October 2013 Game Event Roundup
Hey folks, and welcome back to the Hand Eye Society Toronto video game digest.
Don’t forget to check out the Toronto Gaming Calendar, that will be updated as more events become announced throughout the month. (Remember, the calendar can also be added to your googlecal.) Note only the events marked with an asterisk are Hand Eye events — for the rest, we’re just signal boosting for this amazing community.
Toronto Video Game Events
Thursday, October 3: Get To Know The Indies
Friday, Oct 4: WebGL Game Hackathon
Saturday, Oct. 5: Legend of the Five Rings LARP, Game #3
Game Curious: Exploring the Untapped Art of Video Games*
Nuit Blanche all night art thing: game related projects Fight or Flight, The Chess Set, The n games.
Monday, Oct. 7: Games with Friends #42, featuring HUSKERBALL and PHANTOM P.I.
Saturday, Oct. 12: X Avant VIII, featuring games curated by Team Vector.
Game Curious session 2*
Tuesday, Oct. 15th: IGDA Toronto Collecting Coins: New Funding Options for Game Developers
Saturday, Oct. 19: DMG Toronto Speaker Social
Game Curious session 3*
Sunday, Oct. 20: Mr. Ghosty’s Ghost Arcade at Canzine
Monday, Oct. 21: Games with Friends #43
Tuesday, October 23: Gaming Day of the Fall Tour Interactive
Friday, Oct. 25: Dames Playing Games (details coming)
Saturday, Oct. 26: Game Curious session 4*
Sunday, Oct. 27-28: Unplugged Expo
Monday, Oct. 28: Getting Started with Game Art Direction (with Beth Maher)
Tuesday, Oct. 29: Dames Making Games Annual General Meeting (all members: 6-7 p.m., voting members 7:15 p.m. – 9 p.m.) (details coming)
Wednesday, Oct. 30: Torontaru
Local Game Releases
Luis Hernandez and Jess Brouse’s JAZZPUNK (pictured above) is available for Pre-Order! Check it out on their brand-spankin’ new website.
Rokashi released a rad Twine, I’m Fine.
More on Twine, Kaitlin Tremblay released Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before.
Rollers of the Realm released a new trailer and you should absolutely check it out because pinballs and RPGs were made for each other.
Don’t Fall In The Hole by Oooweeooo Inc released for Ouya!
Also check out Medication Mediation, a game made through the DMG Junicorn game jam.
Toronto Folks In The Media
Plus10Damage covered Rokashi’s Twine, I’m Fine.
PC Power Play wrote about Cellar Door Games’ Rogue Legacy.
Capy’s Super Time Force saw lots of awesome media coverage. This list includes IndieGames, Gaming Illustrated, as well as Kotaku. And why not add one more? Adam Sessler called Super Time Force one of his favourite games at PAX. If that wasn’t enough, Super Time Force also got added to GDC Next 10 series.
Drinkbox Studio’s Guacamelee! was nominated for a Golden Joystick Award. Want more Guac? Check out 411Mania’s column about it.
DMG Member Soha El-Sabaawi talks about the workshop she co-hosted about race and ethnicity in games on the Medium Rare podcast.
Rollers of the Realm’s and Phantom Compass’s David Evan was interviewed, as well.
Everyone loves Torontaru! Including Joystiq.
Gaming Intelligence Agency has collected an amazing array of articles on Christine Love’s Hate Plus.
Which is being ported to iOS by the guys at Golden Gear Games, so don’t forget to keep an eye out for that!
At this year’s FanExpo, there was a #1ReasonWhy panel, which received coverage by Paper Droids.
Asteroid Base gave a talk at iFest in Sydney, as well.
Cool Stuff To Look Out For
Don’t miss out on Bit Bazaar’s table applications by joining their mailing list here (Bit Bazaar will be held Dec 6-7th this winter, so don’t forget to check it out!).
It’s also an exciting year for Gamercamp as it’s their 5th year running! So buy your pass (which is on sale now) for the early November fest, and check out the Salon Series talks, featuring Nels Anderson (Mark of the Ninja), Jill Murray (Assassin’s Creed IV), and Alexander Bruce (Antichamber).
Check out Hinterland Studio’s Kickstarter campaign for The Long Dark, a first-person post-disaster survival sim. If they meet the hit $100k by October 2nd, they’re unlocking Oculus Rift support at their base funding level!
Toronto Goes To IndieCade
Many Toronto-related games were IndieCade selections this year:
Asteroid Base’s Lovers In A Dangerous Spacetime
Phantom Compass’s Rollers of the Realm
Cellar Door Games’s Rogue Legacy
Sokobond, worked on by Ryan Roth
Sleeping Beast Games’s Spaceteam and
Congrats all and have fun!
As well, DMG’s Cecily Carver is on IndieCade panel “Game Design’s Dark Matter”.
Help Wanted/Offered Posted in Sept.
If anyone needs a 3D Artist, I’m eager to help!
I am looking to assist with audio implementation software such as FMOD, Wwise.
I am a designer and illustrator. Looking for anything from paid to internship.
I’m a novice programmer who’s not that great but I’m working on it, I’m fairly familiar with unity.
If there’s any November events or Toronto video games news, releases, and rad media coverage you want shared, don’t hesitate to pass it along to Kaitlin via email or on Twitter.
