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(This has been in my Draft box since January! I'm really bad at this blogging thing!)

At the end of 2012, I visited Bafta in London and got the chance to play Renga. It was developed by WallFour who also create other similar style multiplayer games.

The aim of the game is to collect resources for your spaceship while defending waves of attacking ships in space,set on a big cinema screen!  

Everyone in the cinema has a laser pointer which are used to move your spaceship by consensus and enemy ships are defeated by pointing at their outer sections at once. This makes for an interesting experience, where 100 people attempt to agree what to do! It’s an amazing game, set in a cinematic environment where you actually communicate with a bunch of strangers to fight for a common cause: destroy the enemy spaceships and at the same time harness resources for your own ship in preparation to fight (and defeat) the boss!  

Makaimura T-Shirt.... Check!

Demon Returns.... Check!

Videogame styled pillow.... Check!

I played some games and saw some performances at the Hide&Seek Weekender party on Saturday night in the Old Vic Tunnels in London! I only managed to find out about the event during my morning coffee & internet session on Friday, whilst checking up on the website for a game called Johan Sebastian Joust, which I'd been longing to play since I first heard about a good while ago.

First up then has to be Johan Sebastian Joust!

Johan Sebastian Joust is a game by Die Gute Fabrik, a small game studio from Denmark.  Players hold a Playstation Move controller in one of their hands. You play along to music by Johan Sebastian Bach, and the tempo of the music dictates the speed that you can move about. As the Playstation Move controllers are motion sensitive, they can recognise when you are moving too much. The aim of the game is to knock the other players out by forcing them to move their controller whilst keeping yours steady! It's a fantastic and engaging game to play, and reminded me of school yard style games. When the game came down to the final duel between the last two players it was really entertaining to watch them stepping round sizing each others movements up!

Several Amazing Things About Tetris by Patrick Ashe, was a performance about one of the best videogames ever made, Tetris. The performance highlighted ' history with the game, interesting facts and the game's complicated history. The presentation lasts as long as a member of the audience is able to keep a game of Tetris going, if they 'Top Out' (fill the screen) the performance ends, and another member from the audience is invited to play, and just as the game restarts so does the performance!

The night featured several other group games which were both fun and bizarre to play.

Bar playing Joust, the highlight of the party was the Wheel of Music! The large 'Wheel of Fortune style' spinner has various styles of music around it's circumference.

Every twenty minutes the wheel was spun to decide the next twenty minutes of music!

Time to show of my new limited edition 3DS!