Joystick Ventures Drops World Premieres, Release Dates, New Reveals at Summer Showcases

Joystick Ventures :

SHERMAN OAKS, Calif. – June 8, 2024 – Joystick Ventures, a premier supporter of indies, made a splash at June showcases with eight tiles featured across OTK Games Expo, IGN Live, The MIX’s Guerrilla Collective (watch the Joystick Ventures Arcade segment here) and Future Games Show.

Big Boy Boxing, the energetic boss rush game developed by Soupmasters, completed a speedrun of summer showcases with the debut of a new animated trailer at OTK Games Expo, with new gameplay showcases across IGN Live, Guerrilla Collective, and Future Games Show. Get ready to enter the ring this Q4 2024. 

Assets: OTK Games Expo Trailer | IGN Live Trailer | Guerrilla Collective Trailer | Future Games Show Trailer | Press Kit

Chicken Police: Into the HIVE!, a character-driven, film noir detective adventure from The WIld Gentlemen, premiered a new trailer at Guerrilla Collective. Sonny and Marty, investigators of fowl acts, sleuth about a literal hive of scum and villainy (also a global insect conspiracy) in this tale of murder, betrayal, and slug bartenders.

Assets:  Guerrilla Collective Trailer | Press Kit

Joystick Ventures and The Wild Gentlemen had another surprise for Chicken Police fans with the reveal of WILD Tactics, a strategy game set in Chicken Police’s World of Wilderness. Catch the animated reveal  trailer below.

Assets: Animated Reveal Trailer | Press Kit

Toy Tactics, a family-friendly, physics-based RTS encompassing the history of warfare in toy form from developer Kraken Empire, leaves the Steam Early Access toy store Thursday, Sept. 19. Watch the new trailers below, and play a brand new demo on Steam today.

Assets: Future Games Show Trailer | Guerrilla Collective Trailer | Press Kit

StarVaders, a fusion of deckbuilding roguelikes and grid-based tactics from developer StarVaders Studio, joins the Joystick Ventures family, ahead of a launch on PC in the first half of 2025. Catch new gameplay footage and play the demo now on Steam.

Assets: Future Games Show Trailer | Guerrilla Collective Trailer | Press Kit

Hell of an Office, a satanic speedrunning first-person platformer from developer 43 Studios, gets a promotion from Steam Early Access into version 1.0 on Thursday, Oct. 3. Watch the new trailers below, and play an updated demo on Steam today.

Assets: Future Games Show Trailer | Guerrilla Collective Trailer | Press Kit

Enter the Chronosphere, a psychedelic turn-based bullet hell roguelike developed by Effort Star, featured new gameplay trailers at Guerrilla Collective and Future Games Show. 

Assets: Guerrilla Collective Trailer | Future Games Show Trailer | Press Kit 

ANTONBLAST, a fast-paced explosive action-platformer from Summitsphere, debuted dynamite new footage including a Cinematic Preview at Guerrilla Collective, and new footage Future Games Show before it lowers the boom Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024 on Steam and Nintendo Switch.

Assets: Future Games Show Trailer | Guerrilla Collective Trailer | Press Kit

Finally, Joystick Ventures revealed a first glimpse into Trailblazers: Into the March from developer Strangers, which premiered during Guerilla Collective’s Joystick Ventures Arcade segment. Watch the reveal trailer below!

Assets: Guerrilla Collective Trailer

For more information on Joystick Ventures, follow the publisher on Twitter and Steam, and visit the official website.

About Joystick Ventures

Joystick Ventures is a Sherman Oaks-based investing and publishing company whose main goal is to encourage indie developers to stay honest and promote experimentation to push the limits of game design across all genres, styles, and geographies. They are most known for their 2022 release, Lost in Play, which has sold more than 100,000 copies.

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