WordPlay Fest Pics and Showcase Links
On Saturday we had over 200 people attend the inaugural WordPlay Festival of Writerly Games. The Toronto Reference Library was an amazing venue -- where better to celebrate games with a [...]
WordPlay Schedule, Announcements, a Brick Sandwich
Coincidentally, WordPlay is happening the day after the Playstation 4 release. Unlike the latest-and-greatest console, our festival of writerly games features more polysyllables than polygons. We have recently confirmed that Miguel [...]
Gamercamp Starts This Friday!
Jaime Woo from Gamercamp writes: Gamercamp is celebrating its fifth year (!!!) and it's going all out! First, there are three awesome visiting guest speakers coming in from Vancouver, Quebec City, [...]
Free Copies of Kentucky Route Zero
As you know from our previous announcements, one of the exciting formats we're trying with the writerly games WordPlay Festival on Sat. Nov 16th is a book club-style discussion of the magical [...]
A Live Video Game Comedy Show
Stephanie writes: It’s an all-out melee as Toronto’s finest comedians take on their favourite video games -- both classic & current -- LIVE on the Comedy Bar stage. This unique show [...]
IGDA Toronto Collecting Coins: New Funding Options for Game Developers
Ryan Creighton from the IGDA writes: Thanks to everyone who joined us for our fall kick-off event with Neil Druckmann. The IGDA Toronto 2014 season is in full swing with October's [...]
Reading Beyond Presence: Race & Ethnicity in Games
Reading Beyond Presence is an interactive seminar led by games writer and Dames Making Games member Soha Kareem, and will focus on how racial identities can be integrated into the games [...]
Team Vector and VideoFag present Queer Arcade!
Team Vector X VideoFag: Queer Arcade. July 27-28 @ VideoFag 187 Augusta Avenue, Toronto, Canada 12pm-10pm both days. Queer Arcade is a curatorial collaboration between game art curatorial collective Team Vector and the Toronto [...]
Torontaru One
Mourning the end of the Hand Eye Socials? This new event announcement will cheer you up! Marie-Christine Bourdua and Kris Piotrowski write: This is the beginning of a new age... of [...]
IGDA Toronto Rant and Rave Night
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 [...]
