Alan Rawkins

If you live in or around the Toronto area, you may be interested in checking out Artcade, “where you can play over a dozen Toronto indie videogames on our totally awesome & totally fake arcade cabinets”, including my entry to the Toronto game Jam Happy Goat Lucky. Artcade is part of Canzine, “Canada’s Largest Zine Fair and Festival of Alternative Culture”. My apologies for the excessive use of double quotes.

The festival is on Sunday October 26, at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto. Check out the website for full details and a schedule.

I’m a little late posting this but what can you do. Back in early May I participated in the Toronto Independent Game Jam (TOJAM). The object of the Jam was to program a full game, from scratch, in 3 days, while adhering to a couple of requirements. The requirements in this case were to use an image of a goat on a pole, a sound bite of a Toronto subway car door closing, and to fit the theme of ‘Cheese’. My entry was a game called Happy Goat Lucky.

The Jam itself was a lot of fun. It was pretty cool to see so many talented developers whaling away on their projects at all hours of the day. It was also great to just have three days to do nothing but code.

The quality of the resulting games is pretty amazing. All of them are now available for free online at http://tojam.ca/games_2008/default.asp, so go check them out!

Dolphin Olympics 2 is ready for consumption. The game is still tentatively under development, and no doubt the high score chart will need to be rebooted before long, but otherwise it’s pretty much good to go.

donationcoder.com have posted the results to their 2006 Accessibility Game Programming Contest. Some really imaginative games were submitted, and it was great to be a part of it. Props to all of the winners, developers, and of course and the contest organizers who put in a lot of work and made it a really fun experience for everyone.

I’ve recently finished up working on an entry for the donationcoder.com Accessibility Game Coding Contest. It’s a switch game, which is a game that has only one input (in this case the left mouse button).

The game is called Wakerider. Steer a boat through a series of checkpoints before you run out of time while keeping your wakeboarder from wiping out.

Click to play!