event reports!
Added 2022-11-14 09:21:36 +0000 UTCi exhibited at two events this month so here's some photos and stuff of how they went!
the first one was retro creators, which was a new event just for retro game creators. i exhibited with my gb studio game (as did a few other people) but there were a lot of other stuff, like a super famicom game, chiptune music made on gameboy and megadrive, & this one guy with like a whole table of incredible homebrew gba hardware like a real-time clock module, an analogue stick, something that added tilt controls???. among other stuff.
this event was really fun because they had homebrew cartridges hanging from balloons in the middle of the venue which people could stick into their own gameboys/gbas/&c. to test game demos on, which i thought was a really cute way of doing it.
the second one was digital games expo, which had its tenth anniversary this year. i've always liked this event because it has a great variety of games with a lot of weird stuff! there's a handmade feel to a lot of things which i love.
in particularly at one table somebody had a handmade smart ball game (like an early version of pachinko) & was selling cassette tapes of their game's theme song. i like this atmosphere of game-making a lot more than events like tokyo game show & bitsummit, which feel much more 'corporate'.
i think it was a bit too exhausting though showing at two events in a row, so i won't be showing at anything for a while! i plan to show something at an event in january but i don't know what yet...
in the meantime i'll be working on some new games (:
Comments
yeah the fun thing was it's not like you got anything from the smart ball machine... you just enjoyed playing it, a little analogue toy. but yes i am getting some much needed rest (:
npckc
2022-11-15 01:23:25 +0000 UTCEvents that celebrate creators sure sound a lot more fun than the others, as you say. I don't go to any cons myself, but I imagine it's a little tragic that the larger, business-oriented ones are, uh, the larger ones. But I dunno anything about that, frankly!! And pffff. THE BALLOON THING WAS SO CUTE TO SEE, LIKE. That's just a fricking fun idea, I love it. The actual stuff there sounds super fricking cool, too!!! Just, a great time all around. WONDERFULLY RETRO..... AND WONDERFULLY INVENTIVE TOO..... All of those GBA peripherals (unless I'm misinterpreting what it was pff) sound funky as hell!!!!!!! And live-mixing music with a console sounds cool as hell, too......!!!!! (Definitely looking forward to giving sdhizumi's LSDj track a listen when it's ready pff) I think the person who made that Smart Ball machine is an absolute champion, pffff. The design is incredible........ And really fits the vibe that every gambling machine should have, in a just society: slightly haunting. BUT IT'S CUTE...... And people using cassettes in the year 2022 is incredible as hell. ANALOG TECHNOLOGY......... What a beautiful thing. But now.......... it is post-con rest time x2, pff.
Blackberry Mochi
2022-11-14 10:42:17 +0000 UTC
