The King’s Bird competition

“My first E3 was when I was a college kid. I randomly emailed analyst Michael Pachter and he liked me enough to invite me to his Wedbush party. I met Tim Schafer, CliffyB, and Todd Howard there.

Some dev that year didn’t show up for their exhibit slot for IndieCade so we ended up pulling out our laptops and showed our indie game on the E3 show floor simply out of luck.

The next year we went prepared, emailed all the random companies there to see if we could get our games on the show floor and ended up having an opportunity to show The King’s Bird and Neversong with a peripherals company right next to Nintendo’s booth, they also had a huge ball pit for the booth. Definitely a dream come true.

The year after we showed The King’s Bird at the MIX event at E3. The journalists ended up going crazy and everyone started dragging each other to compete against their high scores. We ended up getting voted the most critically acclaimed game at E3 that year, which I will never forget.”

—Zhenghua Yang, Serenity Forge