Remember playground 4 Square? Equal parts polite and cut-throat, simple and complex? We've scaled it up, waaaaay up! Come try a spiraled 9 Square, 16 Square with 2 balls, Giant-4-Square with paddles, maybe even 25 Square! This is Foursquare meets Jack and the Beanstalk! Come join us and test the limits of this timeless game. All ages welcome.

Where to sign up: During the Festival, in the IndieCade Village (Created by Gregg Fleishman) (Main St & Culver Blvd), will be 3 mini buildings — located across the street from the Gregg Fleishman Gallery, just north of the Culver Hotel. In one of these structures, we will hold the registration desk to sign up for outdoor games.

Get a taste of what it’s like to get a college degree in game design from some of America’s top game design programs. All sessions take place Sunday, October 10 at Kay N Dave’s unless otherwise indicated

Game Wizards Panel
The Game Wizards Video Game Production Team at The Art Institute of California – Los Angeles is a team of student developers whose mission is to create unique games in an environment similar to a real game development studio.

In this session hear from the student leads of the various Game Wizards team projects currently in development as they come to the end of their most ambitious production cycle to date with 9 different titles. How has Game Wizards helped them become more marketable as they finalize their portfolios? What has Game Wizards taught them and what skills will they take with them once they graduate? What skills does one need to create a game?

During this session, attendees will receive an opportunity to attend a Z Brush Workshop held at The Art Institute of California – Los Angeles later this fall, taught by Academic Director of Game Art &Design and Game Programming, one of the only 14 certified by Pixologic, instructors of the package.

Get a taste of what it’s like to get a college degree in game design from some of America’s top game design programs. All sessions take place Sunday, October 10 at Kay N Dave’s unless otherwise indicated

Design a game in 45 minutes? Impossible. Or is it?: The 45 Minute Game Design Challenge

The key to game design is the design --> test --> refine cycle, which happens to be just the process we’ll use to create games during the super fast, super fun 45 Minute Game Design Challenge. Come join in and we’ll find out just how much game goodness can be produced in a short amount of time.

Check out the official 2010 Finalist games as you play, meet, and greet your way through downtown Culver City. Games and developer sessions will be featured at: Fresh Paint, Gregg Fleishman, IndieCade Village (Created by Gregg Fleishman) (Main St & Culver Blvd), Grand Casino Bakery and Cafe, Lunch, WWA, Fresh Paint Art Advisors, and Firestation One. Details and map coming soon.

Saturday Only: Playstation Home presents a special preview of games and gamemakers from Outso Ltd/Lockwood Publishing, Mass Media, SCEA, and Codename Games at the Fresh Paint Art Advisors.

From 1:00pm - 4:00pm on Saturday, join us at the Indie Work and Share sessions, a section of the Grand Casino cafe for Indies to hang out, work, and share work amongst one another.

Check out the official 2010 Finalist games as you play, meet, and greet your way through downtown Culver City. Games and developer sessions will be featured at: Fresh Paint, Gregg Fleishman, IndieCade Village (Created by Gregg Fleishman) (Main St & Culver Blvd), Grand Casino Bakery and Cafe, Lunch, WWA, and Firestation One. Details and map coming soon.

Get a taste of what it’s like to get a college degree in game design from some of America’s top game design programs. All sessions take place Sunday, October 10 at Kay N Dave’s unless otherwise indicated

So You Want To Work for a Game Company
This 45-minute session will feature panel of LA game developers who will provide potential students with information on the game industry as a viable career. Panelists will discuss how to prepare for a career in the game development industry, including possible educational options. Additional topics include roles and responsibilities on a team, specializations one can pursue, and the work required to complete a game. Moderating the panel will be Ron Jenkins from The Guildhall as SMU, one of the nation’s leading graduate level video game development educational programs.

In Paparazzi, players (in teams of 3-4) act out the age old battle between the camera-wielding paparazzi and the celebrities they stalk. As celebrities, players must be quick and clever in order to steer clear of shutterbugs. As paparazzi, they must be sneaky and organized. Will there be scandals? You bet. Will there be awkward photos of stunned-looking people, faces contorted, arms flailing wildly? Most certainly!

At the start, a few random players are assigned the role of celebrity, and the rest become the paparazzi. The celebrity's goal is simple: to make it to a variety of party spots appearing and disappearing throughout the city. However, their positions are being tracked by the paparazzi. The paparazzo's goal is get a good shot of a celebrity, using their digital camera or cameraphone. But a good photo can't be produced by aimlessly chasing after celebrities. The paparazzi must use their technological edge to setup ambushes: the seemingly innocent bystander blending in with the crowd; the cunning cameraman waiting just around the corner, ready to pounce. When a celebrity falls to a camera, the paparazzo wielding it takes the celebrity's place. The battle is neverending!

To play this game, you must bring your own cameraphone or digital camera. To sign up to play, CLICK HERE.

Get a taste of what it’s like to get a college degree in game design from some of America’s top game design programs. All sessions take place Sunday, October 10 at Kay N Dave’s unless otherwise indicated

PacMan Meets Hopscotch: Chalk Game Modding Design Workshop
Georgia Tech game design professor, IndieCade Festival Chair, and Codename Games partner Celia Pearce gives a “taster” of her beginning game design class, Game Design as Cultural Practice, with this immersive game design exercise that involves making hopscotch versions of popular video games. Working in small teams, participants will attempt to identify the core mechanic of the video game of their choice and translate that into an analog version in chalk on the pavement. This workshop will take place at Media Park and, depending on how much fun we are having, may go past the allotted 45-minute time frame. Bring sunscreen and comfortable clothes! Targeted to High School students but also suitable to Jr. High students.

Socks, Inc. is a family friendly and casual alternate reality game that is played through sock puppets. Players complete real world missions with their avatars in order to progress through levels and the game's narratives

Where to sign up: During the Festival, in the IndieCade Village (Created by Gregg Fleishman) (Main St & Culver Blvd), will be 3 mini buildings — located across the street from the Gregg Fleishman Gallery, just north of the Culver Hotel. In one of these structures, we will hold the registration desk to sign up for outdoor games.

Get a taste of what it’s like to get a college degree in game design from some of America’s top game design programs. All sessions take place Sunday, October 10 at Kay N Dave’s unless otherwise indicated

Games: Inside Out
Game design is a fun and creative process. In this workshop presented by Faculty from The Los Angeles Film School’s Game Production Program, participants will get hands-on with some key elements of the game design process as they explore game development through a series of engaging exercises including discussion, brainstorming and prototyping.

Humanoid Asteroid: Play the vector arcade classic come to life. Jump in your ship, man your lasers, and get ready to fend off waves of human asteroids in this dance/game mash-up. How long can you survive?

Subtlemob: Put on your headphones; you'll find yourself immersed in the cinema of everyday life. As the soundtrack swells, people in the crowd around you will begin to re-enact the world you always see but often don't notice.

Humans Vs Zombies: A game of moderated tag commonly played on college campuses, high schools and neighborhoods. A group of human players attempt to survive a "zombie outbreak" by outsmarting a growing group of zombie players. People should bring bandanas and socks to use in the game.

OutRun: Garnet Hertz's video game concept car combines a car-shaped arcade game cabinet with a real world electric vehicle to produce a video game system that actually drives. OutRun offers a unique mixed reality simulation as one physically drives through an 8-bit video game.

Game Designer Mafia/Werewolf (based at Kay N Dave’s): Come join the Copenhagen Game Collective for a rousing adaptation of the popular party game Mafia (aka Werewolf). As the game progresses, players will get to introduce new rules, a la Calvinball.