GDC Screenings

Hey Gang,

We're currently putting together two screenings for the Game Developers Conference and AMODA featuring Tilt: the Battle to Save Pinball, Into the Night, Meat Dog, and an assortment of amazing video game inspired shorts featuring Seanbaby, Team Genius, and many more.

Video Game Film Screenings:
-- Presented by the Austin Museum of Digital Art
-- @ Alamo Drafthouse Ritz (downtown at 320 E 6th St)
-- (all theaters feature a full food and drink menu)
-- Regular admission fees apply to all GDC attendees
-- Film times and selections subject to change
-- For more info, please visit www.amoda.org

Tuesday, Sept 15th @ 10pm
Into the Night with Chris Crawford and Jason Rohrer

This documentary film follows an extended conversation between the Indie game designer Jason Rohrer and legendary game designer Chris Crawford. Filmed over the course of a day during GDC 2009, Crawford and Rohrer play and discuss various indie titles at the conference, show their games to one another, and talk about the past and future of game design. Their in-depth and wide ranging discussion has been recognized as one of the most challenging and enlightening explorations of game design ever put to film. The screening will also feature selected shorts from the Austin Museum of Digital Art.

Thursday, Sept 17th @ 10pm
Tilt: the Battle to Save Pinball

THE SITUATION facing the pinball designers at Williams Electronic Games in 1998: come up with something new, or see the world's largest pinball manufacturer be shut down forever.

And Williams' designers did come up with something amazing: a brand new kind of pinball machine—"Pinball 2000"—that fused video with classic pinball gameplay, preserving what was great about pinball yet opening up all-new possibilities for a product thought to be on its last legs.

Yet soon after its successful and highly-profitable launch, Williams pulled the plug, leaving behind unanswered questions and abandoning one of the world's great design organizations. TILT: The Battle to Save Pinball is a documentary that tells the story behind one of entertainment's most mysterious failures.

Not just for pinball fanatics, TILT tells an account that any follower of technology, design, or business will find fascinating. Seen from the perspective of the designers that created Pinball 2000, TILT is a story about personality and passion, of bold success dizzyingly followed by stunning failure.