i think i only missed one Toronto game community event last year. It was called GamerCamp, and it was on a Saturday. i skipped it because Saturdays are family days, and i wanted to spend some quality time with my wife and kids. i’ll never make that mistake again. GamerCamp : worth forsaking your family [...] Keep Reading

One of the events i attended in my whirlwind week of video game-related shindigs was START, a week-long exhibit of indie video games at OCAD, the Ontario College of Art and Design. START rotated through a selection of possibly “arty” games (though settling on a definition of arty games is still an exercise in intellectual [...] Keep Reading

Last night, i had the pleasure of patronizing a new café here in Toronto called Snakes & Lattes, which augments the usual triple-foam overpriced fancy coffee fare with an enormous wall packed with board games. The café is on Bloor Street West of Bathurst, quite nearby Honest Ed’s and the Pizza Pizza joint frequented by [...] Keep Reading

So we shopped Spellirium around at the Casual Connect conference in Seattle this past week, and the consensus was that the game was good … for them to poop on. Category Exclusivity i’ve been billing Spellirium as a “word puzzle/adventure game hybrid”, or “Jim Henson’s Labyrinth meets Boggle.” Er – that’s “Boggle”, not “Hoggle”. To [...] Keep Reading

We’re just starting to make great progress with Spellirium, our word puzzle/adventure game hybrid. For the past few months, it feels like we’ve been building pieces and elements of the game. Now that they’re built, we’re starting to assemble the actual game. Spellirium has two main modes: the lightning-quick Blitz Mode, where you try to [...] Keep Reading