Tradeshows

European Tradeshow Mini-Tour Recap

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It was a big and busy month for the small chickens at The Behemoth. If you recall, we hit EGX London, then MCM Comic Con London, and THEN EGX Berlin. It was three straight weeks of awesome shows, but it took a minute to shake off the jet lag that came with it.

Now that everything is back in order at home base, we wanted to share our adventures before we dive into prep for 2020 (yeah, that’s coming soon).

After the first weekend in Europe, John wrote up a blog post on EGX London, which you can read here.

Moving into MCM Comic Con London we weren’t sure what to expect. Since we’re San Diego based, we’re used to the enormous spectacle of San Diego Comic-Con that happens every year. I guess that lead us to believe that MCM Comic Con would be a smaller show, which was pretty off-base.

While the show wasn’t quite as crazy as San Diego Comic-Con, we were very pleased by how balanced it was. There was a great mix of pop culture, comics, and of course, video games! The crowd also had more than enough interest in everything, and there was more than enough fun to go around.

There were also quite a few Behemoth cosplayers that showed up! It’s always incredible to see people bringing our characters to life IN real life — that’s a feeling that never goes away or gets old.

At EGX Berlin, the Berlin gaming crowd turned out in a big way. There were about tons of indie devs and games publishers, as well as the lots and lots of enthusiastic cosplayers. 

Strangely, they had a small motocross stunt track that was used twice a day. At first we thought it was an electric moto, but after a bit the thick sweet smell of exhaust began to waft through the small exhibition area. Yay, carbon monoxide! We all woke up several hours later….

The venue had two large halls with the devs in one and the merch, food trucks, and lounges in another. Luckily there was a bit of an airlock between the halls because once the deep fat fryers got started, it smelled like a county fair. Inside. All things considered, we were lucky to be in the other room!

The show had crazy mix of games and devs from all over Europe. We saw lots of point and click and narrative games, a good helping of puzzlers and reaction games, and even a golf game for non-golfers built by devs who don’t play golf. One of the publishers also brought their full array of simulators (bus simulator anyone?).

All in all, we had a great time in Europe testing out these new (to us) shows. Looking ahead to 2020, we definitely might have to make our way back to a couple of them, and we can’t wait!

EGX London 2019 Recap

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We had a great time at EGX London this past weekend!

The very first morning of the show, we found these in the queue line. It seems likely that some developer dropped these, and lost the keys to their stuff. Rule #57382829 of trade shows: Split up the keys, because if you lose them…

This show was new to us, and we found that it was a weird mix of many shows… much like RTX, you could get tattoos, 3 lbs of fudge, and mystery boxes. Like Tokyo Game Show, San Diego Comic-Con, and PAX East, the main event took place a long linear hall that made for good exercise. Like PAX West, you had some evening programming and board games options, but things would mostly wind down after-hours.

The show venue was about 2x that of Comic-Con, so just imagine two long sausage shaped halls next to each other connected by a food mall. They also set up a county fair type area in the adjacent hall with rides and bouncy houses, so there were a lot of kids having a lot of fun.

We had a great time bringing our games to EGX London, and you can see our photos from the event here. It will be interesting to see how next week goes at MCM Comic-Con London… it should be a smaller show, but we’re just as excited for it!

The Behemoth Goes Global! ✈️ (Or to Europe, at Least)

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If you know us, you know that we’ve been hitting it hard in the tradeshow department this year — we’ve been zigging and zagging all over the United States to here and there and back again, and there’s more coming! We’re not slowing down… If you’ve been watching all the fun from afar somewhere on the other side of the globe, now’s your chance to be a part of it all!

Between October and early November we have THREE European shows that we’ll be attending in London, London again, and Berlin (and in that specific order, too).

The Behemoth will be making appearances at:

  • EGX London from October 17th to October 20th
  • MCM Comic-Con London from October 25th to October 27th
  • EGX Berlin from November 1st to November 5th

You can catch us at each of those shows with playable games including Pit People and Castle Crashers Remastered, as well as a handful of extra special giveaways for our superfans! Our booths won’t be giant, but our hearts will be.

It’s been a while since we’ve traveled so far from home, and we’re excited to finally have a chance to hang out with all of our friends and fans on the other side of the globe! Our first stop at EGX London is taking place just next week, so we’ll be seeing you very, very soon, Europe. 💙