Greetings children of the quarter!
TOJam >just< finished and it was glorious!
90 people, 29 games, 1 Jammer from Vancouver.
See http://www.tojam.ca for all sorts of funky stuff.

Which brings us to the TOJam Arcade celebration
Friday May 22nd, 7 – Midnight. Blue Moon bar on Queen near Broadview.
We’ll project 6 games at a time onto the walls, and rotate through all 29.
We did this last year and a fine time was had by all.
Note: May 22nd is NOT the long weeknd.

We totally need your help.
We need 6 machines/laptops, and we must get 29 games working on those 6 machines. For Flash games this is easy. For XNA games, it’s very hard. We’re looking for 6 good people who:

• Own a decent machine / laptop with a decent graphics card. i.e. Less than 2 – 3 years old. Preferably Windows XP or Vista – MAC Bootcamp running Windows might work. Benchmark: If your machine can play http://blurst.com games (you need to download an ActiveX control to test), that’s all we need.
• Are willing to install and test/play games on that machine / laptop – including supporting libraries like .Net 3.5 and XNA. This won’t damange/comprimise your machine, but if this a machine you use for game DEVELOPMENT, you probably don’t want to introduce newer DLLs.
• Will bring that machine / laptop to the TOJam Arcade. We’ll be hooking it up to a projector, and can attach an external mouse/keyboard so the laptops are not exposed to filthy humans.
• (Bonus) Will come to my house near Church/Dundas for ~6 hour install/test game bonanza. The Arcade before the Arcade. It would make it way easier to troubleshoot and fix things (rather than using e-mail/the phone). Date for this powwow to be determined.

This would count towards the 10 hours of “Hand Eye Society” volunteer time.
Please e-mail asap if you’re able to help: jimmcginley@rogers.com
Subject: What luck! I have 6 machines and 6 projectors. They’re YOURS!

Super Double Ultra Mega Bonus Help
Does anyone besides Craig have a projector they can bring to the TOJam Arcade!? E-mail me asap: jimmcginley@rogers.com. Renting one projector costs ~$150 for 1 night, and we need 6. Anything that can be done to avoid that cost would be sincerely appreciated. While our TOJam sponsors are fantastic, they was only enough money to cover TOJam expenses (tables, fans, Internet, extension cords, power bars, tarps). We’d rather put that $900 towards a cool black leather jacket.
Ayyyyyyy!

p.s. The cat is an attempt to balance that disturbing Eye within Eye image.