Wednesday 10PM EST works well in my Timezone! I don't have a preference for any program.

Can I vote to not call it 'Glorious Trainwrecks Goes to NYC' though? I don't see what New York really has to do with it, and it kinda whiffs of NY-self-centredness. I think just 'Glorious Trainwrecks' would be better.

Very keen to help with the zine, so hopefully we can get a group organised for that in the chat.

Could be fun to make some little games to act like 'posters' and dump them on Game Jolt and Newgrounds and Itch... Probably not actually useful advertising, but fun!

I'm going to be submitting a somewhat-finished version of VG2 for the event (basically, there's some "post-game" stuff I still need to make from scratch that I know I don't have time for yet, but it shouldn't seem like there's anything missing or unintentionally broken to people playing it casually), and I'm going to try to have it at a consistent state by March 15. EDIT: Oh dang I just noticed you saw the due date is on the 10th. I'll do the best I can...

It uses a keyboard for controls, and nothing else.

Based on playtesting so far, I'd say it takes two hours to complete, from start to finish. I think this is unreasonable to expect one person to do while they're visiting, but what I imagine is that people would pick it up from where the previous players left off and check it out for like 5-15 minutes. Or however long they want to play it, really! The global state of the game can fluctuate wildly and I think it will only add to the experience to come in to the middle of a game. Kind of like when I used to rent N64 games from Blockbuster and I'd be too scared to delete other peoples save files, so I'd just load them and walk around and have no idea what was happening.

Ideally, I'd like the game's save file to be reset at the start of each day so people will always have a chance to experience it from the start. It'd be kind of funny for it to snowball into a unrecognizable mess, but not if it was constantly like that for a month. Also, how much room would I have to explain the context of it, like a piece of paper sorta plaque next to the computer?

I'm making it in Clickteam Fusion which basically requires it to be PC only, but ime so far it's worked perfectly while run in WINE on Linux, and that should be no different on a Mac OS. So I don't think OS compatibility will be a restriction.

Will Babycastles accept any newly made games that aren't specifically submitted to this event?

I'll be submitting the project I've been working on. It's pretty much done, although there's still a bit I want to do with it.

Controls are bound to arrow keys and z, but can be rebound to whatever. I imagined it as an arcade cabinet game, so stick + button, but keyboard is fine.

I can get it to run easily on windows, and I can get it running on mac/linux eventually with your cooperation. I'll be available for troubleshooting.

The resolution is really inflexible, so I'll need to know what resolution the display monitor will be so I can change some variables.

The game is just a simple shmup, so you could probably see all the content in less than 5 minutes, and enjoy playing for about 30 mins max.

I don't have any good ideas for naming the event.

I do like the idea of having small games around to advertise, I might make something for that.

Yay! Thanks for all the work you put in everythingstaken!

I do graphic design work, so if you need posters designed I can help out with that, and similar tasks if need be. I won't be able to attend in person unfortunately, but would love to help from afar.

In terms of a name... previous exhibitions are listed here, for reference. I'm perhaps most partial to Glorious Trainwrecks x Babycastles for simplicity's sake, but I also like the idea of a name that emphasizes the particular brand of hobbyist design this site focuses on - the idea that anyone can make a game. Maybe something like "D.I.Y. Trainwrecks", which would be pretty apropos if people can make games at the event itself. Actually, I kind of like just "Trainwrecks" too - it's pretty evocative! I'll think about it more over the next few days. I think I can do the hangouts thing too.

In terms of games, I'm thinking about doing some edits/touch-ups to Depaysement and submitting that. It's a 10-15 minute game for windows with keyboard and mouse controls. It's sort of an introspective depressing thing though, and in my experience those don't play super well in gallery settings. So I'm not 100% sure on that yet.

The idea of advergames for this event was floated, so I decided to try my hand at some. Here's what I made.

Edit: don't redistribute these yet, I should add the date to the game.

Re-read this page, I have updated most all of it and most of it is different now.
If anyone has any questions I haven't answered, I'll try to address you tomorrow. 8-)

Right-o, time for y'all to try out my good-bad word vomit garbage games:

If there is to be headphones, Might I Recommend Suspiciious: https://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/node/4792

If there is not to be headphones, Please Looksee at Holiday Runer: https://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/node/9012

I very much like the idea of an event on GT happening during the exhibit like let-off-studios mentioned. My preference though would be that the event on GT last the entire event, perhaps ending a day or two after the babycastles exhibit closes. What I would hope from this is that some person would wander into the babycastles event, be inspired by it, and them come here and participate in the online event.

can i submit this one?
https://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/node/10881
or if there's another game you think would be a better fit that'd be cool too. i think blake mentioned wanting to have a computer running bravitzlana. any of my games are fair play if you'd like to use them. I'm going to try to be there for the opening.

blep

I think the KS+ cabinets should be modded in a way such that The Cursed Gallery is always one of the first things shown (being the latest GT collab) and all other levels should be spread out in a random order that changes every time the "Play" menu is opened. Otherwise, the levels on the first page would always be played more than the levels on any other page.

EDIT: Actually we wouldn't need to mod KS+ itself if there was just a program that renamed the .knytt.bin files to place random characters at the start every time the "Play" menu was opened.

I'm not sure anymore if I can come, but I'd submit these if I still can: https://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/node/10299 https://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/node/10101

Feel free to use any of my games on here if you think they'd work for the event. I'd probably favour Ur-lie or foliakatra.

Edit - just seen the post above about the spreadsheet so added those two games there. But whatever will work best to showcase the wonder that is Glorious Trainwrecks.

Also - everythingistaken - I don't see your game 100 on the list. Are you planning to submit it? It was one of my favourite games of last year and and is somehow essentially GT.

Yet another edit. mkapolk - FULLSPEEDKISSFULLSPEEDKISSFULLSPEEDKISSFULLSPEEDKISS!!!!