As you may have noticed, we are
not at Digifest this year.
They were unable to provide space, as other exhibits took priority.
While this has delayed the arcade, it has by no means stopped it.
We expect to hold an amazing arcade in early 2013, thanks for your patience!
Regardless, you have a bizzay week ahead of you...

Play TOJam7 classic
Bomb Squad: Seconds Left
Underneath my terrible guest voicework lies a game that tries to be funny...
and succeeds.
While a dash buggy, rather finicky, and slightly obtuse - the solid gold death scenes will keep you charmed until the end.

2 year Jammer / 2 baby Dad
Owen Goss
just released iPad only game
Finger Tied.
It asks you to move
multiple fingers in different directions, which looks simple yet mind bending.
Bonus: the multiplayer looks less awkward than obstinately sexy
Fingle
European Rainbow Training (started life at TOJam 7), was an
2012 IndieCade Official Selection!
4 players stare down at a tablet, each with their own gravity orientation.
The game is genius, and can be played at Darkcade Saturday Oct. 20 10:30pm.

Toronto After Dark film festival starts
today and comes with a
Darkcade.
TOJam organizer
Alex Bethke has put together a stellar lineup of
games.
Every night features 2 new games, including
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime and
Hotline Miami.
Also...
FILMS.
Canzine Toronto is
this Saturday (Oct. 21),
and features Mr. Ghosty's
DIY Games Room.
Inside you will find
2 Torontrons (containing some TOJam gems), board games, and the outspoken yet quite talented
Anna Anthropy.
I'll forgive the board games.
Archive, Memoria Technica (formerly Exodus),
is an upcoming and rather nice looking twinstick, with a story that just might tie everything together.
The devs are old school focussed, and the results are impressive. Did they learn that from TOJam?
Guilded Youth, a collaboration between
Jim Munroe and
Matt Hammill, started life at TOJam 7.
It breaks text adventure constraints (a tasteful sprinkling of colour, sound and graphics), while keeping its soul.
Play it now, before it cleans up at the Interactive Fiction Competition.
Little Gardens is a charming puzzle game by genre jumping, TOJam loving Michael Todd.
You try to fit a bunch of tetris shaped pieces into a grid, forming a living garden.
JayIsGames
loved it.
If you're a fan of puzzle games, that's all you need to hear.
Tower of the Gorillion, borned at TOJam 7, is waiting for your vote on Steam Greenlight.
Unique gameplay, dense pixel art, nostalgia modernized. Don't take my word for it, play the
demo.
TOJam pillar Steven Circuiton has the
proven ability to make this something seriously special.

Have you seen
Probablity 0 + Friends?
It's a stark "rogue" platformer that doles out rewards beyond measure - if you can handle them.
While I can't, the laser sharp controls ensure I keep trying.
Friend
Pirattitude (from TOJam 6),
was a multiplayer favourite at
Gamercamp.
Beat Brawler's
aesthetic is slightly off and slightly disturbing, in a way you can't plan for.
It reminds me of
Muscle March,
which means you're immediately buying this when it's released, or running for the hills.
Did they learn that from TOJam?

I'm assuming you bought
They Bleed Pixels,
Home,
DYAD and
Sound Shapes.
Each one a labour of love, each one made in Toronto, each one pursuing a unique vision.
It's hard to believe they were
all released in the last 4 months,
and easy to believe some couldn't attend TOJam.
Did you know that GetSet's Derek just had a baby,
Nick is going to have a baby, and Rob & Tessa are getting married (to each other)? Everyone's growing up!
Fact: Serena is the cutest daughter I ever had.