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

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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.

Tickets and First Speakers

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We’d like to extend a huge thank you to all of our early supporters! All tickets are now up, including student/unwaged ones (If you’re not a student or unwaged, there are only a limited number of early tickets, so if you want one get it while they’re up).

http://feralvector2015.eventbrite.co.uk

As well as that, below are the first of our speakers/doers with some of their work. We’re bringing some Yorkshire natives back from further afield, and tempting a few people up from the Peak District too.

Kerry Turner, originally from up here but now based in Brighton, works as The Rabbit Club to put out experimental work. With her friend Dan Bibby, she recently made the excellent and spooky short gamelike thing Heartwood (we here at Feral Vector are very much in favour of things).

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Eliott Johnson and Matthew Warshaw are currently collaborating on the astonishing looking A Light in Chorus, which they describe as a game/art project. You can watch a magnificent trailer for it here but before you do that look, look. Look at it:

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Tom Betts is another child of Yorkshire now based in Brighton. As well as doing procedural generation for Sir, You Are Being Hunted (which often looks eerily similar to the moors around Calderdale), he’s currently completing a PhD on videogames and the digital sublime. He’s also a bit of an expert on computer art. You can find out more and see many beautiful examples of his work at his site.

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Graham T. Spence is, mysteriously, from The Northern Backbone of England, and will be coming a short way to speak about the connections between memory and place, as well as a current related project of his. Along with games and apps, he sometimes makes interesting experimental hardware, and has a good eye for trig points. Here’s some of his work in progress:

https://vine.co/v/OTDqOVzax2d

Once again, tickets are at:

http://feralvector2015.eventbrite.co.uk

More People! More Things!

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We have a few more things to announce for the lineup, but first just one bit of bad news: Shahid from SCEE double booked Feral Vector with a trip abroad. We’re sad he can’t be in London, and wish him a really, really good week away.

BUT ALSO:

Night in the Woods co-creator Alec Holowka will be there, with a demo!
Hohokum will be playable on PS4!
Spacebears will be there with their game Kingdoms!
Jonathan Prior will be talking about Taking Games Seriously!
David Aldhouse from Portland/UK based Society of The Six will be talking about building a real life escape the room game!
and finally, Richard Hogg returns with the magnificent Tea Club, made possible by Sheridans:

It is happening this Friday at The Crypt on the Green, Clerkenwell. There will be folk games and more things going on, and we may just have a few last minute surprises too. All of the early tickets have sold out, but there are still a few here.