Tighten up your aprons and replace those singed oven mitts, as we are cooking up some brand new programming heading into 2019! We are always super hungry to present videogames in multidisciplinary ways and we are taste-testing the idea of creating a menu of videogame and food events. We have a few ideas in mind but would like to reach out to the greater community to see the kind of work that’s already being done and gauge the interest in this mélange.

If you have a friend that’s making a more accurate (or more difficult) Cooking Mama in VR, let us know! If you’re writing a Twine about the kind of food you had during your childhood, please tell us more about it! Want to create a game jam about donuts? There’s already been a game jam about watermelons, let’s up the ante and do a VEGAN DONUT GAME JAM!

“How can I get involved?” says the hungry Snorlax in you. We have a very lovely Google Form set-up where you can submit your ideas, including games, events, or any kind of playful media related with food and eating culture. We are open to anything including and not limited to: food, cooking, eating/tasting/drinking, ways of eating, food security, hunger, culinary-eating institutions, diets, gardens/farms, consumption of animal-plant products, fishing/hunting, global/cultural cuisine, social/economic-related topics, and any topic you can think of that is remotely related to food. This is a sort of prelude to an open call.

We will also be holding a General Info Meeting on August 20 at Trinity Square Video from 6pm-7:30pm. We will talk about some ideas we have floating around and gauge interest and we most definitely will talk about food at some point. If you’ve submitted something in our form, come out and let’s talk details.

RSVP at the Info Session Facebook Event

If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at info@handeyesociety.com.