Japan – The Behemoth Blog

Well the Japan adventure is almost over for us. Our last day at BitSummit was yesterday! We took part in the awards ceremony as one of the sponsor presenters. John went up to represent and presented the award for Excellence in Game Design to Gangs Of Space. There were nine awards in total.

Finally, we started the tear down of our booth by giving away the booth sign of our logo to our biggest fan at BitSummit. Natsumi-chan came by every day of BitSummit every few hours with more friends. She couldn’t keep away and we didn’t want her to part without keeping a part of us.

Our group had a great time meeting everyone at the show! Thanks to everyone who came by to play our games and to say hello. (To see the rest of the photos from Day 3, click HERE.)

Special thanks to Hiroko, Atsushi, Deven, and Yuko for their help!

We got up early this morning to finish our set up before doors opened at 10AM for the media. The main items to work on were the game demos and organizing our merchandise. Luckily, we had some help from our super helpers: Hiroko, Deven, Atsushi and Yuko!

Hiroko and Yuko putting together knights for display.

Around 11:30AM our producer, John Baez, took the stage to speak about our attitude and approach towards working in the game industry. It was streamed live, but we have a recording of it as well. But you’ll have to wait until the show ends for our recap video to see it!

The slide in Japanese is welcoming us to BitSummit.

In the afternoon, we started selling our Castle Crashers knights, Castle Crashers mobile straps and Behemoth keychains (including the Knight design from Castle Crashers, Hatty from BattleBlock Theater, and Alien Hominid). We will be selling tomorrow and Sunday as well–while supplies last!

BitSummit organizers ended the day with a cocktail party to allow developers to mix and mingle with their peers. Yes, there was lots of Japanese food and cocktails to go along with the music and partying!

Check out all our photos from Day 1 of BitSummit 2014 HERE.