Just a heads-up if you're anywhere near Nottingham on Friday night. The organisers of the GameCity festival will be holding their latest GameCity Nights event, and the centrepiece is a demo of Hydrophobia, Dark Energy Digital's inventive and visually impressive aquatic adventure game for Xbox Live Arcade, which is released today. Senior creative designer Rob Hewson will be discussing the technology behind this watery sci-fi epic in which a huge floating city is attacked by terrorists.
There will also be a cabal of indie developers hanging about on the night showing off their latest wares including Nerf Games, Ben Bradley and Richard Brooksby. It's all taking place at the Antenna club, and it's three quid on the door. You need to register first here.
Meanwhile, excitement (or in my case, raw fear) is building for this year's main event, the fifth annual GameCity festival, taking place from October 26-30. As we've mentioned, I will be there, presenting a daily Gamesblog Breakfast 'show', with topical discussion, audience debate and lots of special guests. I can semi-confirm that the stars of the One Life Left radio show will be among my panelists, as will (fingers crossed) indie game design genius Adam 'Atomic' Saltsman (responsible for Canabalt) and singing game reviewer Rebecca Mayes who are teaming up to design a new title during the event. Please come along – if only for the full English breakfast that will be served during the lively intellectual banter...
