Ryan Creighton from IGDA Toronto writes:
A Free-Wheeling Grab-bag of Microtalks Starring YOU!
Join us Tuesday June 25th at 7pm, in room 190 at OCADU for a reprisal of our Open Mic Night sessions. Hosted by the indomitable Andy Smith, this year’s Rant and Rave Night will feature members of the Toronto game development community delivering exuberant 5-minute microtalks on a variety of topics of interest to the Toronto game dev community.
As always, this event is free of charge and all are welcome. Join the event on our Facebook page!
Got Something On Your Mind?
We are still accepting speaker submissions for this event. We welcome submissions for 5-minute microtalks that are either constructively nitpicky or passionately positive. Submit your rant OR rave proposal to igdatoronto@gmail.com by Sunday June 16th. Submissions should be 500 words or less.
Keep tabs on events like this via the Toronto Gaming Calendar. (If you use Google, click here to add TGC to your Calendars.)
Liam O’Donnell writes us about a Multi-School Minecraft Project event:
Minecraft! That blocky Lego-style game that seems to be everywhere. Including schools.
Before you panic that teachers are ruining a perfectly awesome game with learning, join three TDSB educators to see how their students lead the way in creating, playing and PvPing on the Multi-School Minecraft server.
Since 2011 and in partnership with the EDGELab at Ryerson, the Multi-School Minecraft Project (40 elementary students, from four inner-city schools, sharing one server) has unleashed much mayhem and created plenty of learning in schools across Toronto.
Liam O’Donnell, Denise Colby and Diana Maliszewski return to the Academy, for another discussion around the successes and challenges of their GamingEdus project, bringing Minecraft into elementary schools in Toronto. This open discussion will look at the promises and perils of Games Based Learning and Gamification in the classroom. Questions, ideas and opinions are all very welcome!
It’s happening a week today at the Academy of the Impossible (currently hosting our Torontron Twinstick). Details here.
Keep tabs on events like this via the Toronto Gaming Calendar. (If you use Google, click here to add TGC to your Calendars.)
Ryan from IGDA Toronto writes:
We are now taking submissions for IGDA Toronto’s Rant and Rave night! This year we are welcoming submissions for 5-minute microtalks that are either constructively nitpicky or passionately positive. Submit your rant OR rave proposal to igdatoronto@gmail.com by Sunday June 16th. Submissions should be 500 words or less. We’ll select the best Rants and Raves, and you’ll have your chance to deliver them on stage as part of the next IGDA event during the last week of June.
Our friends at IGDA Toronto have organized a panel:
Come along and hear Canada’s top games journalists including Steve Tilley (Sun Media / Electric Playground), Dan Kaszor (Post Arcade), Jim Squires (Gamezebo), Andrew Webster (The Verge) and Peter Nowak (Globe & Mail) discuss games coverage of all stripes – from AAA releases to independent game jams.
Moderated by Post Arcade’s Matt Hartley, COVER ME! will explore best practices to get your games featured by the press, examples of great games journalism and much more. Join us after at 9 p.m. for our monthly social at Bar 244, 244 Adelaide St W.
Thurs. May 30th, 7pm
Room 308, Metro Hall, 55 John Street, Toronto.
Facebook RSVP here.
Then you’ve already salivated over the post with the amazing games being showcased at TCAF this weekend. (We still need some volunteers for that, by the way — drop Kaitlin a line to find out more!)
And probably you’ve already RSVPed to the art show opening on Thursday.
But did you know about the crazy star-studded panel happening on Saturday, conveniently close to the Bit Bazaar happenings?
Comics vs Games: Narrative Intersections
Featuring Scott C., Bryan Lee O’Malley, Ben Rivers, Jim Zub, Moderator Miguel Sternberg
Saturday, May 11, 1:00pm-2:30pm
@ Bit Bazaar, Bento Miso, 862 Richmond Street West (Queen & Strachan)
FREE
A huge component of TCAF 2013 is our one-day, off-site BIT BAZAAR! An exhibition of more than 20 indy game developers and studios, with games, art, and crafts that mix comics, games, and narrative. At the center of the event is this special presentation featuring some of the greatest names in the comics & games crossover! Scott C. (Doublefine, The Art of Brutal Legend), Bryan Lee O’Malley (Scott Pilgrim), Benjamin Rivers (Snow, Home), Jim Zub (Skullkickers, Street Fighter HD Remix), and Moderator Miguel Sternberg (They Bleed Pixels) will discuss the intersection between comics and games, how comics and games borrow from each other to tell stories. The participants will talk about their relationships with games, how they borrow and adapt ideas from games and comics into the other. A signing with book sales will follow!
Comics vs Games 2 is a Toronto Comics Arts Festival event sponsored by Bento Miso and co-organized with The Hand Eye Society and Attract Mode.
Event | Ryan Henson Creighton | 
June 15, 2013 11:07 am | 
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