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You build a deck, and then that is dealt out as the dungeon floor that you explore. Hand of Fate is a card game that comes to life on your screen. So give us the high level pitch for Hands of Fate Described as a ‘card based roguelike’ it ticks a lot of boxes, there’s an interesting crossover between people who play card games and video games. You can check out some of the cooler indie games here.Hand of Fate is an interesting one: it’s a card game, but a card game that comes to life as a third person RPG/Action game of sorts. As well as ideas that are too crazy to be commercially viable, even if it’s awesome that someone still made it.

It’s usually in this space that you see the innovative ideas that will eventually get picked up by triple-A games three years down the track. There were a few repeat booths from previous years, but lots of cool new stuff as well. Lastly, it’s a matter of Australian pride that the indie area has a strong showing of local talent. The artists may not have had to deal with the intricacies of operating a camera, but the game world has its own rules for lighting and physics to play with. Not only that, but some of the pieces were technically impressive too. It was the perfect spot for passersby to notice out of the corner of their eye and wander over.įeaturing the best shots from community members and developers using Horizon Zero Dawn‘s photo mode, there was quite a lot of creativity on display. We wrote up a little something on the art exhibition that was placed between the show floor and panel areas. ‘Horizon Zero Dawn’s Art Exhibition Part of the exhibition was from Guerrilla developers If you were interested in VR before PAX, this was great value. Undoubtedly some people would walk away thinking it’s not for them, but it’s awesome that so many people were able to try it out. A mech game, a racing game, or something weirder. There were several different areas where you could just walk up, don a headset, and try out different kinds of games. But how can you tell if you haven’t tried it? While Youtube and Twitch has made it easy to show gameplay, VR is one of those areas where we still largely rely on our words to describe the experience. It can be a hard thing to communicate, and ultimately you’re never going to know if you like it until you’ve had a go. There was some highly strategic and technical play throughout the entire competition, but it’s awesome when a final is suitably climactic. The winner of this competition would have a proper title outside of PAX, even if it’s with the fairly new Throwdown organisation.īKSAMA’s Urien was enough to take down ROF’s Birdie, but not before ROF took him to the final stretch of the final match.

The ‘Street Fighter V’ FinalsĮsports had a big place at PAX Aus, but a lot of it was just exhibition matches. But cosplay was definitely one of the highlights of PAX Aus 2017.įor those who care about the cosplay scene, the good news was that a lot of the best cosplay you’d see on the show floor was paid for by the booths. It’s good to see the hobby’s value being recognised, and it’ll help cosplayers do what they love for even longer. This warrants a whole post of its own, so keep an eye out for that.

The androids performed admirably in the face of such larrikinism, remaining stone-faced like some kind of Buckingham Palace guard. This of course led to everyone seeing how much they could mess with them, or trying to make them laugh. To promote Detroit: Become Human, these poor souls had to act like androids in a glass box all day. It might not look like it, but that’s a real person behind the glass.