2019

• Fantastic Arcade Retrospective,

  Location: Musem of Human Achievement

  GAMES BY: Arcane Kids, Brandon Williamson, Conor McCann, Daniel Linssen, Fernando Ramallo, Jenny Jiao Hsia, Justin Smith, Keita Takahashi and Adam Saltsman, Kitty Calis & JW Nijman, Klondike, Kyle Reimergartin, Loren Schmidt, Moppin and Nemk, Nathalie Lawhead, Nina Freeman & Co, Paloma Dawkins, Cale Bradbury & Calia Thompson-Hannant, Santa Ragione, Sokpop, Thu Tran, Ivan Safrin, Bobo Dai Do, Tyriq Plummer, V Buckenham and more tba… SPONSORED BY at THE MUSEUM OF HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT NOVEMBER 16 / 17 23 / 24 NOON-6PM ART BY: Ben Cartright, Charlie Alvarado, Courtney Boyle, Emily Cayton, Gabrielle Genevieve, HIVE Arts Collective, Lindsay Braun, Lindsay Buhman, Jay Roff-Garcia, Megan McAtee, Mike Melinoe, Motherbrainart, Rae Kim, Rebecca Marino, Rory Blank, Stephanie Page, Susan Scafati, TJ Lemanski, Y2K & P1nkstar and more tba… ARCADE CABINETS: Alea, Alphabet, Banana Chalice, Breaker, Crap! No One Loves Me, F2oggy, Forget me not, Grass Stains, Hellmouth, Hoky, Inspector Woof & the Vegetable Highschool, Lassos, Nium, Panic Variants, Paper Planet Pop, Pipsqueak, Risky Bison, Rotor, The Stakes are too High, Wheels of Aurelia, Wifi Robots

  

2018

• Levedad,

  Location:

  levedad is a game about capturing time through the contemplative gaze of long exposure photography. It is finding beauty in an ever-changing space where time passes with you and through you.

  

• Mystery Block, 10:00pm

  Location: Alamo Drafthouse Mueller, Theater 1

  Join us for a cooldown mystery block, with special videos curated by our pal Rachel Weil
  

• Block 1 - Joggernauts & Bill Hates Videogames, 12:00pm

  Location: Alamo Drafthouse Mueller, Theater 1

  Join Zachary “Zacstronaut” Johnson, Robert Frost, Saam Pahlavan, and M.James Short for developer commentaries on Joggernauts (coming soon to Nintendo Switch) and Bill Hates Videogames-

  Bill Hates Videogames is a game about an asshole named Bill that gets sucked into a videogame and is trying to find his way out.

  Joggernauts is a cooperative switching game about trying NOT to kill your friends while jogging through an ugly-cute alien universe.

  

• Block 14 - A Memoir Blue & Levedad, 12:00pm

  Location: Alamo Drafthouse Mueller, Theater 1

  Join us for two haunting and beautiful games with a relaxed and contemplative pace-

  A Memoir Blue is an atmospheric journey through the memories of Miriam: a champion swimmer, who on the day of her greatest success dwells on her childhood memories of her mother and a special trip they took.

  Levedad is a game about capturing time through the contemplative gaze of long exposure photography. It is finding beauty in an ever-changing space where time passes with you and through you.

  Fantastic Arcade Passes required for seating, please arrive before the panel begins. Overflow streaming available in Barrel O’ Fun.

  

• Block 5 - Faith, Ghost Dentist VR, & Diana The Huntress, 12:00pm

  Location: Alamo Drafthouse Mueller, Theater 1

  Get ready for Real World: WI†CH H⏀US∃, with a sneak peek at three unsettling attractions, with their developers, Mason Smith, Jerry Belich & Mike Enoch and Stefanie Franciotti-

  FAITH is a horror game inspired by the era of MS-DOS/Apple II/Atari/ZX Spectrum games and the “Satanic Scare” of the 1980s.

  Ghost Dentist VR is a humorous body-horror experience where you, a ghost with a dental practice, possess your incoming patients in order to do to their dental work.

  Mystics, Murder and Missing Heads! Diana the Huntress is a true crime RPG, inspired by a cold case worked by one of the co-creator’s grandfather.

  Fantastic Arcade Passes required for seating, please arrive before the panel begins. Overflow streaming available in Barrel O’ Fun.

