The excellent (and totally free!) Toronto Comic Arts Festival(TCAF) is coming up this weekend. Unlike your typical comic event this one is all about independent creators and small press comic books from around the world. It’s also really big for an indie media event, taking up two floors of the Toronto Reference Library (Yes the one where Knives and Ramona fight in Scott Pilgrim vol.2). Toronto’s local indie games initiative The Hand Eye Society is setting up a booth at TCAF with a bunch of playable games and we’re one of the participants.
Here are the Spooky Squid Games @ TCAF specific details:
Saturday – 9am-1pm – Play “The Night Balloonists”
Come play our four player one button versus game The Night Balloonists the way it was meant to be played.
Location: The Hand Eye Society Booth (2nd Floor)
Saturday – 2pm-3pm – The Spirit of Indie: Where Comics Meet Video Games
A panel discussion on the connection between indie comics and games with myself Scott Campbell, Jamie McKelvie and Jim Munroe. Moderated by Matthew Kumar.
Location: The Pilot
Sunday – 11am-2pm – Play the prototype for “Guerrilla Gardening: Seeds of Revolution” (tentative still working out logistics)
Yep! We’re letting people play the prototype for Guerrilla Gardening and get a taste of it’s unique stealth/strategy/planting gameplay. Being a prototype it’s all elbows and sharp edges, but we figure it’s a unique chance for people to try out an indie game in progress and for us to get some player feedback to make the final game even better.
Location: The Hand Eye Society Booth (2nd Floor)
All Weekend – Play “Night of the Cephalopods” on the Torontron
Play Night of the Cephalopods on an actual arcade cabinet!
Location: The Hand Eye Society Booth (2nd Floor)
Spooky Squid Related Comics at TCAF:
Eric Kim who does those slick portraits for Guerrilla Gardening will be selling his comics at table 149.
Dave Roman at table 128 will be selling issues of the fantastic Life Meter videogame anthologies (along with his own awesome comics). Volume 2 has comics by both myself and Eric Kim.
Hope to see those of you who can make it out!
TCAF
Saturday May 8th, 9am-5pm
Sunday May 9th, 11am-5pm
@ Toronto Reference Library
789 Yonge St., Toronto, Canada
Admission to TCAF is Free.
My partner and I were at the TCAF and played your game! As hippie-anarchist types, We both thought it was really cool. One thing that sie mentioned to me that I realized is nearly essential to your game is actually helping people do this in real life! Of course, not actually supporting them directly, that might be illegal- but include recipes for REAL seed bombs!!!!! How to make them and such! As well maybe include some literary references available or other stuff!
Hey Maus,
Thanks for playing! We definitely want the game to have a joyful anarchist spirit to it (I really <3 Emma Goldman) so I'm really glad you both liked it.
We definitely intend to include real life guerrilla gardening tutorials as an extra in the game, as well as pointing people towards resources like guerrillagardening.org and books like "On Guerrilla Gardening". I'm hoping guerrilla gardeners will play the game and players will go out and guerrilla garden!
Wow, Grats!!!
I hope it went well for you Miguel!!!
I’m still anxiously awaiting a demo ;D
Thanks Paul.
I went great! I’ll be posting some photos and thoughts on the event soon.
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