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Triple-i Initiative digital showcase announced for April 10 at 10 AM PT / 6 PM in the UK

Thick Thighs Save Lives

Thick Thighs Save Lives

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New information via Gematsu:
The showcase will feature “major announcements and reveals” for over 30 games from the studios such as Evil Empire (Dead Cells), Mega Crit (Slay the Spire), Red Hook Studios (Darkest Dungeon), Heart Machine (Hyper Light Drifter), poncle (Vampire Survivors), and many more. It promises to be a “no-nonsense digital showcase featuring blockbuster indie titles, all streamed in under one hour to respect players’ and studios’ time.”

“We felt a need for a showcase that highlights wildly different indie games but that have one thing in common; they resonate with millions of players around the world,” said Evil Empire marketing director Berenger Dupre in a press release. “Since using letters seems to be the trend in the industry, we figured that adding a couple of i’s to indie was a fair way to describe this new format. Also, triple-i just sounds cool.”
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Evil Empire chief operating officer Benjamin Laulan added, “The goal is to have a straight-to-the-point show packed with announcements as a collective of studios, to speak directly to players, the people who have been directly supporting us since day 1. The show will run for about 45 minutes, featuring news by the most successful and creative folks out there. No hosting segments, no advertisements, no sponsorships, no extra fluff, just games.”

Here is the full list of studios supporting The Triple-I Initiative:
  • A44
  • Assemble Entertainment
  • Awaceb
  • Blobfish
  • ColePowered Games
  • Digital Sun
  • Drop Bear Bytes
  • Evil Empire
  • Extremely OK Games
  • Fireshine Games
  • Focus Entertainment
  • Fumi Games
  • Gamera Games
  • Gearbox Software
  • Gearbox Publishing
  • Gentlymad Studios
  • Ghost Ship Publishing
  • Heart Machine
  • Hooded Horse
  • Humble Games
  • Ishtar Games
  • Kepler Interactive
  • Mega Crit
  • Northplay
  • Passtech Games
  • Pathea Games
  • PlaySide Studios
  • PlaySide Publishing
  • PM Studios
  • poncle
  • Quite OK Games
  • Realm Archive
  • Red Hook Studios
  • Re-Logic
  • Stunlock Studios
  • The Arcade Crew
  • The Gentlebros
  • Thorium
  • Thunder Lotus Games
  • tinyBuild
  • TRIBAND
  • Youthcat Studio
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There's no information about the project (or collaboration) other than those associated with it and that there will be an announcement in about 15 days from now. It has a Twitter/X page, with a single tweet. Several indie studios seem to be associated with it, or at least promoting it. Here's some of the accounts promoting it:
There's probably some others since the website itself is showing more than just these games/studios.
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iii-initiative.com

iii initiative

A mystery initiative by the people who helped bring you Darkest Dungeon, Risk of Rain 2, Slay the Spire, Vampire Survivors, V Rising & more
iii-initiative.com iii-initiative.com
 
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Thick Thighs Save Lives

Thick Thighs Save Lives

NeoGAF's Physical Games Advocate Extraordinaire
Gematsu has more details on it:
The showcase will feature “major announcements and reveals” for over 30 games from the studios such as Evil Empire (Dead Cells), Mega Crit (Slay the Spire), Red Hook Studios (Darkest Dungeon), Heart Machine (Hyper Light Drifter), poncle (Vampire Survivors), and many more. It promises to be a “no-nonsense digital showcase featuring blockbuster indie titles, all streamed in under one hour to respect players’ and studios’ time.”

“We felt a need for a showcase that highlights wildly different indie games but that have one thing in common; they resonate with millions of players around the world,” said Evil Empire marketing director Berenger Dupre in a press release. “Since using letters seems to be the trend in the industry, we figured that adding a couple of i’s to indie was a fair way to describe this new format. Also, triple-i just sounds cool.”
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Evil Empire chief operating officer Benjamin Laulan added, “The goal is to have a straight-to-the-point show packed with announcements as a collective of studios, to speak directly to players, the people who have been directly supporting us since day 1. The show will run for about 45 minutes, featuring news by the most successful and creative folks out there. No hosting segments, no advertisements, no sponsorships, no extra fluff, just games.”

Here is the full list of studios supporting The Triple-I Initiative:
  • A44
  • Assemble Entertainment
  • Awaceb
  • Blobfish
  • ColePowered Games
  • Digital Sun
  • Drop Bear Bytes
  • Evil Empire
  • Extremely OK Games
  • Fireshine Games
  • Focus Entertainment
  • Fumi Games
  • Gamera Games
  • Gearbox Software
  • Gearbox Publishing
  • Gentlymad Studios
  • Ghost Ship Publishing
  • Heart Machine
  • Hooded Horse
  • Humble Games
  • Ishtar Games
  • Kepler Interactive
  • Mega Crit
  • Northplay
  • Passtech Games
  • Pathea Games
  • PlaySide Studios
  • PlaySide Publishing
  • PM Studios
  • poncle
  • Quite OK Games
  • Realm Archive
  • Red Hook Studios
  • Re-Logic
  • Stunlock Studios
  • The Arcade Crew
  • The Gentlebros
  • Thorium
  • Thunder Lotus Games
  • tinyBuild
  • TRIBAND
  • Youthcat Studio
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I've also requested a thread title change to reflect the new info.
 