  

• Block 8 - Grass Stains & Jar Wars VR, 12:00pm

  Location: Alamo Drafthouse Mueller, Theater 1

  Join developers Nina Freeman, Diego Garcia and Aaron Freedman to see Grass Stains, their premiere Fantastic 2018 game! Then compete in a four player deathmatch bout of Jar Wars VR! The four-player VR hit of 2017 is back, with a custom Fantastic Arcade arena and new surprises, courtesy of our friends at FarCade!

  “Jar Wars is like a 2v2 VR nerf-fight where all the fighters had to chug half a bottle of bourbon before they were allowed into the arena” - Adam Saltsman

  Fantastic Arcade Passes required for seating, please arrive before the panel begins. Overflow streaming available in Barrel O’ Fun.

  

• Block 15 - Tuned Out and The Good, Bad & Ugly of Minit, 2:00pm

  Location: Alamo Drafthouse Mueller, Theater 1

  Join Ben Sironko for a look at Tuned Out-

  A collection of 15 arcade games for 2-4 players that can be switched between instantly like the channels of a TV, challenging players to juggle all games at the same time to achieve the highest possible score.

  Join Fantastic Arcade pals Jan Willem Nijman and Kitty Calis on this candid behind-the-scenes look at their breakout game Minit, which originated with their prize-winning Fantastic Arcade jam game Adventure Minute.

  Fantastic Arcade Passes required for seating, please arrive before the panel begins. Overflow streaming available in Barrel O’ Fun.

  

• Block 2 - Tyriq Plummer & George Buckenham, 2:00pm

  Location: Alamo Drafthouse Mueller, Theater 1

  Get an exclusive front row look at new work by Tyriq Plummer and George Buckenham, as they show off this year’s premeire games Paper Planet Pop! and Wifi Robots. These exclusive titles will be available on festival open through our 2018 Fantastic Arcade Bundle!

  Fantastic Arcade Passes required for seating, please arrive before the panel begins. Overflow streaming available in Barrel O’ Fun.

  

• Block 6 - Museum of Symmetry, Wrong Box, 2:00pm

  Location: Alamo Drafthouse Mueller, Theater 1

  Join Paloma Dawkins, Molly Soda, and Aquma as we explore two very different kinds of digital inner-space:

  Museum of Symmetry

  An absurdist mind-and-body romp through the highest clouds to the ocean deep, Museum of Symmetry is the explosive feel-good alter-universe of cartoonist and animator Paloma Dawkins—a room-scale VR experience with 2D animation in a 3D playground.

  Wrong Box

  What’s on that old ~2003 computer at your parents house?? Does it even work? Wrong Box is a love letter to a time when PCs and the Internet were a little less awful.

  Fantastic Arcade Passes required for seating, please arrive before the panel begins. Overflow streaming available in Barrel O’ Fun.

  

• Block 9 -Consume Me & Fortune 499, 2:00pm

  Location: Alamo Drafthouse Mueller, Theater 1

  Join Developers and collaborators Jenny Jiao Hsia and AP Thomson as we check out their newest wares-

  Consume Me is about the cut-throat competitiveness of dieting where the opposing team is yourself.

  Fortune-499 is a game about money and magic. You play a fortune teller working in the magical resources department of a large corporation. You engage in day-to-day office activities such as forwarding emails, attending meetings, fighting back hordes of monsters, and dealing with printer jams. With some tricky magic up your sleeve and your job on the line, it’s up to you to build a future out of the hand you’ve been dealt.

  Fantastic Arcade Passes required for seating, please arrive before the panel begins. Overflow streaming available in Barrel O’ Fun.

  

• Block 10 - The Haunted Island, a Frog Detective Game and Cricket Through the Ages, 4:00pm

  Location: Alamo Drafthouse Mueller, Theater 1

  Join Gace Bruxner and

  Grace Bruxner Presents: The Haunted Island, a Frog Detective Game is a 3D sleuth game with amazing characters and multiple great cutscenes. You play as The Detective, a private investigator (who is also a frog), tasked with solving the mystery of a haunted island. The resident of the island has been hearing spooky noises for weeks and hired ghost scientists to come to the island and investigate, but they can’t figure it out. In desperation, they’ve called you in to help crack the case. The game is mostly being made by Grace Bruxner (ALIEN CASENO, The Fish Market) but assisting her is the wonderful programmer Thomas Bowker (Lyne) and the excellent composer Dan Golding (Push Me, Pull You, Untitled Goose Game).

