From May 1 to May 17, Kokoromi has teamed up with Concordia University’s TAG (Technoculture Art and Games) research group at the Montreal Biennale art show to share indie and experimental games with the gallery-going masses. On May 1 we presented superHYPERCUBE at the opening night of the Biennale. Thanks to everyone who came out to play!
On May 14 from 7 to 10pm, join us at the École Bourget for 8-bit music and projections by Montreal chiptune artists Noia, and Taxi Nouveau. On Thursdays the Biennale galleries are open until 8pm, so come check out the art show for only $5, and stick around to hear Live Game Sounds. Enjoy a drink from Laika 2.0 in a magical ambiance of lo-fi pixels, noises, and waves.
Then on May 15 and 16, visit the Porous Lab to witness indie game making in action. Live Game Code: Love Letters is a project by Heather and Cindy to design and create some very personal games in an open studio. Game making is mysterious to most people, and challenging to do if you’re not (yet) a software engineer. We want to show the whole process – its realities and absurdities – to people who may never have seen game development, and at the same time, teach ourselves to make the games that we want to make, without reliance on a large team.
To keep things interesting, we will (with the help of sexy lab assistants) be documenting and analyzing the game-making and learning process in action. We’ll be tracking the design (for instance, features implemented vs. dropped,) code base itself (such as numbers of variables), as well as our real-world activities (…blood alcohol level?) . Visitors to the gallery will be able to suggest data points for the lab assistants — identifiable by their lab coats and clip boards — to start tracking and add to our blackboard.
- Live Game Sounds: 7 to 10pm, May 14th
- Live Game Code: 12 to 6pm on May 15th and 16th.
- All events take place at Ecole Bourget, 1230 de la Montagne Street, Montreal
- Directions: http://www.biennalemontreal.org/en/info
Check back here for documentation after the event!
