Spain Game Festival Brings 35 Companies And Kodaka To Tokyo
The event's numbers and the presence of a Japanese developer like Kodaka point to a working pipeline between Spanish studios and the Japanese industry rather than a one-off cultural exchange, with Denshattack! cited as the proof case.
Reporting from 1 source: Automaton.
The Spain Game Festival, an invitation-only business networking event hosted by the Spanish Trade and Investment Agency and the Embassy of Spain, was held on September 16 at Kanda Myojin Hall in Tokyo. Gonzalo Ramos of the embassy's economic office said 35 Spanish companies and organizations exhibited as "Games from Spain" at Tokyo Game Show 2026, and six Spanish titles were selected for SELECTED INDIE 80. Kazutaka Kodaka appeared as an event VIP.
The Spain Game Festival ran on September 16 at Kanda Myojin Hall in Tokyo, one day before Tokyo Game Show 2026 opened. Luis Garcia of Shinyuden traced the event's history in a talk titled "Seven Years Connecting Japan and Spanish Games," citing the first exchange meeting at Akihabara UDX in 2019. He pointed to Denshattack!, introduced at the 2025 edition, which released in 2026 and reached 300,000 players, with an "Overwhelmingly Positive" Steam status and a PC Metascore of 88 as of September 11, 2026. Twelve titles were pitched by developers, and EF Games' RIVALS HOVER LEAGUE and Loadstar's Stranded had playable demos.
- EthrA: selected for SELECTED INDIE 80
- Pain-T: selected for SELECTED INDIE 80
- XERME: selected for SELECTED INDIE 80
- IN SILICO: selected for SELECTED INDIE 80
- Bahagonia: selected for SELECTED INDIE 80
- Traces from Auralis: selected for SELECTED INDIE 80
- GOKUI: original IP from a Spain-Japan joint development project by WACHAJACK and VOXEL SCHOOL
- RIVALS HOVER LEAGUE: EF GAMES multiplayer action racing game with a playable demo
- Stranded: Loadstar exploration adventure game with a playable demo
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.