The following post originally appeared on attractmo.de, on July 16, 2013.
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This past weekend, over a hundred thousand people caught the EVO Championship Series’ Super Smash Bros livestream. Whereas the match I witnessed took place in Brooklyn.
It was accompanied by Word of Warcraft, LittleBigPlanet, Red Dead Redemption, Minecraft, Golden Axe, and Pokemon. Which collectively told the story of Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita, by kids, all performing machinima in real time.
The fifth annual Game Play festival is happening right now, at the Brick Theater in Williamsburg. It explores the medium of games via the theatrical stage; EK Machinima Theater’s latest production, which I described above, is outstanding as expected.
But the rest of this year’s offerings sound just as exiting, like always. No Oddjob, which contains “a misogynist getting angry over the end of Metroid” and “an exploration of how everyone knows the music of Koji Kondo but nobody knows his name” is high on my must-see list.
As is Final Defenders; going by the description alone, I believe expert gamers from various eras are all transported to the future to fight a some alien menace. So imagine the hijinks of an ace Asteroids player fighting alongside an ace Call of Duty player. If that’s what it ends up being.
That Cute Radioactive Couple is actually from last year, and is highly recommended for fans of Fallout and Wasteland. UPDATE: No Oddjob ended up being total garbage, avoid like the plague, Final Defenders was fairly awesome, & That Cute Radioactive Couple has apparently been reworked and expanded upon, so am looking forward to seeing it again.
Anyhow, you can check out all the offerings via The Brick’s website. Game Play is always highly entertaining, as well as thought provoking, and even a tad bit pretentious at times, but never boring. If you can check it out, it’s highly suggest you do so!
