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After a month of retrofitting 5 arcade machines, (We also used last years TORONTRON http://handeyesociety.com/torontron/ giving us 6 machines.) and more time before that hunting them down and planning the event we had an all night Arcade setup in Toronto for Nuit Blanche.

(http://handeyesociety.com/wp-content/uploads/Arcadian-Renaissance-400x5001.jpg)

Info. and all the game details are here;
http://handeyesociety.com/event/the-arcadian-renaissance-games/

The local indie games in our arcade where;

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(http://handeyesociety.com/wp-content/uploads/everydayshooter.jpg)

(http://handeyesociety.com/wp-content/uploads/gesundheit.jpg)

(http://handeyesociety.com/wp-content/uploads/narcade.png)

(http://handeyesociety.com/wp-content/uploads/silentskies.jpg)

(http://handeyesociety.com/wp-content/uploads/osmos.jpg)
Well Osmos did not show due to the TORONTRON's computer suddenly dieing as we where booting them all up,. We quickly borrowed a laptop, but alas where unable to get the game working on the hardware.  We reverted to running the TORONTRON on that cabinet. We will try to show Osmos at a future event.

here is a video of the event;  http://www.vimeo.com/15554188  (http://www.vimeo.com/15554188)

A sort of photo-blog of the retrofitting process is posted here;

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jphwacheski/sets/72157624411709701/

I ran out of room on the flickler account so there will be a post mortem later, with the rest of the images.  The Society has dibs on these arcade cabinets for future events and some will be deployed around the city in public places for all to try.  All in all a good experiance.

The Hand Eye Society is single handedly making Toronto a really awesome place for indie developers. The Start show was awesome, and this - though I was too sick to attend - looked great as well. Cheers guys :coffee:

I had a lot of fun, it was the best thing I did that whole night. I'm really sad I missed the Nidhogg tournament thing though! Man I really want to try that game. Look forward to seeing you guys again!