Pocket Gamer LaunchPad is over; What a show! Here are some of our personal highlights
Well, that's a wrap, folks. The dust has settled, the combatants have retreated from the battlefield and the first-ever Pocket Gamer LaunchPad has come to a close.
It was a busy few days, what originally started out as a small 4-5 'reveal' based project grew into a massive, five-sponsor, 66 exclusive event featuring three two-hour live-streams and 53 games. It was nothing short of phenomenal.
We've been overwhelmed by the support from mobile gamers from all over the world, as they've rushed to the site, our social channels and the Twitch streams. We're also super grateful for all the publishers and developers who created and shared insight on the games we covered, as well as the supporting coverage from sister sites 148Apps and AppSpy, plus our friends at Enthusiast Gaming, specifically Destructoid, The Escapist, Silconera and Nintendo Enthusiast.
Most importantly, if you haven't already, you should be downloading all those games that tickle your fancy and playing them for yourself! We'd specifically suggest getting to grips with the awesome offerings from our superlative sponsors:
PUBG Mobile (Tencent)Catalyst Black (Super Evil Megacorp)
Super One Punch Man (Oasis Games)
Legacy Heroes Unboxed (Gameloft)
Sword Art Online: Alicization Rising Steel (Bandai Namco)
If you missed the event then there's more than a few highlights for you to check out, over the next couple of pages you'll find some of our personal favourites broken down by day.
Pocket Gamer LaunchPad Day One
I'd be lying if I said that we went into day one knowing exactly what to expect. There was no precedent for a mobile event, and as such there definitely wasn't any examples of a mobile-focused announcement event going live on Twitch.
What we did know is that we had an absolutely amazing line-up for announcements that day: We broke exclusives that LEGO Legacy: Heroes would be gaining a Ghostbusters storyline, Sword Art Online would be starting a giveaway series, horror-survival game Undying would be coming to mobile.
We also showed off exclusive on Vainglory follow-up Catalyst Black (which we later showed more of during our Twitch stream), showed off new Pascal's Wager trailers for the first time worldwide and did a giveaway with Oasis Games for Super One Punch Man. We didn't stop there either, each of the 18 stories, covering 15 games, were exclusive to us.
And then, we went live on Twitch.
Day one's Twitch stream featured exclusive gameplay of Moonlighter on iOS, as well as The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores, and much, much more.
We wrapped up an amazing first day, and the energy and announcements didn't slow down for day two.
Pocket Gamer LaunchPad Day Two
Day two of Pocket Gamer LaunchPad kicked off with us detailing the upcoming Roundguard update, we also got to show off the release-date trailer for The Machine's Garden, The announcements kept coming thick-and-fast as we touched on Romans - Age of Caesar, Firefly Studios' (Stronghold) next game, and we also showed off and detailed the cute-looking aRPG Catopia Rush.
In the stream, meanwhile, Lure gameplay was shown off for the first time, Rip Them Off was demoed for the first time, and we saw some of Ministry of Broadcast in action to pair up with our news of the upcoming mobile port.
As day two wrapped up we had made over 30 articles and had covered 28 games. By the end of the event, we had made 66 articles covering 53 games. I'll leave you to do the maths, but as I'm sure you can see, there was plenty more going on for the third and final day.
Pocket Gamer LaunchPad Day Three
Day three made for an amazing wrap-up for the event, on the live stream (and on the site) we had a giveaway where people could win access to the Catalyst Black beta, we also had a really in-depth interview on PUBG's Livik map go live. On the site we updated August's Nom update for Butter Royale, and outlined the multiplayer features coming to Grand Mountain Adventure.
There was, frankly, a mass of announcements, and you can check all of them out on pocketgamer.com/launchpad.
But, after that there was the third and final stream. We had some great exclusive gameplay; showing BUTTONS.IO and OLO Loco in action as well as having a gasp at Grand Mountain Adventure. There was more too, of course.
Keep your eyes on Pocket Gamer over the next few months, as we prepare for another Launch(Pad)
