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[Bo_Hazem]

ABOUT PLAYSTATION®TALENTS

Launched in 2015 by Sony Interactive Entertainment Spain, the PlayStation® Talents program aims to unify all the initiatives put together by the local Spanish branch in order to develop Spanish creativity. The goal of the PlayStation Talents program is to support the local industry as well as to create video games fully developed in Spain to be sold around the globe.

(They are unlisted, so can't search for them on youtube, not yet)

 

[Bo_Hazem]

 

[Bo_Hazem]

Source

 

[mansoor1980]

indies? ok some of them

 

[Heisenberg007]

Too many games. Need 3 GAF pages to list

 

[Bo_Hazem]

indies? ok some of them

Buying Pocoyo for my daughter.

Too many games. Need 3 GAF pages to list

Glad they're supporting them, we can see some of these studios mature and come up with great games in the future.

 

[Heisenberg007]

Aeterna Noctis looks great. The Library of Babel also looks very good.

But Clid the Snail looks like the best game on this list! Beautiful graphics and aesthetics, immersive environment, and super fun-looking gameplay. This has the potential to become the next Hollow Knight.

Very commendable by Sony to not compete with the Indies sector by having their first-party make smaller games. They are instead providing indies with funds and tech support to help them make beautiful games. That's always lovely to see.

 

[Hobbygaming]

Shu Yoshida is putting in work in his new position I see

Edit: I don't even know if Shu is involved in this initiative but I'm giving him credit anyway

 

[PropellerEar]

Great post Bo_Hazem , you need to gold yourself again.

Only one of these I heard of before was Itadaki.

 

[Hobbygaming]

I love the look of this one the art is beautiful

 

[sircaw]

wow, that's a heck of a list, thanks Bo, excellent post.

 

[Heisenberg007]

I love the look of this one the art is beautiful

Yeah, reminds of Cuphead. Would be very interested to see its gameplay.

 

[DeepSpace5D]

Thanks for sharing Bo. Most of these I would probably pass on, but Aeterna Noctis, The Library of Babel, and The Many Pieces of Mr Coo were the three that really stood out to me.

 

[bellome]

I wonder if Nomada Studio is involved in this program and what they are cooking for us.

 

[Clear]

This thread is why dumping info on tons of games in one big drop is a bad idea. Lack of focus cheapens everything.

 

[ZywyPL]

That Metal Slug rip-off looks pretty cool. One Last Breath gives me strong Inside vibes, so it's probably gonna be good as well

 

[Tschumi]

Bring them on! I love Vita, bring them all on because at least some of them are going to be our next great Indy titles!

 

[Zeroing]

It’s good Sony is betting on new talent and in places where the gaming industry is not that developed! Today indie studios, some years they will be bigger studios.. possibly.

more games for us gamers

damn, I’m super optimistic today.
I need my coffee

 

[Tschumi]

I love the look of this one the art is beautiful

Yeah my money's on Goo to be the big one

 

[jhjfss]

 

[MrS]

Not a looker among them

 

[[Sigma]]

High interest:
Clid the Snail


What is that?:
Mr.Coo

 

[Heisenberg007]

Not a looker among them

Clid the Snail is gorgeous. Very high graphical fidelity and smooth AF animations.

 

[StevieWhite]

My company is working with the Tale of Paper Devs on some ports, and I've got to spend some time with the PS4 build. It's a very fun experience and looks pretty good on a PS4 Pro (probably on a base model too, but haven't actually played it).

For real though, the PS Talents program is kind of cool, and supporting these games goes a long way towards helping the Spanish development scene. I'm obviously biased, but I've generally liked what I've seen.

 

[Heisenberg007]

My company is working with the Tale of Paper Devs on some ports, and I've got to spend some time with the PS4 build. It's a very fun experience and looks pretty good on a PS4 Pro (probably on a base model too, but haven't actually played it).

For real though, the PS Talents program is kind of cool, and supporting these games goes a long way towards helping the Spanish development scene. I'm obviously biased, but I've generally liked what I've seen.

That's so cool! And the game does look very good: a mix of Little Nightmares and Inside.

