[Noisebridge-discuss] freeware games arcade at noisebridge

[anna anthropy]

HELLO NOISEBRIDGE

this is anna anthropy. i've made videogames for events like the eurogamer
expo and giant robot's game over/continue. my associate jackson perkins (
jackaperkins at gmail.com) and i want to run an event like that at noisebridge.
think something like what babycastles (http://babycastles.com) is doing in
new york: a party space where people can get together, talk, and play some
games they might not otherwise have encountered in a social space.

the games are new games, freeware games by bedroom hackers, designed (or
reappropriated) for a social setting. games like nidhogg, norrland, winner
vs. loser and das uberleben - games for multiple players with fast
turn-arounds, and maybe some other games that we just want people to see.
(see links below for videos of the games i'm talking about.) noisebridge
will be a room of computers, each running a game, with people walking
around, playing and watching and meeting new folks.

we don't have an exact date in mind yet: a couple months from now? what this
is is a call for donations: we need computers, mostly, and usb controllers.
the computers don't have to be new. the games we plan to run don't have very
severe hardware requirements. if we can get enough computers, we'd like to
run a few more interesting mame games on some of them too. and we'd like to
run some really eye-catching four-player game on the projector.

so: if you have a computer, controllers, time, suggestions or advice that
you would like to volunteer, please contact me at collectfruit at gmail.com or
jack at jackaperkins at gmail.com. also feel free to suggest a name for the
event. (any name that makes reference to the game "portal" will be ridiculed
before it is dismissed.) and let's make this a huge, wonderful event! we're
of course going to use the event to promote noisebridge and collect
donations for the space.

videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoX3obdDtbU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEOzxrUDfM8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXUBE26QjRU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kguwa00NqNc

anna!
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