Comics vs. Games Jam Video Now Online

The latest video from Endlss Films sums up the adventures and exploits of the TIFF Nexus Comics vs. Games jam. Click to watch.

The RENGA Reaction

The 100-player laser co-op experience RENGA was presented by TIFF Nexus during the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, click here to learn what the audience had to say about it!

Comics Vs. Games TCAF Panel Now Online!

The Comics Vs. Games Jam panel that took place at this year's Toronto Comic Arts Festival, which saw jam leader and Black Church Brigadange game developer, Miguel Sternberg, moderate select comic artists and game developers from the project, is finally online! Check out this hour of mirth and insight now!

Dr. Nichole Pinkard's Keynote presentation from New Media Literacies conference

Click the adjacant image to see Dr. Pinkard's talk on the success of the Digital Youth Network program at the TIFF Nexus New Media Literacies Conference on April 20th. Her presentation is followed by an onstage conversation with Debbie Gordon, the director of the kidsmediacentre at Centennial College.

See the Youth New Media Literacy Jammers in Action

Click the adjacant image to watch a short documentary produced by Endless Films outlining the Youth New Media Literacy jam and the fantastic projects that came out of it!

Keynote: Leigh Alexander

Gaming culture is beginning to embrace the idea that it needs more diverse perspectives both on the player side as well as in game development, and there are many positive examples - yet it still has further to go. Find out the where and how by watching Leigh Alexander's keynote presentation from the TIFF Nexus Women in Film, Games and New Media conference that took place on Dec. 9th, 2011 in partnership with WIFT-T. Click to watch.

TIFF Nexus Locative Media Day keynote presentation

Design guru and author of Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design, Bill Buxton discusses how the three rules of digital are more-or-less the same as those for real-estate: location, location, location. Click the adjacent image to watch his entire presentation on Whereable Media now!

News

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Meet the Pixel and Panel Pushers of the Comics vs. Games Jam

By: PeterK

Endless Films has turned in another terrific summation of a TIFF Nexus jam, this time focused squarely on the Comics Vs. Games jam that ran last spring. A selection of
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Download Cumulo Nimblers and get your cloud-hopping fix!

By: PeterK

Cumulo Nimblers, the infectiously cute and addictive game by Australian indie game designer Farbs and comic artist John Martz that was produced as part of the TIFF Nexus Comics vs.
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TIFF Nexus Jam Leader’s game is going to Fantastic Arcade!

By: PeterK

Miguel Sternberg, the fearless coordinator of the TIFF Nexus Comics vs. Games jam and developer of Black Church Brigandage, has just had his game Russian Subway Dogs accepted into Fantastic
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“Jeuxly” incubator produces great games made by dames

By: PeterK

Women’s game-making workshop collective Dames Making Games recently concluded their second game incubator, dubbed Jeuxly, producing six uniquely personal games from burgeoning female game designers and showcasing them to an
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Toronto After Dark wants Indie Video Games!

By: PeterK

Toronto’s premier festival for thrills and chills, Toronto After Dark, is adding chiptunes and pixels to its Halloween season proceedings with the inauguration of the Toronto After Darkcade. Co-presented by
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Indie Game: The Movie Opens May 25th @ the TIFF Bell Lightbox

By: PeterK

Fall in TIFF Nexus brothers and sisters, gaming aficionados, documentary-fans and all those in the mood for the new and the now, for the runaway documentary hit from Sundance and
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