 

[MastaKiiLA]

I like indies, but I don't see a Trine, Echochrome, or Flower in any of these videos. There were indies shown last year that popped more than this. Solar Ash, Little Devil Inside, and Stray were all more eye-catching. This just looks like shovelware in comparison. Not saying they are, but the production levels are drastically lower.

 

[Bo_Hazem]

Great post Bo_Hazem , you need to gold yourself again.

Only one of these I heard of before was Itadaki.

Hey, I say when I gift myself. I still have some love me and gift me from time to time.

This thread is why dumping info on tons of games in one big drop is a bad idea. Lack of focus cheapens everything.

Most of them are pretty small, you should expect each will have a separate thread when close to launch. It's a project as a whole and easy for people to see what's cooking so far.

 

[PropellerEar]

Hey, I say when I gift myself. I still have some love me and gift me from time to time.



Most of them are pretty small, you should expect each will have a separate thread when close to launch. It's a project as a whole and easy for people to see what's cooking so far.

It was a joke, .

 

[onesvenus]

Most of them are PS exclusives

All of them are for at least 3 months. When signing for PlayStation talents you agree to not release the game on PC until 3 months later than the release on PlayStation and on other consoles 6 months later

 

[GuinGuin]

Sony doing good work for all of mankind.

 

[Heisenberg007]

All of them are for at least 3 months. When signing for PlayStation talents you agree to not release the game on PC until 3 months later than the release on PlayStation and on other consoles 6 months later

Not necessarily. Multiple games on this list are releasing on PC as well as Nintendo. Aeterna Noctis is, in fact, releasing on all available platforms, including Xbox. All the others are just PlayStation exclusives.

 

[onesvenus]

Not necessarily. Multiple games on this list are releasing on PC as well as Nintendo. Aeterna Noctis is, in fact, releasing on all available platforms, including Xbox. All the others are just PlayStation exclusives.

Same day and date?
I missread this info where it says that only applies to the ones that won some of the PlayStation talents prizes

 

[Heisenberg007]

Same day and date?
I missread this info where it says that only applies to the ones that won some of the PlayStation talents prizes

I know that Aeterna Noctis is at least releasing on all platforms on December 15, 2021. I don't recall there is timed exclusivity on many of these other games I checked earlier this morning.

Most of them are just PS exclusives though, because it is Sony who helped them build the games after all.

 

[onesvenus]

Most of them are just PS exclusives though, because it is Sony who helped them build the games after all.

It seems you don't know what Playstation talents is.
They don't help you build anything unless you count access to SDK as helping you build it.

They are giving 10000€ to the winner of best game and 200000€ for publicity. There's no other involvement except for that. I know lots of people who have participated on it.

 

[Bo_Hazem]

It seems you don't know what Playstation talents is.
They don't help you build anything unless you count access to SDK as helping you build it.

They are giving 10000€ to the winner of best game and 200000€ for publicity. There's no other involvement except for that. I know lots of people who have participated on it.

Thank you and Heisenberg007 for the details! Spain has lots of history and talent, and some of my recent best movies/series. Sure Sony needs to invest there more and add more diverse perspective in gaming.

Hope this effort help some small studios to grow up, although the price seems a bit tiny but publicity and success could lead to much larger rewards.

 

[SLB1904]

That's a lot of content. Need to have look later.

 

[Kuranghi]

Fuck sake bo, I was about to be at tab-zero and this was the last one...

I'll prob have to watch these later/tommorrow, some cool stuff though definitely. Clid I saw before and its looking good.

edit - Got time to watch them all, some nice stuff in there, a few games I'm quite interested in. Thanks for taking the time to collect them into a post, Bo.

 

[Bo_Hazem]

Fuck sake bo, I was about to be at tab-zero and this was the last one...

I'll prob have to watch these later/tommorrow, some cool stuff though definitely. Clid I saw before and its looking good.

We usually miss small, indie games. So hope this help checking them out and keep tracking them. They're all under one project.

 

[ACESHIGH]

some of these look pretty interesting. Hopefully they are released on PC as well. Why indie devs have such a hard on for emotional platformers with little actual platforming. Its the gaming equivalent of the pseudo intellectual black & white indie movie.

 

[R6Rider]

Lots of cool looking games, but in terms of stuff that really caught my eye and looked fun to play it would only be A Tale of Paper and Aeterna Noctis.