Act as a playtester for locally made games, or play old favorites! Choose from a wide selection of different tabletop games to sample different art, gameplay, and writing styles, critiquing along the way to join the game design conversation. For more information about Game Lab, visit GameStorm’s Game Lab website.
For more information about the Stumpquest Games Fest, visit the main event page.
Compete for prizes on the big screen in an indie games videogame tournament! Join teams and compete in free-for-alls to push for first place, and join in before the official tournament starts to participate in free play and practice sessions. Tournament games include Zero Zen, Crypt of the NecroDancer, and Samurai Gunn.
For more information about the Stumpquest Games Fest, visit the main event page.
Play games and interact with their developers in a huge display of independent development talent! From homemade arcade cabinets to widescreen projections of your favorite popular indie games, enjoy an atmosphere of play and interactivity in the midst of Portland’s largest indie games event!
To showcase your game project at the Stumpquest Indie Game Arcade, register here.
For more information about the Stumpquest Games Fest, visit the main event page.
A 4-day tabletop and video game festival in Portland, Oregon
The Stumpquest Games Fest is a games festival celebrating the integration of games, design, art, and technology in collaboration with independent developers. Come participate in the multifaceted medium of games through design and play! Click event titles below to learn more about each event.
In addition to attending, registration is open for volunteers and those who want to showcase their game projects.
Twine Workshop
Thursday, October 10th – 2pm to 4pm: Art Institute of Portland
Learn how to make text-based games through the Twine game engine! Use your storytelling skills to create an adventure with words, learning tools that will enable you to participate in our Twine game making challenge on Saturday.
Game Lab Board Game Testing
Friday, October 11th – 5pm to 10pm: Art Institute of Portland
Act as a playtester for locally made games, or play old favorites! Choose from a wide selection of different tabletop games to sample different art, gameplay, and writing styles, critiquing along the way to join the game design conversation.
Indie Games Tournament
Friday, October 11th – 6pm to 10pm: 5th Avenue Cinema
Compete for prizes on the big screen in an indie games videogame tournament! Join teams and compete in free-for-alls to push for first place. Games include Zero Zen, Crypt of the Necrodancer, and Samurai Gunn.
Indie Games Arcade
Saturday, October 12th – 2pm to 10pm: Art Institute of Portland
Play games and interact with their developers in a huge display of independent development talent! From homemade arcade cabinets to widescreen projections of your favorite popular indie games, enjoy an atmosphere of play and interactivity in the midst of Portland’s largest indie games event!
Twine Jam
Saturday, October 12th – 2pm to 8pm: Art Institute of Portland
Use your text-based game making skills to develop a complete Twine fiction within 6 hours based on a competition-wide theme. Challenge yourself to design a compelling story accented with the ability to provide your reader with a chance to interact and choose their own adventure!
Film Screening – Going Cardboard: A Board Game Documentary
Sunday, October 13th – 2pm to 4pm: 5th Avenue Cinema
Cool down from your gamer’s retreat with a documentary featuring the modern design, production, and lifestyle of boardgames and gamers.
“Time for another PIGSquad general meeting! Join us to talk about indie game endeavors everywhere!
At this meeting, we’ll be revisiting PIGSquad’s September activities, including the OMSI Mini Maker Faire, volunteer training with Pixel Arts, the Oni Press Party, Creative Mornings, the Portland Retro Gaming Expo, and the Portland Indie Speed Run. As for future events and projects, be prepared to discuss the Stumpquest Games Fest and education-based expo opportunities with Pixel Arts. Also come prepared to show off your projects, ask for help on projects, and see what others are working on!
The doors on 13th will be unlocked at about 6:45pm – enter these doors and go up the stairs to your right to find Suite 210.
Message an admin here or e-mail us at pigsquad@gmail.com if you have any questions!”
“Let’s all get together and work on our projects!
Feel free to bring your laptop, drawing tablet, paper, prototypes, etc. to work on some game code, art, reviews, or anything in between in the company of fellow local game devs and enthusiasts! Be open to giving or receiving feedback as well, as everyone will be curious as to what everyone else is working on!
The listed time restriction is only recommended; feel free to come earlier or stay later if you’d like. The venue is listed as 21 and over, but no one IDs unless you ask for an alcoholic drink.
Message an admin here or e-mail us at pigsquad@gmail.com if you have any questions!”
Besides OMSI’s Mini Maker Faire on Sept 14 & 15th, we have another opportunity for youth to play, make and design games together.
Saturday Sept 27 and Sunday 28th 2013, we are co-hosting the worldwide Indie Speed Run with the Portland Indie Game Squad and the University of Portland.
What is the Indie Speed Run?
