I’m still exhausted. Much love was shown from the gamers, geeks and devs, both from the area and all over the country, and we all had an awesome time. We wanted to roll up with WHALE PRIDE and inadvertently enjoyed ourselves like the [not-so] closet geeks we are.

Experimental game dev, Ted Aronson, our Philly bro, but Boston native, showed us around his lovely home turf. I was like, “Ted, I’m in Boston. MAKE ME FEEL LIKE I’M IN BOSTON.” So we imbibed much Harpoon and Sam Adams. I don’t do chowder. F that S. Hitting up several of the parties that Boston offered us the weekend, including Made in MA, we got the chance to meet up with Boston’s talented developers, storytellers and publishers. Truly a humbling experience.

Had a chance to test out some games from Boston, including Fire Hose Games‘ multiplayer madness Slam Bolt Scrappers, the dimension bomb Miegakure, and Waker from the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT lab, which used path creation based off of velocity which blew my mind and illustrated how bad I am at the maths. Also, we got our hands on some tabletop gaming; a tester from Plaid Hat Games showed us their game, Summoner Wars, and gave us a tutorial which ended up with us totally digging their badass tactical card game. (PS I kicked Aaron’s ass in it)

Friday night, Aaron convinced me it was more important for us to go to the Kotaku party and I ended up missing The Protomen, and from the videos, it looks like they are still the kings of the Megaman rock opera (not too sure how contested this title is, however). I was pretty torn up about missing their show and almost made Aaron sleep on the couch, but luckily, via my brag-worthy Twitter-fu, I caught word they were doing an impromptu jam in the public jam room, so ran up there and caught them doing two of their songs, closing with “Total Eclipse of the Heart”. Did I mention our game is littered with Megaman references and easter eggs?

Speaking of totally face-rocking music, Space Whale Andrew Aversa (or Zircon, as you OCRemix super fans may know him by) was on the OCRemix panel on Sunday, showcasing what they’ve been up to, all of their crazy contests and competitions from the past year (Grand Robot Master Remix Battle?) and a live “name that tune” game, as incredibly obscure video game songs were played on a flute. The OCR guys were interviewed for machinima.com and also did some jams for MAGFest, jamming out some classics like “Still Alive” from Portal and “Dr. Wily Stage 1″ from Mega Man 2, the “Freebird” of video game music.

We met the energetic dudes from WoW Insider and I’m not sure what happened, but there were jello shots, karaoke, the ruining of a girl’s birthday by singing Lady Gaga, and then somehow a video of us being The Backstreet Boys was posted on WoW Insider. Ain’t nothin’ but a heartache, man.

Inspiring and gorgeous weekend. I’m still try to shake the Ash Ketchum and Sexy Pikachu cosplays from my dreams, though. Until next year, Boston.

xoxo
J

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