GameCity to showcase new games from UK's indie stars

October 7th, 2013, 22:45 Posted By: wraggster

GameCity, dubbed the "world's friendliest game festival", will return to Nottingham later this year with new games from the likes of GoldenEye co-creator Martin Hollis and Thomas Was Alone director Mike Bithell.
The festival, which is a Nottingham Trent University project, runs each autumn and features a number of events that take place throughout the city.
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"The idea is that you're in Old Market Square and you can see yourself on these screens," Hollis said in the event's press release.
"There's someone operating a circle on the screens who can pick two people from the crowd, who then go off together. The chosen couple then become the operators of the circle who pick two more faces from the crowd. What develops between these two strangers may be friendship, it may be love in the long-term, it may be nothing - but the real game involved in Aim For Love may well be the relationships that evolve and develop between real human beings."
Also showing at GameCity is the latest reveal of Volume, the next game from Thomas Was Alone creator Mike Bithell.
Hollis's interactive experiment that takes place every evening from 5.30pm to 6.30pm at Nottingham's Old Market Square for the duration of the festival, and Bithell will be showing off Volume at a secret location on Friday, October 25.
Other developers attending the event include Lucy Prebble (playwright) and Steve Gaynor (Gone Home). Representatives from Aniwey (Candles 2), Somethin' Else (Papa Sangre 2) and Honeyslug (Hohokum) will also be in attendance.
GameCity 8 will run from October 19-26 in Nottingham. For the full schedule of events visit the GameCity website.

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