​Welcome to Weird Worlds Wind-down, Austin, TX edition!

​I've puddle hopped over the pond to visit and seems it's a good opportunity to meet up with gaming friends old and new! As is my usual approach, I figure why not bring together folks who make games that are a bit different and get them to show them to each other, oddball ideas, unpopular or dead genres, alt-ctrl or hardware hacks, strange or emerging tech, physical and tabletop games or paper prototypes, achingly indie “I made everything” production, open source, and more broadly “Weird Worlds”. I'll show you mine if you show me yours.

​Effectively it’s just weird, interesting, and experimental “stuff” that fits in the games context, no gatekeeping, no judgement (as long as palatable enough for a public space) - the aim is to be a big tent to give folks who are maybe slightly outside of industry norms a place to show why their work is artistic and interesting. Come join us, play something new, and even share a weird idea of your own if you want!

​So what’s the format?

​A very casual meetup, drinks and food, with some space to set down a laptop… a micro hybrid unconference-y / showcase thing - like Karaoke but for showing your indie games (as in: randomly show up and talk about or show something cool you are working on - truly tiny, just a corner of the Pinballz bar) where old friends and new folk will have a couple of tables to demo their work at (with some rotation depending on demand) and just more generally chat about what they are currently making.

​I’ll curate a few projects to demo and bring a couple of my own, but also allow for and make space for adhoc walk-in demos of new things if you want to swing by on the breeze and decide you have something weird you want to share. If keen then make sure to shoot me a message so I can make space for you to demo. We’ll also have a sheet to sign up on the day if you are habitually analogue and it’s busy enough that wee need to rotate or have time slots.

I'll order some pizza and a few drinks, too so we can all have a slice while we hang.

​Sneak Peek:

​As of now we have:

​OFF GRID : Red Team, a cyber security training game:
https://offgridthegame.com/red-team/

ELECTROMANCER, Travel between the real and virtual world in search of your brother in this mind-bending mystery-horror dungeon crawler.
https://4terrabytes.itch.io/electromancer

​an unannounced viking chess game

​a prototype multiplayer collaborative storytelling text adventure

​… more in the pipeline, and maybe you?!

If you are definitely coming and up for bringing a game to demo or share then feel free to email me with a link to your site or socials... you can reach me at rich at semaeopus dot com

​Looking forward to seeing you, please make sure to sign up here so have an idea of numbers and can order some pizza for us all.