Indie Arcades and Livestreams

MAGFest, IMS, Extralife, elsewhere

TL;DR

I volunteer with multiple indie gaming groups as a designer, brand manager, curator, and event host. It's a lot of design work building assets for PR/social media and building out design, but also some fun hosting/interviewing people about their weird projects.

A collection of shots of both the MAGFest indie gaming festival and online livestreams associated with it.
Every January I help organize Super MAGFest, specifically working with the Indie Arcade to help hardware-focused game designers showcase their work. I lead the curation and outreach process for our games, as well as doing random design tasks around websites (such as IMS) and social media assets.

MAGFest Indie Arcade

I run the curation team for the MAGFest Indie Arcade, part of an annual non-profit games festival celebrating weird control interfaces and interactive art. The games we feature are made with custom hardware or otherwise unusual input mechanisms, and are often one of a kind experiences made buy hobbyists. In addition to the actual curation and submission processes this role also includes building out assets for livestreams and PR.

I was a solo designer for Indie Maker Syndicate in 2020, an online indie games festival primarily active over Twitch.tv. I built a light brand ascetic (largely out of crafting junk I had around the house), and designed a series of live stream overlays. Using similar process to the MAG Indie Arcade I ran curation for alt control submissions, as well as conducting live interviews with game developers about their games and creative processes. IMS aimed to give game developers a place to showcase their games in a year where all in person festivals were getting (correctly) canceled for public safety.

Various livestream overlays I've made for both local events highlighting the NYC gamedev community, and charity livestreams for fundraising.
I've made livestreaming setups for Wonderville.nyc to help them showcase indie developers from the NYC area, as well as organizing annual fundraising marathon streams for Extralife.

Fundraising

I am team lead and solo designer for The Couch and Table, a team participating in annual fundraising streams as part of Extra Life. I’ve run the team since it started 7 years ago, putting together schedules, coordinating with players, and designing all assets for our social media and livestreams. Our overlays have only gotten more complicated, in part because it's just a kinda fun lil design project (most of the final assets laid out here were web sources I coded up for scrolling carousels and donation alerts).