Broken Roads featured in the Melbourne International Games Week 2022 Steam Event

After an excellent event in 2021, Drop Bear Bytes were again invited to showcase Broken Roads this year as part of the Melbourne International Games Week ‘22 Steam Event.

We held two live streams - an AMA with our Australian/North American team members and a roundtable with our South African/European art team - and participated in Death n Dirt, a panel on pre-, mid- and post-apocalyptic games.

On top of this, our Narrative Director, Leanne Taylor-Giles, hosted a GCAP 2022 Narrative Design Q&A titled ‘Storytelling: Beyond Words’ earlier today, and is moderating a PAX Australia Panel titled ‘Making and Breaking Connections: The Art of Betrayal’ on Friday, October 7th.

We recorded our MIGW streams and have uploaded them to our YouTube channel, and have also embedded ‘Death n Dirt’ below. Both of our streams have the talks fully timestamped if you want to skim through for a specific topic.

Broken Roads team AMA for the MIGW 22 Steam Event

Leanne Taylor-Giles (Narrative Director), James Giles (Gameplay Animator), Amos Wolfe (Senior Unity Developer), Colin McComb (Creative Lead), Tim Sunderland (Audio Lead & Composer) and Craig Ritchie (Game Director) answer Broken Roads-related questions from the Discord and Steam communities.

Broken Roads Art Team MIGW 2022 Steam Event

Our art team discuss their work on the game by running through Ardath, one of the towns in Broken Roads. They discuss level design, environment design, character and creature modeling, and a whole lot more, and wrap up by answering a few questions from the Broken Roads Discord community.

Included in the stream are:

  • Bianca Roux, Art Lead (https://twitter.com/BiancaRoux4)

  • Cassandra Lee, Concept Artist (https://twitter.com/_Cassandra_Lee_)

  • Ryan Gee, VFX & Technical Artist (https://twitter.com/CephalopodSalad)

  • Sara Laubscher, Lead Environment Artist (https://twitter.com/sarandipity_art)

  • Sir Maszrum (Mariusz), Art Director (https://twitter.com/DeathRoadsGame)

  • Tim Sunderland, Audio Lead & Composer (https://twitter.com/sundaysundae87)

Panel: Death n Dirt

A discussion of pre-, mid-, and post-apocalyptic games with Vasili Karavasilis, Oscar Brittain and Craig Ritchie, hosted by Chris Wulf:

Craig Ritchie