Tuesday: Game Design Video Night at LabTO!
Hey everyone, this is on short-notice but this Tuesday we are tentatively kicking off a monthly meetup of sorts (working title: Game Dialogues) where we can get together to watch game design videos, [...]
Comics vs Games 2016 open submissions now live!
The Hand Eye Society is holding an open call for videogames to showcase on-site at the Toronto Comics Arts Festival (May 14th and 15th) as part of this year’s Comics vs [...]
FebMoVid: Full Motion Video Tribute + Captain Power Screening
This February, videogames and movies collide as The Hand Eye Society joins forces with The Laser Blast Film Society for the first time ever! Together, we will celebrate the poorly compressed, [...]
Game Curious At Glendower
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vpjaWxyyU4 Video by Brian Bernard. This is what I remember after playing and making videogames with kids for 12 weeks: Smushing pizza slices with our fingers. Kids shooting their hands [...]
WordPlay 2015 Photos and Recap
WordPlay 2015 was our third year at the Toronto Reference Library, attracting over 200 people who came to experience and learn more about writerly games. Interactive fiction author and critic Emily Short [...]
WordPlay: Free Writerly Games Workshops and More
WordPlay 2015 is happening Saturday! Our previous update gave you a quick overview of our mainstage events, but did you know that we've got even more planned? Check it out! The [...]
WordPlay Mainstage Program
"[The] WordPlay festival is one of my favorite curations of a given year's niftiest narrative and text games. In recent years this space has become one of the most interesting for [...]
The Society Ball Photo Recap
Here's a 2 minute video to drop you into the scene, photos below. We had a line around the block, but more on the lines at the end of the post... [...]
10 Days to the Society Ball!
If there is a game-curious person in your life you'd like to invite to the Fri. Oct 9th Hand Eye Society Ball, now is probably the time! To get a sense of [...]
Society Ball: Games and Cocktail Preview!
There’s a chill in the air and the leaves are trembling on their branches, but there’s still one hot-ticket thing standing between now and the winter months: that’s right, it’s the [...]