Here’s what you can look forward to this September
It’s hard to believe, but PAX West is only a few weeks away. One of the most interesting parts of PAX each year is the Indie Megabooth, an area of the show floor highlighting upcoming releases from smaller developers that might otherwise slip through the cracks.
This will be the fifth consecutive year for the Megabooth at PAX West, and they broke downwhat will be available at the show this year. It’s quite a list!
There are more games being released now than at any time in history, and the Megabooth will be making a change this year to reflect that. 41 games will be showing for all four days of the convention, but 32 games will share space in the Minibooth, rotating so that 16 are available each day. The Minibooth is the first thing most people see as they enter the Megabooth’s space, but each game in that area gets just a single demo station. Here are the games you’ll be able to check out in the Minibooth:
On Friday and Saturday:
On Sunday and Monday:
In addition to the video games, ten new tabletop games will also be showcased in the Megabooth’s floor space. These will be displayed during the entire show, but demonstrations with the creators will share space with Cards Against Humanity in the ACT theater, and these demos will rotate days as well. Here’s what you’re able to find in the tabletop area:
On Friday-Saturday at IMB & Sunday-Monday at ACT Theater with CAH:
On Sunday-Monday at IMB & Friday-Saturday at ACT Theater with CAH:
You can check out themap of their floor space here. With over 70 games at the show this year, it’d probably be easy to spend all of PAX in the Megabooth and still not see everything, but I’m gonna try. I’ll be interested to check outOverload, which looks a lot likeDescent, and intend to try out theManiac Mansionspiritual successorThimbleweed Park. If there’sanything on the listthat you’d like me to check out, let me know in the comments.
