Festival Debrief

Photo Cred: Christian Lumsden

Thanks again to all of the people who came to Artscape/Gamescape this past weekend! It was a pleasure to see some familiar faces and meet some new folks. I'm always impressed by the quality of work of my fellow developers: I had a great time playing Virtual Wave, That Rock Paper Scissors Game, Hamsterdam, and Miracle Mia. It was good to see Tin Heart Interactive's Confines of the Law make an appearance after having played it at Cecil Con, and while I hadn't had a chance to get to Boba Studios' Squirrely Roo Rabbit, it looks lovely.

I want to give a shout out to our amazing players who stopped by! I'm often astounded by the tenacity of those who compete in our high score competition, but I've never before seen a feud between two players develop over the course of a long weekend. Thanks to Jordyn and my friend Dom for providing an intense Monster Truck Power Fantasy rivalry, and to Jordyn's stepbrother Mike for causing the greatest high score competition upset in Underground Arcade history, making a flawless run just three minutes before close, shutting out his rivals. I yelled a little bit.

446 buildings destroyed with perfect tires. Who does that?

The complete list of top scorers by 7:00 on Sunday is as follows:

• Bloodjak: Jordan: 3926
• Mutant Highway: Caleb: 1483
• Monster Truck Power Fantasy: Mike: 44,600
• Fungilluminati: William: 13,230
• Diablow: Calvin: 15,505

Congratulations!

Some of you reading this may be looking for my colleague Stephen's work: it can be found at let-off.com. All of my games can be found by clicking the "games" tab at the top of the page (or, don't even scroll up, let me make it easy for you). Some of you may want to download a certain song about a Monster Truck; you can get that off of my soundcloud.

Stephen is continuing to work hard on Diablow. Meanwhile, I'll be releasing a secret mini-RPG in the coming month before resuming work on my running project, Monsterpunk.

We're looking forward to seeing y'all again! Much love.