Smilegate Future Lab Foundation announced on Tuesday the 2nd that it will hold a special event including a special booth for the action platformer game ‘Sannabi’ at the indie game & culture festival ‘Beaver Rocks 2025’.
A special booth run by Wonder Potion, the developer of Sannabi, will feature a demonstration of the newly released spin-off, “Sannabi: Haunted Day.” Visitors will also find merchandise based on the Sannabi IP, including stickers, acrylic stands, and the popular Cheolho badge, which was a popular Tumblbug reward. All visitors who purchase merchandise will receive a special shopping bag designed with the Sannabi IP in mind.
Wonder Potion CEO Seunghyun Yoo will also give a special lecture sharing insights into indie game creation. Under the theme “Sannabi Postmortem: What I Wish I Knew Back Then,” he will share his experiences and the trials and errors he faced during the development process.
Smilegate is adding special features to Beaver Rocks 2025, including a special Sannabi booth, to ensure visitors can enjoy a fun-filled festival. First, all Beaver Rocks visitors will be provided with a “Guide & Quest Book” to enhance their immersion.
The quest book contains exhibition route information, game introductions, and missions. Visitors can complete quests to win prizes like Beaver Rocks merchandise and Lost Ark merchandise. The design allows visitors to seamlessly experience indie games and complete missions while touring the festival.
Children who visit Beaver Rocks will be given a ‘Special Adventurer’s Guidebook for Children’ designed to help them naturally understand the game creation process, and for first-time visitors to Beaver Rocks, games will be curated according to difficulty level in line with the RGB exhibition concept.
[Sannabi: Go see the article about the haunted day]
The Beaver Rocks 2025 exhibition can also be previewed online. Starting on the 1st of this month, the 281 works from this year’s exhibition will be sequentially unveiled through the “Beaver Rocks Online Exhibition” within STOVE. Visitors can access all 82 works from the offline DDP exhibition, as well as the 199 online-exclusive works without an on-site booth, free of charge.
Beaver Rocks, now in its fourth year, is Korea’s leading indie game festival, attracting over 28,000 visitors as of last year. This year’s event will be held at Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) in Seoul from the 5th to the 7th of this month. Tickets can be purchased through Naver Reservations and Ticket Link.
Hwang Ju-hoon, team leader of the Smilegate Future Lab Foundation, said, “The Sannabi special booth, quest book, and online exhibition hall will become a festival that will lead visitors into the world of indie games,” and added, “I hope that visitors will feel the unique charm of Beaver Rocks, where creators and fans enjoy and talk about games in the same space.”
