Everything that happened at Day Of The Devs 2022

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Day Of The Devs is probably my favourite part of the summer games jamboree every year because it does wonders for the visibility of indie games and their developers. Slotting in snugly right after Geoff regaled us with the Summer Game Fest stream, this year’s Day Of The Devs showcase marked the tenth anniversary. Tim Schafer and friends revealed more about some stonking looking indies from places as far apart as the Netherlands, Japan and Argentina. It was lovely to see some solo devs featured too, such as Madison Karrh with Birth, a point-and-click puzzler about loneliness, and Billy Basso’s beautiful pixel-art Metroidvania Animal Well.

Each year’s Day Of The Devs is jointly organised by Double Fine Productions and iam8bit. The curatorial board of five includes Tim Schafer and James Spafford from Double Fine, iam8bit’s Jon Gibson and Amanda White, and PlayStation’s indie champion Greg Rice. Most of the games shown have already been announced, but there were a few new surprises too, from Playables’ insectoid bucket-list sim Time Flies to Ustwo Games’ intriguing Desta: The Memories Between. Read on for the full breakdown of what was shown.

Remember time-looping adventure Minit? Time Flies from two-person Swiss development team Playables riffs on the minute-long lifespan idea, by letting you buzz around a room trying to complete as many items on a bucket list as possible before your fly snuffs it. You’ll have to select the country that you live in to be given as many seconds for your fly to live as there are years in the average lifespan there. The black-and-white, hand-drawn look reminds me of happy days mucking about playing little tutorial games on my dad’s old Mac PowerBook. Time Flies is releasing on Steam and