Indie Speed Run can be summed up easily. It’s an opportunity. Sure, there’s the maelstrom of fame, money, and prizes that are going to magically tornado around your body once you slam-dunk your competition into submission with the greatest game ever programmed, but there’s a deeper, and (arguably) far more important concept at the heart of what we’re trying to accomplish: creation.
Youth are invited to jam from 1pm-7pm each day. We are happy to say, mentors from our community will be on hand to facilitate and offer guidance on programming, design, and art and animation. We have room for 20 youth jammers, so register now here for a space.
The event is FREE, but participants who pay the Speed Run entry fee can win prizes. Games will be judged by game industry professionals including such luminaries as:
Besides jamming to create new games, we have opportunities for volunteer to get involved and level up their skills. New volunteers need to attend one of our orientations, either September 23rd and 24th, at Woodstock Library. Interested by mentoring? Let us know here.
“***NOTE***
Due to PAX, this meeting is taking place on the second Sunday of the month in place of the first Sunday.
Time for another PIGSquad general meeting! Join us to talk about indie game endeavors everywhere!
At this meeting, we’ll be revisiting PIGSquad’s August activities, including the Art/Code Night, Boardgame Night, work nights, the Pixel Arts camp celebration, and PAX Prime 2013! As for future events and projects, be prepared to discuss the Portland Indie Speed Run Game Jam, the OMSI Mini Maker Faire, the Portland Retro Gaming Expo, and the Stumpquest Games Fest! Also come prepared to show off your projects, ask for help on projects, and see what others are working on!
The doors on 13th will be unlocked at about 6:45pm – enter these doors and go up the stairs to your right to find Suite 210.
Message an admin here or e-mail us at pigsquad@gmail.com if you have any questions!”
UPDATE
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ATTN: Portland Indie Speed Run jammers! E-mail ISR via http://www.indiespeedrun.com/devsite/index.php?option=com_rsform&view=rsform&Itemid=8 to submit your game if you were affected by the power outage!
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General Info:
The Portland Indie Game Squad, Pixel Arts Game Education, and the University of Portland are hosting a 48-hour game jam from September 27th through the 29th. Participants will gather Friday evening, hear the jam’s secret theme, then race against the clock to make a game using their technical skills, teamwork, and everything learned along the way! People without specific or advanced technical skills are of course welcome to participate to learn new things and meet the community.
Basic Schedule:
Friday, September 27th:
6pm-7pm – Form teams and meet other jammers.
7pm-7:30pm – Receive theme and start jam.
Sunday, September 29th:
5:30pm-7pm – The public is welcome to come and watch final game-making steps and finished games.
7:00pm-8:00pm – Wrap up, clean up, go home, and go to sleep.
Equipment, sleep, food:
A very small amount of computer and board game development equipment/supplies will be provided; please plan on bringing your own equipment. If you bring something like a PC tower, you are welcome to leave it at the jam site for the entire weekend, and it will be safe if you need to leave the University for any amount of time. Sleeping space will be provided, though jammers are responsible for their own overall health and wellness (which will be supported via suggested breaks, mealtimes, etc.). Updates regarding on-location snacks, a map of nearby restaurants, and free licenses from software companies will be posted in the comments of community page event listings.
Registration:
Please register via our Game Education PDX form; we have room for 50 jammers, and those who register will be accepted before walk-ins. If you are participating remotely, post in this thread or tweet at @PIGSquad with the #pdxspeedrun and #pigjam tags asking for the theme or a team match up, and we’ll help! Participants are welcome to work alone.
Indie Speed Run Component:
It is very highly recommended that all teams register with the Indie Speed Run competition. It costs $25 per team, allowing a great panel of professional judges (including Ron Gilbert, Notch, SUDA51, and Peter Molyneux this year) to evaluate your finished game; the games with the highest scores will receive prizes, including up to $2,500.
Youth Component:
Via Pixel Arts Education, game-making mentors will facilitate youth aged 9 – 17 and their parents to participate in their own jam during the available hours of Saturday and Sunday from 1pm to 7pm. Parents are welcome to register via our youth registration form; we have room for 20 youth jammers. If you are interested in volunteering to help mentor and guide youth in their jam, please submit your volunteer inquiry here!
“Let’s all get together and work on our projects!
Feel free to bring your laptop, drawing tablet, paper, prototypes, etc. to work on some game code, art, reviews, or anything in between in the company of fellow local game devs and enthusiasts! Be open to giving or receiving feedback as well, as everyone will be curious as to what everyone else is working on!
The listed time restriction is only recommended; feel free to come earlier or stay later if you’d like. The venue is listed as 21 and over, but no one IDs unless you ask for an alcoholic drink.
Message an admin here or e-mail us at pigsquad@gmail.com if you have any questions!”
