- Canadian Game Sale 2025 | 1st July - 8th July - 2 July 2025
We're stoked to be part of the line up in the Canadian Games sale this year. Two of our team members are based in Montreal and active in the games scene there, running game jams, community events and concerts, and we couldn't be prouder of them! The game lineup this year is really stellar (so many games in this sale are on my wishlist 👀). There are 300+ games from Canadian developers taking part in this steam sale, so check out the discounts and demos from our fellow developers, and maybe see you at an event sometime!Thank you La Guilde du jeu vidéo du Québec for making this sale possible (and including Shards Between Us!) Canadian Games Sale steam event: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45548675/sale/CanadiansGamesSale
- Cerebral Puzzle Showcase 2025 | 29th May - 6th June - 29 May 2025
Cerebral Puzzle Showcase is a celebration of puzzle games, curated and organised by puzzle lovers to help you find your next game. This year, Shards Between Us is back among another fantastic selection of thinky games. We’re so thrilled to be joining the celebration! If you want to see more, Joe from Thinky Games will be live streaming on Twitch and YouTube, so check them out to see the many other wonderful games taking part. You can also find and wishlist all of these amazing games here on the event page. Thank you Draknek and Friends for curating this event and for your continued support of our game Shards Between Us
- Shards Between Us at Game Developers Conference 2025 - 7 April 2025
The week of March 17th, our narrative designer/producer and lead artist headed to San Francisco for the Game Developers Conference! Our narrative designer was a Conference Associate, so they got to see some fun discussions throughout the week and meet a bunch of other cool Conference Associates. We even got to demo Shards Between Us in the GDC Conference Associate lounge! We also showed Shards Between Us that Tuesday at Beyond Pixels, an LGBTQIA+ GDC Mixer, organized by Qweerty Gamers, who provide LGBTQIA+ support and resources to marginalized gamers and devs. The organizers, devs, and everyone who stopped by were so sweet! Thank you so much for having us! We’re really looking forward to collaborating on future events that Qweerty puts on. Our stickers of Glas and Viola came in right at the beginning of the week, and they came out beautifully! We had such a fun time meeting old friends,…
- Women’s Day Steam Sale 2025 - 3 March 2025
From February 28th - March 9th, our plant-puzzler Shards Between is included in the 2025 Women’s Day Steam Sale! Thank you so much to the organizers for all of their support
- Quebec Games Celebration 2025 - 22 February 2025
Did you know that our Audio and Narrative Directors are both based in Montreal, Quebec? From February 17th - 24th, our plant-puzzler Shards Between us can be found in the 2025 Quebec Games Celebration! Organized by Indie Asylum, The Quebec Games Celebration is an annual highlight of our local games community and we are honored to included. The celebration features over 200 released and upcoming titles from Quebec's finest independent and AAA devs. As a studio focused on bringing diverse voices to games, you can find Shards Between Us in several of the event's spotlight sections featuring underrepresented developers. You can find all of these amazing games here on the event page. #QuebecGamesCelebration
- Canada Media Fund Studio Spotlight - DemoNights 2025 - 20 February 2025
Tonight, February 20, 2025, around 8:30pm EST, our Co-Founder and Audio Director Nora Hébert will be speaking live on the Loto-Quebec Twitch channel for DemoNights! DemoNights is an annual event now co-produced by La Guilde du jéu video du Quebec and Loto-Quebec. It runs in tandem with the Quebec Games Celebration, from February 17-24th, and is a showcase of 15 games by Quebec developers. This year they selected Queensguard for one of three special spotlight interviews focusing on issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion, with support from the Canada Media Fund. Thank you so much to the organizers for all of the work they put into making this celebration possible! See you in the Twitch chat! Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/lotoquebec
- Shards Between Us is in the Storyteller's festival! Feb 17th - Feb 24th 2025 - 19 February 2025
We're so stoked to announce that we're in the Storyteller's Festival!! The Storyteller's Festival is a celebration of the art of storytelling, featuring a wide range of visual novels and narrative games that showcase the best in interactive fiction. It's a massive privilege to be included in this festival, there are so many beautiful games taking part. Hope you enjoy the live streams, trailers, demos from everyone. Thank you TwoHalfStudios for running this event!
