T-Shirt and Hoodie Pre-order

We are printing Hand Eye Society t-shirts and hoodies with this amazing design by Craig D. Adams (AKA Superbrothers). Level up by layering up!

UPDATE: Sorry, we’re no longer taking orders.  Read more »

Play a Different Role Today

This being the day of dressing up, why not change up your usual videgame role and assume the identity of a Victorian eloper, a white girl rapper, a Yeti, a noir girl geek, an anatomy skeleton, a salsa gardener, an Icarus with dad issues, and a unicorn pooping colour trails?

The videogames for the first round of our Difference Engine Initiative, a six week gamemaking incubator for women, are all out! Play these free, cross-platform games in your browser right now.

Freaky Friday

This Friday has a ton of awesome stuff happening.

The TIFF Nexus Locative Media Innovation Day at Digifest features the unveiling of the Peripherals initiative, the results of what happens when you mate hardware hackers w/gamemakers. That’s a ticketed event, but the TOJam Arcade at 7pm is a free event for the public to play the games made during the last 3-day jam. (The arcade will be running on Saturday as well.)

Site 3 is throwing a Mad Engineer’s Ball Hallowe’en Party from 9pm-2am, $5, prizes for costumes. Knowing these creative makers the competition will be pretty fierce!

Toronto Skillswap Game Marketing Event

HES member Randy Orenstein writes:

Toronto Skillswap is the product of large quantities of beer and gumption, both found at a Hand Eye Social earlier this summer. Michael Todd, Fernando Restituto, and I got to chatting about the huge pool of skills in the Toronto game community, and how cool it would be if we could all get together occasionally and teach each other things. I went home and created the group on Facebook, Fernando and Michael have provided a ton of support, and now here we are. A few months later, the group had over 100 local developers and artists and has weekly events booked into December.

Difference Engine Social Photos

Monday’s event featuring the games by the women of the first Difference Engine Initiative incubator went really well. People got to play from a eclectic variety of perspectives: a Victorian eloper, a white girl rapper, a Yeti, a noir girl geek, an anatomy skeleton, a salsa gardener, an Icarus with dad issues, and a unicorn pooping colour trails. But if you missed it, don’t worry: you can play the games when they’re released online October 31st, and you can check out some of the pics below.

Want more? Check out Arun’s full photoset of the event!

Curious to see what what went down in the actual incubator sessions? Check out participant recaps of sessions one, two and three!