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Workshops and More

Posted on: by David Hayward No Comments

Today we have five incredibly multi-disciplinary people to introduce to you, who’ll all be doing things with you at Feral Vector. Follow the links below to see more about them and their work, or get tickets on eventbrite if you haven’t already.

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Meg Jayanth is a writer and digital producer; one of the writing team behind the excellent 80 Days, as well as Samsara.

Tammy Nicholls is lead graphic designer for Tabletop wargaming giant Games Workshop, and she’ll be running MONSTERS vs VILLAGERS, about which she says: “You’ll be equipped with a deadly pair of scissors and some holy sellotape in your adventure. Remember: aim for the head and don’t split up.”

Harry Giles is a poet, performer and general doer, currently mid-residence on Orkney but he’ll be coming all the way down to Yorkshire to teach a workshop on gamepoems.

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Niall Moody makes games, music, and occasionally (carefully, thoughtfully) mashes the two together, as with A Diary of Whispered Truths. He also makes really beautiful zines on diverse subjects. At Feral Vector he’ll be talking at Feral Vector about the history of encryption and secret codes.

George Buckenham is a game and thing developer from London, and co-organiser of Wild Rumpus. He’ll be running a workshop on creating your own Twitter bots.

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Botany Walks, Titan Souls; Stuff to Make, Do, See

Posted on: by David Hayward No Comments

There’s much more of the programme yet to be announced, but we have some really exciting things to share with you today, some of which will involve making things, and walking.

Botany:

Chelsea Saunders and Ed Key will be leading a botany walk in the nearby woods and fields, which back onto the venue. Ed is currently working on something unannounced, and is of course one half of the team behind Proteus. Chelsea is based in Wales, currently working on enchanted furniture game Babi Glo. Some of her excellent work is just below, and you can see loads more on her tumblr.

It was these excellent cauldron walk cycles that first caught our eye.

Titan Souls:

Mark Foster and David Fenn will be coming over from Manchester to talk about Titan Souls, a simultaneously brutal and lovely videogame. Wearing Dark Souls inspiration on its sleeve, Titan Souls gets very intense, but that’s punctuated by peaceful moments that make you just sit within and soak up its lovely world. Here’s a trailer showing some of it:

Fanclub, Zines:

Lee Nicholls, Kaylea Mitchem, and Adam Dixon all hail from Nottingham. Kaylea runs the excellent Fan Club, a monthly club night and zine; Lee is a graphic designer and event producer who’s also worked with our friends at GameCity, and Adam is an event producer and game designer with a strong bent toward story-based games and game-likes. Together, and with your help, they’ll be running a game and making something about the whole two days…

Charlotte Gore, Super Lefty Righty:

Also from Manchester, Charlotte Gore will be showing her game Super Lefty Righty, along with a custom controller she built for it. Charlotte is a bona fide Super Hexagon champ, so knows a thing or two about these kind of games. She also recently wrote about altgames, and how the art world is unlikely to be a welcoming paradise for games industry outcasts and outsiders: Part 1, part 2, and part 3.

Holly Gramazio:

Finally, Feral Vector stalwart Holly Gramazio will also be doing a thing, the exact nature of which is TBC, but everything she’s done before has been brilliant and hilarious, such as the DEADLY SERIOUS GAMES spreadsheet from 2012.

That’s all for now, but stay tuned for more programme news soon. Don’t miss todays earlier post about our main venue, the wonderful Birchcliffe Centre. Tickets are over on Eventbrite:
http://feralvector2015.eventbrite.co.uk/

Early badgers end in a week! Edit: Gah, no. We forgot about April the 1st and there’s no way we’re saying anything at all on the internet today. Extended another week.

Venue: The Birchcliffe Centre

Posted on: by David Hayward No Comments

We’ve found a truly fantastic venue for Feral Vector this year. It’s the Birchcliffe Centre; a restored former Baptist Chapel run by the Pennine Heritage Trust. Below are a few of the pictures we took during yesterday’s visit:

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The Pennine Heritage Trust do all kinds of good work involving the industrial and natural heritage of Calderdale, including preparing walking tours for visitors (they’ve even made an app with downloadable guided walks in the area).

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The Birchcliffe Centre has wheelchair access to the main spaces we’ll be using, though unfortunately not the mezzanine. We’ll have the full program online a month before the event; if you have limited mobility and are worried about missing something due to accessibility issues, please get in touch to let us know (hello [at] feral-vector.com). We want it to be for everyone, and will work with you to make sure you can access the things you want to.

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(You can see a few more photos on our new Flickr account)

We’ll also be posting travel and accommodation guides soon, but don’t worry if you’re struggling to find anywhere to stay in Hebden Bridge itself: Hebden Bridge is reachable quickly, especially by rail, from Leeds, Manchester, and any of the towns between them (We recommend Halifax, Mytholmroyd, Sowerby Bridge, and Todmorden as the closest and nicest). Once again, tickets are on Eventbrite.

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