So this may be the coolest thing to come out of this year’s amazing Gamercamp event. The Monday right after Gamercamp ended game dev Jason Kaplan started The Game Prototype Challenge and threw down its first mission on Twitter: make a game featuring ‘dreams’ and ‘collectables’ in a week. A week later six games were submitted. You can try them out here.
So now they want to do the same again just bigger and better! Game Prototype Challenge v2 will announce its theme Dec 13th. It’ll be open to everyone not just Toronto folks so spread the word to game makers you know outside the city!
You can follow and submit games through their Twitter @GamePrototypeCh. If you don’t have twitter you can still take part through their webpage gameprototypechallenge.com
If you’re interested in learning more about how the challenge started, Village Gamer has a great little interview on it.
Event | miguel | December 9, 2010 5:29 pm | Comments Off
If the merging of live Machinema performance, Halo and modern dance sounds interesting, you’ll want to check out the Halo™ Ballet world premier this Sunday!
From the organizers description:
Halo™ Ballet: Inspired by machinima — the repurposing of 3D graphics engines from video games like Quake to create video animation — X Avant takes things one step further by presenting Halo™ Ballet, a realtime live dance, choreographed by Julia Aplin and set to live music commissioned from Aaron Gervais. Toca Loca’s “Halorinas” will dance within a networked Halo™ game. Is Halo™ Ballet dance, multimedia, or just a really boring game where no one gets killed? Featuring Rick Sacks, Erik Ross, David Schotzko, Callan Burgess, Gregory Oh, Sanya Eng, Greg Samek and Stephanie Chua.
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!
The Hand Eye Society Arcade will be at The Scott Pilgrim Vol. 6 Midnight Release Party! Monday July 19th, 8pm-1am. Markham Street right next to Honest Eds.
The Beguiling Comic shop is holding a huge street sized party for the launch of the final volume of Scott Pilgrim. Author Bryan Lee O’Malley will be signing at the Beguiling (601 Markham) but there’s SP related stuff happening up and down the street. More details on the Beguiling webpage.
The HES Arcade will be at Butler’s Pantry, 591 Markham from 8pm-Midnight and we’ll have a number of local indie games setup for people to play (sadly the mighty Torontron will not be in attendance this time). The arcade will include games by:
If you’re not familiar with Scott Pilgrim it’s a Comic set in Toronto that stars Scott Pilgrim a 23 year old slacker in an indie band called Sex-Bob-omb. It has crazy kung-fu fights, vegans with psychic powers and a world built on videogame logic. You can read some previews on the official website.
Now that the comic is finishing up it’s about to be turned into a movie and a videogame!
SP vs. HES Fun Facts: The official Scott Pilgrim website was designed by HES member Nadine Lessio who also designed the Torontron logo. The fourth volume of Scott Pilgrim has pixel art on the back by HES member Miguel Sternberg (Spooky Squid Games).
Are you a HES member with a game you think would be a good fit for a future HES Arcade? Shoot me an email at neko@silencegreys.com with “HES Arcade get!” in the title and tell me about your game (or better yet send a link to it). No promises that it’ll be in the next Arcade but we do want to get a range of quality local games shown now that it looks like we’re doing these more regularly throughout the year. Generally speaking polished games that are pick up and play will be given preference.
Event | miguel | July 12, 2010 2:15 am | Comments Off
So this may be the coolest thing to come out of this year’s amazing Gamercamp event. The Monday right after Gamercamp ended game dev Jason Kaplan started The Game Prototype Challenge and threw down its first mission on Twitter: make a game featuring ‘dreams’ and ‘collectables’ in a week. A week later six games were submitted. You can try them out here.
December 9, 2010 5:29 pm | 
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