- Montreal Comiccon - Le Zone de Jeu Indie - 5 November 2024
Every year, Le Zone de Jeux Indie Loto-Quebec invites a selection of games to showcase on the expo floor of Montreal Comiccon…. and this year they chose Shards Between Us! Arka, Nora, and Elisabeth reunited (in-person for the first time since GDC!) and had a lovely time catching up while sharing our little plant-puzzler. With Comiccon attracting 65,000 of our closest friends, we spent three fan-packed days showcasing our demo, chatting with fellow developers, and admiring all the AMAZING costumes of attendees. Take a look yourself in this amazing interview of Nora IN FRENCH - live on Loto Quebec’s Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2194924061?collection=6WU9DSRy3xd5Qg They even chose us for a live stream where they played our demo
- Develop Conference 2024 - 23 July 2024
Queensguard’s resident Animator and Artist, Charlotte, had the pleasure of attending Develop Brighton this year! Weather wise it was a mixed bag, but as an event it was a great time as always. This year, Queensguard showcased Shards Between Us at #RaiseTheGame’s Festival of Food Evening sponsored by UsTwo and Jagex. It was a real honour to be showcasing with the Code Coven booth where we represented Code Coven Alumni! The evening was amazing with so much delicious food! Pizza, Rice Bowls and Ice Cream Sandwiches all night… a Game Developer’s dream. After many fantastic meetups on the beachfront, including a quick dip in the sea with the good sunshine, we had a table at the Brilliant Indie Treasures Showcase! Taking place in a bank after closing hours it was a surreal backdrop but incredibly wholesome experience. It was fantastic to see so many familiar faces also exhibiting there. A hug…
- Cerebral Puzzle Showcase (23rd May - 30th May) - 23 May 2024
We're delighted to announce we're in the Cerebral Puzzle Showcase, with a wonderful bunch of amazing thinky games. As part of the event, we've showing our first ever Steam demo! It's available until May 30th, let us know what you think!
- Game Developers Conference 2024 & Level Up Gameplay Summit - 14 May 2024
Three of our team members went to the Game Developers Conference this past March: Arka Tu (environment artist/tech artist), Nora HĂ©bert (audio designer/composer), and Elisabeth Rose Astwood (producer/narrative). We got to connect with so many wonderful and talented developers, especially while hanging out at the Yerba Buena Gardens! We also got to meet and talk with a bunch of publishers about Shards Between Us! While this wasn't technically part of GDC, we also showcased at the Level Up Gameplay Summit that Wednesday near the Moscone Center. Tons of people had the chance to try Shards Between Us, and so many loved the puzzles! Thank you to the organizers of both GDC and the Gameplay Summit! We had a lot of fun showcasing Shards Between Us alongside so many other talented indies!
- Pocket Gamer Connects: Very Big Indie Pitch - 2 May 2024
On the Tuesday of GDC 2024 this past March, we got to be a part of the Very Big Indie Pitch ! This is the first time that our environment artist has met our audio designer and producer in-person! We had a wonderful time meeting all the publishers and journalists, and we got lots of practice refining our elevator pitch for the rest of GDC. We also got to meet a few of the other developers pitching, and, afterwards, we met some of the developers tabling at Pocket Gamer Connects as well! Thank you to the organizers for the opportunity to pitch to industry professionals and to meet other indies!
- ThinkyCon - 18 April 2024
Caroline Clark, our Game Director and Programmer, spoke at ThinkyCon 2024 about her top tips for programming indie thinky games. "Good coding means maximising my available working memory. Automated testing helped me build the ivy feature in Shards Between Us." - Caroline Clark Tips to make programming your game less hellish Making games in small teams or solo is more possible than it’s ever been, and you can see this in the explosion of indie games and game jams. Yet you might find that, as you take your three-day caffeine powered game jam project to being a fully fledged masterpiece, you have a sinking feeling that you're building it “wrong”, but you can’t figure out why or what to do about it. Caroline talks about the time sinks she's found in coding, give examples for common pitfalls and offers practical tips to help you make your indie games.
- Hamburg Games Conference - 25 March 2024
We had the incredible privilege of participating in Hamburg Games Conference, where over 2 days we exhibited and showcased Shards Between Us. As part of Indie Arena Booth Pitch Royal, Caroline Clark (our Game Director and programmer) pitched Shards Between Us in front of a jury of professionals. It was an honour to pitch our game and showcase alongside the other talented projects that took part. We had a great time meeting the other studios taking part, including the other pitch competitors Horizont Computergrafik and Roofkat, with their excellent games Escaping Atlantis and Rogue Voltage. Congratulations to the pitch winner Horizont Computerfrafik, Rogue Voltage is such a creative idea and well executed! As part of that event, we showcased Shards Between Us in the Indie Arena Booth section. Thank you to everyone who came along and gave us wonderful feedback. It's a really uplifting exp…
- Rome Video Game Lab - 23 February 2024
We were kindly invited by Games London to attend the Rome Video Game Lab where, over 4 days, we exhibited and showcased Shards Between Us and represented the UK Cohort! It was a huge honour to be able to show our Plant Puzzler alongside so many amazing game dev projects. The event was bustling with Local Artists, Developers and Students. It was a great chance to connect with the local community and have so many different types of people playtest our game! We were really touched with all the positive and emotional responses and it was a real highlight of our year already to have taken part in such a wholesome and heartfelt event. Thank you to everyone who came over to try out our game and share valuable feedback. Here’s Charlotte Pang, our Animator and Character Artist, and Caroline Clark, our Game Director and Programmer, at the showcase! We were not able to bring much decoration with t…
