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]