TAG is excited to announce that at 5:00 pm on Thursday, March 26th, in the Hexagram Resource Centre (EV 11.705), we will be joined by Charles University’s Jaroslav Švelch for a special presentation about protest games in the Soviet-Era Czechoslovakian Context. Of his talk, Jaroslav writes:
“The idea that digital games may express political views is now widely accepted. However, little is known about the history of political games in other than Western contexts. In this talk, …

Join us this Thursday in TAG at 5pm for a special preview of Jongwoo Kim’s forthcoming GDC presentation, “Two Screens: From Mobile to Steam with Shattered Planet!” Jongwoo will be discussing how Kitfox Games, a small four-person Montreal studio, was able to take a mobile free-to-play roguelike, Shattered Planet, and successfully launch it on Steam as a premium game. In hearing about Kitfox Games’ design and development process, attendees will learn about how small mobile indie teams can …

Greetings, TAGsters!
This week, instead of a 5a7, the TAG crew will be heading down en masse to Espace Fibre (2665, rue Augustin-Cantin, 2nd Floor) at 7pm for the third bi-monthly Salon Ludique!
The theme this time is ‘Dreams’ – “Salon Ludique 3: Dreams takes us on a journey through the sublime, the psychedelic, the languid, the absurd and the fantastic.
We invite you to come, play, and wander through a selection of digital dreamscapes, experience the sensations of alternative interfaces, …

Four weeks.

Four long, agonizing, odious weeks.

For 28 onerous days, you were deprived of this community; untimely rip’d from the bastion of paradise and cast into a wintry abyss, infested with eldritch horrors such as holiday cheer, the sound of children singing, cozy evenings with friends and loved ones, and utterly bereft of the weekly dose of sardonic banter about video games you’ve become so utterly dependent on.

Pine no longer dear reader, your days of deprivation are over.

Same TAG Time.

Different …

Hello, TAGsters!
For those of you who weren’t in attendance for our last 5a7, remember that this week, instead of a regular 5a7, the TAG crew will be heading down to Espace Fibre (2665, rue Augustin-Cantin, 2nd Floor) at 6:30pm for the second bi-monthly Salon Ludique!
“Feminist voices and gender critiques come in a variety forms. While work like Anita Sarkeesian’s Feminist Frequency video series provides us with pointed and topical critiques of narrative tropes featuring representations of women …