothe the living and control the undead. But will your music save your people or lead them to ruin?

Fight werewolves and vampires in a reality-shifting motel. Dive through barricades to escape the grasp of evil puppets. Destroy the villain you loved. A new, third-person love letter to classic shooters. Neo-noir never looked so good.

Jump in the shoes of Lunch Box and Mr. Snoogans in a colorful Side-scrolling 2.5D over-the-top multiplayer brawler! Play as the dynamic duo alone or with a friend in a tag team combo fight fest. Destroy your enemies with fists, feet, and the magic of self-esteem destroying shit talk while you embark on a mission to find your long lost pot customers trapped in an Orwellian shopping center. Jay and Silent Bob: Chronic Blunt Punch is a colorful side-scrolling tag-team beat-em-up where players swap back and forth between our heroes on the fly or perform special moves simultaneously with a friend. Our heroes embark on an epic adventure from the humble corners where they ply their trade to the gates of hell itself.

If you don't sacrifice your neighbors, the world ends. Life Eater is an horror fantasy kidnapping simulator where you must become intimately familiar with your targets' lives one intrusive action at a time... and hope that the dark god you serve is even real.

A narrative adventure about a summer spent rollerblading in the mid-2000s. Explore a quiet town as Naomi, a teenage girl looking for an escape. Your in-game MP3 player isn't just for music; its playlist shapes the world & story as you run errands for quirky neighbours / get entangled in local drama.

A baby-fresh take on retro-inspired gameplay, featuring a unique co-op design, where kids and parents need to stick together to win!

Stop the mayor from polluting the swamp in this short, 3D adventure! Explore new open locales with skateboard in hand or while grinding on pipelines - Greenjamin's skating into the third dimension in Skator Gator 3D!

A game where the slimes are finally the heroes. Play together with your friends as adorable slimes - the only creature that can save the world from an evil corruption. Find different weapons and create your own unique magic abilities to express the way you want to adventure.

Put the 'love' in 'Lovecraftian horror!' Hide from cultists and survive dangerous rituals to find a way out of the Black Woods!

Sunshine Shuffle is a narrative poker adventure featuring talking animals with criminal pasts and adorable outfits! Play Texas Hold 'Em with the remaining members of the 'Morning Shift', a group of working-class creatures turned would-be Robin Hoods who crossed the Fishie Mob, and mostly lived to tell the tale. Unravel the story of how the largest bank on the Eastern Seaboard was robbed in a single afternoon as you play. Win hands to earn tokens and decorate the S.S. Sunshine with new light fixtures, chairs, card decks, and more. And try to boogie to the game's vibrant, wiggle-inducing original ska soundtrack as you stare into the cold eyes of a 12 year-old kitten with nothing left to lose.

In Super Space Club, journey alongside a group of anthropomorphic heroes as they set out to be the top-ranked defenders of the galaxy. You'll take on various missions, partake in several space dogfights, and jam out to lo-fi beats in this chill, arcade-style shooter.

Tales of Kenzera: Zau is a 2.5D metroidvania developed by Surgent Studios and published under the EA Originals label. The game follows Zau, a young shaman who bargains with Kalunga, the God of Death, to revive his father. Players explore the mythological lands of Kenzera, using Zau's athletic abilities—such as double jumping, wall jumping, and air dashing—to traverse the environment. Equipped with the sun mask for melee attacks and the moon mask for ranged combat, Zau can upgrade both weapons along distinct paths. As players gain new skills, they unlock previously inaccessible areas, progressing through a world filled with ancestral spirits and powerful monsters.

Strategize, collect, upgrade. Tetra Tactics is a roguelite deckbuilder inspired by Triple Triad, featuring deep meta-progression and endless replayability. Outwit opponents on a 4x4 tactical grid, traverse branching maps, augment your cards, and combine powerful abilities to build the ultimate deck.