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Ricky Haggett  //  I make videogames and run a small indie developer in North London called Honeyslug.

Sep 16 / 8:58pm

Wild Rumpus: Thank-yous and Follow Fridays

So last night, we did a thing, and an awful lot of people came to it, and helped to prove our theory that they would enjoy getting together to play a selection of awesome multiplayer indie games.

EDIT: Photos from the night are >here<.

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There are a lot of people to me to thank, and potentially for you to follow on Twitter: I figured I'd combine the two.

 

Firstly, the people who made the games! They are:

Doug, who made Johann Sebastian Joust (and phoned from Utrect to offer advice on taping bottlecaps to controllers to solve a tricksy technical problem in the nick of time)

Vlambeer - JW and Rami - who made Super Crate Box.

Mike and Greg - collectively known as Mikengreg - who made 4Fourths.

Martin and Petri - who made Jesus vs Dinosaurs

The Copenhagen Game Collective - who made B.U.T.T.O.N.

 

Secondly, our sponsors - IndieCity, and their representative on the night, Deejay.

 

London now has it's first (but not last) indie-games arcade cabinet - The Beast! This is largely thanks to George and Joe who renovated it and filled its belly with computer parts, and Jerry - who did the beautiful art. Thanks also to David, who babysat it while it had its stickers applied, then helped us to host the games..

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Ali did an amazing job hosting Joust all night - keeping the level of shoving and roughhousing at just the right level, and Nat managed to coerce many unsuspecting members of the public into doing stupid BUTTON nonsense.

Minkette and Mark on Team Rumpus, who helped out with a load of the preparation, and looked after various games throughout the evening.

 

Our marvellous photographer, Natalie Seery (who sadly isn't on Twitter, so you can't follow her).

 

Kokoromi, for providing part of the inspiration for doing it in the first place, and helping to demonstrate the way these things should be done. (There is gonna be a Gamma V, right guys?)

 

Almost-finally, my co-conspirators: Dick and Marie, who did the graphic design, printing, spreadsheets and all the complicated logistics!

And finally everyone who came, retweeted, facebooked - It was a blast! Thanks for making it work! See you next time x

 

 

 

 

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