We’re just one week away

For a glimpse at some of the neat things going on, check out our infographics-loving poster, snazzily designed by Benjamin Rivers!

The Gamercamp app, powered by Guidebook, was just released and is the best and easiest way to organize your time at the festival. Just head to m.guidebookapp.com and you’ll find our event listed on the home page. If you have an Apple or Android smartphone, you can download the Guidebook app and search for Gamercamp in it—one advantage is that the app saves the information locally, so even if you lose connectivity, you still have that goodness available.

We also have news that 12 brave competitors will be entering into Gamercamp Stadium for our Iron Chef Competition held on Friday as part of MakerU! Co-organized with Game Prototype Challenge, the Iron Chef Competition will be an intense three-hour jam where our competitors will have to make up a game around a secret ingredient.

In addition to Iron Chef, MakerU is an afternoon of creating where attendees can try their hands at video games, board games (with Board Game Jam co-organizer Adam Clare), and physical games (with Recess.TO’s David Fono and Kate Raynes-Goldie).

Finally, we need some help. We’re bringing back the 8-Bit Cereal Breakfast, where attendees are encouraged to dress in their pajamas, bring a bowl and spoon, and prepare for a fun morning of cereal and cartoons. Except we need to decide what cereals to bring: head over the our Facebook page to answer what we should feature for Lv3. Crushed cookie bits, anyone?

If you haven’t picked up your passes yet, do so now! Grab some buds and get set for what is destined to be another epic festival. Full details are available at www.gamercamp.ca!

Thanks and see you there! 

– Jaime

[Bonus Gamercamp content unlocked: Listen to this TIG Podcast interview with GC organizers Jaime and Mark!]

Hey everyone! For tonight’s Hand Eye Social at—wait for it!—the Melody Room at the Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen St. West, Toronto, ON), we’ve got three awesome games from three awesome guys from New York, introduced by offworld.com founder & IGF Chairman Brandon Boyer aka @brandonnn.

Join us from 20:00 – 23:00.
NOTE: THIS IS NOT AT UNIT BAR (!)

More Info:

Hokra
Ramiro Corbetta, aka @RamiroCorbetta, with audio by Nathan Tompkins.
http://www.ramirocorbetta.com/hokra
Hokra is a minimalist sports game about competition and cooperation. Commissioned by the NYU Game Center for the 2011 No Quarter Exhibition.

Recurse
Matt Parker, aka @madparker
http://www.madparker.com/recurse/
Recurse is a manic game of twisting bodies, quick reactions, and iteration. Commissioned by the NYU Game Center for the 2010 No Quarter Exhibition.

Miracle Adventures in 2113
Noah Sasso, aka @getdizzzy
http://strangeflavor.net/
Miracle Adventures in 2113 is a psychedelic experimental action game with one fist in the bullet hell/shmup tradition.

Sure, it’s the 4th of July, but we promise there will be no Celine Dion singing God Bless America. We can’t promise there won’t be boys singing like cats. See you there!

One of the co-organizers has asked us if we could bring some Toronto games with us so people can play and we totally dig that idea. We’ll probably load them on our laptops and rep Toronto good. If you’re interested, can you email me (jaime@gamercamp.ca) so we can arrange having your game played and shown?

Cool bones?

Gamercamp is back!

After launching last year with wicked talks, dazzling demos, a full-blown arcade, and scrumptious, sumptuous cupcakes, Toronto’s festival celebrating the art, creativity, and fun in video games returns November 13-14, 2010!

We really want to create a space where people can discuss games, play games, and hopefully become inspired to create games. Like any good sequel, Gamercamp 2010 is jammed with badassery: over two days, we’ve got 25 speakers, blazing new demos, 3 arcades including the amazing Torontrons created by Hand Eye, and even a PJs and cereal brekkie Sunday morning. Our line-up is filled with goodness like the Sword & Sworcery team, Jim Zubkavich of UDON, Stéphane Boutin of Scott Pilgrim v The World: the Game, and Mathew Kumar of EDGE and Gamasutra—and those are just our keynotes.

After a long (but awesome) day of games, we figure everyone will want to unwind. So, on Saturday night, we’re hosting the 1UP bash featuring Anamanaguchi and Starscream. After rocking PAX Prime, we’re excited for the Anamanaguchi guys to take Toronto by storm.

Tickets are on sale now! So grab some friends and mark down in your calendars what will be an epic weekend. Full details are available at www.gamercamp.ca!

Thanks and see you there!

Jaime