Agents! Hand Eye Social Announcement

It is time for another meeting of our Hand Eye Society, the meeting known as The Social. The location will be as usual and as follows:

Date: Thursday, May 19th, 2011
Location: The Unit Bar (map)
Time: 7:30pm

It will cover ARGs (alternate reality games) or, as they are more appropriately named, Pervasive Games, and will entail a short presentation, discussion, and demonstration of state of the art field technology. Presenters will be David Fono of Atmosphere Industries, Tony Walsh of Phantom Compass, and myself. Beer will be available as always.

Additionally, a new assignment is available for our Ministry of the Night division – it is an open call across our entire organization. For consideration and further details, click here.

Mark Rabo
Event Operations Squad
Hand Eye Society

Open Call for Indie Games [Gamercamp]

While not much compares to console-for-Christmas euphoria, we’re still really pumped about showcasing local Toronto games at Gamercamp. If you’re a local dev and are interested in showing your project, we’ve got two ways you can do that.

1) Theatre Demos: demo your game on a theatre screen to the entire Gamercamp audience prior to one of the keynotes. Talk about how you came up with it, the development process, where you see it going, and whatever else.

Requirements:

• Game must currently be in development
• Game must be locally made

*Only 5 slots total, date is Saturday, November 13th, 2010*

2) Indie Arcade: show your game at the Indie Arcade along with other Toronto-made games including the Torontron and TOjam creations. It’s an arcade so it’s hands-on and a great way to playtest ongoing or show completed projects.

Requirements:

• Game must be work on a clean install of Mac or Windows
• Game must be playable

*~15 slots total, date is Sunday, November 14th, 2010*

If you’re interested in submitting a game, send along these bits:
- Your name
- What you want to be considered for (Theatre Demo, Indie Arcade, or both)
- A description of the game, dev blog links, etc.
- A playable link or screenshots

… to mark@gamercamp.ca and jaime@gamercamp.ca and one of us will get back to you.

And if you have questions, post them up in the comments.

Arcadian Renaissance [video]

The Arcadian Renaissance exhibit at Nuit Blanche was an amazing success. Hundreds of people came and played, many more watched as games were projected on the wall. The energy was phenomenal. If you missed it, get into your time machine and set the date to October 2nd, 2010 @ 7pm, or if your time machine is in the shop, check out this video.

The Arcadian Renaissance was made possible by our sponsors, the gamemakers, and the volunteer membership of the Hand Eye Society.

Cabinet Retrofitting: Jph Wacheski
Curator and Producer: Jim Munroe
TIFF Bell Lightbox Liason: Nick Pagee
Volunteer Coordination: Jori Baldwin
Media Outreach: Mike Drach
Deployment Officer: Callum Hay
Cabinet Graphic Design: Nadine Lessio
Flyer Graphic Design: Ben Rivers
Proposal Writer: Peter Marshall

Thanks to the folks who donated hardware and space to the project:

Tony Wong and Xtreme Labs
Rick Weiss
Jonathan M. Guberman
Alex Snukal and Interaccess
Marc Reeve-Newson
Adam Blake
Susan Bustos
Tyler Moore
Carol Mark

Thanks to

Joanna Rankin
Shawn McGrath
Miguel Sternberg
Emma Scratch
Paul Laroquod
Mark Rabo
Jaimie Woo
Sara Malabar and Scotiabank Nuit Blanche
Jim McGinley
Em McGinley
Shane Smith
James King
Andrei Gravelle
Dallas and Bill and the Pinball Exchange

Thanks to Jonah Hundert for ringside announcing and the volunteers at
the event itself:

Leif Conti-Groome
Tyler Moore
Jamie Tucker
Mike Drach
Emma Scratch
Will Perkins
Rene Shible
Chris Yurkovich
Ian-Patrick McAllister
Emily Afran
Rene Shible
Michelangelo Pereira Huezo
Carlos Yusim
Callan Burgess
Jason Spitkoski
Adam Blake
Stephen Kriedemann

Hand Eye Social Photos Are Up!

Brandonnns, Messhofs, beer, popsicles, games, and goodtimes. Photos of last Thursday’s Hand Eye Social are up here.

Photos – Hand Eye Social (April)

Had it not been for all the great conversations, I’d have snapped more. But here are the few pics I did get.
Nathan, Craig… I hope it was ok to post your private moment, if you want it taken down just let me know.

Flickr link to all