Handofblood presents a number of new games at its own gaming fair and criticizes the industry subliminally

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The Twitch streamer Max “Handofblood” Knabe and his company Instinct3 publisher for Indiegames. At his own gaming fair, he announced upcoming games and distributed some swipes to the industry.

What kind of gaming fair was that? Handofblood founded his own publishing company Instinct3 publishing in 2024 and published the two games Terrascape and Megaloot in the same year. This year again releases, for the announcement of which Handofblood planned an event and on Twitch streams. There were also some special guests, including Maurice Weber and David Hain.

Then he invited a video of the event to YouTube.

In addition to its own publishing company, Handofblood also has its own e-sports team:

Handofblood wanted to change e-sports with his LOL team, now he is finally German champion

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Game announcements with swipes

What kind of games announced Handofblood? A total of five games were announced for this year:

  • Asgard’s case (On Steam): An action-roguelike in which the players slip into the roles of different heroes of Nordic mythology.
  • The in The Dungeon (on Steam): a round -based Roguelike, in which you have to fight against monsters as a frog.
  • 9 Kings (on Steam): A strategic simulation in which players have to defend their kingdom in Roguelike-like scenarios.
  • Dwarves: Glory, Death and Loot (on Steam): A car Battler, in which the players build an army of dwarfs and fight against Monster, also Roguelike.
  • Deadly Days: RoadTrip (on Steam): Players slip into the role of a banana who has to defend themselves against a zombie army using weapons. The game combines Roguelike Gameplay with Invnory Managment.

    • How was the gaming industry criticized? Handofblood presented a lot of pathetic, but with a core of the truth, the new games from Instinct3 publishing:

    At a time when games are no longer AAA, but have to be aaaa; at a time when games are no longer designed by passionate creative people, but by committees; At a time when profit and no longer play fun maximization are in the foreground, we want to be the antithesis, the rock in the surf.

    He further stated that there would be no hidden monetaries, battle passes and no lootbox gambling in their games. With these exaggerated actions, among other things, Handofblood maintained his viewers:

  • In the game of Asgard’s case, Leon Bonjwa showed “exclusive” live gameplay, which then turned out to be just a played video.
  • The game Dwarves: Glory, Death and Loot was allegedly created with elaborate motion capture, although it is only a pixel type game.
  • There was a “award ceremony”, in which only the game 9 Kings “won” in all categories.
  • For the game in The Dungeon there was an alleged super special deluxe edition that could only be obtained as a pre-order bonus. This was far too overpriced and contained only nasty bonuses such as “2 months late access” and a “Reallife-Concept Art Display”, which consisted of a real frog, cube and sword. Unfortunately, this edition was already “sold out” directly.

    • This is not the first time that handofblood criticizes the gaming industry in a satirical way. He shared with a staged exaggerated “press conference” against Riot Games and her newly introduced regulation on gambling sponsors: President Knabe introduces controversial sponsor for his team in LOL, 33-year-old players blame for everything

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