  Over a thousand years ago the human race teetered on the edge of extinction. They were helpless against the mighty behemoths of the land. And then, salvation… Cricket was invented! Go alone, or take a friend of your choice, on a journey through the rich, and exquisitely accurate, history of cricket.

  Fantastic Arcade Passes required for seating, please arrive before the panel begins. Overflow streaming available in Barrel O’ Fun.

  

• Block 16 - Red Hot Ricochet and Sausage Sports Club Tourneys, 4:00pm

  Location: Alamo Drafthouse Mueller, Theater 1

  Sunday Tournament Block-

  Sausage Sports Club is a physics game about floppy animals playing sports!

  In Red Hot Ricochet, it’s high noon in this barren wasteland, and only one of you is making it out alive. Sure, you could try and shoot them right between the eyes - but where’s the fun in that? Red Hot Ricochet is an intense game of ricochet duels, and you’ll need wise shooting, lucky bounces, and a bit of triggernometry to win.

  Prizes from our pals at Toy Joy! Developers and guest emcees in attendance to cheer on the champions!

  Fantastic Arcade Passes required for seating, please arrive before the panel begins. Overflow streaming available in Barrel O’ Fun.

• Block 3 - Sloppy Forgeries & Sticky Cats, 4:00pm

  Location: Alamo Drafthouse Mueller, Theater 1

  Thursday tournament block! Try your hand at Sloppy Forgeries by Jonah Warren and Sticky Cats by Jem Smith. With fabulous prizes courtesy of our pals at Toy Joy!

  Fantastic Arcade Passes required for seating, please arrive before the panel begins. Overflow streaming available in Barrel O’ Fun.

  

• Block 7 - KAIJU SUPER DATETECH and ComPETition Tournaments, 4:00pm

  Location: Alamo Drafthouse Mueller, Theater 1

  Come try your hand at exclusive tournament games from Catt Small and Powerhoof- ComPETition and KAIJU SUPER DATETECH with prizes from our pals at Toy Joy!

  Fantastic Arcade Passes required for seating, please arrive before the panel begins. Overflow streaming available in Barrel O’ Fun.

  

• Block 4 - Releasing on Steam & Valve Happy Hour, 5:00pm

  Location: Alamo Drafthouse Mueller, Theater 1

  Come learn about how Steam works, some great features in Steam you may not have known existed, and some best practices we’ve picked up from years of helping indie developers release their games on Steam. Join us afterward downstairs for happy hour to chat: Ask us questions, give us feedback, or just say hello.

  Following the talk, join Valve downstairs in the barrel of fun for happy hour!

  Fantastic Arcade Passes required for seating, please arrive before the panel begins. Overflow streaming available in Barrel O’ Fun.

• Block 11 - Holedown and Noita, 6:00pm

  Location: Alamo Drafthouse Mueller, Theater 1

  Balance your plan between ball bouncing patterns and unpredictable, surprising bounces in this mesmerizing and curious game oozing with charm. Immerse yourself in a world of extravagant minimalistic art while jamming out to an original space acid soundtrack as you keep digging further underground.

  Noita is a magical action rogue-lite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you’ve crafted yourself.

  Fantastic Arcade Passes required for seating, please arrive before the panel begins. Overflow streaming available in Barrel O’ Fun.

• Block 17 - Awards & SPOOKYCADE, 6:00pm

  Location: Barrel O' Fun

  Join us back downstairs in the Barrel O’ Fun, for SPOOKYCADE. It’s the HALLOWEEN-THEMED STARCADE THAT YOU HAVE BEEN DEMANDING ALL THESE YEARS!

  Join host Wiley Wiggins as we bob for objects, touch horrible things, and play HAUNTED VIDEOGAMES. FABULOUS PRIZES WILL BE METED AND ALL WILL MAKE MERRY.

  Directly followed by our closing awards ceremony.

