Game Swap & Coop Meeting

The Cooperative Gaming Coop is a free and open organization whose first mission is going to be to help game developers and those of us with old games tucked away.

Thursday Aug 23rd
6pm – 8pm
Art 241 (map)

San Jose State University
One Washington Square
San Jose, Ca

Bring

Old Games
Systems
YOUR GAMES (on media, cd whatever)

The rules will be evolving as we build our Coop Shop, but if you bring something you are welcome to take something with you. You can get rid of the stuff that is cluttering up your attic and come home with something new, cool or retro.

If you are a game developer, please consider burning us a few disks! We want to help people trade and play games developed locally and by people we know. Designed or not, CD sleeves are a great way to give instructions, please make sure to list the name and platform (and the authors name) with each disk.

Come Trade Games!

Please come out if you can, this is going to be our pre-game event and we could use as much support as possible.

If you have any questions or want to drop off stuff because you cannot make it, email us at coop@factorynoir.com

Gaming Coop is Forming

We are starting a gaming coop! (This event happened!)

Our first gaming coop meeting took place on Friday July 27. But we are already planning our next Coop meeting and game swap.

This will be held on:

Thursday Aug 23rd
6pm – 8pm
Art 241

At:

San Jose State University
One Washington Square
San Jose, Ca

More info…

Cabinet Curator Call

Call for curators:

Curate a video game cabinet for the Cooperative Gaming Co-op

As part of the Zero1 Biennial John Bruneau and James Morgan are bringing together a wide range of game developers to show in a classic golden age setting. We are building a half a dozen arcade cabinets and collecting a few others from the area.

We were inspired by Anna Anthropy’s message that everyone should make games, and by conversations that we have had with her about the place of the arcade and playing in public.

Curators will be welcome to put what they like into their cabinet, solicit people, choose them or even use the games from people they know or admire.  The point is to curate along the lines of a theme that will then be represented by the cabinet in a larger context.

The games will be presented in the arcade cabinet (choose the graphics for the exterior if you like) at Works / San Jose.  Works is a volunteer run gallery with a 30 plus year history of serving emerging artists and performance.

We also have a unique opportunity which would involve crafting a “living room gaming space” for the gallery that lets us actualize some social play with the community.  We really see this exhibition being about bringing people together and letting them play games together.

Additionally a swap meet will run the duration of the show where people can bring old games, games they made whatever to trade for games left by others.

If you are interested please send a brief proposal (games, theme, platform or whatever makes sense) to coop@factorynoir.com

Curate This!

See the Call

When and Where

The Coop Gaming Coop will run in conjunction with ZER01 and do special events leading up to it. We are launching the Coop and holding our opening on September 7th as part of South First Fridays Art Walk. The main exhibition will be hosted by Works / San Jose but we are also are also cooking up something for the ZER01 street fair. Stay tuned!

Sept 7 (First Friday) to Oct 13, 2012
Works / San Jose
365 South Market Street
downtown San José

Free Admission.