{"id":101267,"date":"2019-10-04T16:22:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T16:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/351648"},"modified":"2019-10-04T16:22:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T16:22:00","slug":"alt-ctrl-gdc-inspirations-neon-nemesis-the-arcade-cabinet-with-a-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/10\/04\/alt-ctrl-gdc-inspirations-neon-nemesis-the-arcade-cabinet-with-a-twist\/","title":{"rendered":"Alt.Ctrl.GDC Inspirations: Neon Nemesis, the arcade cabinet with a twist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning! Today we wanted to quickly remind you that organizers of the 2020&nbsp;<a data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/www.gdconf.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gdconf.com\/\">Game Developers Conference<\/a>&nbsp;have put out the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLScxYxebxkMZdKCkz2HnkM3vdXm7ecdwaMhCv4qkuy2cunYU0A\/viewform\">call for submissions<\/a>&nbsp;to the seventh annual Alt.Ctrl.GDC, that ever-popular on-site showcase of games with unique, offbeat, and just plain intriguing controllers!<\/p>\n<p>All&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLScxYxebxkMZdKCkz2HnkM3vdXm7ecdwaMhCv4qkuy2cunYU0A\/viewform\">submissions<\/a> of&nbsp;one-of-a-kind game peripherals, contraptions, and novelties which enhance game experiences and challenge our expectations are welcome,&nbsp;but please don&#8217;t delay; <strong>the deadline for submissions to the 2020 Alt.Ctrl.GDC showcase is Friday, November 29th!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The showcase itself takes&nbsp;place March 18th through the 20th&nbsp;of next year, during the final three days of GDC 2020. If your submission is chosen your team,&nbsp;will be asked to showcase their game&nbsp;to GDC attendees at the Alt.Ctrl.GDC&nbsp;exhibit area; they\u2019ll also receive a pair of Core + Summits&nbsp;Passes and a pair of Expo Plus Passes, for a total of four free passes to GDC 2020!<\/p>\n<p>To help get your creative juices flowing,&nbsp;today we&#8217;d like to highlight one of the many standout submissions to last year&#8217;s Alt.Ctrl.GDC:&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toastytitan.com\/projects\/neon-nemesis\">Neon Nemesis<\/a><\/em>, a multiplayer arcade cabinet with a twist created by a team of game design students from Uppsala University.<\/p>\n<p>So what&#8217;s so unique about the&nbsp;<em>Neon Nemesis<\/em>? What at first appears to be a custom-built 4-player arcade cabinet quickly reveals itself to be something of a secret lair, as there&#8217;s a compartment built into the back of the machine that gives a hidden fifth player special controls with which to frustrate, foil, and generally mess with the four players out front.<\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a remarkable feat of engineering and a one-of-a-kind arcade game, one we hope will inspire more game developers to think outside the box (or inside it, depending on the box!)&nbsp;There&#8217;s still lots of time&nbsp;left to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdconf.com\/events\/altctrlgdc.html\">submit your own projects<\/a> for next year&#8217;s Alt.Ctrl.GDC showcase, so don&#8217;t delay &#8212; it&#8217;s a great event to take part in!<\/p>\n<p>Alt.Ctrl.GDC is part of the Game Developers Conference 2020, which takes place March 15th through March 20th&nbsp;of next year at San Francisco\u2019s Moscone Convention Center.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For more details on&nbsp;GDC 2020&nbsp;visit the show&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/gdconf.com\/?_mc=blog_x_gamar_le_tsnr_gdcsf_x_x-blog\">official website<\/a>, or subscribe to regular updates via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GameDevelopersConference\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Official_GDC\">Twitter<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/GameDevelopersConference\">RSS<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>GDC and Gamasutra are sibling organizations under parent company Informa<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning! Today we wanted to quickly remind you that organizers of the 2020&nbsp;Game Developers Conference&nbsp;have put out the&nbsp;call for submissions&nbsp;to the seventh annual Alt.Ctrl.GDC, that ever-popular on-site showcase of games with unique, offbeat, and just plain intriguing controllers! All&nbsp;submissions of&nbsp;one-of-a-kind game peripherals, contraptions, and novelties which enhance game experiences and challenge our expectations are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}