Comments on: MESSHOF at MOCCA https://test.handeyesociety.com/2009/03/30/messhof-at-mocca/ My WordPress Blog Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:32:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6 By: raigan https://test.handeyesociety.com/2009/03/30/messhof-at-mocca/#comment-62 Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:32:57 +0000 http://handeyesociety.com/?p=156#comment-62 TARGA is awesome!!

]]> By: Shaun Hatton https://test.handeyesociety.com/2009/03/30/messhof-at-mocca/#comment-61 Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:08:57 +0000 http://handeyesociety.com/?p=156#comment-61 Hey all –

What about TARGA = Toronto Arts & Games.

]]> By: superbrothers https://test.handeyesociety.com/2009/03/30/messhof-at-mocca/#comment-60 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:22:54 +0000 http://handeyesociety.com/?p=156#comment-60 Yeah, this sounds like something that needs to happen. Pixel Gallery seems like a pretty nice place to start.

Hmmmm….GAMMA happens alongside MIGS. Game Over (the show at Giant Robot) happens alongside GDC. Is there some event in Toronto that’s worth piggybacking this kind of thing onto, like when a target (or adjacent) audience is in town anyways? I guess Comic-Con might not be the right choice for various reasons (an odd time of year, too close to PAX, maybe to nerdcore). What about Word on the Street? Comic Arts Festival? Nuit Blanche? Something else?

Also, isn’t GAMMA = Game Arts Montreal? I think we probably ought to coin a Toronto-centric name, although some affiliation with the GAMMA crowd would be a very great thing.
Hmmm……

]]> By: kris https://test.handeyesociety.com/2009/03/30/messhof-at-mocca/#comment-59 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:23:01 +0000 http://handeyesociety.com/?p=156#comment-59 Definitely! Regarding #1, we all talked about the need to create a GAMMA-esq event in Toronto. It seems we’re all on the same page about it so let’s do it! GAMMA Jr.

]]> By: superbrothers https://test.handeyesociety.com/2009/03/30/messhof-at-mocca/#comment-58 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:04:26 +0000 http://handeyesociety.com/?p=156#comment-58 >> it’s crazy that I’m only waking up to this now. Where have I been!?

> playing too much motorstorm? 😉

Keenly observed, guilty as charged. 😛

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Yeah, Mark Essen is great, his videogames kick ass.

It was a real treat to see 8-bit videogames & comfortable couches in a fancy museum space!

Mark’s freely distributed drink tickets were a nice touch too. 🙂

Two thoughts:
1. 8-bit videogames + museum/gallery spaces = urgent goal.

2. Playing and sharing videogames in a spacious, comfortable & semi-public downtown space = genius.

]]> By: kris https://test.handeyesociety.com/2009/03/30/messhof-at-mocca/#comment-57 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:44:29 +0000 http://handeyesociety.com/?p=156#comment-57 It was great! Messhof is a totally radical dude and his game is exactly as hilarious as it is disturbing.

]]> By: Jim Munroe https://test.handeyesociety.com/2009/03/30/messhof-at-mocca/#comment-56 Sat, 04 Apr 2009 22:49:36 +0000 http://handeyesociety.com/?p=156#comment-56 Looks like you figured out the system all on your own! Nice.

How did the event go? My wife had a rock show so I was babysitting.

]]> By: queasy https://test.handeyesociety.com/2009/03/30/messhof-at-mocca/#comment-55 Thu, 02 Apr 2009 08:01:41 +0000 http://handeyesociety.com/?p=156#comment-55 >> it’s crazy that I’m only waking up to this now. Where have I been!?

playing too much motorstorm? 😉

also, i think the page is public now. my guess is that it needs to be in the “social” category.

]]> By: superbrothers https://test.handeyesociety.com/2009/03/30/messhof-at-mocca/#comment-54 Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:20:18 +0000 http://handeyesociety.com/?p=156#comment-54 Hmm.. Munroe might know about the workings of the Hand Eye. It might be a matter of putting the item in something other than chit-chat? Or maybe only a few members have access to the front page (which would be reasonable also)?

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I’ve just been catching up on MESSHOF’s videogames, specifically Municipal Abortionist and Flywheel. There’s an intense communication going on in there, he’s a legit phenomenon.

I also belatedly started to explore the Cactus arcade. MESSHOF and Cactus are creating the videogames that live in my wildest dreams, it’s crazy that I’m only waking up to this now. Where have I been!?

]]> By: kris https://test.handeyesociety.com/2009/03/30/messhof-at-mocca/#comment-53 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:39:24 +0000 http://handeyesociety.com/?p=156#comment-53 Definitely but…. how do I post on the front page:)

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