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touchfuzzy

Member
Cool, definitely some excellent developers involved in this and I'm a lot more interested in what indie studios are doing than most AAA developers. I'll check it out for sure!

I did have a little laugh that there's a developer called 'Quite OK Games' and earlier today I was reading about the developer of Earthblade 'Extremely OK Games' -- they're in a competition to see who can release the most 'OK' game, I suppose.
 
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Punished Miku

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Sounds like one of the better showcases of the year honestly.

Horrible name for the show though. Sounds like a wrestler. And if it's really the "triple I initiative" isn't that 4 I's? The IIII? What do the other 3 I's stand for? Why not call it I3, instead of E3?
 
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Thick Thighs Save Lives

Thick Thighs Save Lives

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Lord Panda said:
What was the tweet before it got removed?
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lmao they deleted the tweet fast. It was Insider Gaming reporting that the new Prince of Persia game that's being worked on by the Dead Cells developers will be revealed during this indie showcase on April 10th

This Prince of Persia game:

www.neogaf.com

Rumor - Insider Gaming: Dead Cells Developer to Release a New Prince of Persia Game in Steam Early Access

Ubisoft is set to release its next Prince of Persia game later this year on Steam, developed by Dead Cells developer Evil Empire. The game, ‘The Rogue Prince of Persia,’ will launch in Early Access on Steam and mark Ubisoft’s first day-one Steam release since 2019. Sources say the Rogue Prince...
www.neogaf.com www.neogaf.com
 
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March Climber

March Climber

Member
Oddly the show is moving at a slightly fast pace. Unless this is being broadcast on TV I'm not sure why that is, since this is their own youtube/twitch.
 
Punished Miku

Punished Miku

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I can't watch it now so anyone posting just a brief comment of what is getting announced will get some really positive thoughts coming your way, courtesy of yours truly.
 
March Climber

March Climber

Member
Punished Miku said:
I can't watch it now so anyone posting just a brief comment of what is getting announced will get some really positive thoughts coming your way, courtesy of yours truly.
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I've been taking notes of what's taken my interest so far, here's what I have:

Slay the Spire 2
Risk of Rain 2
Kill Knight
Shadows of Doubt
Gestalt Steam and Cinder
Contra/Castlevania in Vampire Survivors: Operation Guns
Undermine 2
What the Car
Darkest Dungeon 2
RKGK
Broken Roads
Ravenswatch
Cat Quest 3
Laysara Summit Kingdom
Wizard of Legend 2

So far it has been holding around an A- for me in ranking.
 
Antwix

Antwix

Member
Streets of Rogue 2 seems to be coming along nicely. Definitely looking forward to it.

Contra Vampire Survivors DLC looks nice and I'm probably gonna get addicted to Brotato again with the update.
 
rm082e

rm082e

Member
No Silksong. :messenger_crying:

But that was way more and better than I expected. Pretty cool show. I'll wind up with a few of those on my Steam Deck.
 
March Climber

March Climber

Member
Alright, this was an A-

My Games of show:

  • What The Car
  • Shadows of Doubt
  • Slay the Spire 2
  • 33 Immortals
  • Broken Roads
  • V Rising Castlevania Alucard Campaign
  • Prince of Persia: The Rogue

The rest of the great games I saw that interested me:

  • Risk of Rain 2
  • Kill Knight
  • Gestalt Steam and Cinder
  • Contra/Castlevania in Vampire Survivors: Operation Guns
  • Undermine 2
  • Darkest Dungeon 2
  • RKGK
  • Ravenswatch
  • Cat Quest 3
  • Laysara Summit Kingdom
  • Wizard of Legend 2
  • Streets of Rogue 2
  • Palworld Arena DLC(like Pokemon Stadium)
  • Mouse

I know that some of these were already announced, but this time around they either added a release date or more gameplay to show.

My crticisms:

-Get rid of the tiny 5-10 second trailers or put them in a montage.
-Stop having a voiceover say the game's title at the beginning and then not show that game's title at the end of the trailer. The name of the title should almost always be shown at the end, even the big guys know that. I don't care if it's a placeholder title card, it needs to be shown.
-The pacing was a bit too fast and the viewer barely has a chance to absorb or react to what they just saw.

My suggestion to them would be:

Look at Nintendo Direct's pacing and copy that more. Always have a title card after a trailer for a few seconds like them, then move to the next trailer. It won't slow things down too much and people will have a chance to breathe.

It almost feels like indie devs and publishers are so used to be shoved into small incremental windows of time during AAA showcases, that they've accidentally kept that super fast pacing on their own showcase.

Otherwise, very great showing for a first time event.
 
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touchfuzzy

Member
Was there much talk about platforms? These indie showcases interest me but I usually don't bother watching since I don't play on PC and 80% of them come out to Steam either first or only. Typically just tune in for the Nintendo Indie one.
 
March Climber

March Climber

Member
touchfuzzy said:
Was there much talk about platforms? These indie showcases interest me but I usually don't bother watching since I don't play on PC and 80% of them come out to Steam either first or only. Typically just tune in for the Nintendo Indie one.
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There were some platform lists here and there on ending title cards, but not every one. To be fair though, this is specifically a showcase of the highest budget indies that have a very, very high percent chance of all being ported to most or all consoles.
 
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