The complete checklist of video games at this 12 months’s BitSummit has been revealed.
The occasion, which is Japan’s hottest indie video games expo, will return to its common venue on the the Miyako Messe in Kyoto from Friday, July 19 to Sunday, July 21.
Now the occasion organisers have listed the 120 indie video games, from Japan and around the globe, which will probably be exhibited on the occasion. The complete checklist of video games could be discovered on the BitSummit web site.
BitSummit was based in 2012 by the Japan Impartial Video games Combination (JIGA) – consisting of Q-Video games, Skeleton Crew Studios, Pygmy Studio and BlackSheep – with the intention of selling fascinating Japanese indie video games to a world viewers.
The primary present was a small-scale industry-focused occasion with round 200 attendees, however this has continued to develop, and final 12 months’s occasion – which for the primary time took over everything of the Miyako Messe, increasing to each flooring of the venue – noticed greater than 38,000 attendees.
As a result of this 12 months marks the thirteenth BitSummit occasion, the theme for the 2025 present is BitSummit the thirteenth: Summer time of Yokai, referring to supernatural creatures from Japanese folklore.
“We had been blown away by the sheer quantity of excellent submissions from builders worldwide,” John Davis, co-founder and member of JIGA mentioned of this 12 months’s BitSummit choice.
“Selecting this 12 months’s lineup was no straightforward activity, however we couldn’t be extra excited to showcase these video games. BitSummit is about celebrating indie creativity, championing daring concepts, and bringing this unbelievable neighborhood collectively to share in that keenness.”
Whereas the primary day of BitSummit (July 19) is a enterprise day, the weekend dates of July 20-21 will probably be open to most people, with tickets on sale now.
Tickets could be purchased from the Ticket Pia web site. Japanese attendees can use this hyperlink to purchase tickets, whereas abroad guests can use this hyperlink, which gives full info in English.
As has been the case for quite a few years now, VGC is the western media accomplice for BitSummit and you’ll count on full protection of the occasion on these pages, because it occurs.
VGC attended final 12 months’s present, titled BitSummit Drift, and offered every day protection of among the video games on show. VGC’s Chris Scullion additionally handed out a Media Showcase award to VGC’s sport of the present, which was J-hip-hop motion sport Sonokuni.
