Ventana Sur 2021 will host its first dedicated video game sidebar this year at Las Maquinitas – Let's Play starting later this month.

According to its organizers, Las Maquinitas was established to "gather representatives of the Ibero-American video game industry in one place to promote production and build a bridge to showcase talents in the region."

Game companies, film and television production companies, independent developers and programmers, artists, composers, animators, students and fans will gather to participate in various activities, including meetings with video game experts, a series of master classes, Several exhibition halls and dedicated network events.

On November 30th, Las Maquinitas will host a presentation of 13 Latin American projects in front of major industry players in the region, including distribution expert Digital Plug-In, award-winning screenwriter Patricio Saiz ("We are a nobleman"), audio design With production studio Zvook and production and editing company La Corte Editores, everyone contributed one of this year's awards.

Here is a brief introduction to the 13 projects pitched at the first Las Maquinitas-let's play:

This Guatemalan Rogue-lite lets you play as Rocco, a former thug who also happens to be a cauliflower floret. Players will make an enemy's salad on the way to the Rocco family kidnapped by Mafia boss Al Camote. Al Camote combines top-down shooting action with energy boosting and action skills to bring action-focused comic book aesthetics to popular genres, as well as an innovative weapon system that uses Rocco's remaining life Value (skin is like his hair) as his ammunition pool. Al Camote has a multiplayer action game, created by the game studio Acroviu.

Heart of Artemisza (Edson Aguilar Velázquez)

Camacebra Games, a Mexican studio run by GameDev Edson Aguilar, brings the mobile rogue-lite "Heart of Artemisa", in which Artemisa is a half-demon who has lost his heart and escapes the dungeon without a companion. Players will advance through the procedurally generated dungeon floor, killing random beasts and avoiding traps while plundering treasure chests. The Heart of Artemisza has beat-driven chip music scores and retro graphics, which will satisfy fans of the 2015 "Tomb of the Dead" (Brace Yourself Games) released in Canada.

The evil wizard (Gonzalo Martinez)

An action role-playing game from Rubber Duck Games in Uruguay, "Evil Wizard" tells the story in a playful and comedic way, allowing you to control a recently defeated villain with the intention of regaining his castle from the hero. This Steam release highlights the retro and pixelated artistic style with modern lighting and magic effects, and creates a flashy game.

Fata Morgana: The City Beyond the Cloud (Fernando Córdoba)

MeNic Games expanded the peace and tranquility of air base construction in "Fata Morgana: Cities Beyond Clouds". The background of this Argentine city builder is a post-apocalyptic cyberpunk world where players can build towers and infrastructure in the atmosphere.

Ha_Bits (Andrés ParraDark)

Dark Quixote Studio ("Hell A Fun") brings "Ha_Bits, 2 new black cyberpunk adventure and platform games" to Windows and Mac. Players will play the role of a shameless administrator named "Lead" as they delve into the past mistakes and fight against the shadow organization desperate to destroy.

Hacker Wars (Carlos Enrique Bautista Salas)

As its title implies, the focus of the "hacker war" is to try to infect the opponent's computer with a virus to reduce their health to zero and get them out of the fight. Provides players with a series of computer-themed specific character abilities that can be used in the game. In addition, every game will unfold in a random dynamic phase, creating an unpredictable experience every time. The first project of Mexico's Ectoplasma game studio.

I am not jelly (Diana Limon)

In this colorful Rogue-lite game, players can attack and chop plant enemies during missions as they conquer planets for the Nojellian Empire. Developer 1 Simple Game’s "I’m not a jelly" was shortlisted for the 2021 accelerator Global Top Round finals and will bring energetic action to Ventana Sur’s Let’s Pitch 2021.

Just let me go (Sergio Rosa)

Salvadoran game studio The Domaginarium brought "Just Let Me Go", a horror game in which the player plays the 23-year-old Amelia, who was kidnapped and taken to a terrible house. When she plots to escape or suffers a fate worse than death, she must avoid the insidious residents of the house.

Kain Cobra The Y Edition (Juan Carlos León Rendón)

67 Bits from Brazil, a studio with more than 100 micro-games. The protagonist of this sci-fi parkour/shooting game is a cute Megaman style protagonist. The mission is to save the two most powerful protections of the blue planet. Or, to fight alien invasions and maintain an unstable balance against the new world order.

Black Storm (Ivan Jesus Mastrandria)

Argentina's Diskletton Studios provides a classic private eye story in this side-scrolling 2D point and click graphic adventure. The background of the game is set in Buenos Aires in 1952. The black aesthetics and soundtrack match the title and theme of the game, promising challenging puzzles and a character-driven storyline.

The simulation and strategy game "Soot" from Ceiba Software & Arts in Costa Rica revolves around catastrophic events that threaten all mankind. The only hope of survival rests on the ancient earth transformation technology, which can restore the balance of the earth. Players will control a scientist to understand this technology, solve puzzles to unlock its secrets.

Soulmoon (Jesús Ignacio Ortega Benavente)

Set in the future more than 1,000 years later, "Soul Moon" is unfolding in a bilateral ideological war between Soul Moon factions. The game is produced by Bisper Studios in Mexico, which was founded by a group of programmers who wanted to produce content based on art, unique design, music, and literature during the pandemic.

This story-driven title was produced by Estudio Mauve in Argentina and has a color palette that matches the company's name. The player controls a young woman crossing the Patagonia region of Argentina, facing a sometimes painful past.

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