  

• Valve Happy Hour, 6:00pm

  Location: Barrel O' Fun

• Block 12 - SAMURAI GUNN 2, 8:00pm

  Location: Alamo Drafthouse Mueller, Theater 1

  WARNING, SIGN UPS ARE LIMITED AND THEATER CAPACITY IS EXPECTED FOR THIS EVENT. Sign up sheets will be available during preceding blocks. Event will be streamed in the Barrel O’ Fun for overflow attendees.

  Join the developers of Samurai Gunn 2, including creator Beau “Teknopants” Blythe, musician Dose One, and special guest emcees for this exciting talk and tournament, with prizes from Mondo/Death Waltz.

  Fantastic Arcade Passes required for seating, please arrive before the panel begins. Overflow streaming available in Barrel O’ Fun.

  Fantastic Arcade Passes required for seating, please arrive before the panel begins. Overflow streaming available in Barrel O’ Fun.

  

• Real World: WI†CH H⏀US∃, 8:00pm

  Location: The Museum of Human Achievement

  “This is the true story of seven witches picked to live in a house (game together) and have their lives on display to find out what happens when witches stop being polite and start getting real.” You’ll be treated to a tour of each witch’s room complete with specially selected Fantastic Arcade games plus a performance by Void Egg and 98 Dads Creative Suite 2018.

  Free to the public (donations accepted)

  

2017

• Block 1 - Presentation Quest! with Jared Johnson, 10 Mississippi, ALIEN CASENO and Fugl Developer Commentaries, 11:00am

  Location: Alamo Drafthouse Mueller, Theater 1

  Join Jared Johnston (Love is Moving), Karina Popp (10 Mississippi) Grace Bruxner (ALIEN CASENO) and Johan Gjestland (Fugl) for our first block of developer commentaries!

  Fantastic Arcade Passes required for seating, please arrive before the panel begins. Overflow streaming may be available in Barrel O’ Fun.

  

• Block Five - Into The Breach Developer Commentary, Jar Wars Tournament, 11:00am

  Location: Alamo Drafthouse Mueller, Theater 1

  Justin Ma (FTL) returns to Fantastic Arcade with the turn based Kaiju strategy game Into the Breach, and Patrick Curry + Taco Illuminati blow minds with the 4 player VR deathmatch game Jar Wars.

  Fantastic Arcade Passes required for seating, please arrive before the panel begins. Overflow streaming may be available in Barrel O’ Fun.

  

• Block 9 - Making sounds for Everything... and everything else,Weird Hardware Panel, Wandersong and Blind Drive Developer Panels, 11:00am

  Location: Alamo Drafthouse Mueller, Theater 1

  Join sound designers Eduardo Ortiz (Everything) and Martin Kvale (Fugl) as they make sounds for Everything and Everything else. Followed by our third annual Weird Hardware panel, brought to you once again by Rachel Weil (Electronic Sweet n’ Fun), Andy Reitano (Super Russian Roulette) and Alan Watts (Eye of the Pyramid). Joining them will be Gordon McGladdery(Wandersong), Doron Assayas Terre and Giori Politi(Blind Drive), two more audio-centric games.

  Fantastic Arcade Passes required for seating, please arrive before the panel begins. Overflow streaming may be available in Barrel O’ Fun.

  

• Block 10 - Disco Bear, Jenny Jiao Hsia, Kyle Reimergartin Developer Commentaries, 2:00pm

  Location: Alamo Drafthouse Mueller, Theater 1

  Brian Handy / Jenny Jiao Hsia / Kyle Reimergartin

  Join USC Games alum Brian Handy (Disco Bear) on a journey of Bears, skates and mirrorballs, followed by Jenny Jiao Hsia (Daily Motions) and Kyle Reimergartin (Fjords) as they unveil their contributions to this year’s premiering Fantastic Arcade games!

  Fantastic Arcade Passes required for seating, please arrive before the panel begins. Overflow streaming may be available in Barrel O’ Fun.

  

• Block 2 - A Mortician's Tale, Moloch (zero), and Hypnospace Outlaw Developer Commentaries, 2:00pm

  Location: Alamo Drafthouse Mueller, Theater 1

  Join Laundry Bear (Gabby DaRienzo, Kaitlin Tremblay, Jen Costa, Andrew Carvalho), creators of the critically acclaimed A Mortician’s Tale, James and Joe Cox, creators of Moloch(zero) and Fantastic Arcade alum Jay Tholen, creator of Hypnospace Outlaw, for their developer commentaries!

