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[raiten]

If anybody happens to be in Tokyo on February 7, you should go check out the Chou Murigee event at Asagaya Loft (map here - it's a bar close to the Asagaya JR station on the Chuo-Sobu Line).

The event will be a presentation of the "murigee", a 48 hour rapid development contest organized mainly by Babara(geo).

It's going to be entirely in Japanese, but even if you don't speak the language it will probably be a good opportunity to meet Japanese game developers (flash and otherwise). Among the more well known devs who will be there are Babara(geo) and Neko Games (Hoshi Saga, Cursor*10). If I were to do some guessing I'd say that there will also probably be people from From Software (3D Dot Game Heroes) and I think Kazutoshi Iida (designer of Doshin the Giant, Aquanaut's Holiday) usually hangs out at these events.

The event is free of charge for game industry people - probably including indie devs but I'm not actually really sure, but if you flash a business card I guess it will be fine. Otherwise the entrance is 1500 yen, but you also get a drink coupon for that price.

Edit: sorry, not the 8th, the 7th!

[aliceffekt]

Ha damn. I won't be in Tokyo until the 18th. 
I wish so hard I could go.

[raiten]

Just a last minute reminder for anybody in Japan, since this is on tonight. Seems loads of interesting people will be showing up so if you're in the area, don't miss out!

[raiten]

They're showing it live on nico nico douga right now - http://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv10756053 (you will need an account)

[lexaloffle]

Hey, thanks for mentioning this. I knew about Murigee, but didn't realise there was post-compo drinks / watching a panel go through the entries part. It was a good night. It works well limiting entries to flash too.. as the games are generally designed to be 5 minute concepts rather than something you want to bother downloading and finding a native cpu for.

For anyone curious, you can browse through past entries here: http://mogera.jp/ (allow popups). Apart from the dating sims and rpgs, it's pretty easy to guess what's going on in each game.

[scept1c]

I was late for it