Austin Chapter

Dorkbot Geeks Out on Games this Thursday

This Thursday, May 10, 7PM, Dorkbot features an array of people doing strange things with electricity, including two video game topics:

• Jason Asbahr of Roxor Games will discuss Indie Arcade Game Development
• James Clarendon of Red Fly will present Tempest 2000, the trippiest game ever made.

Dorkbot is fun, free and strange. Come see for yourself. Details below.

http://www.dorkbotaustin.org

dorkbot is back. What do we have in store for you this time?
Colloids and whacked out video games and Satanic anti-war song-cycles. Oh-my!!!

Line-up:

• Brian Park (http://www.abbedon.com/electricminds/html/wwj_austin_2228.html)
  • Virtual Reality in 3space: realspace, mindspace & cyberspace. If you’ve seen the film Lawnmower Man, you’ve seen Brian’s work. Come out Thursday to see his latest inventions.
• Sean McCullough (http://www.cricketschirping.com/weblog/)

  • teaches you to build a writhing slime demonstration of how colloids react to sonic waves.
    

  
  
• Jason Asbahr from Roxor Games (http://www.roxorgames.com)
  
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    exposes Indie Arcade Game Development.
    
  
  
• “Music” by themysterious H
  
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    twists 8-bit synths in interesting and disastrous ways. DJ McPickleshittz backs him up with an original copy of Electric Lucifer.
    
  
  
• Tempest 2000 for the Atari Jaguar
  
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    Jeff Minter's magnum opus, this sequel to the coin-op classic Tempest is one of the trippiest games you’ll ever see. See (and play) for yourself with a homebrew rotary control on the big screen.
    
  
  

Spread the word about this Thursday to dork lovers near and far.

What’s next? We can’t spill all the beans quite yet but here’s a teaser of what’s to come this summer and fall: kidbot, evil dorkbot and Maker Faire.

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Posted by QuocTran on May 10, 2007 10:26 AM