Nottingham-based games festival GameCity is holding its third GC Nights event tonight at the city's stylish Antenna Bar. The headline act will be Beatnik Games, the fabulously talented indie studio behind downloadable PC hit Plain Sight, a multiplayer deathmatch shooter, in which suicidal ninja robots attempt to kill each other in a surreal outerspace setting.
The team will no doubt be discussing the vagaries of bringing android slaughter to the Steam platform – although there may well also be some topical chatter. "With the election fast-approaching, I'm hoping we can address some real issues on the night and demonstrate how exploding robots can hint toward a new kind of progressive politics," says Beatnik Games' MD Robin Lacey.
As I always write when flagging up these events, they're the sorts of things I want to see more of across the UK. We have passionate gamers, and passionate game makers here, and there's no reason why the two parties shouldn't be brought together on a more regular basis.
Anyway, the event starts at 7:30pm this evening, and will also involve food, drink and quizzes, as well as other indie developers. There's more information here.
