FAN EXPO Fri 4-9 | Sat 10am-7pm | Sun 11am-6pm Meto Convention Center (or just head to Union station and follow that dude who’s dressed like Naruto)
The Hand Eye Society Indie Arcade is making another appearance, this time at Fan Expo. We’re hidden away in room 201 on the ground floor and this time we’re packing the mighty Torontron Arcade cabinet! Also on display will be some fantastic games by HES members:
Saturday night Spooky Squid Games and ][ will be providing multiplayer games for the "Gamin' with the Girls - Fan Expo Gaming Party". Stay late for musical sets by local chiptune artists and DJ's including HES member DJ Finish Him (aka Shaun Hatton). It's worth staying late for a rare chance to play ]['s 'dancing sumo' game I Have Big Balls the way it was meant to be played… with live music creating a dynamically changing landscape to fight on!
OTHER EXIBITORS / EVENTS OF INTEREST:
HES member Benjamin Rivers will be selling comics at a yet to be disclosed location.
Veteran TOJammer Eric Kim will be selling comics at P43A.
TOJam 2010 newbie Heather Chan will be selling crafty things at A55.
HES member Ryan Creighton of Untold Entertainment will be on a panel on The State of the Local Video Game Industry at Sunday 12:30 pm room #205A.
HES member Shaun Hatton will be answering questions with the rest of the Electric Playground crew Sunday 5pm room #206C.
You might also want to check out the awesome folks from Decoder Ring Theatre at booth A132 they put on a mighty fine pulp radio drama podcast and you may recognize some voices from Spooky Squid Games’ Night of the Cephalopods and Guerrilla Gardening.
If you’re a HES member exhibiting or talking at Fan Expo we didn’t mean to omit you! Please comment and I’ll add you to this list!
On Saturday, September 18th 2010 from 7 until 11pm, Golden Gear and Behind the Front Visual Arts Studios are hosting the INDIE SHOWCASE and invite you and your friends to join us!
The event will be taking place at Behind the Front Visual Arts Studios, located at 212a Adelaide st west Suite 301 and is free to the public. Come down to this social / arcade style event and talk with professionals, amateurs, and anyone else interested in playing games.
Event Highlights
the Indie Arcade: Multiple stations setup around the studio with games from Toronto’s developers.
Presentations from a variety of local companies including but not limited to Get Set Games and Golden Gear sharing some of their experience and approaches on the topic of Going Indie in Toronto
Event location and Art on display provided by Behind the Front Visual Arts Studios
Event music provided by CR8Apes
Weather permitting – We will be projecting multiplayer games onto a 40′ wall!
More Details to follow!
Want to get involved?
We are still looking for more people to help out with this event by providing games to display, computers to display them on and potentially one or two more speakers.
WHO: special guest of honour jph wacheski, the man/machine hybrid behind iteration games will be bringing the razzle-dazzle — and possibly a little soft-shoe too.
WHENCE: the sweltering climes of our very own Ontario.
WHOM:Metanet will be hosting — will we have anything to show?? Please attend for the exciting conclusion of this cliff-hanger!
WHY: because jph has a bajillion cool games to show off; also, both Shigeru Miyamoto and Cliff Bleszinski failed to return our emails in a timely manner.
WHEN: 7:00pm, Thursday, August 26th 2010; twas the night before Fan Expo — or, twill be at any rate.
The first time you saw the Torontron, did you think “How can I get a game on there?” Well, Hand Eye needs 18 games to fill 3 new Torontron-style cabinets. This is your chance to have your game played by the public on an old-school machine.
Requirements:
created by Toronto-area developers
compatible with one of our control schemes (see below)
runable on a 3 gigahertz Windows box with an okay graphics card
Torontron Classic: one eight-way joystick and a button
Mousey McTrackball: a trackball with two buttons
The 2UP: two eight-way joysticks with two buttons apiece
The trackball means we can support games that require mice! And the 2UP can be used both for 2 player games or for 1 player games that need two sticks.
What we’re looking for:
approachable arcade-suitable gameplay, “pick up and play”
game can’t be too complicated, any instructions must be simple
quality and originality of graphics and sound
per-cabinet diversity of games
existing/older games are acceptable, but we prefer new
short games are fine
One cabinet will be installed for 6+ months at the new TIFF Bell Lightbox and another at the OMDC office, both places where interesting cultural intersections happen. One will be on tour like the Torontron has been.
Send us a link to your game along with installation instructions so we can download and evaluate it (using a mouse/keyboard/360 controller). If you’re improving a game that’s already publicly available (TOJam, Gamma, Artsy Game Incubator), mention what has changed since we have likely played the existing version. Additionally, let us know what cabinet control scheme(s) your game sould be considered for. More schemes means a better chance of having your game chosen. If your game is selected, it will need to be re-jigged to support the cabinet controls.
We will provide short feedback upon request, and be as transparent as possible about our selection process. We will get back to people by October 15th, with the cabinets being released in November.
If there are questions, and I’m sure there are many, please leave them as comments on this post.
Note: Due to different objectives, and a small number of slots, these games will likely NOT be part of the upcoming Nuit Blanche Arcadian Renaissance event. Updates on that coming soon!
Event | miguel | 
August 25, 2010 11:26 pm | 
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