Hey Toronto: Messhof is your special guest at tonight's Hand Eye game event

Brandon Boyer 10:14 am Thu May 27, 2010

As previously mentioned, I'll be helping host tonight's installment of Toronto's indie game/creative community focused Hand Eye Society event, starting 7:30pm at Unit Bar, located at 1198 Queen West.

And, as promised, there'll be another special guest showing up at the event: NYC indie dev Mark 'Messhof' Essen, creator of games like the awesomely punishing Flywrench, the drugged-up-on-drugs madness of Randy Balma: Municipal Abortionist and the warped maze game collaboration with Pixeljam, Cream Wolf.

Fresh from being inducted into Intel and Vice Magazine's 'Creators Project' (alongside Spike Jonze, UNKLE's James Lavelle, and Phoenix), the highlight of the evening should be the local debut of Essen's gloriously stylish latest, NIDHOGG (above, created for NYU's 'No Quarter' exhibition), which should provide for intensely gladiatorial proceedings.

Here's to braving this city's record-breaking & utterly infernal heat wave for a night of good games and good company!

The Third Social of 2010: Thursday, May 27th. [Hand Eye Society]

Hey Toronto: attend the free Hand Eye indie games event, May 27th …

Enjoy a relaxing half hour compilation of rain scenes in videogames

Jez Burrows edited this "supercut of video game characters taking a break from solving crime or shooting people to enjoy a meditative minute of miserable weather." "It's Rain in Games,… READ THE REST
Peculiarities and miscellanea of the Street Fighter series

Capcom's Street Fighter is one of the most famous and expansively franchised games in history, rolling mercilessly on since 1987. RAE compiled an exhaustive collection of miscellaneous details, from hidden… READ THE REST
Non-Euclidean game worlds

Code Parade (also on itch.io) is developing a "hyperbolic" 3D game engine (download) where a line is not necessarily the shortest path between two places. I was impressed by the… READ THE REST
Short Post, just one paragraph

Dessert cheesecake wafer bear claw fruitcake. Fruitcake chupa chups donut candy canes marzipan. Apple pie sweet roll tart chocolate cake macaroon marshmallow carrot cake gummi bears sweet. Pastry sugar plum… READ THE REST
Save 50% on a 1-year subscription to Dashlane's premium password manager

We all know vital information about ourselves and our private digital accounts can be compromised by cybercriminals. However, many would be frightened to know just how compromised they and their… READ THE REST
The Bite Helper removes the itch of a mosquito bite in seconds

While mosquitoes have certainly earned their title as the deadliest animal on earth, their impact on most of our lives is usually a lot less consequential. But even though they… READ THE REST