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QuickDraw and GlowTag: Greenfly Studios

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Greenfly Studios are based in Manchester, and have been making digital folk games on the side. We played both last night, and they’re excellent. GlowTag especially has an amazing physicality to it, such that you’ll probably do well if you’ve ever done any kind of martial art. It uses the controllers and the computer just enough to enhance and somewhat automate the concept of Tag.

There’s no HD video of either game quite yet, but you can see a little of GlowTag here, and a little of QuickDraw here. Stephen Morris will be at BoA running both games, and if you don’t have a ticket yet, you can get one here.

More Speakers, And Games!

Wave Trip, by Lucky Frame

We’ve been busy organising more of the programme for Bit of Alright, and are really excited about… well, all of it. As well as those already announced, we will have things by:

Lucky Frame (Game run by Jonathan Brodsky)
Glitchnap (Games run by Jonatan Van Hove)
Nat Marco, Honeyslug
Lawrie Russell, developer of Trash TV
Richard Hogg
Caspian Prince, Puppygames
Tom Betts, Big Robot

As well as games by more people! A little taste of some of this:

Glitchnap are the Nordic developers of LAZA KNITEZ!! as well as GO NUTS!!, both of which will be playable on the day. Richard Hogg, instead of a talk, will be doing Tea Club, in which he will make you tea while conducting interviews. Nat will once again be running a game design workshop; last year it was about making games with rocks, which was brill. Tom will be doing something related to Sir. I can’t yet reveal what Jonathan from Lucky Frame will be showing, but it sounds amazing and here’s a really big clue.

As well as all of that, there will be Bennett Foddy‘s QWOP 3D, Stephen Morris from Greenfly Studios running their PS Move games Quick Draw and Glowtag, and Starseed Pilgrim developer Droqen‘s new game BONUS LOOK, which is co-op, but not as you’ve known it…

Tickets are still available on Eventbrite, and we STILL have more to announce. From tomorrow, we’ll be doing daily blog posts with a bit more detail on the games and stuff people are doing.

Bit of Alright Returns. BOAT!

BoA, boat, Owl

Bit of Alright is returning, and soon: May the 10th.

Last year, after the first ever Bit of Alright finished, I was speaking to the production team (Jo and Ross), and they asked “How do you think that went?”. I replied: “I think it was okay, but what I’d really like to do, next year, is this, again… but… but on a converted East German fishing trawler built during the Cold War. It’d have AV and stages in the cargo holds, and a lovely crew, and it’s outlook would be primarily cultural rather than commercial. If only such a thing existed”.

That’s a lie, I didn’t say that, but this is no lie at all: Bit of Alright will be happening again, on May the 10th 2013, 12:00 — 17:00, on the M.S. Stubnitz, a converted East German fishing trawler moored at Canary Wharf in London. It has AV and stages in the cargo holds, a lovely crew, and their outlook is primarily cultural rather than commercial. You can pretty much see by their Flickr stream just how fantastic a venue it is.

Speakers for BoA this time include Mike Bithell, Holly Gramazio (Hide&Seek), George Buckenham (Die Gute Fabrik), Cara Ellison (Littleloud/RPS), Ben Milsom (Mind Candy), Mitu Khandaker (The Tiniest Shark), Stephen Morris (Greenfly Studios), and Jonathan Whiting, among more to be announced. Subjects will range from game and level design through to Twine games and building custom hardware. Of course, there’ll be loads of live games to play as well, and some unconventional design workshops.

It’s going to be brilliant. Tickets are on sale at Eventbrite, and the very limited early bird ones are only £25.

In the same weekend, on the same ship there’s also the Apocalypse Gameshow shortly after Bit of Alright, and the night after another London based Wild Rumpus.

If you can’t make any of those, the ever stalwart GameCamp is on the following Saturday, 18th of May at LSBU. Tickets are being sold separately for all of these events, and you can get your Bit of Alright one here.

A presskit with logos and the first release is also downloadable here.

Edit: BoA is also on Lanyrd now.

BoA, boat, Hedgehog

(Lovely artwork, once again, by Amy Blackwell).