The second annual Board Game Jam is happening next month at George Brown College. It’s going to be an awesome time when you can start a board game on Saturday and play it on Sunday night with your friends.
Check out the announcement of Board Game Jam 2012.
Your going to want to get your ticket as soon as possible as the early bird tickets are selling fast!
Looking for other cool people to make a video game with? Look no further and just come out to GameChangers! GameChangers is a series of workshops and events designed to increase the diversity of people who make games by getting people to build games.
Come out on February 4th to learn more about the project and find some potential teammates to make a game with!
GameChangers builds diverse teams to creates games. Team participants receive support from game leaders while they network and share experiences. In April, we’ll showcase the games and celebrate everyone’s involvement with prizes.
More about the event can be found here.
Ride the Better Way is a game in which you ride the TTC to go to work and then return home. You also get to decide That’s all there is to the game.
All I can say is that as a cyclist I’m glad I get to avoid the TTC.
For those outside Toronto, the TTC is the public transit service that calls itself “the better way”.
Gamercamp is a fantastic weekend long event that celebrate games and it happens every year in Toronto! This year they’ve added a whole new day to boot.
The site for Gamercamp Lvl3 is live and the schedule is up and looks super great. Get your tickets now so you don’t miss out on this great event.
From the Gamercamp website:
Welcome to the Gamercamp Lv3, packed with three days of goodness, over 40 hours of programming, and more games than you can shake a stick at!
Jump straight to our highlights page to see what’s new for this year, then check out our schedule for a guide of all the happenings. Our speakers page is also up and we’re adding new faces every week—all in all I think we can say this year is all about more, more, more! (Without the gold lamé!)
We’re also proud to announce our first keynote speaker: Seth Cooper, lead designer behind the Foldit, a protein-folding game that recently made worldwide news when players helped scientists uncover a key mechanism associated with HIV. Seth will share an inspiring talk on how games solve difficult real-world problems. Games don’t have to change the world, but if they could, why not?
Grab your tickets now!
Tonight’s Recess.to event is happening at the Duke of York pub in Toronto starting at 7pm. Not only is the event happening in a bar, the Recess folks have teamed up with the Game Prototype Challenge folks!
THe lineup of games looks fun, check out Recess.to’s info for tonight.
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