The Submissions deadline for igfest 3 is the 20th of August. That pretty much makes this the 11th hour if you have any games you’d like to submit to this years festival…

So all you last chance kids, here is that link http://igfest.org/submissions

/team ig

On the 17-18th of September 2010, igfest is back with more city wide fun and games.

It’s igfest 3 and the city is your playground. Zombie chase game 2.8 Hours Later is the big event and the festival as a whole offers loads of exciting and silly games to choose from. Bring your family, bring your friends, and come out and play with us!

Some igfest 3 highlights not to be missed are:

2.8 Hours Later : a massive new zombie chase game for 200 players. Survive a night in Bristol without becoming a zombie and save the city from apocalypse. Tickets are now on sale from Watershed box office 0117 927 5100 or Watershed website.

The Running of the Bulls: Costumed beasts let loose in the city, intent on goring your gory bits. The Madness of Yore: rediscovered and updated, the folk games of our pagan past. This year igfest has also joined with Cyclefest, setting you off on city-wide cycle adventures or just playing stupid on two wheels.

igfest 3 will be based at our new city centre HQ in the buzzing and historic St Nicholas Market area of central Bristol.

Stay tuned for full festival listings!

Inspired by The Madness of Yore theme? We want you to bring your own game to igfest 3! Go to our submissions page.

 

ok so i’m sure some fo you will be keen to see this upcoming production at the old vic

Inspired by the immensely popular ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ books, this theatrical event lies somewhere between a conventional stage play and a video game text adventure.  

Involving encounters with a range of colourful characters and storylines, in this first stage of the project’s development, audience members will be able choose to work individually or in small teams to navigate their way through a physical maze involving puzzles, role-play and decision making.

See Bristol Old Vic website for full details and for bookings

Well its been a while..lots of things to cover.

Korean Lazer Rave

The beginning of April saw a collaboration with Josh Ward who had heard of our games through Amias Channer who came along to the Sci Fi themed iglab last summer at Hamilton House. Josh runs a night club night and invited us to host the top room and so we reskinned Korean Lazer Ball for this outting so that players could come along and play throughout the night, pitting themselves against our team of Korean Lazer Rangers to win the KLB Gold and Silver Awards.

Congratulations to Amias’s team who took home the Gold Award and to the Jungle Syndicate Crew who came in a close second…we still have your award guys…

Pleasure Hunt

After all the raving, day-glow paint and lazers we thought we would do a special extra iglab in April - a Saturday Shopping Sujour infact.

Nine very special attendees enjoyed a limited space Iglab on a beautiful Saturday morning in April with April’s collaboration ‘Pleasure Hunt’ with Sue Keen. Player responses were good and game play was followed with lashings of tea and cake.

The game was played in a busy Shopping area by 3 teams of 4 players, each team was given an identical set of task cards - each sealed in an envelope. Picking one envelope at a time from the set at random the teams had to agree on how they wished to fullfill the task. After all the tasks were complete we went back to the MilkBar and totted up the points. Duncans team which included the lovely Steph from ‘The Love of It’ - won overall.

Upcoming (May 27th)

Fear of Death

This is a test running of a new game in which you must - hunt and be hunted, stalk and be stalked, kill and be killed … spoon or be spooned.

Will you face death and accept her dainty kiss.

To play this game you will need a smartphone with a twitter client.

Ends

Any player photos from past Iglabs can be uploaded to our Facebook Group Iglab page or on flickr; please tag them with simongames and iglab, our flickr account is http://www.flickr.com/photos/simongames/

If anyone is interested in inviting us down to play Korean Lazer Rave please email helen@simongames.co.uk

This months event at Lakota, ‘Korean Lazer Rave’ a collaboration with Josh Ward was fun pictures and words will follow. Thanks to all involved and to those who came down. I will talk more when I sort through the pictures, but for now let me tell you about this…………..

Our Small Saturday Soire -a collaboration with Sue Keen.

Sue was one of the lovely people who we invited to create games at our Igfest 09 Artist Workshop and she came back to help run two of the games from that weekend; Lime Scene and Public Service Announchement at Igfest 09.

We are running a game by Sue and James Leadbeter called Pleasure Hunt on April 24th this game will only have 12 places. Visit http://play.simongames.co.uk/games?view=event&task=edit&id=57 for more details.