  Fantastic Arcade Passes required for seating, please arrive before the panel begins. Overflow streaming may be available in Barrel O’ Fun.

  

• Block 6 - Small Talk, Overpass, and Dig Dog Developer Commentaries, 2:00pm

  Location: Alamo Drafthouse Mueller, Theater 1

  Austin game artists Gabrielle Hoggett (Small Talk), Michael Molinari (Overpass) Rusty Moyher (Dig Dog) join us for their developer commentaries! It’s the Austin Block!

  Fantastic Arcade Passes required for seating, please arrive before the panel begins. Overflow streaming may be available in Barrel O’ Fun.

  

• Block 3 - Loren Schmidt and Katie Rose Pipkin, Heat Signature, and Chuchel Developer Commentaries, 5:00pm

  Location: Alamo Drafthouse Mueller, Theater 1

  Join artists Loren Schmidt and Katie Rose Pipkin as they talk about this year’s original Cabinet creation. Tom Francis returns to Fantastic Arcade with the final iteration of his space-heist-hit Heat Signature and Lukas Kunce of Amanita Design shows us the whimsical Chuchel.

  Fantastic Arcade Passes required for seating, please arrive before the panel begins. Overflow streaming may be available in Barrel O’ Fun.

  

• Block 7 - 10 Beautiful Postcards, Wilmot's Warehouse, and Fernando Ramallo and Nathalie Lawhead Developer Commentaries, 5:00pm

  Location: Alamo Drafthouse Mueller, Theater 1

  The first stateside appearance of Fanastic Arcade Legend Stephen “thecatamites” Gill-Murphy (Space Funeral, Murder Dog IV: Trial of the Murder Dog, Goblet Grotto), plus Richard Hogg (Hohokum) returning with Wilmot’s Warehouse and Fernando Ramallo and Nathalie Lawhead team up for a suprise exhibition.

  Fantastic Arcade Passes required for seating, please arrive before the panel begins. Overflow streaming may be available in Barrel O’ Fun.

  

• Starcade and Fantastic Arcade Awards, 5:00pm

  Location: Barrel O' Fun

  Join us for our Starcade special, a visit to PHONY ISLAND. Artists from around the world submitted their head-to-head carninval games and 2 lucky contestants will play them for TICKETS that can be exchanged for FABULOUS PRIZES from our pals at Toy Joy! Cheer on your favorite and enjoy libation from our hosts Barrel O’ Fun.

  Directly following Starcade we will announce our coveted Jury and Audience Choice winners from this year’s showcase and spotlight sections!

  

• Opening Night Party, 8:00pm

  Location: Scratchouse

  Join us at Scratchouse for our opening night party, featuring party videogames brought to us by Bar SK, Australia and music by guest headliner Sleep∞Over.

  21 and up, free with suggested donation.

  

• Block 4 - Genesis Noir and Epic Games Developer Commentary, Forest Cup Tournament, 8:00pm

  Location: Alamo Drafthouse Mueller, Theater 1

  Join Feral Cat Den’s Jeremy Abel as he explores the inspirations for the mesmerizing new game GENESIS NOIR. A guided tour through the world of motion graphics and web interactions and how they’re using them to make something truly new in Unreal Engine. This panel made possible through the generous support of Epic! Afterwards we’ll fire up our first tournament of FA 2017, the rambunctious & charming 10 person soccer game Forest Cup, by Ivan Safrin. Come compete for prizes from Death Waltz records and Toy Joy!

  Fantastic Arcade Passes required for seating, please arrive before the panel begins. Overflow streaming may be available in Barrel O’ Fun.

  

• Block 8 - Untitled Goose Game and Below Developer Commentaries, Nidhogg 2 Tournament, 8:00pm

  Location: Alamo Drafthouse Mueller, Theater 1

  Join House House (Michael + Nico + Jake + Stuart) as they show off comedy stealth project Untitled Goose Game, Kris Piotrowski of CAPY, showing the highly anticipated dungeon crawler BELOW and then the ultimate tournament of Fantastic Arcade 2017: Nidhogg 2! Test your skills to win prizes from our friends at Death Waltz Records!

  Fantastic Arcade Passes required for seating, please arrive before the panel begins. Overflow streaming may be available in Barrel O’ Fun.