We’re bringing bendy pool and so many buttons next week
EGX, the games show organised by our corporate siblings, returns to London next week and we’re returning with it. Once again, we’re bringing a load of games with strange and interesting custom controllers or unique physical experiences. Pool on a bendy table! A game about growing a plant by directing light! Morse code! The many buttons ofTenya Wanya Teens! Something involving neckties? You’ll find these and more at RPS Future Of Play during EGX London, running September 22-25th.
To me, the best part of games events is getting to play unusual games and experiences that might not exist outside events—or at least are more fun to play with weird controllers or while jostling your pals. You’ll find nine such things at RPS Future Of Play next week. In truth, I don’t yet know all of them, and that’s exciting to me. The lineup is:
ByteDance- a “game/art-generator” full of swirly patterns.
Game Of Me- oh wowwhat is this? Projection mapping and a game and physical artefacts and… okay, cool.
Home Turf- a very inconvenient pool table which curves upwards in one corner. I personally am hoping it’ll be visited by hustlers pulling off outrageous trick shots.
Morse- Like Typing Of The Dead buttyping morse code to direct forces in WW2?
Pocket PlantCarefully growing a digital plant by controlling light:
Love how cute@with_bug_legs’s Pocket Plant looks on its moss rock cushion made by@arlo_howard#EscapadeArcadepic.twitter.com/1KpKcI089a
Tenya Wanya Teens-a two-player competitive gamemade withKatamari Damacydirector Keita Takahashi, about brushing your teeth, weeing, playing guitar, and more as the controller many colour-coded buttons shift around.
Trapped In The Debris- a game controlled byrotating an ornate brick to free an ancient spirit.
Unknown Number- a “first-person talker”.
I look forward to learning what they all are. And you can too!
Disclosure: ByteDance is made by my former flatmate (and fellow The Wild Rumpus member), V Buckenham. Speaking of, The Wild Rumpus are partially responsible for Tenya Wanya Teens, and I think the specific controller present at EGX is one I helped make?
