Triple-I Initiative Showcase With More Than 30 Games Announced

On 10 April, the Triple-i Initiative Showcase will make its debut. The joint event for independent video games will feature announcements and reveals from the studios behind Slay the Spire, Darkest Dungeon, Hyper Light Drifter, Vampire Survivors and others.

The Triple-i Initiative is a new showcase highlighting independent developers in video games. A few months ago, the project was just an idea by Evil Empire, the French studio behind the last five years of Dead Cells content. Now it is a collaborative effort with the support of indie studios such as Re-Logic (Terraria) and Mega Crit (Slay the Spire). They promise a "no-nonsense digital showcase" of more than 30 indie titles, all streamed in a 45-minute show to respect players' and studios' time on 10 April at 10am PT, 1pm ET, 7pm CEST. Major announcements and reveals from studios like Mega Crit, Red Hook Studios, and Evil Empire are set to debut.

"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. 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," said Bérenger Dupré, Evil Empire's Marketing Director.

"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," added Benjamin Laulan, Evil Empire’s COO.

The Initiative is backed by the following independent studios, including Assemble Entertainment and Gentlymad Studios from Germany:

• A44
• Assemble Entertainment ​- Awaceb
• Blobfish Games
• ColePowered Games ​- Digital Sun Games
• Drop Bear Bytes
• Evil Empire
• 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
• Stunlock Studios
• The Arcade Crew
• The Gentlebros
• Thorium
• ​Thunder Lotus
• tinyBuild
• Triband
• Youthcat Studio

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